Modern Vespa

Won't that make the ham Tshirts out of date?

Crazy Horses!

Exactly.

12" rims with normal size diablos are better than 13" with wide low profile citygrips

Subjectively.

Seems plausible. I've never tried 13" rims, so cannot speak with authority, but this tracks with what I know about low-profile tires in general.

Taller rubber is more comfortable, until you get close to the load limit of the tire or under inflate.
Squirmy

Sub Hot Take:
Spokes are more comfortable that cast

I see these are available for Vespa.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

No, but there's a dive bar in Arlington, Texas, named TANSTAAFL.

It's where I overheard the guy saying, "Let's just bend 'im over and fuck 'im."

But there is such a thing as a liquid lunch which is nice.

The Fourth Estate has failed us.

And I don't mean this in the same way as the people screaming profanities about "MSM Media", because those people are just blithering idiots. Fringe websites peddling bullshit conspiracy theories are not, in fact, somehow better than the "MSM Media", whatever "MSM Media" even means.

What I mean is that the Fourth Estate has abdicated any sense of responsibility that they had toward addressing the most important issues facing the world today. They've abdicated any claim to being journalists or practicing journalism. They have failed to hold those who wield power accountable for their actions. And they have failed this country, at least, and probably many others.

We are on our own now. And we are fucked.

Who or what in Gods name is the Fourth Estate?

Rupert Murdock mostly.

Google is your friend, for various definitions of the word "friend".

You're right, of course, and I don't know why, other than consolidation and mass layoffs. We still have a good online newspaper made up of former big-state-paper-reporters and a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, now retired. But it is state only.

Cutting a sandwich in half diagonally is wrong.

Sandwiches should be cut in half vertically.

Technically both of the cuts you describe are vertical cuts. Just saying.

Fine.

So that everyone understands what I'm saying:

Why?

OFG

Horizontal.

Burn it in a toaster and spread marmite on it, no need to cut.

I never stand my sandwiches up to cut them.

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In half?

You guys don't use an old soup can to cut a circle out of the middle and have the sandwich donut first, saving the crust-free center section for last as if it's some sort of delicacy?

Weirdos.

If this is in reference to cutting sandwiches, here's my reasoning:

Cutting it diagonally results in one half with all of the top crust and one of the side crusts, while the other half has all of the bottom crust and the other of the side crusts. Top crusts and bottom crusts are not equal. They have different textures and hardnesses, resulting in a different experience when eating them.

Cutting it vertically results in each half having one side crust, half of the top crust and half of the bottom crust. The experience when eating each half is the same. The assumption is that we're working on a 2D plane, where the "top" of the bread is "up" and the "bottom" of the bread is "down." There's no need to consider the third dimension, because depth of cut is not a concern when cutting a sandwich, as long as the cut goes all the way through to the cutting board.

Oh my! So much about sandwiches I did not appreciate or was even aware of. I will never experience a sandwich the same way. Thanks for the enlightenment.

OFG

Except in the case of a good grilled cheese that you might be dipping in tomato soup. I find the diagonal cut to be more suitable for the purposes of dipping. I work with CAD ... everything is 3D space to me.

Assuming the sandwich is laying flat in the XY plane, the Z axis normal to the surface of the bread, your first cut is square with the axis (we'll assume X). That would be a 1,0,0 cut, assuming cosine direction. The second would be .707,.707,0, or 45º offset from your axes. But both are in the direction of the Z axis, or vertical. The second cut is actually a longer cut (Pythagorean theorem) exposing more of the middle of the sandwich. On a 6" slice of bread that would be a 6" cut (square) vs an 8.49" cut (diagonal). So, depending on your sandwich, you might also want to take that into account.

But, your crust theory is sound. I will give you that. I had honestly never considered the top vs bottom crust idea. Point taken.

I've never had an issue dipping non-diagonal cut grilled cheese sandwiches in tomato soup.

And because I'm not a monster, when making sandwiches for both my wife and myself, I'll cut hers diagonally, because she prefers them that way. She'll do the same for me, because she loves me. Another thing to keep in mind when cutting sandwiches is if it is going to be shared by two people. With a diagonal cut, one person gets the top, while the other gets the bottom. With a vertical cut, both get equal halves.

Internet win for the day.

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Hot Take: Tomato soup is an abomination, and all cans and bowls should be destroyed.

I will bet real money that while she may cut your sandwich to your preferred shape, she is thinking about how utterly wrong you are the whole time.

(And I concur -- diagonal is obviously superior).

Heresy.

I aver. I was given tomato soup with a pad of butter on top every time visiting a family friend. I hated loved that old lady.

Cats are better than dogs

Proof

And a follow up with a classic
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I concur, comfortably the worst of the bunch. The inventor should have been put down at birth.

I used to think so until I realized that it doesn't have to be the stuff that comes out of a can.

We've found a boxed tomato bisque that we quite like. Also, the addition of sour cream and chives adds a lot of character. paired with a good grilled cheese and it's wonderful. And, home-made tomato soup is completely different than anything you could buy at the store.

To note, I grew up as a rabid persecutor of tomatoes. It was only later in life I changed my opinion of them. We have at least a dozen tomato plants growing in our garden as I type.

Read the label on a tomato soup can. High fructose corn syrup is one of the main ingredients.

OFG