Patterico's Pontifications

7/11/2017

LOL

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:52 am



Italian = graduate degree.

Spanish = high school degree.

I guess that’s what he’s saying?

[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]

83 Responses to “LOL”

  1. Ding.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  2. Looks like the “high school only” person needs a new “friend”, a la with friends like this, who needs…

    J.P. (9e0433)

  3. By the way I have no idea what any of that means, except pomodoro.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  4. i hope her face got better later after she crammed a tasty taco in it

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  5. You didn’t know Padrino means Godfather?

    nk (dbc370)

  6. I have a JD. You think I know what the words my high school sophomore has me say into the Starbucks drive-through intercom mean?

    nk (dbc370)

  7. David Brooks has a friend with only a high school degree? Shut. Up.

    Lenny (5ea732)

  8. David Brooks has a friend?

    David Brooks has a column?

    Steven Malynn (d29fc3)

  9. It must be from the comments. (I didn’t bother to look through them.) It’s not in the linked article.

    nk (dbc370)

  10. I take that back. It is in the linked article. I didn’t read closely enough. Ditto that: David Brooks has a friend?

    nk (dbc370)

  11. I have a college degree and I still hate pretentious eateries.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  12. You think I know what the words my high school sophomore has me say into the Starbucks drive-through intercom mean?

    Don’t worry. They’re all made up.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  13. i love pretentious eateries but i have a lot less patience with vocabulary words when I’m online ordering delivery

    if all the dishes are in your stupid native language that’s not even the same as english then i don’t have time for you when I’m ordering online

    eat24 helps a little by plucking out popular dishes from the place and putting them at the top of the page

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  14. For Brooks to publish something like this is beyond cruel and ever so heartless. He is very politely mocking his friend, laughing at the friend who does not have as refined a vocabulary to recognize cheese, sausage, and bread by other names. He needs to go to Confession and say some serious Hail Marys. It is sooo mean how he demeans the friend.

    AMON-RA (9b4547)

  15. maybe his friend really is an idiot who can’t order a sandwich

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  16. I was dragged to this “great new sandwich shop” in Santa Monica. I ordered a Pastrami sandwich, their specialty. It came with bean sprouts. And really weak mustard. The meat was slabs of extra lean Pastrami with nearly no taste, layered on some unidentifiably bland artisan bread.

    Blech. Pastrami should come as a steaming pile of shaved fatty meat on a roll with harsh mustard and too much of it, perhaps with a few jalapenos.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  17. Kevin M (752a26) — 7/11/2017 @ 9:02 am

    Not on a roll! Rye, baby. Instead of jalapenos, try raw yellow onion. My mouth is watering.

    Lenny (5ea732)

  18. Saw this earlier this morning and had a chuckle. Remember this is the clown who said he was overwhelmed by Obama’s capabilities based on the crease of his pants.

    Can’t find it now but the best twitter response I saw on Brooks’ acct was something along the lines of:

    “What happened when she saw “lengua, cabesa and al pastor”?

    harkin (de269f)

  19. Italian = Graduate Degree

    Spanish = High School Degree

    French = Dead Language in its origin country by 2040.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  20. that was fast

    David Brooks totally owns any search you do for striata baguette

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  21. By the way I have no idea what any of that means, except pomodoro.

    If you aren’t familiar with cappicollo (where I come from it’s “capicola”) or soppressata, you are missing out on probably the two of the three best lunch meats in the entire world, along with proscuitto.

    JVW (bd79b4)

  22. What education level would a BIGLY MAC be? Or should Miss Universe just make him a sammich.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  23. You know, I just read all of Brooks’s column, and apart from his sneeringly gratuitous poke at his alleged friend, he raises some interesting points that NYT lefties ought to be considering. Way to step on your own dick, David.

    JVW (bd79b4)

  24. here’s the menu for the italian deli that’s closest near me downtown

    it has the cappicollo but not the soppressata

    i’ve always been too initimidated to go here except when I’m hungry, but the way they prepare for lunch rush is they have cases full of sammiches they’ve already done and usually I just point at one and someone wraps it for me

    they have a lot of desserts too but honestly i never found anything just too special there dessert-wise, so I’d suggest you might grab a few cookies and eschew the fancier stuff

    also they do an arancini there that i find comforting on cold days – really cold days – but it’s essentially rather bland – it’s basically a fried rice ball that really doesn’t have a lot going on

    but anyways that’s a decent lunch place to know about where you grab a sammich for under $10 downtown

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  25. And looking at the link that happyfeet provided where a-hole writers from Vox, Jezebel, Salon and the like are taking Brooks to the woodshed makes me even more sad that he so badly mangled what was otherwise a pretty good column.

    JVW (bd79b4)

  26. Sounds like the classic country mouse vs city mouse tale. I wonder if David isn’t just trying to repackage this to sound cool and get back in with the cultured folks that he wishes he could hob-knob with instead of the hoi-poi down on the streets from his working class neighborhood.

    Charles (24e862)

  27. What a condescending ass. Some “friend,” to use this lady’s embarrassment (real, or more likely imagined) as a cardboard prop in his hyper-elitist diorama.

    Leviticus (efada1)

  28. #16, KM, try Izzy’s on Wilshire at 15th, open 24 hours. Or, Bagel Nosh at Wilshire and 17th. Or Wexler’s on Santa Monica between 6th and 7th.

    ropelight (a7d89c)

  29. “To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you’ve got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.”

    The amount of projection built into this sentence alone is staggering. You want to demystify social status? Stop worrying so much about social status.

    Leviticus (efada1)

  30. Did DONALDUS graduate High School?

    Enquiring minds disdain that elite attitude.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  31. Guys, you’re all missing the most important point. David Brooks is very progressive to associate with some that only has a High School education. He’s not a elite snobby liberal. He’s down to Earth, he once ate Mexican food.

    Dejectedhead (0c7c2f)

  32. This is very David Brooks. That’s what he’s like.

    For five Internet Attaboys, who said “There is no there, there” and about what? (Don’t be embarrassed if you forgot, I always have to look it up again myself.)

    nk (dbc370)

  33. i thought gertrude said that

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  34. He opens with “high school degree“?? When did that happen? Once upon a time high school gave you a diploma and sent you forth to get a degree, or a job. But that was back when high school actually provided their graduates with the tools to get one of those. Calling it a degree now makes me think that someone does not expect the holder to do any better than someone with a degree from a college.

    Brooks is an elitist snob. If that friend is a real person she should kick him in the nuts the next time she sees him.

    Gramps (082e76)

  35. @ 32– Stein, about Oakland.

    Gramps (082e76)

  36. According to the internet (no, not Whackoffpedia), you thought right. Mr. Brooks is like Oakland. There is no there, there.

    nk (dbc370)

  37. good catch Mr. Gramps

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  38. Attaboys for everybody. I like this thread.

    nk (dbc370)

  39. While it is true that at least in my experience Italian is not offered as a foreign language in most high schools (it certainly wasn’t offered at Glendale High School when I attended there from 1981-1984), it is equally true that most college graduates in the United States don’t take Italian even when it is offered. Also, David Brooks is an ass–but this is not news to anyone who has ever listened to David Brooks talk for five minutes.

    M Scott Eiland (3a0fd3)

  40. Are we certain that “friend” isn’t a euphemism for “maid?”

    Paul Krendler (fcbef1)

  41. And while we’re at it, is it really a high school “degree” or is it a “diploma”? Doesn’t degree imply higher education, not secondary?

    JVW (853f3d)

  42. Mr. Krendler, that would involve a secundaria or prepa, not a high school. That’s probably why Brooks hasn’t ended up in an emergency ward, for he holds the threat of a call to agencies once again happy to show up for work.

    urbanleftbehind (3538cb)

  43. Not on a roll! Rye, baby. Instead of jalapenos, try raw yellow onion. My mouth is watering.

    Rye is good. I’m in LA, so jalapenos. NY would be onion.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  44. In Latin countries a bachilerato is,a,diploma, Brooks never makes sense in any language except Esperanto and possibly huttese.

    narciso (4afb8c)

  45. I’ve eaten at Izzy’s. It’s OK. Wexler’s is terrible. Fromin’s isn’t very good, but they make up for it in slow. I miss Roll’n’Rye.

    Nate & Al’s is pretty good, but who wants to go that far? Lenny’s is an improvement on Junior’s.

    For straight-up pastrami, I like Johnny’s or even Togos (although Togos will put on mayo if you let them.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  46. art’s is special but a lil pricey

    but it’s fun to go there and see the people

    now i’m homesick i used to walk here and now I can’t do that cause i live in a whole different city

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  47. You know, I don’t know what “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette are.

    I don’t know why this woman was scared off.

    I suppose the difference between someone who is a college graduate and somneone who is not is, that when a college graduate doesn’t know something, he says: There’s no reason for me to know this. (and you know also that there’s plenty you don’t know)

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  48. From Wikipedia:

    Soppressata is an Italian dry salami

    Capocollo[1] (Italian pronunciation: [kapoˈkɔllo]) or coppa ([ˈkoppa]) is a traditional Italian and Corsican pork cold cut (salume) made from the dry-cured muscle….

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  49. Parody of that David Brooks column:

    https://jezebel.com/i-took-my-poor-friend-to-lunch-is-that-enough-for-a-1796807625

    Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her to a restaurant that serves sushi, the traditional Japanese food of white rice and vinegar, either rolled ( maki ) or in little balls ( sushi ) or, for the real connoisseurs, just the raw fish ( sashimi ). But you, my peer in education and taste, already know that…

    …After observing her facial expressions and interpreting them to mean, “I am uncomfortable in this sophisticated environment because I’m Pretty Woman’s Julia Roberts pre-makeover and also because my dining partner keeps saying a striata baguette which I don’t think is a thing because striata is an Italian word and baguette is a French word,” I asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else. She anxiously nodded yes, and we ate Mexican, a comforting cuisine of beans and rice and tortilla -and-cheese paninis. A cuisine that’s of the people….

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  50. Indian Tacos on the Navajo rez are ordered in the old codetalk.
    Navajo Taco. The tourists from Hamburg have never broken this code.

    That is how wars are won.

    neal (1f0aac)

  51. You know, I don’t know what “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette are.

    It’s kind of a stupid assumption that Brooks’ makes. There are plenty of people in my home town who are quite familiar with capicola, soppressata, proscuitto, mortadella, etc., not because they are college-educated but because my home town had a very strong Italian community back from the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Italians immigrated there to work in the mines and mills. Once upon a time that is how you were exposed to other cultures, not by hanging out in some twee college town or major urban center grabbing lunch at the place owned by the white chef who learned how cure meats while living for six months in Sicily right after graduating from culinary school.

    JVW (aefc65)

  52. Remember Brooks is the guy who wet himself when Obama knew who Reinhold Niebuhr was. Must be hard to forever feed his need to set himself apart from the little people.

    peggy (b0a672)

  53. “David Brooks is a high quality person and I applaud his transparency.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOHGr8r5Cs4

    “Is there any goulash on this menu?” – Egbert Souse [WC Fields] ‘diner sketch’ “The Bank Dick” 1940

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  54. David Brooks is a fop

    i don’t know what else there is to say about him

    i wonder if he has a drivers license

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  55. I once, chatting with a professor, discovered his field covered an issue I’d encountered in a science fiction book.
    Are you a prof around here, he asked. He was obviously impressed.
    I did my post grad work at Ft. Benning.
    Shocked him.
    Do you think Brooks has given up on straight work and is parodying himself?

    Richard Aubrey (0d7df4)

  56. Why would anyone post this?
    A lawyer?
    The moral cesspool of mankind.
    F – you Patterico.
    Ray

    [No, F-you Ray. Your comments are now in moderation. Take your garbage somewhere else. – JVW]

    Ray (a009f4)

  57. The quote doesn’t say but I would like to know whether it was Brooks or “the friend” who suggested Mexican food specifically. Because if it was Brooks, wouldn’t that be an even deeper hole? Especially if white male Brooks’s female friend was Hispanic. Just saying…

    Dana (023079)

  58. @5 nk

    Do atheists have science fathers?

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  59. Patterico

    You’ve never heard of prosciuttorial misconduct?

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  60. Even better, do they have fairy science mothers?

    kishnevi (6a5d3c)

  61. Striata baguette? Wasn’t that a track on one of Rush’s early albums?

    Russ from Winterset (2436a3)

  62. There’s a singer/songwriter named Paul Overstreet. Some people made fun of him because he was at an awards show in NYC and he said hi to his kids back at the “motel”.

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  63. Kishinev I

    If you say “prosciutto” is someone supposed to say “God bless you?”

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  64. Russ from Winterset

    Those are the feasts of the temple of Syrinx.

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  65. Did you ever see the motels that populated A1A in Surfside (north of Miami Beach, although touristwise it was all the same) in the 1950s-1970s? They struggled on into the 80s and 90s and gradually got torn down and replaced by beachfront condos, but in their glory days they beat most Manhattan hotels…and the best deli outside Brooklyn (Rascal House).

    kishnevi (6a5d3c)

  66. I just don’t get all the people giving Brooks grief over his condescension when they should be giving him grief over his pretentiousness at pretending a freaking deli is some kind of high-end sophistication. Dude, it’s a sandwich shop! I’ve been to a Subway, I know what a sandwich is.

    Jerryskids (cfad51)

  67. How about, “Oh, let me tell you what all this stuff is, and let’s try some of it. It is really good!”
    What is so freekin’ hard about that?

    carl (e4cbbc)

  68. Nah, i’m stoopid. Need a safe space from meat and vegetables…..

    carl (e4cbbc)

  69. her face effing froze, people

    she probably came this close to having a sandwich anxiety stroke

    what was Mr. Brooks supposed to do

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  70. N’ont-ils pas de restaurants français là-bas?

    AZ Bob (f7a491)

  71. They do some gross and disgusting things with meat down South. Potted meat and saus for two.

    I used to work with a guy who once mused, “I’ve had a little head and I’ve had a little cheese, but never at the same time.”

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  72. If David Brooks watched FastTimes at Ridgemont High he would know you always order for the lady.

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  73. head cheese is tasty in my experience your basic banh mi if you go anywheres more or less authentic is gonna be made with head cheese

    JD would know better if that’s the case

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  74. I thought Panini was the violinist who supposedly made a deal with the devil to get that wicked pinky stretch.

    (I know, Paganini).

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  75. @52 Peggy

    I’d be stoked if he knew who Reinhold Messner is, speaking of Italian.

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  76. @65 Kishinevi

    No, but did you know that behind the Road House they got some bungalows?

    I wonder when the motor lodges became motels? Aren’t motels basically Americana?

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  77. I had a chance to visit Chicago when I was in college and I blew it. All the people who did go could talk about was the brain tacos. Seems like I dodged a minimum of one bullet.

    I also missed a chance to go skiing in Kentucky, but come on…

    Pinandpuller (39187f)

  78. oh please please come

    we need ur monies

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  79. i have three cans of rose’s pork brains left

    i started with four

    the first time i really just hid them in a taco with lots of good strong onion and garlic and a bit of potato

    what I found is that the texture? not bad at all

    the flavor though is kinda like eating something dead – i guess i rather stupidly expected them to add pork flavor, but no, it’s definitely “organ meat” flavor

    which, I’m told that in large part this is because they’re canned

    the whole reason pork brains (and this may be apocryphal)

    but the whole reason pork brains are primarily associated with the pork brains/scrambled eggs breakfast is cause they were never really thought to keep very well, so they’d be used first – fresh out of the head – when you slaughtered the pig in the early morning hours

    but next time I’m a try them with bacon grease white gravy over store-bought tube biscuits

    (there’s no reason you can’t add a lil pork flavor to them lil guys, am i right?)

    with black pepper and a pinch of garlic in the gravy

    probably do that a few weeks from now

    you have to space out your pork brains cause they’re off-the-charts in cholesterol

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  80. but yes yes the tacos – but that’s a very muy authentico hispanic thing here

    for the midwest – and i think for the brain-eating we’re talking basically illinois missouri and kansas (I just can’t picture iowans or minnesotans eating brains) – there’s still a very very … extant brain sandwich thing that is a real thing

    i haven’t met up with this yet

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  81. Greetings:

    So I’m to believe that David Brooks knows a woman besides his Mommy ???

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  82. i have three cans of rose’s pork brains left”

    Reminds me of the story of the square pan of refried beans from the company pot luck left untouched in the break room.

    Nobody would claim them and they sat out for days.

    Finally someone with a sense of humor took them home, cut them into little squares, put chocolate frosting on them and brought them back to the break room the next day.

    These ‘brownies’ lasted about 45 min.

    harkin (a91251)

  83. On a different topic but also humorous, see if you can spot the problem with the logo design at Tariq Nasheed’s new ‘Suspected Words Database’ website:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/884917080805351425

    harkin (a91251)


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