Bartmanhomer's Ultimate Random Banter Thread #219

[Honest Tiefling]

The bacon ice cream makes more sense to me, you're adding salt and smoky flavor to the ice cream. Probably not going to result in much, but there's an idea there. Mayonnaise? Who does THAT one?

[Grey_Wolf_c]

The bacon ice cream makes more sense to me, you're adding salt and smoky flavor to the ice cream. Probably not going to result in much, but there's an idea there. Mayonnaise? Who does THAT one?

People looking to manufacture a viral publicity stunt, I'd imagine.

Grey Wolf

[enderlord99]

Why do British people spell "feces" as "foeces?"

[Tvtyrant]

What's everyone opinion on mayonnaise ice cream? My opinion is that mayonnaise ice cream is the worse idea for an ice cream flavor.

Mayo is inherently disgusting, so putting it in ice cream is just a tragedy.

[Peelee]

[Kyrell1978]

This made me a little ill.

[rooster707]

What's everyone opinion on mayonnaise ice cream? My opinion is that mayonnaise ice cream is the worse idea for an ice cream flavor.

I like mayonnaise enough that I’d try that at least once (mayonnaise is delicious, y’all), but it’d probably be disgusting.

I’d like to try ice cream with bacon some time, I think it would probably be good. I had bacon chocolate once and it was weird, but tasty.

Why do British people spell "feces" as "foeces?"

If you want to start that discussion again, a better question might be “why do British people spell everything wrong?”

Or, perhaps, “why do British people not spell ‘pedestrian’ ‘paedoestrieaeouan?’”

[Peelee]

This made me a little ill.

I aim to please! It also made Michael Scott a little ill, IIRC. He definitely thought it was disgusting as he ate more.

[Kyrell1978]

I like mayonnaise enough that I’d try that at least once (mayonnaise is delicious, y’all), but it’d probably be disgusting.”

Mayo (in small amounts) is better than salad dressing (miracle whip) on sandwiches but I'm not thinking that ice cream is an acceptable solution.

[Peelee]

miracle whip

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[enderlord99]

If you want to start that discussion again, a better question might be “why do British people spell everything wrong?”

They don't. They just spell it differently from Americans, who also don't spell it wrong.

I'm just confused as to why the "EE" sound contains an "o" for them, but only when referring to excrement.

[Rockphed]

They don't. They just spell it differently from Americans, who also don't spell it wrong.

I'm just confused as to why the "EE" sound contains an "o" for them, but only when referring to excrement.

And unborn babies.

As for Mayonaise, I despise the stuff. It is made of concentrated evil. On the other hand, Gilroy California, the Garlic Capital of the World, is (in)famous for its garlic flavor icecream. I think that garlic icecream sounds significantly worse than mayonnaise flavor icecream. Actually, I can't see mayo flavor icecream even having a flavor.

[Kyrell1978]

And unborn babies.

As for Mayonaise, I despise the stuff. It is made of concentrated evil. On the other hand, Gilroy California, the Garlic Capital of the World, is (in)famous for its garlic flavor icecream. I think that garlic icecream sounds significantly worse than mayonnaise flavor icecream. Actually, I can't see mayo flavor icecream even having a flavor.

Now, I love garlic and I thought that I was in the camp of garlic could make anything better, but I was proven wrong. There's a place in Minnesota that does the garlic ice cream thing also.

[Peelee]

I refuse to believe that garlic will not make everything better until personally proven wrong.

[Kyrell1978]

I refuse to believe that garlic will not make everything better until personally proven wrong.

Super easy, go try the ice cream.

[Durkoala]

Why do British people spell "feces" as "foeces?"

We don't, we spell it as "faeces".

As to why, I have no idea!

[enderlord99]

We don't, we spell it as "faeces".

As to why, I have no idea!

Oh. Maybe I was thinking of the more specific word, diarh(o)ea.

[Teddy]

I don't know when it became a variable rather than just being 50.

Now and no longer. I think Bartman retyped the whole rules list, because some wordings have changed.

Also, now that we've got a working Previous Threads list, I went back to check how the rules looked back when (and lost a few hours reading the threads from my early days), and rule 14 was apparently introduced in RB #136, but it was unofficial even before then.

Or, perhaps, “why do British people not spell ‘pedestrian’ ‘paedoestrieaeouan?’”

Simple: Because they aren't French.

[Kyrell1978]

Now and no longer. I think Bartman retyped the whole rules list, because some wordings have changed.

Also, now that we've got a working Previous Threads list, I went back to check how the rules looked back when (and lost a few hours reading the threads from my early days), and rule 14 was apparently introduced in RB #136, but it was unofficial even before then.



Simple: Because they aren't French.

You sound super bored.

[Rockphed]

Now and no longer. I think Bartman retyped the whole rules list, because some wordings have changed.

Also, now that we've got a working Previous Threads list, I went back to check how the rules looked back when (and lost a few hours reading the threads from my early days), and rule 14 was apparently introduced in RB #136, but it was unofficial even before then.

The last RB I posted in was probably right around when I started one, back in the 60s. I think we had had a rule of "no repeats" at the time.

Simple: Because they aren't French.

A) Imgur is broken. Please find a different image host.
B) French only add extra letters when it doesn't matter. For truly atrocious letter adding, you need to look at 17th century English names. I have an ancestor who spelled his last name "Greenne".

[factotum]

Oh. Maybe I was thinking of the more specific word, diarh(o)ea.

I spell that one "diarrhea", and I suspect so do most people. "diarrhoea" is a valid variant spelling, according to the dictionary, which I assume is there because the original Latin word had the O--words which are not commonly used in day-to-day conversation tend to retain their old spellings, which is why the official English plural of "dwarf" is "dwarfs" rather than "dwarves".

[SZbNAhL]

Wait, Americans leave the silent h in diarrhoea? I'd have expected the Webster spelling to be diarrear.

[enderlord99]

Wait, Americans leave the silent h in diarrhoea?

Yes.

I'd have expected the Webster spelling to be diarrear.

I mean, that does contain a relevant sub-word, but I think adding a silent "r" at the end is stupid enough to make it not worth it.

[Kyrell1978]

How did this thread go from crazy ice cream flavors to diarrhea.......oh......wait, that's actually a natural transition.

[Peelee]

A) Imgur is broken. Please find a different image host.

It got better, actually.

[Rockphed]

It got better, actually.

It's going to go for a walk now?

I still don't see any imgur images. I've heard that people have made firefox/chrome extensions that fix the stupidity of imgur and photobucket, but I haven't seen any that I actually wanted to try installing.

Edit: okay, for true weirdness, Teddy's avatar is hosted on imgur and shows up, but the picture in his post doesn't.

[Peelee]

It's going to go for a walk now?

I still don't see any imgur images. I've heard that people have made firefox/chrome extensions that fix the stupidity of imgur and photobucket, but I haven't seen any that I actually wanted to try installing.

Edit: okay, for true weirdness, Teddy's avatar is hosted on imgur and shows up, but the picture in his post doesn't.

Even more weird, since it loads fine for me. Running Vivaldi with no extensions (I'm a simple man).

[SZbNAhL]

I think adding a silent "r" at the end is stupid enough to make it not worth it.

I assumed that the American propensity to place the emphasis on the first syllable (see also: research, romance) would cause the ea to be pronounced as "ear".

[Peelee]

I assumed that the American propensity to place the emphasis on the first syllable (see also: research, romance) would cause the ea to be pronounced as "ear".

That doesn't seem to follow?

[enderlord99]

I assumed that the American propensity to place the emphasis on the first syllable (see also: research, romance) would cause the ea to be pronounced as "ear".

I pronounce it "Die-uh-ree-uh"

That doesn't seem to follow?

Agreed.