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On 2023-07-25, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-07-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:12:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
WE buy petrol and diesel in litres but still quote economy in mpg.
You buy litres in America?
Only for beverages...
Not all beverages. Beer is typically sold in 12-ounce bottles or
cans. Possibly a U.S. pint (0.47 litre) at a bar.
Local california german restaurant serves 0.5 liter beers, but yes, that\'s
out of the ordinary in the US.
Unless they serve it in a marked beaker, I wouldn\'t make a distinction
between 0.47 and 0.5 litre. I\'d probably spill that much down my chin.
On 2023-07-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:17:37 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
Unless they serve it in a marked beaker, I wouldn\'t make a distinction
between 0.47 and 0.5 litre. I\'d probably spill that much down my chin.
You\'ve got to think about volume. Those mils add up.
They add up for the bar. I don\'t drink enough for it to matter.
In fact, I can\'t remember the last time I had beer in a bar or
restaurant. I\'ve always preferred to drink at home.
The Feds get 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and the states grab their
share. Most people wouldn\'t consider that a sales tax since it say $3.95 /
gallon at the pump. It isn\'t as blatant as buying a $3.95 loaf of bread at
the market and finding out it really costs $4.15. One is considered an
excise tax, the other a sales tax like the terminology makes a difference.
One exception to a state sales tax is marijuana. Recreation marijuana has
a 20% tax, medical 4%. I think this county adds 3% for recreational. The
last ballot split recreational/medical. The recreational initiative passed
and the medical failed.
I placed it to call attention to the ridiculous cost of the bridge. The
road is a shortcut for me but a lot of people would never go there.
Most of the caches I\'ve placed are on trails that are a bit more scenic.
This one is what is referred to as a \'park and grab\' meaning you might
have to walk 100\' rather than 6 miles.
On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:01:05 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Where does sales tax go? To the state or the main government?
The state and sometimes the local government.
The Feds get 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and the states grab their
share. Most people wouldn\'t consider that a sales tax since it say $3.95 /
gallon at the pump. It isn\'t as blatant as buying a $3.95 loaf of bread at
the market and finding out it really costs $4.15. One is considered an
excise tax, the other a sales tax like the terminology makes a difference.
One exception to a state sales tax is marijuana. Recreation marijuana has
a 20% tax, medical 4%. I think this county adds 3% for recreational. The
last ballot split recreational/medical. The recreational initiative passed
and the medical failed.
On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:08:58 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Why a geocache? They just chose to put it there for a laugh?
https://www.geocaching.com/play/search
I placed it to call attention to the ridiculous cost of the bridge. The
road is a shortcut for me but a lot of people would never go there.
Most of the caches I\'ve placed are on trails that are a bit more scenic.
This one is what is referred to as a \'park and grab\' meaning you might
have to walk 100\' rather than 6 miles.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:02:37 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 18:00:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream.
There wasn\'t any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana
and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.
Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.
Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?
Plain means salted to me. Not bbq, not cheese flavor, not Flaming Hot,
just potatoes and salt.
We call that \"ready salted\" in the UK. I\'m not aware of unsalted crisps. CRISPS. Chips are what yanks call fries. Is there no end to their ignorance?
I sentence you to eating British food for the rest of your life.
That\'s cruel but just.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:28:59 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2023 18:05:36 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 30/05/2023 17:59, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2023 16:01:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 30/05/2023 15:50, John Larkin wrote:
On 29 May 2023 04:00:37 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 19:49:42 +0100, Max Demian wrote:
Looks rather revolting, with the bright yellow. Is that artificial
colouring?
You betcha...
https://sites.google.com/site/gotitsortd/kraft-mac-cheese-ingredients
\"Kraft Macaroni and Cheese cheese sauce mix also includes FD&C yellow dyes
number 5 and 6 for the characteristic bright yellow color of the cheese
sauce.\"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese
There is a feeling among many Americans that cheese is a yellow color
rarely seen in nature.
Cite?
But that makes sense. There *are* many Americans.
God, dont we just know that.
How much time have you spent in the USA? Where did you go?
I spent 3 months with an unlimited Greyhound pass in 1973. Coast to
coast. I spent about anotrher 3 months on business and in an RV
taraveling across the Mojave, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and, of course,
Califuckyou.
I\'ve spent maybe six months in europe, including the USSR and Ireland
in the definition. Mo lived in Germany for a year and has spent
non-tourist time in Italy and China.
Americans do get around a lot, visit and live in other places.
But they always behave like Anericans and dont make any effort to
understand anything.
They don\'t have the ability to understand anything. They\'re not trying to be stupid, they just are.
Do we have to give back all the money and houses and jet planes and
Nobel Prizes?
Apple is worth $3.08 trillion now. The average Apple employee makes
about $300K. Pity us!
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:05:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
Maybe there is no \"wrong\" about colors. Maybe we use the same names for
very different perceptions. Maybe that\'s why we have such varied tastes
in colors.
I\'ve recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations
loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works.
Shiny! Unless you\'re color blind of course.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:23:58 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2023 15:50:56 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On 29 May 2023 04:00:37 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 19:49:42 +0100, Max Demian wrote:
Looks rather revolting, with the bright yellow. Is that artificial
colouring?
You betcha...
https://sites.google.com/site/gotitsortd/kraft-mac-cheese-ingredients
\"Kraft Macaroni and Cheese cheese sauce mix also includes FD&C yellow dyes
number 5 and 6 for the characteristic bright yellow color of the cheese
sauce.\"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese
There is a feeling among many Americans that cheese is a yellow color
rarely seen in nature.
Cite?
But that makes sense. There *are* many Americans.
Not as many as there should be for that amount of land, I think it\'s because they think sex is wrong.
What a bizarre delusion. You should have seen Dolores Park last
Sunday.
\"Not tonight dear. We\'re British.\"
\"We English only show affection for horses and dogs.\"
There are even many color-blind Americans.
And Germans. And Africans.
I suspect that different people may see colors very differently. They
certainly taste things differently.
A few people have fucked up eyes and see colours wrong, but most of us are the same.
Maybe there is no \"wrong\" about colors. Maybe we use the same names
for very different perceptions. Maybe that\'s why we have such varied
tastes in colors.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WildernessBackpacking/comments/qdji6s/
the_remote_section_of_my_70_mile_hike_through_the/
Some of them are a bit difficult to fill.
On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:50:38 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:08:58 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Why a geocache? They just chose to put it there for a laugh?
https://www.geocaching.com/play/search
I placed it to call attention to the ridiculous cost of the bridge. The
road is a shortcut for me but a lot of people would never go there.
Most of the caches I\'ve placed are on trails that are a bit more
scenic.
This one is what is referred to as a \'park and grab\' meaning you might
have to walk 100\' rather than 6 miles.
So anyone can add one and add it to the list? Then others try to find
it and add stuff? I assume you can also take stuff or it would
overflow.
What are they? Buried tins?
On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:44:55 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:01:05 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Where does sales tax go? To the state or the main government?
The state and sometimes the local government.
The Feds get 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and the states grab
their share. Most people wouldn\'t consider that a sales tax since it
say $3.95 /
gallon at the pump. It isn\'t as blatant as buying a $3.95 loaf of bread
at the market and finding out it really costs $4.15. One is considered
an excise tax, the other a sales tax like the terminology makes a
difference.
One exception to a state sales tax is marijuana. Recreation marijuana
has a 20% tax, medical 4%. I think this county adds 3% for
recreational. The last ballot split recreational/medical. The
recreational initiative passed and the medical failed.
Having the taxes different is just going to make more people pretend to
be ill.
British meat in a restaurant is very useful as shoe leather.On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:25:20 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:02:37 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 18:00:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream.
There wasn\'t any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana
and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.
Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.
Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?
Plain means salted to me. Not bbq, not cheese flavor, not Flaming Hot,
just potatoes and salt.
We call that \"ready salted\" in the UK. I\'m not aware of unsalted crisps. CRISPS. Chips are what yanks call fries. Is there no end to their ignorance?
I sentence you to eating British food for the rest of your life.
That\'s cruel but just.
Point out why British food is bad. Especially compared to American.
Before recreational use was legalized getting a medical card was sort of a
joke.
The assumption with the ones that have stuff is you leave something and
take something. Many of them only have space for the log to sign.
On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:20:06 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:44:55 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:01:05 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Where does sales tax go? To the state or the main government?
The state and sometimes the local government.
The Feds get 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and the states grab
their share. Most people wouldn\'t consider that a sales tax since it
say $3.95 /
gallon at the pump. It isn\'t as blatant as buying a $3.95 loaf of bread
at the market and finding out it really costs $4.15. One is considered
an excise tax, the other a sales tax like the terminology makes a
difference.
One exception to a state sales tax is marijuana. Recreation marijuana
has a 20% tax, medical 4%. I think this county adds 3% for
recreational. The last ballot split recreational/medical. The
recreational initiative passed and the medical failed.
Having the taxes different is just going to make more people pretend to
be ill.
Before recreational use was legalized getting a medical card was sort of a
joke. I don\'t know how difficult it is now when the state will lose
revenue on the deal. Some conditions like cancer and glaucoma are
verifiable but \'chronic pain\' is a little loose.
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:40:44 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Why are they called springform when there\'s no springs involved? If
there were, you\'d end up with pie on the ceiling.
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/springform-pan/
The side band is a spring.