Topic: Chef Sam's Live Interview

[mickdabass]

  Then one day, just for a change, we tried Diwan-I-Am, just down the road. 

Is that Will's dad? (black eyed peas)  ;D

(moderated) Brilliant PMSL  ;D ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

  Then one day, just for a change, we tried Diwan-I-Am, just down the road. 

Is that Will's dad? (black eyed peas)  ;D

(moderated) Brilliant PMSL  ;D ;D

could anyone explain ..... ?

[goncalo]

Diwan-I-Am vs Will-I-Am (an artist from the group black eyed peas)..

[DalPuri]

(moderated) Brilliant PMSL  ;D ;D

could anyone explain ..... ?

forking  present participle of fork (Verb)
Verb
(esp. of a road or other route) Divide into two parts: "the place where the road forks".
Dig, lift, or manipulate (something) with a fork: "fork in some compost".

When someone goes out of their way not to swear or manipulates a few letters of a swear word, in jest, it should be left as is, rather than say "moderated" or "moderated filth".
That just gives the reader the wrong impression of the poster.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Diwan-I-Am vs Will-I-Am (an artist from the group black eyed peas)..

Ah, thank you.  I confess I have heard of neither of the latter,  Not entirely sure what Frank is explaining above, but I suspect that any explanation will only lead to further confusion ...

** Phil.

[mickdabass]

Cheers George.

Just checking you were doing your job properly.  : :

Shouldn't PMSL be moderated to

MMSL??? (Moderated Myself Laughing)

[DalPuri]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRTUNh1vPo

[George]

When someone goes out of their way not to swear or manipulates a few letters of a swear word, in jest, it should be left as is, rather than say "moderated" or "moderated filth".
That just gives the reader the wrong impression of the poster.

I disagree. There are hundreds of perfectly good words he could have chosen, like the vast majority of other members do all the time. For example he could have said 'absolutely brilliant'. Why go out of your way to use a thinly veiled four letter word which most people will read as the four letter word?

I agreed with admin years' ago that I would moderate swear words and thinly veiled alternatives. Why make my life difficult by complaining about every minor bit of moderation I carry out?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Cheers George.

Just checking you were doing your job properly.  : :

Shouldn't PMSL be moderated to

MMSL??? (Moderated Myself Laughing)

Indeed it should, but of course the correct gloss for MMSL is "Micturating myself laughing", thereby conveying the original meaning without requiring recourse to vulgarity ...

[Curryking32000]

Pay attention George!

It's not that he didn't know the alternative name, it's that he'd never heard of hing or asafoetida. That speaks volumes to me.
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Secret Santa, why would Sam know about asafoetida as its not used in BIR cooking and probably not used in Bangladash either.  Its used in some parts of India for certain dishes but that's another country and different culture.  Btw i'm 47 and was born in 1965, if Sam is 45 then he could be born in 1957 and came here when he was a baby.