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A LiveCode programmer cannot die from hunger even if their fridge is empty.

They can survive on all the food hiding between the keys of their keyboard for at least a week.

What is a programmer?
– An organism that turns caffeine and fast food into software.

That explains why I not really a programmer: I never, ever eat fast food.

Stick to what my wife and I cook at home.

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:05 am

That explains why I not really a programmer: I never, ever eat fast food.

Stick to what my wife and I cook at home.

You don't eat potato chips? (what I have when the wife and I get into a row hee hee)

My wife cooks very good potato chips (not crisps), and I sometimes cook chips made from sweet potato, carrots and turnips.
I always cook chips in ghee as the taste is fantastic.

Heh, the chips I'm thinking of don't get cooked (at home)


Pretty much my idea of 'fast food', open a bag, done

Those are not chips, those are crisps.

These are chips:
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Huh, I always thought the european version of chips were the fatter flatter fried (or baked) potatoes, like these -



Your image (fries), I'd never have come up with 'chips', since they don't resemble any other chip I ever saw. Sticks maybe, but chips? Never would have gotten there heh.

Other things I don't get would include spanner, lorry, the list is nearly endless

What a strange world it would be if we all agreed on decimal points, paper sizes, pints and gallons (litres don't have an alternative measure afaik), dd/mm and mm/dd date ordering, and... pretty much EVERYTHING. (Not even getting as far as languages and writing systems themselves - in any event, there's enough variance just in English to boggle the brain.)

But Richmond's chips are definitely chips.

Don't get me wrong, I assume what Richmond posted is what passes for chips there, I was just pointing out that I always thought they were more like my picture heh.

I agree with bogs. I always thought the English version of chips were what we call potato wedges.

Then there are other chips like "silicon chips" and "cow chips"

Newbie4 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:18 pm

Then there are other chips like "silicon chips" and "cow chips"

...and the one thing that almost all of those have in common is that they are all (usually) semi-flattened and spread out...

You Europeans better get on the ball over there, and start naming your stuff after something it may resemble

Thick chips are usually disambiguated using the terms 'chip shop' or 'chippy', as they tend to be what you get in Fish & Chips establishments. Sometimes thin chips are called fries, but generally if you see the word chips on a menu you probably have to ask how thick they're going to be.

you probably have to ask how thick they're going to be

That's the sort of question I tend to ask when someone rings up and wants to send their kids to my EFL school.

livecodeali wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:36 am

you probably have to ask how thick they're going to be.

but you wouldn't ever expect wedges, of course