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Small entrees are great because it means you can get hosed up on dessert.
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Dazerbeams posted:I don't think steak would ever make an appearance as an appetizer. i've had it as a starter in italy
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Jul 11, 2019 17:00
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Sunswipe posted:The problem from what I've gathered (and I didn't know this until now) is it seems "entree" in cheap chain restaurants in the States means "main course." In France and the rest of the world, it means "appetizer." I'm guessing this restaurant was sufficiently posh that they use the word "entree" correctly, and this fat gently caress didn't realise that. literally nowhere in the US calls appetizers entrees, this restaurant just served smaller main courses. it sounds like he got a fancy 6-8oz steak, which is a main course. It doesn't make etymological sense but my dude have you seen the rest of the English language
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Jul 11, 2019 17:00
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guys in America we call the main course the entree
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Jul 11, 2019 17:03
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Whorelord posted:i've had it as a starter in italy yeah there's tons of apps that use steak as an ingredient, and you can even get small portions of steak to taste as a pre-main course. arguably this is a better use of steak than trying to pack more than a pound of red meat into your intestine. heck you can even get steak on a salad
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Jul 11, 2019 17:03
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Heck, back in the 90s I remember reading the Weekly World News (that fake as Hell 'tabloid' with Bat Boy and such) and their Ed Anger bit had this diatribe about taking his wife to a 'frou-frou' French restaurant and the portion sizes were so small and so expensive that his wife was crying and he walked out in anger. They stopped by KFC on the way home for a 'real' meal. That column was intentionally a parody of a vitriolic right-wing 'Murican moron.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:10
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Steak as a starter is perfectly normal. Think two or three very small cross section slices, possibly with a drizzle of sauce. Gnocchi, however, I absolutely can't see being served as a starter, which makes me think they did get main courses. Steak works better as a starter imo anyway. If you're getting steak it should be a fancy and well prepared thing you appreciate for the taste. If you're just eating it to get full you may as well just have generic beef
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Jul 11, 2019 17:11
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*resturaunt serves a reasonably-sized dish* american: this is fraud
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Jul 11, 2019 17:12
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:literally nowhere in the US calls appetizers entrees, this restaurant just served smaller main courses. it sounds like he got a fancy 6-8oz steak, which is a main course. It doesn't make etymological sense but my dude have you seen the rest of the English language Christ, I don't know then. I'm trying to make sense of what an idiot thought a word borrowed from another language and changed to mean almost the exact opposite was supposed to mean, in a restaurant that is clearly far fancier than the idiot is used to. With the amount of language mangling going on, he might have been trying to order a loving ice cream sundae.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:13
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I don't think fat guy was actually in a fancy restaurant anyway. it was probably just some trendy poo poo with chalkboards on the walls and reclaimed wood everywhere
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Jul 11, 2019 17:13
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I don't think fat guy was actually in a fancy restaurant anyway. it was probably just some trendy poo poo with chalkboards on the walls and reclaimed wood everywhere Yeah, $60 for dinner for two all in isn't like weird French fancy tier He's used to paying $12 for a bottomless bucket of slop, or going to somewhere Maggiano's where they give you a full meal plus and entire separate take-home meal for less than $20. I really, really doubt a $15-20 a plate place was using a (for America) esoteric definition of "entree" that threw him off and also that at no point did anyone explain this to him if it were true.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:16
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anyway enjoy some really broken people https://twitter.com/MackLamoureux/status/1149306091110576129 quote:Deb more similar stories at the link! the internet and particularly social media were a mistake
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Jul 11, 2019 17:17
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Agent Burt Macklin posted:My wife (40 F) (Our family)has fears of beeing excluded by the neighbors. How can I help her? i think this husband's suggestion of "well let's have a barbecue ourselves then, or invite the neighbors over for drinks" is perfectly good and i think the wife is mentally 13 years old to be saying they can't have a bbq because one of the neighbors already did it and they'd be copying them. it doesn't sound like she "loves socializing," as he suggests; it sounds like she's just desperately needy.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:18
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I have huge hangups about getting good value for my dining-out dollar so can kinda see where the guy is coming from if he's not used to "hipster places" but man, just don't make a scene and learn that that sort of place isn't for you. Also, anyone can get good food at a $30 a tiny-plate restaurant, the real trick is finding amazing food down in the $15 range.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:20
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Vim Fuego posted:hahahaha where the gently caress do these people work Blue collar and (probably) not customer facing. Think warehouses and manufacturing, construction, mining, lumber, materials handling etc. That kind of poo poo is RAMPANT on job sites like that and I used to run into it regularly when I was a for-hire computer toucher.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:22
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brugroffil posted:anyway enjoy some really broken people Meh, nothing to worry about. It's not like these people are armed.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:22
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Baronjutter posted:I have huge hangups about getting good value for my dining-out dollar so can kinda see where the guy is coming from if he's not used to "hipster places" but man, just don't make a scene and learn that that sort of place isn't for you.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:22
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luxury handset posted:yeah there's tons of apps that use steak as an ingredient, and you can even get small portions of steak to taste as a pre-main course. arguably this is a better use of steak than trying to pack more than a pound of red meat into your intestine. heck you can even get steak on a salad this was in bologna, i definitely ate more than a pound of red meat during that meal
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Jul 11, 2019 17:27
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brugroffil posted:anyway enjoy some really broken people / Qanon shitfest her mother had always suffered from mental health issues, but it wasn't until recently that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a personality disorder, and PTSD you don't say
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Jul 11, 2019 17:29
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This guy is a dingus but if I paid $30 for dinner and was still hungry afterwards I would not be super thrilled.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:32
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Jul 11, 2019 17:34
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Xaris posted:yeah, gently caress this rear end in a top hat. i hope he gets condemned to applebees hell in fat suburbia hell alone for the rest of his life. enjoy those bloomin onions i guess. I'm certain I've gotten stuck behind this kind of guy at Panda Express. You know, the annoying person who holds up the line because he's micromanaging the poor worker to get the maximum possible portions.  "If I'm gonna pay a dollar extra for walnut shrimp you better be getting me a goddamn mountain of shrimp!"
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Jul 11, 2019 17:36
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i think it should be legal to strike a man stoutly between the shoulders and head if he is being a dunce or otherwise menace to society. How else can we keep the proletariat in their correct, servile positions?
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Jul 11, 2019 17:44
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:^^^ let's be real here, if he even exists, you know that dude is fat as hell Yeah, the only place where a normal person will be legitimately hungry after a $30 meal (as in still unsatisfied at the restaurant, not feeling hungry 2 hours later) is an extremely expensive place where $30 gets you a few ounces of something very high quality. Like Morimoto in Vegas has sushi as high as $7-10 a piece, so $30 of sushi there is basically a small plate.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:44
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Baronjutter posted:I have huge hangups about getting good value for my dining-out dollar so can kinda see where the guy is coming from if he's not used to "hipster places" but man, just don't make a scene and learn that that sort of place isn't for you. If you want a big honkin' platter of food they probably have something on the menu to accomodate, the key might be to not order the suspiciously cheap steak of an exotic animal
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Jul 11, 2019 17:46
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bringing my portable calorimeter to every restaurant i visit. i order two of the same meal and burn one off to determine whether it is worth my time. if it isn't at least 2,500 calories, i refuse to pay for either dish
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Jul 11, 2019 17:46
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quote:My girlfriend has some large scars along the side of her face, and she's had them for as long as I've known her, as well as openly telling me how she got them and whatnot. Despite this openness, she has severe image issues related to them, I personally think they're cute and I like to include her whole body during sexual activities/make outs like stroking and kissing her cheek/neck. I onow this is a few pages back but this thread moves fast. As someone who is in a similar position I understand where this girl is coming from. Even though I'm open about where my facial scars come from and joke about it I'm still quite self conscious about them. They are not as noticable as they once were but some people, especially children, still stare. I try to avoid getting my face too close to others and feel anxiety when people kiss me on that cheek even when its friends and family that have known me for years. This is before we get into the fact the inside of my mouth is different then everone else's and I am incredibly self conscious about kissing. Having facial scars is also something you just can't "get over." Every time she looks in the mirror she is going to be reminded of whatever caused it. I wish I had some advice for this guy that isn't "Be patient and keep on doing what you're doing" but that's really about it. Just keep letting her know you like them and showing you aren't scared of touching them. He'll need to accept too that he'll never understand no matter how hard she tries to explain. He's honestly doing a good job. I also understand as a man its different than if I was a woman. Either way it sucks but those were the cards we were dealt. I just hope she is strong enough to deal with it. Edit: How he treats her scars when out in public is important too. I had an rear end in a top hat friend that I don't talk to anymore that would always bring my scars up when meeting new people. My family does this sometimes too. It feels like they are bragging about your scars and its loving weird. If he is doing that gently caress him and she needs to leave him. limp_cheese fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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AITA For telling my girlfriends 11 year old brother that I would pay for his college if he stays in school and gets good grades, even though I don't have the money right now?quote:My girlfriend of 5 months has a little brother who has been consistently truant, skipping school and not turning in assignments as well as just having poor grades overrall and starting fights/acting up, ect. 
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Jul 11, 2019 17:54
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I feel self-conscious when people look at the mass of broken blood vessels on my left temple where a vein burst because I was straining too hard while plopping a monster turd
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Jul 11, 2019 17:54
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i vomit kittens posted:AITA For telling my girlfriends 11 year old brother that I would pay for his college if he stays in school and gets good grades, even though I don't have the money right now? Why would you promise to pay for tuition AND a car?? One empty promise at a time dude!
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Jul 11, 2019 17:56
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He's an rear end in a top hat but if he's at all serious community college + a used car would be doable on a union welder's wages.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:58
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goethe.cx posted:I feel self-conscious when people look at the mass of broken blood vessels on my left temple where a vein burst because I was straining too hard while plopping a monster turd thank u for your service
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Jul 11, 2019 18:02
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He made the empty promises to ensure he's still the "wealthy" guy amongst his peers.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:04
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Seven-year welder's an easy six-figure salary so yeah wouldn't be much of a stretch, hell of a commitment for a five-month relationship tho
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Jul 11, 2019 18:07
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limp_cheese posted:I onow this is a few pages back but this thread moves fast. As someone who is in a similar position I understand where this girl is coming from. Even though I'm open about where my facial scars come from and joke about it I'm still quite self conscious about them. They are not as noticable as they once were but some people, especially children, still stare. I try to avoid getting my face too close to others and feel anxiety when people kiss me on that cheek even when its friends and family that have known me for years. This is before we get into the fact the inside of my mouth is different then everone else's and I am incredibly self conscious about kissing. I had reconstructive surgery on my face and even though my family says they can't see them, the scars on my face is all I see when I look in the mirror. If you want an honest opinion, ask a kid. My six year old says he can't see them when I have my glasses on.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:13
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zakharov posted:This guy is a dingus but if I paid $30 for dinner and was still hungry afterwards I would not be super thrilled. Also, it's $30. If your partner enjoying their evening isn't worth $30 to you then you're an rear end in a top hat.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:14
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brugroffil posted:Yeah, $60 for dinner for two all in isn't like weird French fancy tier haha i hadn't considered this dude probably lives in the suburbs where it's viable to advertise $7.99 dinners on tv commericals, and another dimension in which he was completely out of his element was by going to a restaurant downtown with $5+ draft beers and even a regular burrito or something will run you ten bucks
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Jul 11, 2019 18:15
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:He doesn't have to be thrilled about it, he just doesn't need to humiliate his girlfriend by causing a huge scene at the restaurant and then, still unsatisfied, humiliate her again by stopping for a McDonald's on the way home. He's entitled to his own taste in food but he's absolutely not entitled to embarrass her over it. I strongly agree, thus why I called him a dingus.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:16
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Agent Burt Macklin posted:I had reconstructive surgery on my face and even though my family says they can't see them, the scars on my face is all I see when I look in the mirror. If you want an honest opinion, ask a kid. My six year old says he can't see them when I have my glasses on. My 6 year old niece doesn't notice them but I have had random kids point and ask their parents what happened to that man's face. At the same rime I've had to point out scars that people have known me for 10 years never noticed. Having facial scars is weird.
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quote:Also, before anyone chimes in with this, SHE IS NOT DEPRESSED How many of these have this exact phrase? It's always wrong
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