Happy Pi day

[Scarlet Shocker]

https://www.piday.org/million/

[srmalloy]

Just remember that radians are cursed.

• A unit circle has a radius of 1.
• One radian is the arc subtended by a distance along a circle's circumference equal to the radius.
• One radian is about 57.3°
• A unit circle therefore has a radius of about 57.3°

[Scarlet Shocker]

Are those radians controllers, blasters or defenders?

[Major_Decoy]

1 hour ago, srmalloy said:

Just remember that radians are cursed.

• A unit circle has a radius of 1.
• One radian is the arc subtended by a distance along a circle's circumference equal to the radius.
• One radian is about 57.3°
• A unit circle therefore has a radius of about 57.3°

Someone reads Saturday Morning Breakfast Comics.

[LegionAlpha]

 

[Sir Myshkin]

 So my kid comes home from school today and is like "Hey, it's national chip day!"

 

And I'm like, "haha, funny, no it's not."

 

And they're like, "Yes it is, the teacher said it was national chip day!"

 

And I'm like, "No, it is most definitively Pi(e) Day."

 

And then even my spouse was like, "Yeah, see," shows me phone screen, "national chip day."

 

And I'm like "THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!"

 

 

And I'm about to storm off to the school and demand to speak to whatever Nazi-Chip-Psycho misinformed my kid...

 

Eventually I calm down though and my spouse runs out for dinner and is like "What do you want?" And I say "I want Pie, something that can go into a pie shell, dagnabbit it's pie day!"

 

And you know what they bring home?

 

 

Crustless MINI quiche abominations. So I said "Fine! I'll go eat a chip." And this is what I grabbed:

 

[Scarlet Shocker]

They are not chips. Those. Are. Crisps.

 

 

THESE are chips. These are NOT noncy, skinny, unsatisfying "french fries" (they ain't French)  - these are the kind of chips you eat in a butty or out of newspaper with a fish, plus lashings of salt and vinegar.

 

 

These things... these are crisps. (They can also be eaten with lots of salt and vinegar, or cheese and onion and very occasionally, hedgehog.

 

None of the above is pie.

Edited March 15, 2023 by Scarlet Shocker
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[ZemX]

6 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

None of the above is pie.

 

Sheesh!  Relax and have a biscuit, why don't you?

 

[Scarlet Shocker]

SCONE!!!!!!

[DoctorDitko]

It's half-Tau day, darnit!

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/let-s-use-tau-it-s-easier-than-pi/

 

 

 

Edited March 15, 2023 by DoctorDitko
profanity added

[UltraAlt]

On 3/15/2023 at 4:43 AM, Scarlet Shocker said:

They are not chips. Those. Are. Crisps.

 

 

THESE are chips. These are NOT noncy, skinny, unsatisfying "french fries" (they ain't French)  - these are the kind of chips you eat in a butty or out of newspaper with a fish, plus lashings of salt and vinegar.

 

 

These things... these are crisps. (They can also be eaten with lots of salt and vinegar, or cheese and onion and very occasionally, hedgehog.

 

None of the above is pie.

 

I would consider these as french fries.

 

 

And these to be potato wedges.

 

 

Not to be confused with ...

 

.... says what it is on the bag.

 

I think we all know it's a "football" thing.

[srmalloy]

4 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

These are NOT noncy, skinny, unsatisfying "french fries" (they ain't French) 

Actually, they are French. Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802, and the expression "French fried potatoes" first appeared in print in English in an 1856 cookbook, while the first recipe for what is clearly modern French fries is in the 1795 French cookbook La Cuisinière Républicaine.

[SteelRat70]

On 3/15/2023 at 8:43 AM, Scarlet Shocker said:

They are not chips. Those. Are. Crisps.

 

 

THESE are chips. These are NOT noncy, skinny, unsatisfying "french fries" (they ain't French)  - these are the kind of chips you eat in a butty or out of newspaper with a fish, plus lashings of salt and vinegar.

 

 

These things... these are crisps. (They can also be eaten with lots of salt and vinegar, or cheese and onion and very occasionally, hedgehog.

 

None of the above is pie.

Irony.

Pi has never been 14.03, as far as I'm aware.

[Scarlet Shocker]

8 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

 

I would consider these as french fries.

 

 

 

 

Philistine! 😛

 

[Major_Decoy]

1 hour ago, SteelRat70 said:

Irony.

Pi has never been 14.03, as far as I'm aware.

It was Pi Day (American) (which cannot be written as American Pi day without people referencing a movie). Pi Day is properly celebrated on July 22.

 

That being said, if you want to celebrate Tau day, you have to use the American Date system. Or you can declare that Every Day is Tau day, and eat two pies whenever you want.

[Sir Myshkin]

7 hours ago, srmalloy said:

Actually, they are French. Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802, and the expression "French fried potatoes" first appeared in print in English in an 1856 cookbook, while the first recipe for what is clearly modern French fries is in the 1795 French cookbook La Cuisinière Républicaine.

In both cases they're most definitely just referring to a julienne cut, which is called (by Americans) a french cut in cooking, which is just length-wise thin strips. What we assume to be "potatoes served in the French manner" was probably just hash browns.

 

Not as exciting eh?

[SteelRat70]

7 hours ago, Major_Decoy said:

It was Pi Day (American) (which cannot be written as American Pi day without people referencing a movie). Pi Day is properly celebrated on July 22.

 

That being said, if you want to celebrate Tau day, you have to use the American Date system. Or you can declare that Every Day is Tau day, and eat two pies whenever you want.

 

SS is english and is pointing out (with caps and exclamation marks ;) ) the American / British differences between "Chips" and "Crisps", as well as "biscuits" and "Scones" but makes a post about and by proxy acknowledging a day that only works in an American date format.

That's where the irony is :)

 

I guess we'll have the same conversation on the 20th April.  "What's the big deal about 20/04"...

[Scarlet Shocker]

10 hours ago, Major_Decoy said:

It was Pi Day (American) (which cannot be written as American Pi day without people referencing a movie). Pi Day is properly celebrated on July 22.

 

That being said, if you want to celebrate Tau day, you have to use the American Date system. Or you can declare that Every Day is Tau day, and eat two pies whenever you want.

 

 

two pi or not to pi, that is the question!

[Major_Decoy]

3 hours ago, SteelRat70 said:

 acknowledging a day that only works in an American date format.

Pi day is more accurately represented on a European date format. 22/7 is closer to pi than 3.14. There was some nonsense about March 14, 2015 at 09:26:53, but that required deciding "oh, the twenty and the zero don't matter, it's totally appropriate to read 03/14/2015 at 09:26:53 as 3.141592653" Feh.

 

But Pi is about diameters instead of radii, so it's flawed.

[srmalloy]

6 hours ago, Sir Myshkin said:

What we assume to be "potatoes served in the French manner" was probably just hash browns.

You can document the progression of fried potatoes in French cooking; the earliest recipes describe the potatoes cut in disks and pan-fried, through dipping the disks in a batter made with potato flour, but it was seen as a lower-class food, and would not have been served at a formal function. It took potatoes becoming a food acceptable to the upper classes for the French fry as we know it to be created; the lower classes would not have been able to afford to have that amount of lard just sitting around to be used for deep-frying.

[Luminara]

7 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

potatoes cut in disks and pan-fried, through dipping the disks in a batter made with potato flour

 

Metataters.

[High_Beam]

And Cherry Pie is best Pi.

[UltraAlt]

16 hours ago, srmalloy said:

Actually, they are French. Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802, and the expression "French fried potatoes" first appeared in print in English in an 1856 cookbook, while the first recipe for what is clearly modern French fries is in the 1795 French cookbook La Cuisinière Républicaine.

 

 I think you meant to reply to @Scarlet Shocker

[Scarlet Shocker]

slightly tangentally, but this is very relevant and quite enjoyable:

 

 

[Techwright]

Is this turning into a west-side-of-The-Pond vs. east-side-of-The-Pond thing?  Because I refuse to discuss chips, crisps, and fries while a population cannot even figure out what a "pudding" is.

 

 

At least we on the western shores have it figured out.  We can even turn it into a pie:

 

 

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