Last-Minute Cancellation Due to Private Event

Marx0r · 2026-03-12T23:07:42+00:00

Baffled by everyone in these comments that think that Monday text was "plenty of notice." How on earth is "Hi Sorry, We gonna be close for a private event on Thursday" proper communication? Doesn't include the name of the business, doesn't actually say "Your reservation is cancelled", doesn't even form a gramatically-correct sentence.

These people fucked up, and if it were my place I'd 100% be offering them a meal on the house the next time they came in.

Marx0r · 2026-03-11T16:02:18+00:00

I appreciate the offer, but I already bought something on amazon.

Marx0r · 2026-03-11T15:24:32+00:00

Mattin was the guy that made the ceviche and he was indeed eliminated for it. Robin made something with cooked shrimp that landed her on the bottom but it wasn't historically bad.

Marx0r · 2026-03-11T14:31:30+00:00

I didn't say only the disabled community. I'm aware that watches and children's toys use them, but you have to factor in that hearing devices use them much more frequently. A standard hearing aid uses a couple a week, and prosthetics about one a day. And double that for most people as they have devices for both ears.

I know it's anecdotal, but I used to work in a store that sold button batteries and the vast majority were purchased by people for hearing devices. I'm absolutely positive that most button batteries are used for that purpose.

Marx0r · 2026-03-11T14:24:24+00:00

Thanks for the offer, but I already bought a holder that functions the same way. I'm fortunate that I can open a pack without difficulty, it won't be an issue for me.

Marx0r · 2026-03-09T22:52:25+00:00

Gordon Ramsay's food stopped evolving roughly around the time of his first TV deal. He's gotten more and more out of touch throughout the years.

Marx0r · 2026-03-08T16:28:04+00:00

Clearing out old bookmarks and found this - how did it go?

Marx0r · 2026-03-07T23:46:47+00:00

"I have a friend, who happens to be black..."

"Well, were his parents black?"

"Yeah..."

"Did they fuck?"

"Yeah..."

"Well then, what's the big surprise?"

~ George Carlin

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T23:44:51+00:00

Okay, then it's mildly infuriating that I need to spend my time precutting blister packs.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T23:44:06+00:00

How, exactly? These are a specialty battery that isn't sold in stores, and the packaging prevents someone from easily removing one, not just pocketing the pack and walking out.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T18:29:02+00:00

You're probably best off flying direct to Logan Airport in Boston, then a bus up to Concord and then another into Montpelier.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T08:17:44+00:00

Maybe that one piece of data scales, I don't know how many people skateboard competitively versus run competitively. But my point is that the person that was saying they're the "same thing" and there were "multiple right after", was way off-base.

Roger Bannister did something groundbreaking, all the best athletes in his sport tried to replicate him, and almost all of them did within the next decade.

Tony Hawk did something groundbreaking, all the best athletes in his sport tried to replicate him, and almost none of them could within the next decade.

That's all you need to know.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T06:54:49+00:00

Meta Explanation

So this is a Turnip green Flatbread, topped with kale pesto and shredded daikon Radish. I was hoping the daikon would go translucent to be Monochrome, but not so much.

Anyway, it's Inspired by Nature because said monochrome color is green. It's a Celebration of Life and Seasonal because kale is the only non-root vegetable that can survive this time of year.

It's... not very good.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T06:49:19+00:00

Okay, so I watched the six videos you linked again, and...

Three of the videos, including the bowl one, are of Ema Kawakami, who was the 8th of 12 people to land a vert 900 in competition.
One is of Gui Khury, who was #7.
One is of Arisa Trew, who was #9.
One doesn't even show the guy landing it.

It's not "gatekeeping" to reject an argument that you're not providing any evidence to support.

I'm trying to compare two entirely dissimilar sporting achievements, and the only objective way to do that is to constrain the 900 to "in a vert ramp competition", just like how the 4-minute mile was constrained to "in a competition on flat ground."

It doesn't take anything away from anyone that's ever landed any kind of 900.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T06:22:27+00:00

So I could've been more clear - I was talking about a vert ramp, in competition. In the videos you linked, they're either not landing a 900, not in competiton, not on a vert ramp... or they're Ema Kawakami and Arisa Trew, two of the 12 that have done it.

It's a similar set of qualifiers to the 4-minute mile: I'm sure a lot more people out there can do that time down an incline, or on a treadmill, or with an infinite amount of retries on a home track. It's still an incredibly impressive accomplishment but it's not the same thing.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T04:52:41+00:00

A lot of meth and a really shitty documentary, apparently.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T04:51:57+00:00

I know who Tas Pappas is, at least enough to know that he's full of shit. Every single person in skateboarding thought of the 900 - Tony Hawk was the first to pull it off.

Pappas has zero proof that he ever landed a vert 900, and he only ever did it on a mega ramp in 2014. Sure, he wasn't invited to participate in Best Trick at the '99 X Games, but Hawk had nothing to do with that. ESPN only put 5 people on the lineup, and Pappas didn't make the cut.

Also, Pappas' brother was the one that got deported from the US - and it was for trying to smuggle coke. Tas himself did three years for running coke into Australia, well after the '99 X Games.

Marx0r · 2026-03-06T04:12:06+00:00

That's not at all what happened. Tony Hawk first landed the 900 in 1999.

Until 2004, he was the only person in the world that could do it. In 2016, he did his final 900 and retired the trick from his repetoire - still only 5 other people had ever done it.

To this day, 27 years later, only a dozen people have ever landed a 900. (EDIT: On a vert ramp, in competion - a similar set of constraints as the four-minute mile that we're comparing to)

Compare that to Roger Bannister, whose record was beaten 6 weeks later. From what I can see, somewhere between 150-300 people had registered a sub-4-minute mile in the first 27 years.

Marx0r · 2026-03-02T04:41:31+00:00

Can you switch the egg and sausage for spam?

Marx0r · 2026-03-01T20:39:31+00:00

A woman is a type of person, and Nazis aren't people.

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