What is this, a Seinfeld episode?
Jerry: “How’d the date go last night?”
Elaine: “Ugh, total bust! We spent the whole time arguing about calamari!”
Jerry: “Arguing about calamari? Like fried squid?”
Elaine gestures there you go
George: “It’s deep fried, what’s not to like?”
Elaine: “He doesn’t even know what it is!”
Jerry: “Never had calamari? What a sad life…”
Kramer enters. Applause.
Elaine: “Kramer. What’s calamari?”
Kramer: “Disgusting. That’s what it is.”
Jerry: “We’re not talking about the same calamari here.”
Kramer: “It’s like chewing on rubber bands!”
Jerry: “You’re not still going to Bosco’s are you?”
Kramer: “I like Bosco.”
George: “Didn’t the health board shut them down?”
Kramer: “That’s how you know it’s authentic.”
Elaine: “Can we get back to my problem, please?”
Jerry: “I’ll tell you what, let’s all go out. Elaine, you can bring you can bring your boyfriend. I’ll show you all what calamari is supposed to taste like.”
Elaine: “Well, do the have caviar?”
Jerry: “Caviar? What am I made of money? Why caviar?”
Elaine: “That’s what he thinks calamari is!”
George: “Did you correct him?”
Elaine: “Yes, George, I corrected him. I corrected him for 45 minutes!”
Kramer: “Well why didn’t you just order the calamari and show him?”
Elaine: “We were at a coffee shop.”
Kramer: “Oh, they don’t serve calamari at coffee shops.”
Elaine: “…I know. I didn’t expect to have to defend the reality of what calamari is when we made the date.”
I can hear them. This is great
Damn. Bravo!
Maybe man’s Estonian. Caviar in Estonian is “kalamari” which means fishberry
“Fishberry” what the fuck, but also astoundingly correct
Dawn, the plot thickens! Shows that we shouldn’t be so quick to judge.
Having said that, if I was having this conversation in a second language, I wouldn’t be so intransigent about it.
Reminds me of that 4chan post where anon gets stopped by a stranger who tries to explain that Aluminum is the best metal. Anon tries to stay calm and explain the iron is the best metal, but the guy just kept going off about Aluminum and started talking about rust and ruined Anon’s whole day.
stranger is correct, aluminum is extremely strong and flexible
Seen something like this before. Guy was testing his date to see if she would correct him and she would fail if she did.
I remember reading Ron DeSantis (governor of Florida) said he did this on dates. He would say Thigh Food for Thai food. If they corrected him he wouldn’t date them again.
He’s married now and I wonder if his wife ever offers to pick up Thigh food for dinner.
Honestly (if I played stupid games like this, which I do not), I’d be more likely to date them again if they correct me. I want someone who will tell me if I mispronounce a word I’ve only read, or have a booger, or smell bad, etc. When it happens organically I always appreciate it unless they’re a dick about it.
Sounds like the guy was doing them a favor helping them dodge a bullet.
That’s… completely mental.
What year is this, why would they continue arguing instead of just taking out a phone and looking it up?
There have been times in the last, I dunno, 2 decades? with my friends and I have been having a debate or disagreement on something, at which point one of us usually would stop, pull out their phone, and say something like “why are we even arguing, I have the sum of human knowledge in my pocket.” It’s because we’re old and grew up before the Internet was more than DARPA NET or AOL. These kids have no excuse lol
Now we need to know what OP thinks calamari and caviar are. It could be a 6’ situation where guys invite girls to caviar but order calamari. First hint is that she uses singular for calamari.
I hate to break it to you, but calamari IS the plural.
Of course it is. What kind of argument would I have if it weren’t?
But the singular was never used in the tweet.
“what calamari is”, two times.
No one has ever used the Italian singular of that word in English. As a loan word, it does not have to follow Italian grammar rules, and similar to pasta, it can be used both as countable and uncountable (i.e. a generic category term without plural).
That’s correct.
Okay, so we agree there’s no problem here?
A friend of mine got in a fight with his wife recently about the name of a bar that’s long gone.
He and I had worked in the neighborhood and had been to the bar a dozen times and had been to the other bars probably hundreds of times. He had met his wife years later and had maybe visited the bar a couple of times before it disappeared.
His brain had played musical chairs with the bar name on the block. She was right. I had a rather strong distaste for this bar and generally refused to go to it, so I remembered it clearly.
He had intimate details of the lighting, the unusual concrete bar, the music, the seating, the people we had gone there with. But the names were transposed. He had been looking up tax records and property names trying to prove her wrong.
So first, he got in trouble for not believing her, then he got in trouble for trying to prove her wrong, then he got in trouble again for calling in a lifeline.
Meat-based data storage is weird AF.
