Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Autumnal]

which is your favorite?

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I think I have to go with the deep field view for total grandeur, but it’s all marvelous.

 

[Staffan]

…someone must always poop in the punch bowl.

Or punch in the poop bowl. Neither is ideal.

 

[Autumnal]

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Ooh, a trebuchet. Nice. It's like the dark suit of siege engines. Good for all occasions. Everyone knows you can't use a siege hook after Labor Day.

 

[payn]

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[overgeeked]

I don’t know how I keep forgetting the internet is meant for shouting your opinions at other people at the top of your lungs until they simply quit responding. But thanks for the reminder.

 

[Umbran]

Also, weirdly, historically poorer countries have to do more with less so develop more flavorful and varied foods. Which is also why colonizers tend to have bland native food because they’re rich, but boost their food by importing foreign foods. It’s why places like Spain, Turkey, Central and South America, India, Morocco, Vietnam, Louisiana, etc have some of the best foods.

With respect, you probably need to do more to establish cause-and-effect there. I think you'll find that there's a more basic issue at work - the farther north you go in the northern hemisphere, the less the climate supports growing of plants that qualify as "spices" - the compounds in those plants typically take more energy to produce, and so they don't grow well in colder regions with less direct sun and shorter growing seasons.

This will be true whether or not the country was poor, or colonizers.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Not gonna lie - I am not reading back through all the posts I missed. Because this is the pineapple express. And it's a hootenanny, not homework!

But Snarf* is back from his second sabbatical, and Snarf is rested, relaxed, and ...

So I will post an essay before the end of the week. Good to see everyone again. For those interested in what I was up to (which barely includes me)- I was on a vacation that I had scheduled last year. I had no idea when I scheduled it how much it would be needed after a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad December and January.**


*Snarf has decided that illeism is Snarf's new rhetorical trademark, because Snarf understands (as did Rickey Henderson, RIP) that illeism makes Snarf sound less pompous. Especially when Snarf keeps Latin'ing up Snarf's comments instead of just using the phrase everyone else knows. Suck it, Shakira. Snarf is going to get sixteen Latin Grammys by kickin' it old school!

**For a lot of people. Mine was ... really bad. But trust me- this isn't a competition. If it was, I would totally let you win.

 

[TiQuinn]

So I will post an essay before the end of the week.

Please hit the save button.

 

[Mad_Jack]

With respect, you probably need to do more to establish cause-and-effect there. I think you'll find that there's a more basic issue at work - the farther north you go in the northern hemisphere, the less the climate supports growing of plants that qualify as "spices" - the compounds in those plants typically take more energy to produce, and so they don't grow well in colder regions with less direct sun and shorter growing seasons.

This will be true whether or not the country was poor, or colonizers.

Also, colder climates result in slower spoilage of food materials, resulting in less need for one of the original purposes of spices...