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Do you put ketchup on the hot dog you are going to consume?
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You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday January 20, @08:00AM (26 children)
For ref [wikipedia.org]
Because it makes or breaks prime-ministers [telegraph.co.uk] and creates awkward moments [tiktok.com]
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20, @11:05PM (23 children)
In over half of the states my family lives in, it is illegal to give anything to people voting. Sausages, food, bottles of water in temperatures exceeding 100°, etc. Even if it is equal opportunity, from non-partisan groups, and free of political swag. Whatever it takes to suppress the vote.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday January 20, @11:22PM (18 children)
Australia - one of the countries with compulsory voting [wikipedia.org]
Might as well get something in return on the day, mate :grin:
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 22, @02:53AM (16 children)
At this point, I'll take a functional democracy.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday January 22, @01:07PM (14 children)
Good choice. Object oriented democracies are too mercantile and procedural democracies are too prescriptive.
Long live the right to freedom of lambda expressions.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday February 12, @05:53PM (9 children)
Thank you. You have just confirmed exactly who you are.
It is exactly who I thought you were.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 13, @06:01PM (8 children)
So
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=66389&page=1&cid=1433337#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
is the comment you thought was mine and that was why you flagged it?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday February 13, @06:41PM (7 children)
That comment was posted by an AC. You are an AC. The comment was flagged because of its content. Only you know if you posted it or not.
Just tell me which comments YOU posted, and I can then check their content and make a reassessment.
I have the feeling that this is going to be a long weekend of continued time wasting.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 14, @02:36PM (6 children)
I was concerned you were making a false identification and censoring someone else because I would bot shut up about your hypocritical rules enforcement. All you had to say was why your flagging was justified. Providing IDs for falsely flagged comments is literally impossible for me since they are flagged and I cannot judge their content.
So many logical errors around here. I've joked about this site being a testing ground for chatbots, and you really make me wonder if it might actually be likely! More likely you are overly paranoid that a banned user is playing games. Can't help you there, I just stick to the bits I know are truth, otherwise I use speculative language mostly. Not perfect am I.
Is it better that you are a fool believing lying admins? Or better that your pride keeps you from admitting to tiny vanity based abuses like removing a slightly embarassing accusation?
The time wasting is all up to you. Can you be honest? I will not reply until after Sunday, unless you specifically request an earlier respons.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 14, @04:07PM (5 children)
For which comment? I have asked you to tell me which comment that YOU made that you think was incorrectly flagged. Now do so, or shut up please.
Asking about comments that you have NOT posted could reveal the actual poster. Then you would claim that ACs were being compromised.
I don't care when you can reply. I will be happy especially if you do not.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 14, @04:39PM (4 children)
I'll take that as a request for a reply since you clearly reverse everything you hear and say. I cannot help if you refuse to engage honestly, and since you censored the other post you are likely involved with all the activities you claim are impossible.Who knew buzzlardo was the ethical one?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 14, @05:15PM (3 children)
I am being honest.
I did not flag any comments the alleged 2 comments which you say have disappeared. If I had they would be recorded on my system here. They are not recorded.
I did not delete any comments. The had been no function for me to delete comments for over a year now. I do not have direct access to the database. I cannot run arbitrary scripts on the main server, only on the staff server.
I am not hiding behind anonymity while making repeated (and incorrect) allegations about somebody else.
I wish I could say the same for you, but I cannot see how you are 'trying to help me' yet you refuse to indicate which comments are yours.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 14, @06:20PM (2 children)
I am being honest.
^ ok I'll keep assuming that is true
I did not flag any comments the alleged 2 comments which you say have disappeared. If I had they would be recorded on my system here. They are not recorded.
^ they were not flagged, they were purged. It happened, I don't care beyond the fact that you and everyone else should be aware. I didn't even laugh at their mistake but I sure felt like mocking their presumption.
I did not delete any comments. The had been no function for me to delete comments for over a year now. I do not have direct access to the database. I cannot run arbitrary scripts on the main server, only on the staff server.
^ I never accused you specifically, more of something someone would do with terminal access
I am not hiding behind anonymity while making repeated (and incorrect) allegations about somebody else.
^ sure, your name being attached makes it all better
I wish I could say the same for you, but I cannot see how you are 'trying to help me' yet you refuse to indicate which comments are yours.
^ So I accuse you of being a chatbot because you seem to pay no attention to my words and continue on with a preset context. I had no flagged comments to talk about. Someone else was flagged and complained about bias. Since that comment was left visible I decided to try and find out if you janrinok were confusing them with being me, and censoring them as part of a shadow ban on me. I asked you who you thought the flagged commenter was, you played games and demanded I provide you with flagged comment IDs which I did not have. Yet you keep insisting as if I am the one falling on my face. My help has been informing you about what is happening, and you have always flipped it around on me. Curious.
Nothing left for me to say, I'll let you censor like you did my other reply, or have the last word, whatever makes you feel like you can relax this weekend.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 14, @06:39PM
Why would anyone do that? Unless, of course, you did something in the past that you think we would want to shadow ban you for?
Have a good weekend.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 14, @06:45PM
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday February 12, @06:33PM (2 children)
Lets start with an easy one: Anonymous Coward is being flagged. I suspect you are being a bit silly with this claim. If we knew who they were, they wouldn't be anonymous, would they? But can we sometimes link AC comments together based on their comments' content and other information which they give to us freely.
Only slightly more difficult: Either he is permanently banned from the site, or he is using other people's journals for repetitive complaining. Both are valid reasons for flagging.
I cannot understand this one. Neither being permanently banned or repetitive complaining have any political bias associated with them. I suspect that the Anonymous Coward objecting in the parent comment to which I am responding to does have a political bias.
No admin did such a thing, nor can anyone find any evidence to support this claim. Neither was an 'entire thread' deleted. That simply cannot be done.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 14, @02:23PM (1 child)
Then you are being played for a fool. Two comments, up for at least a day, gone.
Doubt you'll read all this, hope it doesn't need to be re-stated.
It would explain so much if the admins are the ones playing silly games invisible to a trusting editor. What galls me is how mundane the redaction waz, for a minor misstep where an admin assumed who and why about a comment then deleted their minor embarassment. Probably should not be surprising, power corrupts and what was once taboo becomes common place because almost no one believes such things would be done. The while thing is sad and I wish it was possible to magically know the real intentions of people
My favorite is how "comments are assessed based in content" while you claim that identity, being a banned user or repeat complainer, is basis for flagging. I tried to see if you were flagging someone because you thought they were a banned user, or that they were a serial complainer, and you refused to admit which criteria informed your censorship. You put the onus on me while making veiled accusations, then triumphantly exclaim you knew it was me. Still not sure if you confused the OP with myself, but that seems to be the case. In which case you are an abusive moderator harming someone that was not the serial complainer or banned user.
Which is why you play these games You made many mistakes the last few years and your pride or anger at TeH BaNneD OnE keeps you from admitting such. I imagine good intentions, even though you have now transferred your anger to me for the crime of calling out your mistaken identity abuse, then repeating complaints because you would censor and continue abuse.
Are you still playing games? Think I am the banned one but you cannot unequivocally prove it? Or am I just the next windmill?
All of this because I tried to find out if another AC was being punished because you thought they were me. Instead of a simple maybe professional interaction I was treated to more abuse and leading accusatory questions. You know, the type if complaining and questioning assumptions you take SUCH UMBRAGE with, even though you refuse to answer.
Now an admin is able to purge comments without a trace and you hope the community is fine with zero accountability. Of course editing a database is possible, it is just a pain to get right. Once figured out though easy enough to script a tool to adjust related values. Whatever, I keep trying to help you with info and you keep being a blockhead. Harder and harder to see it as innocent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 14, @04:57PM
>It would explain so much if the admins are the ones playing silly games invisible to a trusting editor
??? editor?
>being punished because you thought they were me
??? why punished for being you? What have you done?
(Score: 3, Funny) by jb on Thursday January 22, @06:12AM (3 children)
Wouldn't they be bottles of steam at that temperature?
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Thursday January 22, @12:50PM (1 child)
No, it would be water inside the bottle, but would spray into your face as steam when you open them.
Unless of course it was refering to the bottles being at 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or more correctly: "Asshole-temperature"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23, @09:59PM
Has nobody heard of coolers and portable refrigerators anymore?
(Score: 2) by Bentonite on Saturday January 24, @02:02AM
units
Currency exchange rates from exchangerate-api.com (USD base) on 2026-01-17
Consumer price index data from US BLS, 2026-01-13
7294 units, 125 prefixes, 177 nonlinear units
You have: tempF(100)
You want: tempC
37.777778
(Score: 5, Insightful) by fliptop on Tuesday January 20, @07:46PM (4 children)
I do believe Dirty Harry put it best [youtube.com].
Ever had a belch so satisfying you have to blow your nose afterward?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 21, @03:11PM (1 child)
I prefer the Ketchup+Mustard+Mayonnaise trifecta. Just ketchup is kind of sad and I don't like mustard by itself. Assuming I had to have only one condiment, it would be the Mayonnaise.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday February 02, @05:39PM
If you must consume "product from a bottle" try Korean BBQ sauce. Yeah yeah its not healthy blah blah whatever. It tastes pretty good on cooked pork, however, as you'd guess by its other applications.
Another one is "real bbq sauce" is supposed to be put on "real bbq meat" prepared in a "real bbq manner" slow smoked for hours, but really any savory/non-sweetened BBQ on grilled meat is pretty good. The smokey vinegar mustard based bbq sauces are real good.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday January 22, @11:59PM (1 child)
I came here to vote and kick ass.
And i'm all out of votes.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by gawdonblue on Tuesday January 20, @08:18PM (3 children)
Nah, it's spelled "tomato sauce".
(Score: 4, Informative) by Rich on Wednesday January 21, @10:12PM
Even America is bigger. How about:
Do you put chimichurri on the cuy you are going to consume?
[ ] Yes, always
[ ] No, never
[ ] Only when in Argentina
[ ] Only when in Peru
[ ] I stick wheels on it and play "molcar" with my food
[ ] I'm a furry, you insensitive clod!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday January 22, @11:56PM (3 children)
Chose the 'catsup' option, because it reminded me of Corner Gas, where Lacy thinks Oscar can't read because he's sounding out 'Cat-sup' (because he thinks 'Catsup' is just wrong wrong wrong).
When i was a kid, yeah...ketchup.
Now i prefer stuff like dijon or hot mustard, Sriracha, horseradish, sauerkraut...
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday January 24, @09:04AM (2 children)
What is this cat soup you talk of?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday January 24, @03:21PM (1 child)
"Gotta go, my soup is here. PS: It's tomato."
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday January 24, @03:44PM
I've never heard of a cat called Tomato. I did see one called Marmalade once.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Friday January 23, @09:09PM (1 child)
Very rarely. I can eat it but I do prefer my dogs with mustard only. So no ketchup on the dogs.
To put some more spicy fuel in the culinary fire -- pineapple on pizza is delicious and great!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 28, @08:57PM
If the meat-stick is at grilled bratwurst levels, then sure, a nice coarse grind brown mustard is definitely the condiment of choice.
However, if we're talking about some steamed or microwaved, artificially cased, generic hotdog in a limp white bun... that's ketchup country for me.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24, @02:27AM (48 children)
Yes, yes, blah blah blah. The real question inquiring minds want to know is: would Umberto Eco put ketchup/catsup on his hot dog?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday January 24, @01:37PM (3 children)
On hamburgers, though, I like satay sauce.
And on French fries, a mixture of mustard and mayo.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 28, @08:59PM (2 children)
When at Wendys: try the fries dipped in chocolate frosty...
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday January 29, @05:44PM (1 child)
I do like the chocolaate frosty.
I first encountered them not at Wendy's, but my girlfriend told me they were available in the basement of Eaton's in Winnipeg.
But I never tried sticking French fries in them.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 29, @06:46PM
Best with a scooping action to get more frosty on the fry...
Not sure where it started, but I saw it first when my autistic son did it - for years - but then I started seeing other people doing it too...
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by sfm on Thursday January 29, @06:26PM (1 child)
Mustard is a far better choice for Hot Dogs
(Score: 2) by Captival on Saturday January 31, @04:33PM
Nothing at all on it. Just plain. You know a dog is good when you don't need to cover it with a salad.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 02, @05:34PM (1 child)
1) Ketchup doesn't taste good anymore. As a kid, it used to taste tomato like a super incredible mild salsa like a sweet and sour coleslaw but with tomatos and without cabbage, kinda. Kind of a pasta sauce with less oregano and garlic LOL. Now you cannot buy hyperprocessed ketchup below 25% sugar and its overwhelming, smack you in the mouth, sweet overwhelming any other flavor. I would not put maple syrup on a hot dog either. Now that I think about it, the sugar content of fake maple syrup aka "pancake syrup" might be lower than ketchup, and pork breakfast sausage with a little syrup on it is tasty although I usually don't eat that. Regardless, the sugar content is too high for my diet and after a couple weeks your taste buds re-regulate and it becomes way too sugary to eat. "Back when I was a kid" and ketchup was only like 10% sugar it was both tasty and edible, not so anymore. Ketchup is now a red food dye ice cream syrup topping, its pretty gross. Its like the "strawberry" (with no fruit included) ice cream topping but less floral perfume smell.
2) The local "fancy hot dog stand" which claims genealogical connection, vaguely, to Chicago (I have doubts as to its parentage), serves its dogs and hot sausages with slices of tomato and hot peppers. Apparently ketchup is a shit hyper processed substitute for a tomato slice and mustard is a shit hyperprocessed substitute for an italian hot pepper. The real food is delicious. So at home I eat brats and hot dogs with slices of tomato and hot peppers just like the fancy hot dog stand. Its pretty tasty if you've never tried it, go ahead, its really good! Or instead of trash hyperprocessed ground up hot dog relish with an ingredient list longer than a tax return, try a slice of pickle with a grilled dog or sausage, thats pretty good also.
If I'm going to eat something unhealthy like a high carb bread based sandwich, I'm going to "treat myself" to delicious ingredients so I'm sticking to sliced tomatos, hot peppers, and pickle spears, none of this "sugar slop in a bottle" no thanks. Sort of like when I eat unhealthy ice cream I buy the REALLY good super tasty stuff not the giant bucket of bulk slop.
I wonder if I could make my own, edible ketchup. Tastes like tomato without lip curling sweetness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12, @02:00PM
Yeah catsup has too much COLOR!
(Score: 2) by BlueCoffee on Thursday February 05, @10:28PM
Required:
Mayo inside the bun
Mustard
Ketchup
Hot Sauce like Louisiana or Frank's Red Hot
Dash of celery salt
Chopped onions soaked in white vinegar
Optional:
Dill Pickle cut into thin strips
Sauerkraut
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 11, @07:37PM (1 child)
We're hitting warp 11. Wonder when we loop around to the Big Bang. July 4th is just shortly after, I hear there will be flammable canines.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 13, @06:43PM (1 child)
I ate way too many back when I was poor. Ketchup? Hot dogs need the twang of mustard to be the least bit palatable. It's poverty food, meant not to taste good but supply calories.
A decent cut of meat needs no condiment, but a decent cut of meat a hot dog ain't.
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