Ttime to take a break - when it isn't fun on the forums anymore

Zomby Woof wrote:

mndsm wrote:

Zomby Woof wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: It takes a LOT to be escorted out the door. Much less to leave on your own.

Until Per makes up a new forum rule that only applies to one person, then uses it to ban him.

?

There were three or four of us that had links to our businesses in our sig. When he was running the forum, he instituted a rule that links to businesses would no longer be allowed. Fine. I deleted mine, but nobody else did. So after a month or so, I put it back up to see what would happen. He banned me. I think I was gone for about a year before (I think) Joe told me I could join again if I wanted. At least it was nicer than what he did to me at the challenge

ZW, you could have bought one of the business classified ads in the back of the magazine. The rates are very reasonable. I don't remember what page my current one is on.

Says the guy with his website in his sig...

bluej wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote: Pump cheese.

edit: On a serious note, I think part of the reason why there's a bunch of "NationName FoodItem" names for stuff is because of the melting pot nature of our society. "I love that tasty German style cake!" or "Those English style muffins are good" eventually become german cake and english muffins.

I don't like using the word "style" in front of foods in some instances.

Pizza is one of my biggest pet peeves.

"Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean?

You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza."

I don't like the word "product" in anything i'm eating. Or anything with the word "food" in it. If i have to be TOLD that it's food, i'm not berkeleying eating it.

Zomby Woof wrote: Says the guy with his website in his sig...

And an ad in the magazine.

Swank Force One wrote: "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? I don't like the word "product" in anything i'm eating. Or anything with the word "food" in it. If i have to be TOLD that it's food, i'm not berkeleying eating it.

In terms of regional prefixes, why do they bother saying “California Style”. Don’t try to church it up son, be honest, you just stuck a slice of avocado in an otherwise lackluster menu item.

I thought I was the only person that finds the word “food” unappealing. My old microwave had a readout that would say “YOUR FOOD IS READY”. I used to talk back to it and say “duh, food…time to eat food”.

Also, several years ago, waiters across nation at the same time began asking “how is your food tasting”. Well, your restaurant smells like ass and I’ve been watching a wino dry hump your front window for the last fifteen minutes but the food, duh, food tastes OK I guess.

Swank Force One wrote:

bluej wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote: Pump cheese.

edit: On a serious note, I think part of the reason why there's a bunch of "NationName FoodItem" names for stuff is because of the melting pot nature of our society. "I love that tasty German style cake!" or "Those English style muffins are good" eventually become german cake and english muffins.

I don't like using the word "style" in front of foods in some instances. Pizza is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza." I don't like the word "product" in anything i'm eating. Or anything with the word "food" in it. If i have to be TOLD that it's food, i'm not berkeleying eating it.

But it's very important to distinguish the limp New York style bagel from the superior Montreal style. How do we do this?

wbjones wrote:

Flight Service wrote:

yamaha wrote:

Flight Service wrote: I get trolly, especially with inaccuracy, but I try not be. I have noticed a change in tone as well. I remember one kid that everyone dog piled on because he wanted to street race something. Some were kind, many were not.

We didn't want associated with the negative image if anything had happened. Strangely, that was one of the few times the board was nearly unanimous in its view. We're all different, all have different experiences, different views, but for the most part we can tolerate or actually get along with one another.

True and I was one of the ones that said don't do it, but there was more than one post that offered no constructive criticism or an answer the OPs original question about suggested mod and just blast him about street racing. The rest of my comments were in reference to other threads and instances. That one just stuck out as a particularly good example of us being rude to a newbie.

I remember him/that thread … but don't remember the question(s) he might have had … just remember he wanted to street race, and I'm betting that I'm not the only one that read his post that way … yeah, we all pretty much jumped in his E36 M3 about the street racing, but for a variety of reasons … mostly centered on the safety aspect, regardless whether we'd done it ourselves or not … seems I remember most of us admitted to having street raced, but "grew up" … and tried to let him know that he might consider taking a short cut to maturity by listening to us (that didn't go over so well) and the other big bashing point was that the forum members didn't want the GRM board to be associated with a street racer and all the "liability" that might entail

He was asking what he could do to his new Corolla he got. He said he didn't want responses like "Get a Mustang or a Camaro" even though he really wanted a Mustang. I believe there were two constructive comments about suspension and brakes and three toward save the money and get you a track rat Mustang. But mostly multiple pages of rudness toward him even mentioning street racing. There is liability in condoning street racing and then there is running off new blood we could help.

This was definitely the latter.

Swank Force One wrote: "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza."

When ours looks like this:

And yours looks like that:

There is a need to differentiate.

Appleseed wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza."

When ours looks like this: And yours looks like that: There is a need to differentiate.

Yeah, Chicago Pizza is a true pie. New York is more a flat bread baked goodness

Flight Service wrote:

wbjones wrote:

Flight Service wrote:

yamaha wrote:

Flight Service wrote: I get trolly, especially with inaccuracy, but I try not be. I have noticed a change in tone as well. I remember one kid that everyone dog piled on because he wanted to street race something. Some were kind, many were not.

We didn't want associated with the negative image if anything had happened. Strangely, that was one of the few times the board was nearly unanimous in its view. We're all different, all have different experiences, different views, but for the most part we can tolerate or actually get along with one another.

True and I was one of the ones that said don't do it, but there was more than one post that offered no constructive criticism or an answer the OPs original question about suggested mod and just blast him about street racing. The rest of my comments were in reference to other threads and instances. That one just stuck out as a particularly good example of us being rude to a newbie.

I remember him/that thread … but don't remember the question(s) he might have had … just remember he wanted to street race, and I'm betting that I'm not the only one that read his post that way … yeah, we all pretty much jumped in his E36 M3 about the street racing, but for a variety of reasons … mostly centered on the safety aspect, regardless whether we'd done it ourselves or not … seems I remember most of us admitted to having street raced, but "grew up" … and tried to let him know that he might consider taking a short cut to maturity by listening to us (that didn't go over so well) and the other big bashing point was that the forum members didn't want the GRM board to be associated with a street racer and all the "liability" that might entail

He was asking what he could do to his new Corolla he got. He said he didn't want responses like "Get a Mustang or a Camaro" even though he really wanted a Mustang. I believe there were two constructive comments about suspension and brakes and three toward save the money and get you a track rat Mustang. But mostly multiple pages of rudness toward him even mentioning street racing. There is liability in condoning street racing and then there is running off new blood we could help. This was definitely the latter.

keep in mind that this is just my opinion … but if he wanted to go street racing, the all the rudeness he got was deserved … and I really don't think that is the "new blood" we want or need

again just my opinion

Keith Tanner wrote:

Swank Force One wrote:

bluej wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote: Pump cheese.

edit: On a serious note, I think part of the reason why there's a bunch of "NationName FoodItem" names for stuff is because of the melting pot nature of our society. "I love that tasty German style cake!" or "Those English style muffins are good" eventually become german cake and english muffins.

I don't like using the word "style" in front of foods in some instances. Pizza is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza." I don't like the word "product" in anything i'm eating. Or anything with the word "food" in it. If i have to be TOLD that it's food, i'm not berkeleying eating it.

But it's very important to distinguish the limp New York style bagel from the superior Montreal style. How do we do this?

Call your Montreal Style Pizza "Unicorn Farts on a Cracker?" I don't care. Just don't call it pizza.

Pizza is limp chewy deliciousness that needs to be folded.

Chicago can call it "Mushy Messy Bread Casserole."

This is a fact: If it's baked IN a DISH and has to be eaten with a FORK, it's a CASSEROLE.

New Yorkers didn't invent Pizza just to have the rest of you whackos attempt to make it, fail miserably, then try to cover up your mistakes by inserting the word "Style" before the word "Pizza," after your city of residence.

Make mine NY, please.

Swank Force One wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote:

Swank Force One wrote:

bluej wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote: Pump cheese.

edit: On a serious note, I think part of the reason why there's a bunch of "NationName FoodItem" names for stuff is because of the melting pot nature of our society. "I love that tasty German style cake!" or "Those English style muffins are good" eventually become german cake and english muffins.

I don't like using the word "style" in front of foods in some instances. Pizza is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza." I don't like the word "product" in anything i'm eating. Or anything with the word "food" in it. If i have to be TOLD that it's food, i'm not berkeleying eating it.

But it's very important to distinguish the limp New York style bagel from the superior Montreal style. How do we do this?

Call your Montreal Style Pizza "Unicorn Farts on a Cracker?" I don't care. Just don't call it pizza. Pizza is limp chewy deliciousness that needs to be folded. Chicago can call it "Mushy Messy Bread Casserole."

BAGEL. Bagel bagel bagel. I said bagel. Montreal doesn't have a pizza style, it's just pizza. But they know much better about bagels than NY does.

Although I have to agree about the messy bread casserole

Oh. Bagel.

Holy cow i should go home from work.

My bad!

Bagels are really hit and miss in NY. I have no argument for that, other than that you haven't had a good NY bagel. Some of them are so light and airy you'd swear they were a weird cake, and i hate that.

A good bagel should have a "skin" tough enough that you have to fight it a little to get through to the doughy soft and chewy goodness inside.

Keith Tanner wrote:

Swank Force One wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote:

Swank Force One wrote:

bluej wrote:

Keith Tanner wrote: Pump cheese.

edit: On a serious note, I think part of the reason why there's a bunch of "NationName FoodItem" names for stuff is because of the melting pot nature of our society. "I love that tasty German style cake!" or "Those English style muffins are good" eventually become german cake and english muffins.

I don't like using the word "style" in front of foods in some instances. Pizza is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Chicago Style Pizza." What the berkeley does that even mean? You know what we call it in New York? "Pizza." I don't like the word "product" in anything i'm eating. Or anything with the word "food" in it. If i have to be TOLD that it's food, i'm not berkeleying eating it.

But it's very important to distinguish the limp New York style bagel from the superior Montreal style. How do we do this?

Call your Montreal Style Pizza "Unicorn Farts on a Cracker?" I don't care. Just don't call it pizza. Pizza is limp chewy deliciousness that needs to be folded. Chicago can call it "Mushy Messy Bread Casserole."

BAGEL. Bagel bagel bagel. I said bagel. Montreal doesn't have a pizza style, it's just pizza. But they know much better about bagels than NY does. Although I have to agree about the messy bread casserole

I'm just here to nest more comments. Also, its hotdish, not casserole.

Wally wrote:

Adrian_Thompson wrote: So once people are banned do all their posts get deleted? We used to have a 'members' button that you could click on to see peoples posts and post count, leader board etc. But in one of the forum revisions it seems to have gone away. I went to the googlymoogly to look for Mguar, Snowdoggie and Dogooder. Snowdoggie is the only one who still appears to have posts left on here. BTW, I've got to agree with the Canuk's, no one but American's calls ham 'Canadien bacon' And they are just 'muffins' not 'English Muffins'. 'French toast' isn't from the cheese eating surrender monkeys, 'Swiss Chard' is just 'chard' and it's not from Switzerland. Russian dressing, German chocolate cake etc. etc. WTF is it with this country adding random country names to foods?

What do you call American cheese?

Discusting and gross. Window sealant, piss poor excuse for a cheese, etc....

Opinion of a semi cheese eating surrender monkey.

Swank Force One wrote: Oh. Bagel. Holy cow i should go home from work. My bad! Bagels are really hit and miss in NY. I have no argument for that, other than that you haven't had a good NY bagel. Some of them are so light and airy you'd swear they were a weird cake, and i hate that. A good bagel should have a "skin" tough enough that you have to fight it a little to get through to the doughy soft and chewy goodness inside.

Go home.

My NY bagel was provided to me by a foodie who's lived in the area for a few decades, picked up that morning. But the fact that you refer to "skin" instead of "crust" immediately shows the inherent inferiority of the NY variation.

I am totally going to refer to Chicago style bread casserole from now on. It's one of those dare foods.

Where do we stand on Buffalo hot wings? I mean, they're not really off buffaloes so I assume they have to do with Buffalo, NY. Which is not terribly hot at this point.

I need to go home as well.

The Buffalo Wing originated from The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY

Wow, this thread has traveled some places???

Stop putting cheese and gravy on fries and calling it poutine...

Poutine use a very specific kind of cheese and a special gravy.

Philistines..

As far as gravy goes... What your country does to gravy is criminal.

I am late to this to this party. I have been floating around the GRM message boards in all the different iterations for more than ten years. Political threads have always been contentious. I remember when the off-topic section was set up to give people a place to say their peace without poisoning the car content. Outside of that, GRM has always been a welcoming and open place.

I have also noticed in the last couple of years there has been some bickering and petty personality disputes creeping into the car content. When I find it tiresome, I usually just go away for a while.

But what kind of pizza do you prefer?

I was in Quebec once, God help me. I ordered a Pizza at a nice restaurant. It was the worst meal I have probably ever had in a restaurant. Because of that meal, and all the total rude total shiny happy people in Quebec from the people in the airport at Montreal (most rude/shiny happy person customs and immigration in the berkeleying WORLD, and I've been around it 3 times) all the way to the dock in Baie-Comeau, I think Quebec should form it's own country so we can nuke it. Accidentally. For the pizza. And the children. Or something.

Appleseed wrote: But what kind of pizza do you prefer?

Troll

Papa John's

/Troll

One of the things that I find interesting about this forum is that most threads recover from the brink by talking about food. It seems to be the thing that we can disagree on the most agreeably.

I like my pizza deep dish, but not quite the quiche pictured above. It needs to have a chewy, airy, crispy crust that has just the slightest flame-kissed char on it. Toppings can be almost anything, but the crust is crucial for me. That's not to say I won't eat lesser pie, because I like food. I can lower my standards based on my hunger at the moment.

Bagels, I like them to have a crust that crackles when you bite it. My favorite bagel is the plain or whole wheat bagel that was sitting next to the everything bagel in the case. Just a hint of everything, without the risk of smelling like garlic and onions all day.

Everything bagel is the only way to go.

Pizza? Been clean for almost ten years.