All You Should Read

I’m proud and honored to have witnessed history being written, tonight.

Yes, we can, indeed.

“Newb” (or “n00b”, if you’re l33+) never was, and never will be, a term of endearment.

I firmly believe that people should not be allowed on the internet - nay, behind a keyboard - before they have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they know what they’re getting themselves into.

I’m beginning to lose my interest. It’s fun, climbing up the level ladder at breakneck speed…

… but some of the people there are such pathetic losers. There’s this one guy - who calls himself a web designer - that answers a question, gives everyone else the thumbs down - not because their answers are wrong, mind, but to make himself look good - then logs in with another account, gives every one else another thumbs down, and himself a thumbs up. Bingo!

The whole thing is a race to get as many points as possible - never mind about just giving people information, absolutely never mind acknowledging other people may give good information, too…

His answers aren’t bad… but his attitude is one of a first-grader. A retarded bully first-grader. And his website, oh my god, his site… animated GIFs all over the place. A yellow background. With… with horizontal lines, like a college binder. Sorry, but I can’t respect the petty if-I-make-everybody-look-bad-it-makes-me-look-good behavior. And there’s plenty of ‘em like that.

Yeah… like with a lot of other things in life, Yahoo! isn’t capable of keeping me interested. The Laissez-faire attitude of the actual staff regarding spam reporting; the trolling; the adults acting like kids with a double-bottomed shopping bag in a candy store…

Time to move on, I think.

[Thanks for the spelling correction, Martin! Je ne parlez pas Français cela bien; mes degrés dans l'école secondaire étaient assez mauvais. Long live Freetranslation.com...]

Going through the questions and answers on Yahoo Answers, that’s the only conclusion I can draw.

Give a perfectly valid answer to a question and people give you the thumbs down because it doesn’t appeal to their “I don’t want knowledge, I just want do do this” mentality.

Teach a man how to fish… *sigh*

Why do Americans call the main course “entree“? And why do they call the entrée the appetizer?

Hell, even Gordon Ramsay is saying it now (and he (like me) is a Yuropian)!

It’s especially funny/ironic considering the fact that:

1. Entrée is a French word
2. Americans shun the French whenever they can
3. The French language is king in the world of food in the US

Here’s how it’s supposed to be:

The appetizer is a drink you get either before you’re seated, or before your entrée is served.

The entrée is the dish meant to fire up your appetite (or to fill you up before you get to the rest of your dinner…) - usually soup, or a couple of little (warm or cold) snacks.

The main course is your actual dinner, and can consist of either one dish/plate or a sequence of ‘em.

Dessert comes after the main course (at least you have this one right).

After dinner is when you get coffee and a mint.

Mmmkay?