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So my mother's friend's husband is stuck in a hotel in Saudi Arabia and this is the order menu they gave him
Do I have any Arabic speaking followers that can help make sense of this but also, tag yourself, I'm "Normal doubt" pic.twitter.com/MVemyCCON9
— Vlada ???? (@vladadraws) May 24, 2020
Updates:
– He's okay! He's very thankful for the menu translation, he's still at the hotel but now less confused and hungry
– He's a Russian-Canadian immigrant and ESL too
– Especial thank you to the person that sent me their grandma's Shakshouka recipe. I am going to make that!— Vlada ✨?✨ (@vladadraws) May 24, 2020
I can imagine the moment of existential doubt as the poor man thinks, Did I somehow miss some *really* important English-language culinary category?…
Here is the translation I've got! Big thank you to @ReeshOdd for helping out so quickly, and to everyone else who's reached out! pic.twitter.com/BjKLKDHlqg
— Vlada ???? (@vladadraws) May 24, 2020
Yutsano
Well that was a bork…
WaterGirl
Once I know what happened, I will let you guys know. It was the whole data center, not just BJ, so there’s that, at least!
catclub
I am not sure i want to try mixed culture food. is that yogurt?
debbie
It feels like the entire day has been lost in translation.
Yutsano
Man this timeline sucks. Dolt45 is sucking up so much oxygen I just found out there was a plane crash in Karachi just four days ago.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
If you read the twitter thread, apparently this is what google translate does when certain key elements of the arabic written script get left off the input because they have no proper cognates in the latin alphabet…
Steeplejack
Mmm, heep sheep . . .
mdblanche
Now I’m not saying Donald Trump killed his assistant Carolyn Gombell in October 2000, but there are people on twitter saying it…
(Just to be clear this is people taking advantage of the precedent that if Trump gets to post conspiracy theory accusations of murder on twitter then so will others.)
Roger Moore
This reminds me of my first experience going to the heart of the San Gabriel Valley. A Taiwanese classmate took me to a restaurant with a menu exclusively in Chinese. I just pointed at something and said I wanted that one. I don’t remember what it was, but it was good; my classmate wasn’t the kind of person who would let me order something really disgusting just to see me squirm when it arrived.
NotMax
Sounds as if it’s another reinforcement for my choice to have browser settings block everything in tweets except text.
Oklahomo
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: I once saw a link that would run a translation through a bunch of languages at random and the results were always insane, especially if you hit languages that don’t use the latin alphabet.
Shana
I’m “she is suspicious of cheese” since I’m mildly lactose intolerant.
Kent
My lost in translation story.
Early on in my Peace Corps Guatemala experience around 1987 I was adventuring with two friends on the weekend and we were taking the long back-road jungle bus to Tikal from Coban. One of those painted up old school buses we called “chicken buses” with a big roof rack on top. It was hot and the going was slow so we climbed up on top with a couple of campesinos to ride with the luggage because inside was hot and cramped. My friends Mike, Paul and I were in the back facing forward, and the Guatemalan guys were sitting in front facing back.
An hour or so into the trip Mike sees a giant low-hanging branch up ahead that was going to smack the Guatemalans if they didn’t duck down to avoid it. Mike starts waving his hands yelling “pato!, pato!, pato! and pointing ahead. The confused Guatemalan guys all sit up and turn around to see this amazing “duck” the crazy gringo is shouting about, just in time to get a giant face full of tree branches.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano: And a 5.something earthquake in NZ while their phenomenal PM was actually doing a live TV interview!
Shana
@Oklahomo: Some brilliant, or diseased if you prefer, mind once decided to translate a PG Wodehouse short story called “The Great Sermon Handicap” into every known language and then publish the results. As I recall it went to six volumes and each volume also had the translated story translated back into English picking the language for the reverse translation at somewhat random. Every once in a while you see volumes for sale.
It’s unfortunately not as funny as you’d like to think but you have to admire the thoroughness.
Miss Bianca
Apropos of nothing in particular, I am wondering if anyone else is able to access Twitter links on Safari? Suddenly I am not able to load them, have to copy and paste the URL into Firefox (accessing BJ on Safari – not sure what version, probably not the latest one).
Also, I got my stimulus check but it wasn’t for the whole $1200. Now, I did sell my house in 2018, but I didn’t make over $75,000 that year even with that, and I thought that was the magic number? and hadn’t got my 2019 taxes filed before the Big Shutdown, which would have showed far, far less income than 2018. So, I find myself torn between relief that I got anything at all and unreasoning resentment that it wasn’t $1200!
M31
Anyone have a good shaksouka recipe? Now I‘m hungry
With a side order of “regular erika” mmmmmmmm
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
That was the gist of my reply to the twitter post. Most people in the world eat food that a human will like. Sure there’s stuff like Brussels Sprouts that taste horrible or raw squid but still it’s eatable and might even be good. I mean I survived US navy food for years, sort of, most of the time…. Once 5 or 6 of us were out and about in Rota, Spain and stopped in a Chinese place. It was a day or two before payday so money was close to nonexistent, we pooled our money and ordered a family plate. Best Chinese food I’ve ever eaten and I’ve had some really good meals. Rota, Spain – great Chinese food – it’s a big world and there are lots of surprises in it.
JoyceH
I’ll have the chicken dump truck and royal blindfolded.
Reminds me of the time we went out to lunch when I was stationed in Newport, and our WREN exchange officer looked at the menu and asked in bewilderment (imagine posh British accent), “WHAT are ‘steamers’?”
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Shana: I think Mark Twain did something similar on a much smaller scale with German and French translations of, IIRC, “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”.
He translated literally word for word the way a beginning student or Version 1.0 of Google Translate might do, resulting in things like “Je ne sais pas” = “I no know not”
@Ruckus: I love Brussels. I’d eat them every meal if I could.
I’m mostly pretty open minded about food, which means that when I occasionally run into something on a menu which I don’t understand, and I can’t follow the explanation of the waiter / waitress, I’ll often order and say “I’ll see what comes”.
I will admit to occasionally having trouble dealing with something, but it wasn’t due to a translation issue. Frog legs for instance, just look too much like what they are. And when I was once enjoying a bowl of Sopa de Mondongo in a Salvadoran restaurant, I couldn’t finish the “potato” after I found out it was a hoof.
Then there are the things translated into English, but not American English. It took me a while to figure out that “rocket” was (a) actually a correct translation into English and (b) is what we would call “arugula”.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
All the other world leaders compete for second place. There can only be one #1, and that is Jacinda!
schrodingers_cat
To mark the milestone of 100,000 dead Americans, I wrote about how Denial of Science is Killing Us.
Brachiator
@WaterGirl:
Thanks. It was definitely a wild and crazy outage.
trollhattan
I’m calling down to room service right now and requesting a regular Erika and a luxury sofa.
Should I make that two regular Erikas?
MomSense
I just finished a big project and decided to make something fun. This needs no translation.
https://astitches.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/fuck-2020-dishcloth/
J R in WV
I once ordered a sea cucumber dish in Chinatown, San Francisco. I expected some magical Chinese cooking technique had to be involved to make the sea cucumber palatable. Nope. Grey sludgey stuff in a mushroom stir fry. Was salty terrible stuff, tasted like the little skiff of nasty foam that accumulates on the beach smells on your feet.
Did my best, stopped later on for a burger. Even picking around the gray gel for the veges was terrible. Could have starved on a steady diet of that.
And I’m an adventurous eater, I love Indian restaurants, most Chinese, Thai, Russian, shusi, ramps, etc. Not sea cucumber… just nope on that stuff!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@JoyceH: We had a pub meal with the kids in London. They ordered cheese and pickle sandwiches, since they love both cheese and pickles. Whatever was on those, it wasn’t cheese, and it wasn’t pickles.
@trollhattan: Could you add a foul white jar and a Not A Problem for me?
JMG
@Ruckus: I like Brussels sprouts. Honest. Run ’em through the slicing setting of the food processor, saute the chopped sprouts in duck or bacon fat for like six minutes. They’re really good.
Brachiator
@Miss Bianca:
The stimulus amount is not based on what you make, but on your adjusted gross income for the year and your filing status.
Also, if you sold your house, did you qualify for an exclusion of gain?
I don’t know if IRS customer service is up and running again, but you might try them.
Did you use any tool to verify what your Stimulus payment amount should have been?
Of course, there are some debts, such as child support, which are allowed to be assessed against check amounts.
Lastly, it is possible that you might be able to reconcile what you got and what you should have received when you file 2020 taxes.
debbie
@MomSense:
Love it! It’d make a great cap too.
trollhattan
@J R in WV:
I’ve tried uni several times, in search of the flavors that so many make a fuss over. It always tastes like tapioca made from iodine and salt.
J R in WV
@Ruckus:
We had a great Indian meal in Toulouse, France… in a tiny alley behind the fancy hotel we were in… was crowded with locals and Indian folks.
Toulouse is the European Aerospace center city, probably like here they import Indian engineers, and someone’s parents start a home style restaurant.
Sierra Vista, AZ has an Army base, and the soldiers bring home Japanese and Korean wives, who start restaurants… really good food in the AZ desert. Sonoran Mexican food too!
NotMax
This will fit right in here. A pic someone took of an item found in Germany a short while back.
:)
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
That sucks.
I got my check on May 6th, but today (20 days later), what shows up but Trump’s stupid cover letter. I’m trying to decide how to torture it without causing an uncontrollable fire.
trollhattan
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Sure, I’ll tack those on. Hopefully they don’t confuse it for the fowl white jar, like before.
Yutsano
@Brachiator:
It’s limping along, but the wait times will be brutal. 1-800-829-1040 is about your only option. All local offices (the division I work in) are shuttered. It might get better next month, but no major guarantees.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
I thought it was Disco Stu, not disco stew!
Damn, that’s weird. Being a “Seinfeld” aficionado my kid got a sign pic last summer, posted on a German canal bank: “Assmann.” Dad was so proud.
CaseyL
That is just bloody wonderful, and I’m so glad you posted it. I may be chortling for the rest of the afternoon.
“Luxury sofa” – one to go, please. My living room needs a re-do.
Brachiator
@J R in WV:
I love dim sum. But when out with a group at a great restaurant with lots of variety, I had to pass on chicken heads and chicken feet.
And yeah, sea cucumber, no. I would sometimes shop at a supermarket with an extensive selection of live Chinese seafood, and there are some items that are too much for me no matter how adventurous I want to be. And I say this as someone who loves Chinese food.
Also, I used to watch this Japanese tv show where the hosts would travel all over the country and sample food from a particular regions (state? I know that’s not the word).
It was instructive to see that many dishes were unfamiliar to them, and some were too much even for these foodies.
ETA An old girlfriend used to love cow tongue. I told her that I would not eat anything that had been in a cow’s mouth.
MomSense
@Miss Bianca:
I’m sorry. Fuck 2020
WaterGirl
@MomSense: I laughed out loud. Love the color!
MattF
Twitter has tagged a Trump tweet with a fact check! I’m… surprised.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator:
I believe I saw Yutsano at the beginning of this thread. :-) That’s who you meant, right?
frosty
@Miss Bianca: We got $1354 not $2400 for the two of us. No idea why, nothing on any web pages, so I’m going to call the IRS. Or Yutsano. :-)
J R in WV
@MomSense:
Yes !!! With a rusty rake, or perhaps a fork, a manure fork, very rusty one~!~
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: That and both-siderism.
Ruckus
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
You are more than welcome to my share of Brussels Sprouts.
Far, far more….
My first ship had an E7 chef in charge with like 29 yrs 10 months in. Every meal his crew served was eaten with gusto. I don’t care if you didn’t like what it was, you took some, you ate everything. One day we were served frogs legs for the main course at lunch. They were amazing. Never had them before, never since. BTW the budget for food per sailor was $1/day. How he did what he did with food was unbelievable. There was a reason I put in there that he had 29 yrs 10 months in, he retired 2 months after I arrived on board. In about 2 months the food had gotten to be about the 3rd worst food I was ever served in the navy. I’ve written about the almost mutiny here before. It wasn’t the supplies that made the food bad. And I helped unload enough food supply trucks to know that the food wasn’t prime, first grade stuff.
NotMax
Couple o’ more menu fail linkies. #1 – #2
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
Prefecture.
Brachiator
@WaterGirl:
Yep. Thought that it was part of a reply to Miss Bianca.
I am so confused!
mrmoshpotato
@Oklahomo: I think you’ll enjoy this channel – Translator Fails
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca:
I would like to get to the bottom of this, but I need to better understand what is happening.
Would you mind getting a screen capture of some twitter link that doesn’t work for you on a BJ thread? And then send the screen capture to me, along with a link to the thread where you found the link that didn’t work?
Also, in what way didn’t it work. Did you click and it did nothing? Click and get an error message? Click and it opened a new tab, but then it didn’t load?
You could send it to me via email or using the Site Feedback Report a problem form, which allows you to add attachments. thanks.
J R in WV
@Brachiator:
WE visited some cousins once up in Ohio dairy country for someone’s 90th birthday. Switzerdeutsch folks, my grandpa was Swiss, though born in Ohio, the whole community was Swiss back then.
They did a buffet of dishes, one of which was pickled tongue. Everyone raved about how good it was. I took a tiny, tiny sliver, and ate it. I ate all of it. It was better than sea cucumber, from the pickle. I confess I do not recall any other part of the dinner.
I have tried Uni sushi once, very iodine as you say. I like the cavier fish eggs, not too salty, just very concentrated fishy oceanic. Uni, the urchins can keep it!
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: It was! That was me making a joke that Yutsano is OUR customer service for the IRS.
If you’re explaining, you’re losing…
Brachiator
@Ruckus:
There are some foods that may not taste good because of our genes. For a friend of mine, some whiskey tastes like soap.
I cannot abide the taste of okra or brussel sprouts, and a few other foods.
Ruckus
@JMG:
I had grilled sprouts. Once. 8 yrs ago. I didn’t die. It wasn’t bad, just not my fav. However my mom would make sprouts every once in a while and everybody else ate them like candy. They tasted like eating battery acid to me. I once got served the same sprouts, and nothing else, 4 meals in a row before mom threw them out. I thought that sprouts bordered on child abuse. Not sure I’ve ever changed my mind on this.
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
state? I know that’s not the word
Yes. It was on the tip of my tongue, but I had a brain freeze.
SiubhanDuinne
@JMG: I love all those veg you’re not supposed to like: Brussels sprouts, Swiss chard, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, okra.
Don’t care for peas, though.
ETA okra.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Filipino hole-in-the-wall location here is one of those go down the line and point to what you want in your take-out box places. No joke, saw a tray in the steam table with the following descriptive sign: Fried Cow Lips.
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
I knew there was a reason we get along…..
OTOH, I’ve had okra and thought it was OK.
Luciamia
@debbie: Me too. That little campaign screed went right into the shredder.
JoyceH
I’m baffled by the sprouts hate – they’re just tiny cabbages. I love them myself.
Barbara
@Brachiator: The genetic link to the taste of broccoli and cilantro is pretty well established. Brussels sprouts are in the same family as broccoli, so it could be the same interaction. Apparently many people think cilantro tastes like soap.
Princess
@Ruckus: Chinese food in Spain is universally deee-licious in my experience. And cheap. And lots of crunchy vegetables, which I start to miss after I’ve been there for a few weeks.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
I have seen Mexican restaurants where one of the trays had what were very obviously beef jaws. I guess they must cook the whole jaw with cheeks attached for their cabeza, but it’s a bit jarring to see.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: @Brachiator: Heh. Fair warning: I don’t have access to anything right now. The stimulus bill passed right before we got shoved out the door. So I only have vague general insight as to what’s going on with things right now. Once I’m let back into the office that might change, but for now I’m as blind as the rest of y’all.
MattF
@Barbara: I don’t think cilantro tastes like soap— to me, it does taste like soap.
debbie
@Luciamia:
I was even angrier because the return address was the IRS which made me think I was about to be in big trouble.
chopper
i like how there’s ‘liver with cheese’ and also ‘liver liver with cheese’. i’ll have the liver liver liver liver liver liver liver liver baked beans liver liver liver and liver.
NotMax
@J R in WV
Cooking beef tongue is, to put it mildly, an unattractive affair.
Once one gets through that, relegates what must then be discarded to the trash gods and slices the end result, it’s really good. Now moved to dig out a kick-ass recipe cadged from Mom for sweet and sour tongue, which haven’t prepared in decades.
debbie
@Barbara:
I love Brussels sprouts but hate, hate, hate cilantro. It definitely tastes like soap. There must be separate genetic links.
catclub
I have had great food in Rota. If my memory is correct Tres Encinas.
around 1986
CaseyL
Brussels sprouts are one of those foods that the way we grew up eating them isn’t the only way to prepare them, and it can be quite a revelation when you try them prepared a different way.
My mom always bought the frozen kind that you boil to death. I loathed them.
Many years ago, a friend who was a prime foodie cooked some up for me: fresh off the vine, roasted, then sliced in half and sauteed with mushrooms and bacon. They were AMAZING. I went on a Brussels Sprouts kick for a while, buying them fresh and preparing them the same way.
ETA: Cilantro tastes like soap. I can’t even stand the smell. I’ve asked people if they can describe what it’s “supposed” to taste like, and they can’t.
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
I upvote, like, and ? this comment.
catclub
@Yutsano: I got my stimulus in a debit card that looked REALLY skeevy, but was actually legit. Because none of my efforts to give the IRS my bank information succeeded.
mrmoshpotato
I. Can’t. Decide.
But tuna is definitely not a problem.
Roger Moore
@Barbara:
Brussels sprouts are the same species as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, collards, and kohlrabi. That they’re all the same species is part of the reason people who hate one tend to hate all of them. It also explains why it’s so easy to get hybrids like broccoflower.
NotMax
@debbie
Yup. Brussels sprouts are fine, cilantro is the Devil’s earwax.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Science denial is one of the causes of both-siderism.
billcinsd
News Radio had an episode in which Jimmy James read an excerpt from his book “Macho Business Donkey Wrestler” that had been translated to Japanese and back into English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_F_k4zLHY
trollhattan
@billcinsd:
Stephen Root is brilliant. Loved Jimmy James and it was years before I connected him with Milton in Office Space. Has quite the current role in Barry.
Barbara
@J R in WV: Dislikes of many foods pertain as much to texture as to taste, if not more so — case in point, I don’t like okra and my kids don’t like mushrooms. I tried blood sausage at a restaurant in Quebec (when in Rome . . .) and found the taste to be good, but disliked the texture, though not as much as okra. I remember being offered sea cucumber in Taipei, and I remember it being chewy not slimy. Guessing freshness and cooking skill make a big difference.
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
I actually enjoy broccoli, and am OK with cauliflower and collards. Cabbage is tolerable. But Brussels sprouts is a no go, as is okra.
Miss Bianca
@Brachiator: Thanks for the feedback, I have tried to ask my accountant about this stuff, but he seems overwhelmed. I’ll be happy just to get my current year’s taxes done! But I will try asking him again, too, now that I have some parameters to consider.
Miss Bianca
@frosty: Yutsano is probably our best bet for customer service! : )
ETA: Once he gets back into the office, that is!
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
I had no use for Brussels sprouts much of my life until having them prepared well, which transformed them from mushy, sulphery baby cabbages into delicious little flavor bombs. Halved and blanched, then broiled with pancetta and served drizzled with balsamic and olive oil. Not a preparation my mother could have ever imagined.
In addition to Italians, the Japanese have ways to make them delicious.
Could be they’re grown better. Fresh beets used to be red and taste like dirt, now they’re sweet and in half a dozen colors.
Nora Lenderbee
If you’re not going to eat those Brussels sprouts, pass them down. There isn’t a single vegetable that I don’t like, or at least find palatable, in some form.
J R in WV
@NotMax:
No. No, it isn’t really good. It really, really is not good, ever. Pickles, Sweet and Sour, BBQ, none of the tongue is good at all.
If I was starving, I would choke it down, a little. Squid salad is OK. Raw seafood is OK mostly. Tongue is not.
We will have to agree to disagree here.
Miss Bianca
OK, just for the record: I love uni, okra (must be fried or pickled, or used in filet gumbo, or GET OUT), Brussels Sprouts (tho’ I hated them as a kid, my mother used to boil them till they were like soggy little grey Kleenex balls), and I love cow tongue and will happily eat it any day altho’, having been gifted with one from a ranching friend many moons ago, I have to say that I will never again willingly *cook* one – they take a lot of kind of gross prep, as I recall.
But no overripe bananas, and oatmeal is occasionally a struggle – entirely a texture thing, for me.
JGreen
I know we’re not supposed to enjoy any of Bill Cosby’s past work, but just this once, ok? He did a bit about traveling to Italy with an actor friend who did all the ordering at restaurants. Out of frustration, he ordered for himself, got something he didn’t want to eat and ate it anyway out of pride. It is totally hilarious. If you want to listen to it secretly, don’t tell anyone and look for “Fernet Branca”.
And, Miss Bianca is right. Fuck 2020.
NotMax
@J R in WV
No prob, more for me.
;)
First thing I have for dinner on the NY trip is a one-half tongue, one-half corned beef on rye (with extra mustard) from the local deli there, with a side order of kishka (no gravy, I prefer it plain).
Just Chuck
“She is suspicious of cheese” needs to become a rotating tagline.
debbie
@J R in WV:
I was taken as a kid to meet a great aunt in Cleveland. My first sight of her was in her kitchen. She was standing at the stove in front of a very large stockpot (like almost 2 feet tall). She took a long fork, stabbed, and lifted out a huge, dangling tongue. It was decades before I could even taste it.
Uncle Cosmo
@Ruckus: Brussels sprouts are delish – if you have the right genes to enjoy them. U don’t. Sux 2BU. :^p
Brachiator
@trollhattan:
Not really a food preparation issue. There are simply some foods that taste terrible.
But I am glad that you enjoy them.
JoyceH
@Uncle Cosmo: Huh! So if you’ve got the gene, sprouts taste bitter. I must not have that gene.
JoyceH
Hey, anyone else grow up with ‘wilted lettuce’? My mom used to fix it all the time, but I didn’t like it till I was grown up.
Ruckus
@Uncle Cosmo:
Genes. It Figures. Of course not liking sprouts is not exactly a massively horrible gene deficiency
Besides that, how did you know that it sucks 2BM? BTW I don’t particularly think it does. Opinions may vary.
Gin & Tonic
@J R in WV:
With you being wrong, naturally.
John Revolta
@debbie: Hell, if it was me it would’ve been decades before they could get me to go back to her house!
Dan B
@J R in WV: We had cold jellyfish salad at a Korean restaurant. Faintly fishy, tender rubber bands in a light rice wine vinegar and raw garlic to stop Genghis Khan’s army in its tracks. And a touch of hot pepper flakes.
We did finish it.
NotMax
@Dan B
Tip: Do not order the peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich.
:)
Dan B
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I ordered Fish and Chips in a Fish and Chips place in York. Brits are known for it – right? Chips congealed into a mass that had to be pried apart. It was 75 degrees out! A poece of fish fell on my cotton slacks. After 6 months of trying to get it out (my father was a chemist and I had solvents and wetting agents and minerals, nada. Stronger stain than North Sea crude.
Gin & Tonic
@Dan B: The pickled jellyfish from a (I suspect) Cantonese restaurant in NYC is one of those very few dishes that I didn’t get to the end of. But I’m with JR on the sea cucumber – I’ve eaten a lot of things in my life, but one bite of that is enough for a lifetime.
Dan B
@trollhattan: I’ve had Uni that was an acquired taste, but a decent contrast in a full meal of sushi. And I’ve had Uni that was like the fresh fragrances of tidepools on a cool day with a delicate sweetness. I’d fight an otter for that!
Dan B
@NotMax: Glad I didn’t have a full mouth of anything or cats in range of howling hoomin!
something fabulous
My brother is an interpreter (though Arabic is not one of his languages). I just sent this to him on his FB timeline; i hope to the amusement of him and his friend/colleagues. His wall is always so interesting: memes and conversations going on in 3 languages at least. Sometimes in the same comment thread– or single comment!
Uncle Cosmo
@Ruckus:
:^D
Procopius
@NotMax: I had to Google that, and was surprised they are a real Thing. The pictures don’t look very enticing, though. That prompted me to go on to look up a Thai dish I heard about many years ago, but never really believed in. It turns out Fried Ducks’ Beaks are real. I’ve never seen them, and one hit described them as Rare Thai Food. Supposed to be delicious.
hotshoe
@MomSense:
I’m just seeing this now — late at night my time — probably “tomorrow” already by your time — and I’m gonna cast on before I do anything else in the morning.
Yeah it will be some consolation to make that statement in a sunny yellow :)
JAFD
I like Brussels Sprouts
They don’t like me.
I have them for dinner, they stage a protest march through my guts at 3 AM