JoeA64

Another probably-stupid question; I know that the British call what we Americans call corn "maize" (which is actually the Spanish form of the original Taino name for the grain) to refer to the specific grain, while "corn" is a catch-all term for grain. Is there such a thing as a maize chip?

This is probably going to turn out to be an idiotic question (hey, at least I'm not asking about tear-gas antidotes!) but are there any Frito-*style* corn chips sold in the UK that might make a reasonable substitute for the Fritos needed for your pie?

Even without tariffs, postage either way is sky-high these days.

They're corn chips.

In all sad sober earnest, I think the fleet is too small for all the jobs it has to do. What have we now, 200 or fewer major surface combatants?

(channeling Bluto) FOOOOOOOD FIIIIIIIIGGGHHHTTT!!!!

...white nationalism), the putative evangelical church in America seems to me to be the literal embodiment of the church in Laodicea that John of Patmos so roundly blasted in Revelation's letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor.

Between eschatology with bad historiography & linguistics, fascination with occult practices specifically condemned by the scriptures they claimed to adhere to, so-called "prosperity theology", and last but not least, so-called "Christian Nationalism" (read: disguised or not-so-disguised...

*Starting with his absolutely horrendous sense of linguistics as seen in his ridiculous transliterations of ancient place names, and going on, ironically enough, all the way through his getting into "Biblical numerology" in his later years.

You can say what you like about Hal Lindsey, and there were certainly a lot of problematic things about him*, but he had no truck with Dixon and her ilk. In one of his books he records how he met her and pretty much exposes her for a fake by just letting her talk.

(peruses menu) Cheeseburger - ahem! Cheese hamburger - with french fried potatoes (why WILL people never catch on that the name refers to the method of cooking, and that "French" fries apparently actually originated in Belgium), head lettuce salad, Green River soda and...do they not serve dessert?

Lemon-lime happens to be my favorite soda flavor next to cola.

I figured this would happen once the backlash got too hot for them.

Netanyahu may be one of the last people on the planet who isn't feeling some kind of buyer's remorse over having voted for, supported, bribed, blackmailed or suborned That Man.

I'd even go so far as to say that - in one of life's more sardonic ironies - there's something occultic about those people's attempts to conjure the return of Christ.

Bodice detail of a layered pale blue chiffon short sleeved dress with lace triumphant. The pointed bodice is ruched and gathered

Full length view of the front of the pale blue c1905 Lucile gown with a pointed bodice and a skirt that includes lace trimmed gauze panels

Back view of the c1905 pale blue chiffon dress showing the arrangement of the skirt and bodice from a different angle

A page from Lucile’s look book showing the same pale blue dress illustrated by hand and around the edges various pieces of cloth and trim for the client to decide upon

Lucile was a canny businesswoman. One of her fascinating legacies is the survival of her ‘look books’, hand coloured fashion drawings with swatches of fabric that she sent to favoured clients to choose from. Here, the Carresault gown 1905 #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I'd be more inclined to agree if I had any confidence that any of those people would be willing to negotiate after all that's happened. Thing is, of course, we'll never know now.

Let's see...we have whatever's left of regime forces when this is over (IRGC, etc.), the Rajavi group in Iraq, the monarchists, the secular republicans, the old Tudeh (Iranian communists) if enough are left to make a credible faction, various flavors of separatists...

Prices in Manassas have spiked by as much as 50 cents per gallon since this past weekend, after they'd started to drop following the disruption of the late-January "snowcrete" storm.

7-11 at the intersection of Sudley and Lomond in Manassas was $2.60 a gallon for regular this past weekend. It had gone up by a full half dollar to $3.10 as of yesterday afternoon.

The Druzhba pipeline was severely damaged internally after a large volume of oil caught fire following a strike by a Russian drone - Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal.

That plan is said to involve striking targets all across the "frontline" Arab states with nuclear weapons if Israel ever appears to be losing a full-scale war. It's long been rumored that this plan was close to being activated at one point in the 1973 October/Yom Kippur War.

The Iranian regime seems intent on carrying out its own version of the notorious "Samson Option" long rumored to exist in Israeli war plans.

Those people are famous for staying open through just about anything. I imagine they'd find a way to remain open for business in the middle of a missile and drone barrage.

Brown bunny scornfully regarding an International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurant and saying: "That's a stupid sign. You don't hop, you've never hopped. Lying little restaurant with your bullshit sign, fuck you!"

Which reminded me of this venerable meme (I usually dislike memes but this is an exception):

Why IHoP in particular?

Which is, to revive a word not much used nowadays, quite literally heresy, contradicting the explicit warning of scripture that only God knows the hour or date of those events. Or to paraphrase Tolkien, authority is not given to them to try to trigger such events.

They have some interesting hamburger choices...what might a "California Hamburger" be? And is the "vegetable hamburger" vegetarian (in an era where vegetarianism was very much niche)? And note that "cheese hamburger" is completely spelled out.

I wonder if certain overseas events had anything to do with it...northern Iowa is, as we all know, a major agricultural area, and it'd have been carried upward by the defense-driven boom along with the rest of the country (with commensurate price hikes as the market was able to bear more).

He might still have the kompromat, but if said speculation was correct, that kompromat is now useless, or at least a lot less useful. Which means his leverage over That Man might be a lot less than it used to be, though not completely gone.