I'm curious if that origin for the word papillote is accurate, because it's very close to "paper".
The word describes not only the cooking method, but the "bags" themselves, which can be made out of paper.
The same word is also used for the hairstyle, as well as the pieces of paper used to create it.
The real life version works in reverse, sadly.
Like with tobacco, the ones who had no doubt about the ill effects were the insurance companies.
They measure the impact in dollars, and the math is clear.
No, I'm in that boat too.
I'll pick up different songs as I hear them, but my brain after a while defaults to 4 non blonds - what's up.
I have no idea why, I don't particularly like the music, I never listened to it much, and still it got imprinted into my brain somehow.
Out of the blue, my brain just starts playing
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs, "What's going on?"
There really isn't.
The op comment was that gamers need to buy expensive hardware so that developers could cut on features/optimization.
The follow-up reply likened it to customizing your burger, but the better analogy (and the one I assumed) would be for McDonald's to remove all tomato and pickles (saving money), and the user had to buy it themselves to add to the burger.
You write a very short text without pointing out a single fault in the dude's reasoning.
Let's assume cutting out tomatoes and pickles saved $0.23 per hamburger.
McDonald's serves 6.5 million hamburgers a day.
That's $500 million extra yearly profit for their shareholders.
If he was a (us) football star he'd have gotten a scholarship instead.
This is based of your extensive knowledge of NOT being a business traveler?
Oh you're gonna love my other reply then.
Don't expect me to pander to willful ignorance. If you're going to act like an idiot, expect to be treated like one.
Also, what's with the passive aggressiveness? I understand that my confrontational approach there can make some people uncomfortable, but it's my prerogative.
Many of the things we believe about ourselves and our experiences turn out to be false. Sometimes this is due to innocent memory failures or to the lack of needed information.
Suppose that Charles believes that he failed his biology test because the professor asked obscure and ambiguous questions.
Charles believes this because he doesn’t realize that he got the lowest score out of the 100 students who took the test, and that most people did quite well.
If Charles had this information, he would realize that he failed the test because he didn’t study hard enough, or because he’s not very good at biology.
On the other hand, if Charles continues to believe that the test was unfair after seeing the grade distribution, he is either severely challenged in his capacity for rational calculation or he is the perpetrator of willful ignorance.
Which is it?
Sweet summer child, you should have seen Europe at the turn of the century.
I've seen doctors pulling out a cigarette and start smoking in the middle of a ward. Any place you'd go at night - a cafe, a bar, a pub, a disco - and you'd nearly vomit at how your clothes smelled the next day.
Everything and everyone smelled like tobacco.
Nowadays? It's paradise I tell you.