I think it’s more of a cultural thing, you grow up hearing that exchange and a neurotypical brain will just file it under “short, common greetings”.
People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.
It’s the amount of possible variations after that that make it a huge mess.
What do you mean, potatoes are closer to tomatoes than to sweet potatoes or onions?
Botany is a scam.
I’m seeing 9070XT at €850, while a 5070Ti is at 950. This is like, 10 - 11% cheaper?
I mean, AMD is still better value, but nowhere close to 30%
I’ll remove the cause…
But not the symptom.
Well I mean, if you fell asleep with that cute, satisfied look, it was absolutely worth it!
You silly goose! We love you too.
Don’t knock yourself down! I’m sure your glitter is great too!
I heard the “OUTCH!” In this image.
Maybe the French word does have that origin, and other languages adapted it “differently”?
In Italian for example, this is called cooking “al cartoccio”, where paper is “carta” and butterfly is something else entirely.
I was trying to check Larousse but it keeps blocking me so meh. Perhaps both are true, as you said.
Oh. I thought it would be more impressive, but that’s still orders of magnitude away. Thanks!
AC units have beefy capacitors, right? Do you know in what range, for comparison?
Sweet summer child, you should have seen Europe at the turn of the century.
I’ve seen doctors pulling out a cigarette and start smoking in the middle of a ward. Any place you’d go at night - a cafe, a bar, a pub, a disco - and you’d nearly vomit at how your clothes smelled the next day.
Everything and everyone smelled like tobacco.
Nowadays? It’s paradise I tell you.
I’m curious if that origin for the word papillote is accurate, because it’s very close to “paper”.
The word describes not only the cooking method, but the “bags” themselves, which can be made out of paper.
The same word is also used for the hairstyle, as well as the pieces of paper used to create it.
The real life version works in reverse, sadly.
This is based of your extensive knowledge of NOT being a business traveler?
I suspect building a nuclear device is easier. You have my respect.
And why would you wake up at 6 or 7? There are zero hotels that end breakfast service at that time, that’s just a bullshit argument.
What I’m saying is that they need to start early to accommodate other people staying there, and that at some point they need to start lunch, so if you wake up at 11 that’s perfectly reasonable, just don’t expect the world to hold for your lordship to come back to the land of the living.
Just how late do you wake up?
I often stay at hotels for work, and by 8AM I’m leaving so I can be wherever I need to be at by 9, so yeah, breakfast needs to be around 7h30.
Even at home this is a usual schedule, since commuting is a pain.
By 10AM at the latest probably most places also need to wrap up service so they can clear up and prepare to serve lunches in a couple of hours.
It’s not that unreasonable…
I think I unintentionally blurred together two separate things.
Citrus can be ripe and still be coloured green. Ethylene is used to make them orange, as they look more appealing to buyers that way.
Green bananas on the other hand are just not ripe. Ethylene is still used here, but to “kickoff” the fruit’s ripening process - in just a few days it becomes yellow and ripe.
There’s many things that release ethylene naturally when ripening, like tomatoes, apple, kiwi, … These need to be kept away from other sensitive produce (lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, …) as they’ll start looking “nasty” and lower their shelf life.
It does work, but it’s harder to pull off because you need to give a short, relatable reason along with a negative (if not immediately obviously).
If you reply that you’re stressed but you leave it at that, the other person won’t know if they should ask you about it or not. If they do, they might be getting into a much harder, longer conversation than they were expecting to.
But if they don’t ask, then they will feel like they’re being rude, because you’re supposed to help out other people if they’re not well, so either way it probably won’t be a pleasant experience for them.
If you offer something like “stressed, finals are coming up”, then they can keep the conversation going by asking you about it, or they can just move on by wishing you luck or something to that effect and move on.