BerrySteph said:

You'll just tell me its a conspiracy theory.

Well of course it is.

But that doesn't mean it won't be entertaining.

The US allows or encourages witnesses (sometimes themselves perpetrators) to be murdered and the crime covered up.

Fails, sometimes ludicrously (eg Pat Tillman, maybe now Epstein?) to get to the bottom of it - and fails to act on those who've carried out the cover-up. (The cover-up of the USS Liberty was also ludicrous - but those killings may not have gone unpunished - sinking of the INS Dakar and LBJ's strange failure to stand again).

I'm not convinced that Epstein was murdered - but an investigation would expose a thoroughly bad judicial system with enormously violent prisons. So it wasn't going to happen, whether or not this was all a plot to protect Lindsey Graham.

BerrySteph said:

whether or not this was all a plot to protect Lindsey Graham.

From what? His own stupidity?

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:

From what? His own stupidity?

There's nothing directly in the Wizop's code that you have to jump to protect the powerful and abusive.

No idea what's in the code.

I never got my hand book.

Who do I complain to about that?

Depends on how one measure´s slowness. If one´s standards are Denny´s or McD´s yes French food service is slow, but then the purpose of French restaurants is not just the food, but the ambience. Here, during the summer we have a dinner concert in the street on Sunday nights. This involvesone a single sitting so the capacity for the three hour period is equal to the number of chairs at the tables. Most arrive at 20:00 and leave at 23:00- I did not finish checking the menu until 20:30, I got my main course around 21:00, and desert abround 22:00- Most ate at about the same rate, but then the meal here, and in France is only a fraction of the experience. The food was well prepared, and relatively inexpensive. The music was free because the 8 bars between the church and the city hall, pay for, and feed the musicians and their families.

When people from here go to America, and the waiteer comes up and says will there be anything else, they end to be insulted because they read this to mean. OK, you have finished the food, and we need your table. Of course, as the French stereotype, this depends on the class of restaurant, but not necessarily the prices. In the U.S., I have noticed this "we need your table" message, depends on organization. Common with chain restaurants, less so with one off family restaurants, or restaurants serving authentic foreign food. For example, I avoid American restaurants that can serve a pizza  or paella in less then 30 minutes, have Mexican food with the cheese baked to the plate, where the rice on your plate is in the form of the plastic bag it was cooked in,where vanilla ice cream does not have little dark specs in it, the bread is white, the croutons come from Pepperidge Farm, vichysoise is at room temperature,  etc.

I went out to a "traditional" French restaurant here in Perth, where they said the service will take a little more time.

That is okay, but when you are the only person at a table of a dozen people and you are yet to get your meal while everyone has finished theirs - it sucks.

And nobody could get another drink when there were no wait staff to offer you one.

It is expensive to eat out in Perth, so you expect good food and good service for your money.

Finding both is rare.

I have also experienced this at restaurants in one country that claim to be of a "tradition" from another.

They also tend to cheat when it comes to catering traditional food, but modified to accomodate for local tastes.

For example "Doritos" os am American brand, produced by Pepsi Cola, marked as Mexican (actually Tex Mex).

In Mexico, the food idem is basicly fried bits of broken pieces of tortitas (domestcly left over from last night´s dinner)

But here in Spain, if one finds "nachos" on the menue, all the ingredients are right except the "tostitos" which are substituted by "Doritos"

Besides the problem of authenticity, these triangles are too large and inflexible, so at the wrong angle, they jab the roof of your mouth or into your gums.

Paella (which really means a meal cooked in a "paeller" (frying pan)) is common thoughtout Spain, but outside of Spain, the default is Paella Valenciana, which is

great, but the consumer is deprived of all the other regional forms. In this form, one expects rice, but one seldom gets it with cus cus, or noodles. The Valencia style is yellow in color with safron, but as this is way too expensive, a cheaper spice is used with yellow food coloring.

In Scotland, "chips" is common with rice in Chinese restaurants.

English speakers associate crepes with French food, but in France and throught europe a crepe is simply a pancake or tortilla, served in an infinite variety of ways.

For example, after rehersals in Manacor (Mallorca) where the locals have a light evening meal late, we go to a crepere with an enormous list of crepes on the menue, allowing for all courses, salad, entre, desert. This is also common in France, but not what foreigners expect there. Both here and in France, at fairs and street markets, a crepe stand is quite common. Just a gas heated inverted frying pan, bowl of batter, and a person with a spatua, and a large collection of fillings.

Now I'm hungry.