It ain’t the warmth alone, it’s warmth + time.

Oh no, I LOVE mayo. I also respect mayo.

At your next office picnic, you go right ahead and take a big scoop of sun-warmed potato salad at about 4 pm, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Yeah, see, that’s not fun at a party.

Valid

Young man? Closing on an attempted compliment, well done. Wrong about everything else, though, and since calling out my age probably wasn’t a compliment, my age, too.

Don’t be looking out for any party invitations from me. I like my parties to be fun.

I’m an old guy, and I’ve seen many examples in the news over the years. I remember a big one from the 80s or 90s when about 9 people from a single family died when the egg salad went bad at a family reunion.

I read that modern commercial mayo isn’t what cause the food-poisoning because it tend to contain vinegar and such, but whenever there is an outbreak from a picnic, it’s ALWAYS the food with the mayo.

I’ve read numerous similar stories over the years, did a basic Google search, and got this AI blurb:

Examples of Mayo-Related Food Poisoning Incidents

• Raw Egg Mayo Ban (India): Telangana banned raw egg mayonnaise after over 20 people were hospitalized and one death was reported, linking the cases to contaminated mayo.
• Salmonella in Restaurant Mayo (Saudi Arabia): A restaurant chain’s homemade mayonnaise was linked to an outbreak, with laboratory analysis finding Clostridium botulinum (causing botulism).
• Restaurant Salad Outbreak: A 2000s-era case saw roughly 94 people develop Salmonellosis after consuming salads containing homemade mayonnaise that was left at room temperature for over 3 hours during assembly.
• Club Sandwich Outbreak: An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium was traced back to egg mayonnaise sandwiches served at a club canteen.
• Picnic/Buffet Risks: Potato salad, tuna salad, and egg salad left in the sun, where the low acidity of the potatoes or other ingredients allows bacteria to grow rapidly.

Someone is off their meds.

Your degree is in HIS-story HIS being the prefix you’re choosing to use.

Imagine thinking that this is a valid argument - that “choosing” to use the world History makes me sexist, because history has His in it, so I must accept all the sexist stereotypes that have occured in HIS-tory. Or maybe I’m sexist because I won’t call it Herstory?

The word history originates from the Ancient Greek historia, meaning “inquiry,” “knowledge acquired by investigation,” or “account of one’s inquiries”.

So you see, the word history has nothing to do with gender, just because it has the letters H-I-S in it. It isn’t derived from anything to do with gender or sex, and trying to attach those meanings to it thousands of years after the fact isn’t just poor scholarship, it’s the sign of a really STUPID person.

I’ve got an idea, let’s change the subject, and argue about whether antiHIStamines are Lesbian, and if men should be allowed to take them.

Oh, yeah, I just can’t let that last one go. How does acknowledging that the Union Army was 90% white, a simple historical fact, imply that I wanted the South to win? That was obviously some attempt at an insult, but it didn’t work.

You’re telling me what you think I need to work on, so I’ll suggest that you really need to learn about Critical Thinking Skills. Because you don’t have any, and I doubt that you’ve ever been heard the term.

Nothing I said was wrong, and you didn’t even attempt to dispute it. You just went straight to calling me names because I pointed out the simple historical fact that an enormous army of primarily white soldiers was the primary driver of the end of slavery. I acknowledged that slaves and black soldiers helped, but it is simply an historical fact that the war wasn’t ended by a General Strike (which may not even have really happened, it was just one person’s characterization of the situation), it was ended by the overwhelming might of the Union Army, which was 90% white. Sorry if the truth makes you uncomfortable.

You are a shallow thinker who doesn’t understand that pointing out actual historical facts that don’t align with your 21st century ideologies doesn’t make me sexist or racist, just accurate.

Your insistence that I’m sexist and racist is ignorant, and silly. Besides, where did you get Sexist from? We were talking about slavery, so I could see where a confused person could somehow fall back on a racist label, but sexist? That wasn’t part of the discussion in any way. That was just you piling on to someone you’ve decided to hate simply because they repeated a truth that makes you uncomfortable. You’re the one spewing the bigotry, not me.

Maybe YOU should work on THAT.

Well, I tried to be respectful, and offer facts as my reply, but this one is a special kind of self-righteous dickhead.

Du Bois wrote that, as Union forces marched through the South, enslaved laborers escaped plantations, presenting themselves at army camps to join the fight.

https://daily.jstor.org/did-black-rebellion-win-the-civil-war/

So even DuBois, who was the first to characterize the initial liberation of the slaves as a General Strike, acknowledged that the “General Strike” was preceded by the encroaching Union Army encouraging them. They were already essentially free. Walking off the plantation was just the slaves claiming their new status as free people.

A General Strike implies organization, and that wasn’t strictly true. They didn’t plan for it, set a date, etc. When the Army got close, and everybody knew the region was inevitably going to fall, they walked off the job. If the Northern Army hadn’t shown up, would those slaves had done a General Strike on their own? Of course not, any “General Strike” was only as a result of the approaching army, and the recognition that the end was imminent anyway.

This wasn’t a General Strike, it was just the end of slavery. It’s like characterizing the closing of a company as a General Strike. It isn’t a strike, and all the workers walked off the job, the factory just closed, and everybody lost their jobs.

No, I have a degree in history. I prefer facts to vibes.

The simple truth is that slavery was ended by the Civil War, with a Union Army that was 10% black soldiers, and 90% white soldiers. That’s just a simple fact, from our National Archives.

It isn’t revisionist history to acknowledge that slavery was ended primarily through the deaths of white soldiers, and pointing that out doesn’t make me a white savior. I have also heavily studied Critical Race Theory, and think it should be taught at a high school level in America. I think we could go a long way in educating Americans about the true and significant contributions of black Americans, but that doesn’t require making up new facts that support our personal fantasies. That’s MAGA thinking.

half of the us doesnt even know it.

He literally said this, and I was responding to it. And you tell me he didn’t say it. It’s right there. Read it.

It’s not revisionist at at all. In fact you partially agreed with me, that WHITE abolitionists were prime agents of ending slavery.

Slavery ended IN PART because the slaves resisted, but it’s revisionist history to pretend that the enormous Civil War that killed millions of Americans, mostly white, didn’t play the most major role in the end of slavery.

There wasn’t a single American slave revolt that contributed substantially to the end of slavery. When Union armies started encroaching on Southern territory, slaves abandoned their posts, and headed to Northern lines, but it wasn’t anything organized. DuBois characterized it as a General Strike, but it was really just the slaves taking advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime. There was no organized revolt, no General Strike, just individual motivation to escape while it was possible.

Sure, the Union Army was fighting to preserve the Union, but they were also well aware that the ONLY issue that was dividing the Union was slavery. Literally every Southern Constitution, and the Confederate Declaration of Independence made it very clear that their single issue was slavery. Without Slavery, there is no Civil War. And without the mostly white Union Army, the South would have continued with slavery.

These days, 90% of my writing is on a phone.

Slavery didn’t end because the slaves revolted. It ended because white people fought to abolish it. The North could have allowed the South to continue on as a separate nation with slaves, but they insisted the Confederacy remain with the Union, AND end slavery.

Often the downtrodden need those in power to use that power to fight for them.

It’s a mayo substitute that delis use for tuna and chicken salad. It is actually labelled “salad dressing” because of this use.

Mayo has a notoriously short life out of refrigeration before it becomes literally deadly. People die at summer picnics and family reunions every year from food-poisoning from spoiled potato salad and such. So delis use it because they can make up a giant batch in the morning, and keep it on display in the deli case under moderate refrigeration all day, without it going bad, and murdering their customers, which is so bad for business.

Unfortunately, it also has an unpleasant metallic taste that some people can ignore. I can’t, any more than I can ignore the taste of Diet Coke.

No Kings isn’t for Trump, he’s too stupid and self-delusional to understand anything. It’s for all the other MAGA leadership, who are quickly understanding that it is all falling apart at an increasing rate. Once you have major supporters openly condemning them, it’s over.

No Kings isn’t supposed to do anything but demonstrate opposition numbers, and since each one grows larger, that is making a HUGE psychological impact on MAGA. Many got on board MAGA because they thought it was the winning side, and they want to be winners. When they see that they are on the unpopular side, many will walk away from MAGA. NO Kings helps drive that home to these dipshits.

It also helps energize those at home, who think MAGA is in total control, and there’s nothing they can do. No Kings demonstrates to those people that they aren’t alone, there are millions of others fighting for them.

Every time Hegseth fires another top general, and replaces them with a loyalist Yes-man, he weakens them, and strengthens the potential revolutionary army.

If a Civil War pops off, we will have a LOT of experienced commanders to go up against theirs.

If you don’t know the difference between mayo and Miracle Whip, then you shouldn’t even be participating in this discussion.

It would be funny if the ground crew met them with masks:

“Uh, guys, a funny thing happened while you were on the Dark Side of the Moon…”