"Steak is NOT Beef... it is NOT Beef"

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I would have corrected my date, and how they react to being corrected will determine future possibilities. I also would start subtly probing their general knowledge to see what I was in for.

So then they’d be subjected to an indirect examination/knowledge quiz?

Maybe, but not in an "I'm quizzing you" type way, more so I would talk about things and try to say things to provoke a response. Ideally, they shouldn't realized they are being quizzed.

[Valentine Z]

I'd also be worried that I'm going to have to listen to them rant and complain about trivial nonsense, which is annoying even if they are not ranting about anything I did. If the service at a restaurant is slow, I don't want to hear about it for the next month.

Also true.

Plus someone who's this obnoxious about food service is rarely only picky about that one thing. So you just know they'll have lots of other complaints, whether it's that the shop didn't have their preferred brand of something or that they stood in some mud and now their shoe's dirty.

Being around someone perfectionistic and angsty is no fun for the other person at all.

Even if everything that could go wrong in a meal does -- the service is slow, the wrong food is sent, then the right food comes out cold (this has happened to me in one meal) -- it's possible to send food back/etc and be nice about it.

Yep, all of this! Of course, it is not a litmus test of niceness, but when I see someone being an intolerable ass towards a bus driver, food server, or a receptionist, that's a turn off for me. If they are in a relationship, goodness help their significant other.

Of course, there are exceptions like when it is the server that was rude in the first place, then again, you can't fight fire with fire. Just give a stern feedback and move on with it, or accept that maybe they are having a bad enough day.

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Back when I was in my teens I had a friend with benefits, he would always be saying stupid shit that wasn't true, he was also a pathological liar. We still hung out and did stuff but I realized quite quickly we would never have a serious relationship.

[Nolo gap]

is not subset of dead cow? is not "beef" the more generic, and "steak" more specific to certain parts.
not all beef is steak, of course, there is steak from other life forms.

[Infected Mushroom]

I am very confused. Do you know anyone who actually considers steak not to be beef? This is perhaps the most pointless, obscure thread of the year.

Even if you think it’s not well done, this is a rare thread topic.

The steaks are high.

[Infected Mushroom]

is not subset of dead cow? is not "beef" the more generic, and "steak" more specific to certain parts.
not all beef is steak, of course, there is steak from other life forms.

You mean like kangaroo steak?

[Cannot think of a name]

I once, long long ago, argued with a girlfriend because when she said she didn’t like American cheese I thought she meant cheese from America not the terrible style of cheese called “American cheese.” She was right to break up with me. But also, given that I’m not one to judge.

[Hokaida]

Considerating that steak can be used (at least in my mothertongue) to described any sorts of meat... yeah ?

[Dumb Ideologies]

It's not really on the level of having radically different politics and ethical philosphies from your partner, and some of us make that work.

People without any meaningful disagreements feel the need to manufacture trivial ones into deal-breakers, so it seems.

[Trumptonium1]

I am very confused. Do you know anyone who actually considers steak not to be beef? This is perhaps the most pointless, obscure thread of the year.

Yeah I do.

I also never knew tuna was fish, a fact my parents kept from me because I hate fish. For the record I no longer eat tuna.

[Infected Mushroom]

I am very confused. Do you know anyone who actually considers steak not to be beef? This is perhaps the most pointless, obscure thread of the year.

Yeah I do.

I also never knew tuna was fish, a fact my parents kept from me because I hate fish. For the record I no longer eat tuna.

Isn’t this a bit manipulative from your parents?

Why trick you?

[The Grims]

Yeah I do.

I also never knew tuna was fish, a fact my parents kept from me because I hate fish. For the record I no longer eat tuna.

Isn’t this a bit manipulative from your parents?

Why trick you?

So he'd eat it one assumes.

[Infected Mushroom]

Isn’t this a bit manipulative from your parents?

Why trick you?

So he'd eat it one assumes.

Isn’t it unhealthy anyways? It’s not like vegetables

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

what

[Internationalist Bastard]

My beef knife into their jugular

[Trumptonium1]

Yeah I do.

I also never knew tuna was fish, a fact my parents kept from me because I hate fish. For the record I no longer eat tuna.

Isn’t this a bit manipulative from your parents?

Why trick you?

Well, fish is pretty important as part of your diet, I just forego it because I hate everything about it from the smell to the texture. I don't think it was something particularly evil lol

[Infected Mushroom]

Isn’t this a bit manipulative from your parents?

Why trick you?

Well, fish is pretty important as part of your diet, I just forego it because I hate everything about it from the smell to the texture. I don't think it was something particularly evil lol

You’re missing out friend!

Sushi is God.

In fact, right now I hunger for salmon sushi

[Thermodolia]

I’ve had it with these motherfucking hypotheticals on this motherfucking site!!

[Infected Mushroom]

I’ve had it with these motherfucking hypotheticals on this motherfucking site!!

Is your last name Jackson?

[Thermodolia]

Dealbreaker.

Steak comes from cow, there for, it is beef.

You haven’t had the wonders of buffalo steak my friend

[Infected Mushroom]

Dealbreaker.

Steak comes from cow, there for, it is beef.

You haven’t had the wonders of buffalo steak my friend

Is it better than beef steaks?

[Thermodolia]

I don't know.

I mean, its just an emotional response from me. It makes me want to shout out loud:

"HOW COULD YOU KNOW THIS?!!!!!! ... HOW??????????!!!!!!!!"

I wouldn't because I am bound by certain rules of conduct, but I'd be so tempted.

I mean, its not so much that they don't know that steak comes from cattle... its the fact that WHILE they didn't know this, it has never occurred to them to wonder and look up the answer. This can't be the first time they've eaten steak so then... .... ... the fact that can't name another animal is problematic. Had they even said, "it comes from pigs/pork" I would have been shocked but not nearly as shell-shocked as the total lack of answer.

I understand that there is variance between what is "common sense/common knowledge" across different people. I mean just the other day I myself looked pretty bad not knowing that a "bomber" was a type of jacket or that "John Deere" was an agricultural company. But this is on a fairly universal level I feel...

Is it not universal knowledge that New Zealand cuts come from cattle?

Think about it this way. Unless you spend far to much time reading wikipedia(or your encyclopedia of choice) there are many many things that you no nothing about. I grew up in farming communities, cattle, John Deere, and tobacco are common sense to me. Nothing is universally know. I only just learned of the existence of a song called Baby by Justin Beiber, which was apparently shocking to my normal NS home the rate music thread.

I’m so sorry for your loss

[Thermodolia]

Think about it this way. Unless you spend far to much time reading wikipedia(or your encyclopedia of choice) there are many many things that you no nothing about. I grew up in farming communities, cattle, John Deere, and tobacco are common sense to me. Nothing is universally know. I only just learned of the existence of a song called Baby by Justin Beiber, which was apparently shocking to my normal NS home the rate music thread.

This is true.

I am woefully ignorant about pop culture, technology, company names, and as a I found out to my cost the other day, terminology regarding clothes.

But let's say this exchange happened:

...

A: "How are we going to approach this discussion with the British?"

B: "Its simple. We go to the Queen and give her our proposal. We'll make it 100% hard-hitting and its a Go."

A: "... ... the Queen?"

B: "Sup?"

A: "The Queen is the ceremonial head of state. She's not the head of government."

B: "Oh? Then who is the head of government?"

A: "The Prime Minister."

B: "... ... okay."
...

Would you not be concerned? =)

No. Especially if they came from a nation like the US where there isn’t a separate head of government

[Thermodolia]

So he'd eat it one assumes.

Isn’t it unhealthy anyways? It’s not like vegetables

Fish has lots of protein, so it’s good for you. Now eat your damn fish!!

[Thermodolia]

You haven’t had the wonders of buffalo steak my friend

Is it better than beef steaks?

It’s very juicy so yes.

Buffalo burgers are the best