I mean it's funny, but technically it's industrial pollution, right?
It's probably a soup maker getting rid of a batch that was contaminated with something.
Did any of you see that that the linked article includes a link with the answer? I don't find it to be entirely plausible, but how does that Sherlock Holmes quote go? If we've determined that every explanation is impossible except the one that is merely highly improbable than that one must be true. I feel like he said it in a pithier way.
I thought taking a link at a link was too much work, so I didn't look.
I found the explanation pretty plausible, actually.
The explanation was not there when I sent it to Heebie, and it's much more boring than I had hoped for. (it seems like they got it cleaned up right away, Moby. Don't worry.)
I get that these are probably not people with a great deal of resources, but hoarding more food than you can eat during hard times and mega-littering are both asshole behaviors.
8: They delivered the pasta to local Olive Gardens.
It's spelled "gli spaghetti" not "yeet spaghetti."
The hoarder died, so he MIGHT have been able to eat it if he hadn't.
Littering, yes, agreed.
It was expired and the article mentions other foods. But, I guess it is possible he's been dead a while.
Why would dry pasta expire? Fucking FDA
And why can't I use Thalidomide in my sauce? I can't even get pregnant.
Dry pasta won't ever really expire, but it will lose quality over time
Dry pasta, or uncooked pasta, typically has a "best by" date of 1-2 years from the date of purchase.
However, this is not an expiration date, and if you're wondering, "does pasta expire?" then the answer is not really.
Yes, there will be a "best by" date on the pasta box, but that is because food companies have to put one down and can't just say "never."
https://www.nofusskitchen.com/does-dry-pasta-go-bad-expire/
I haven't seen any reliable sources that rule out the involvement of expired, dried pasta in the death of Princess Di either.
I meant to link the actual news story and not the NYT dumb prompt. But my "heebie-geebie" persona is not the one with the NYT subscription, so I guessed because it was paywalled in this browser.
Post / thread request : Dooce. I remember many comment threads about her back in the day.
Post / thread request : Dooce. I remember many comment threads about her back in the day.
It came up in one of the threads, but I agree, it's kind of stuck with me. I can throw something up.
Having demented and counterproductive ideas about "the honourable way to fight" is generally why people, historically, keep getting defeated by white men in fights.
9 is right, though I'm more ready to criticise the son than the parents, who were probably a bit gaga.
24: Only very occasionally true beyond the first encounter.
And to the extent it's true, not limited to white/non-white encounters.
Isn't the crucial difference between the way that American and British white men fight that the British will stand out in the middle of field with a line of muskets, wearing red coats, while Americans will shoot at them from behind a wall?
One of those being considered "honorable."
Yeah, but its a myth the Tucker Carlsons of the world most certainly believe.
Tucker Carlson's drag name is "Tucker Carlson."
Also the plural of Tucker Carlson is Tuckers Carlson, sorry I messed that up.
George Washington did succeed where Braddock failed because Braddock was a dumbass like that. That's why our capital and one of our dampest states are named after Washington and Braddock just has the town with the coke oven.
And now we've returned to American values by teaching all school children to stand behind something when they are being shot at.
27: no, Spike, it isn't. And the thing about the cherry tree isn't true either, nor is it true that slaves were happy down on the old plantation.
27: also, of course, the British army in those battles you're trying to describe wasn't an all-white army.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Regiment
This thread went in a weird and unexpected direction
You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled,--
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard-wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
I'm sure that's exactly as reliable as military history as "The Song of Hiawatha" was as Native American history.
40 s/b
Moby Hick was once too often
Nuked by noble Hiawatha
I guess whats not in dispute is that British regulars got their asses beat that day by a local militia.
Many national myths: not true.
Many pounds of spaghetti in the woods: true.
I'm very surprised that dumped dry pasta would hydrate as evenly as the photographs make it appear. Whenever I make pasta in too small a pot, or without adequate water, or at anything less than a rolling boil, it sticks together into hard, undercooked clumps. But the noodles here look uniformly cooked and nicely separated. I would definitely eat them; they look delicious.
I suspect that if you looked more closely, they would look less appetizing. Or maybe he came out to stir the pasta so the water was mixed around everywhere?
Anyway, some of the hikers don't want to have to carry a stove, so they soak pasta for a couple of hours and it gets edible. They say.
Obviously, they mostly get eaten by a bear, but that happens regardless.
47: Bears are picky eaters, so the pasta must be pretty good
Pasta with fresh hiker meatball sauce, yum!
OT: How is Case Western for undergrads? Is it passable living? I was made to go to Cleveland once and it was just awful, but it occurs to me it's probably different if you aren't forced into the Rock and Roll Hall o' Fame.
My cousin went there and liked it. That was a while ago now, though.
I also have a friend who's in law school there now but he probably doesn't know much about the undergrad scene.
Ohio has gone downhill lately, but I'm guessing university-related areas probably haven't.
51: 25 years ago (love of fuck) a good friend liked it there. Nerdy culture.
Twenty-five years ago, I lived in Ohio. I haven't been back, except to see Thomas the Tank Engine.
Unless you have better expectations than I did.
SOME OF US HAVE GREAT EXPECTATIONS
56. Sodor, OH?
Neil Young did quite a good song about Ohio...
51: We've got some old commenters who teach there -- is your kid applying?
Not that far along. Making a list of places to visit.
it's probably different if you aren't forced into the Rock and Roll Hall o' Fame.
I was going to say that nobody is forced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but then I remembered Dolly Parton.
My grandfather went to Western Reserve before it merged with Case.
My father taught at CWRU 50 years ago, and he and three of my older siblings got degrees from there. All I really know about the place is that it's renowned for its medical school, which nobody in my family had anything to do with. (Also: My father's colleagues were nice people.)