Subs versus Dubs!!!

[Fifthfiend]

Okay guy here it is, at last it has come time for the ultimate battle to decide the ultimate fate of the ultimate destiny of the ultimate question:

Subs



http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/uploaded_images/arby%27s-toasted-subs.jpg

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Or Dubs



http://www.xcomment.com/g3/img/monte_carlo_on_dubs092007054829.gif

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Only YOU can decide which truly reigns supreme!

[Osterbaum]

Subs, obviosly.

[Kim]

Subs all the way. Look at those sandwiches and tell me you wouldn't eat like fifty of them. A car is nice, but it's only a car. The sandwich, as always, reigns supreme.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Subs, because I can eat and enjoy it. Screw the car, you can't eat a car... hmm...

[Kim]

Screw the car, you can't eat a car...

You can if you're not a pussy.

[Flarecobra]

Why not just have them both? You get the car to look good in, which gets you people, who you make to get you tasty subs.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Hey, to be fair there are other kinds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music) of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhSMc1Knx4) Dubs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rxtDtIXZ8o&feature=related) out there.

Still not sure if that makes it better choice, but maybe somebody out there might have preference.

SWB

[Wigmund]

Unfortunately as much as I like subs, gotta go with dubs in general.

I'm alright with subs if that's the only (or better if the dub if crappy) option. But sometimes the menus in horrible, broken english and the server has such a high-pitched voice that I want to stab my ears out with a dull pencil.

Though, admittedly, with some dubs you gotta wonder what the fuck did the car do to deserve such a horrible thing done to it. But a good dub can be amazing.

And a sub with dubs, though redundant, can be fun sometimes.
http://therawfeed.com/pix/sQuba.jpg

[Kyanbu The Legend]

You can if you're not a pussy.

No I am not going to doubt you and end up eating the car to prove your point... not again...

[Aerozord]

subs are just glorified overcompensating sandwiches

[Odjn]

Dubs.

Sometimes I like to look away from a screen and not have to rewind. Also Japanese is an evil language.

ALSO ALSO:

Dear Anime people: when bringing an anime to the US, and dubbing, translate the fucking title and put the original on the back or something. I am not a weeaboo and thus don't want your filthy foreign mumbo jumbo.

[Kim]

Dubs.

Sometimes I like to look away from a screen and not have to rewind. Also Japanese is an evil language.

ALSO ALSO:

Dear Anime people: when bringing an anime to the US, and dubbing, translate the fucking title and put the original on the back or something. I am not a weeaboo and thus don't want your filthy foreign mumbo jumbo.

I don't know if you've been paying attention but we are talking about sandwiches and cars so if you could take your angry complaints about anime somewhere else, that'd be great. Thanks.

[Donomni]

IF we were talking about something else, my answer would be totally different, but since we're talking about sammiches and cars and not something that's really a personal preference, sammiches win every time.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

I don't know if you've been paying attention but we are talking about sandwiches and cars so if you could take your angry complaints about anime somewhere else, that'd be great. Thanks.

Obviously, you haven't been paying attention either. Reggae re-mixes & underwater transport have also been added as legitimate tangents.

Sooner or later, we'll be complaining about Sub(stitute) teachers we've had, and we'll ponder the true meaning of Rub-A-Dub. Then....
The Madness™ will really ensue.

SWB

[synkr0nized]

Dubs.

Sometimes I like to look away from a screen and not have to rewind. Also Japanese is an evil language.

ALSO ALSO:

Dear Anime people: when bringing an anime to the US, and dubbing, translate the fucking title and put the original on the back or something. I am not a weeaboo and thus don't want your filthy foreign mumbo jumbo.

I lol'd. I mean, I blinked a few times to be sure there wasn't some clever joke here, but man.

[Amake]

I pity people who live in countries where dubbing is the norm. Seriously. It's near starving-kids-in-developing-countries levels of pitying. You grow up not learning the vital skill of reading without looking at the text, and have to endure the cinematic equalient of looking at a painting from the backside if you want to broaden your cultural horizons.

Okay, dubs can be good, if they spend some time on them. Here in Sweden they took six months to translate Disney's Jungle Book back in the day, and it shows. But most of the time you get voice actors who a) don't care and b) are no part of the creator's original design.

Things get lost in the translation. That's inevitable. So you want to at least see as much of the original work as you can.

In conclusion, who needs a damn car, gimme a sammich.

[Kim]

You people are ruining this thread.

[Regulus Tera]

Goddammit guys we were having an awesome thread.

Also: dubs.

[Fifthfiend]

Fact: If you roll into a rap video with dubs you are probably gonna be the star of the video. If you roll into a rap video with subs, Fifty Cent is probably gonna punch you in face and take your subs!

Advantage: Dubs!!!

[Aerozord]

depends, if by 'roll up' you mean riding a giant sandwich.... well you'd still get punched and have your sandwich taken, but you'd look more like a wierdo then a pussy

[Fifthfiend]

Fact: If you roll up to the club in dubs you are gonna look like a fly dude and girls gonna be like "Dayum, who that?"

If you walk up to the club eating a sub, you're probably just gonna have crumbs all over your shirt!

Another point for dubs!

[Kim]

If you walk up to the club eating a sub, you're probably just gonna have crumbs all over your shirt!

And a goddamn sub in your belly. Advantage: Subs. Always.

[Amake]

You make it sound like being the star in a rap video is a positive thing. Personally, I'd rather be punched by the fifty cent man twelve million times.

[Fifthfiend]

And a goddamn sub in your belly. Advantage: Subs. Always.

You know that impresses the ladies Nonsie?

Hint: Not a big fat belly full of subs!

[Kim]

You know that impresses the ladies Nonsie?

Hint: Not a big fat belly full of subs!

You know what's more important than impressing ladies?

Hint: A big fat belly full of subs!

[Amake]

So dubs are good if you can't impress the ladies by any personal means. Noted.

Hey I've got a better idea: Eat a sub, it'll put hair on your chest and a cleft in your chin and a basso note in your voice. Even if you're a woman. Especially if you're a woman.

See, to score with the ladies you just need to grow some balls. Alternatively ovarian fortitude. It's a well known rumor the vibrations in a dub can actually make you invirile, your dangly parts all shriveled up.

[Aerozord]

Hey I've got a better idea: Eat a sub, it'll put hair on your chest and a cleft in your chin

but I already do thus the sub grants nothing

if you eat a sub its gone forever

but if you have a dub you can drive around for years
point: dub

[Geminex]

Rebuttal:

If you start a nuclear war while sitting in a Dub, your stylish, hip, trendy, fly ass is gonna be radioactive slush before you can say "cool wheels".

If you're sitting underwater in a sub they can be nuking each other all they want on the surface and you can be all like "yeah, whatevs" as your feast upon your lifetime supply of sandwiches.

Advantage: Sub

And besides, did DUBS ever sink a significant portion of Britain's shipping during a world war TWICE? No? I didn't think so.

[Amake]

What kind of math is that? A sub a day costs less than the fuel to drive a dub, let alone the monster cost of the vehicle itself. And taxes and insurance and maintenance.

[Kim]

but I already do thus the sub grants nothing

if you eat a sub its gone forever

but if you have a dub you can drive around for years
point: dub

But for the same cost as a dub, I can get pretty much all the subs. Ever.

Fuck, I've been subninja'd.

[Fifthfiend]

Rebuttal:

If you start a nuclear war while sitting in a Dub, your stylish, hip, trendy, fly ass is gonna be radioactive slush before you can say "cool wheels".

If you're sitting underwater in a sub they can be nuking each other all they want on the surface and you can be all like "yeah, whatevs" as your feast upon your lifetime supply of sandwiches.

Advantage: Sub

And besides, did DUBS ever sink a significant portion of Britain's shipping during a world war TWICE? No? I didn't think so.

Fact: Subs are a weapon of nuclear war. They are part and parcel of our inevitable apocalyptic doom!

Fact: Dub is about peace, love, kinship, good times, and smoking lots and lots of weed!

Advantage: Dub!

[Aerozord]

then by your own logic a dub is equal in value to thousands of subs. Therefore
Dub>sub

[Osterbaum]

Subs are about peace, love, kinship, weed and tasty food.

Advantage: Sub.

[Kim]

then by your own logic a dub is equal in value to thousands of subs. Therefore
Dub>sub

Price does not equal value.

I can eat a sub while riding in a sub. You cannot eat a dub while riding in a dub, can you?

Advantage: Sub

[Krylo]

Price does not equal value.

I can eat a sub while riding in a sub. You cannot eat a dub while riding in a dub, can you?

Advantage: Sub

You can if you're not a pussy.

[Aerozord]

Subs are about peace, love, kinship, weed and tasty food.

Advantage: Sub.

tasty food of death, you must kill to create a sub, while dubs are made of purifying metal ore

hear that, making dubs require purifying the earth

advantage: dub

[Amake]

Subninjas. They're like ninjas, but stealthier. You'll be dead even before you're born. Advantage: Subs.
then by your own logic a dub is equal in value to thousands of subs. Therefore
Dub>sub One dub costs more than one sub, yes. That doesn't mean it's better, it means it costs more. You're actually less likely to be able to afford a dub. I'd call that worse, not better.

[Osterbaum]

Dub is bad for Mother Earth. Sub is not.

Advantage: Sub.

[Aerozord]

Dub is bad for Mother Earth. Sub is not.

Advantage: Sub.

anyone that thinks subs are good for the air have clearly never sat next to someone who has eaten a spicey sub with cabbage

[Amake]

Sorry Aero, but anyone who thinks farts are dangerous to mother earth has never sat next to a car.

Fun challenge: Try to kill yourself with fart gas. Any food you want. Then put your mouth to a dub's exhaust pipe and see how fast you kick the oxygen habit. I bet a million subs the dub will kill you faster.

Ooh, I just remembered the car gods in American Gods. They're dark things of chrome and blood and asphalt, with voices like burning engines and screeching tires. They have an intense, malicious power from being the recipients of blood sacrifice on a level undreamed of in the world's history. Yeah. Think about all the people who have died for the sake of cars. Consider how the authorities predict the number of people who will die on the road each year. Sacrifices for the sake of faster travel; sacrifices to the car gods.

The cars in question being, of course, dubs.

[Aerozord]

never seen people run from an idling car either

[Kim]

Aerozord is probably ugly and rude to the elderly and poor.

Advantage: Subs

[Aerozord]

Aerozord is probably ugly and rude to the elderly and poor.

Advantage: Subs

all true

but atleast I'm not a filthy subber that applies logical falicies to an arguement

my shortcomings do not change the inferior nature of subs

[Kim]

my shortcomings prove the inferior nature of dubs

One time Aerozord punched his mother for NO REASON.

[EVILNess]

Philosophical question? Can a thread be derailed if if didn't start on the tracks?

Also, there a great many dubs that I prefer over their native languages. I think the Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star dubs are at least on par with their original audio, if not better. TTGL's dub was average, but the man they got to do Kamina wasn't Kamina enough for me. Then of course, you have 4Kids.

[Krylo]

I will say this:

Reading this thread has made me want a sandwich.

It has not, however, made me want a ridiculous car with stupidly massive wheels. Which are stupid.

[Aerozord]

One time Aerozord punched his mother for NO REASON.

there was a reason


I didn't like her face

[Amake]

Just going to link (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=996738&postcount=40) to my previous post here cause I think it may have ended up unread on an earlier page after I added in a monster-sized monster edit. I mean, it's a totally rockin' post. Go and read it if you missed it. My third best work today I think.

[Osterbaum]

Subs come with many fillings. A dub is always filled by assholes.

Advantage: Subs.

[Azisien]

Dubs 99.9% of the time.

If the English VAs are unbearable, I'll grind my teeth through subs.

[Archbio]

Re: The OP

That is one ugly vehicle.

[krogothwolf]

Dubs because I can't always read the text due to my eyes. Plus i like to be able to divide my concentration most of the times so dub means I wont miss anything important if I didn't read it.

[Archbio]

Plus i like to be able to divide my concentration most of the times so dub means I wont miss anything important if I didn't read it.

You still kind of miss some important things you should read.

[Aerozord]

for the record I say dubs not because I like them, honestly I'm neutral, but thats still far higher then my opinion of subs

[Krylo]

Philosophical question? Can a thread be derailed if if didn't start on the tracks?

Also, there a great many dubs that I prefer over their native languages. I think the Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star dubs are at least on par with their original audio, if not better. TTGL's dub was average, but the man they got to do Kamina wasn't Kamina enough for me. Then of course, you have 4Kids.

Dubs because I can't always read the text due to my eyes. Plus i like to be able to divide my concentration most of the times so dub means I wont miss anything important if I didn't read it.

You know, this was funny when Odjn did it the first time, because it was like you go into this thread expecting that, and then it's all "STUPID CARS AND SANDWICHES" and you're all "Haha, irony." Then you get through a full page of "STUPID CARS AND SANDWICHES" so that's what you're expecting, and then Odjn's all "Haha, take that altered expectations" and you're all like "Woah, it's like... an irony cake with irony cream filling."

But then when you keep doing that it's no longer acting in the opposite of our expectations, but rather just ruining a perfectly good thread with something that totally got my ass banned waaaay back in the day.

[Fifthfiend]

Philosophical question? Can a thread be derailed if if didn't start on the tracks?

Also, there a great many dubs that I prefer over their native languages. I think the Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star dubs are at least on par with their original audio, if not better. TTGL's dub was average, but the man they got to do Kamina wasn't Kamina enough for me. Then of course, you have 4Kids.

Dubs because I can't always read the text due to my eyes. Plus i like to be able to divide my concentration most of the times so dub means I wont miss anything important if I didn't read it.


I'd be lying if I said half the fun I hoped to get out of this thread wasn't seeing how many people couldn't stop themselves doing this.

[Aerozord]

I just hope it is a failed attempt at irony

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah the only one who actually pulled that off was Wigmund.

[synkr0nized]

just ruining a perfectly good thread

Pretty much.

It's also distracting folks from Lady Cygnet's (and others at points) lack of understanding that the dubs are not the cars/vehicles themselves, which makes some of what's been posted additionally humorous. A dub never could and never will have an exhaust pipe, get driven around, be sat inside, etc. You should research before entering into a debate and taking a side if you don't have the facts already!

[Kim]

It's also distracting folks from Lady Cygnet's (and others at points) lack of understanding that the dubs are not the cars/vehicles themselves, which makes some of what's been posted additionally humorous. A dub never could and never will have an exhaust pipe, get driven around, be sat inside, etc. You should research before entering into a debate and taking a side if you don't have the facts already!

If it isn't important enough for me to already know what it is, I don't see how it could be better than a sub.

[Fifthfiend]

I feel this thread was flawed from the start due to the fact that dubs really are completely stupid and there's no contest between them and something that isn't completely stupid such as a sandwich.

I mean there really is no good reason why a car needs to have 20-inch wheels. Or if it's a racecar and you get extra surface area contact with the ground or some such then sure, but they also IIRC try to make those light instead of pouring on the spokes and spinners and chrome and junk so you end up carrying like a hundred extra pounds of unsprung mass.

If it isn't important enough for me to already know what it is, I don't see how it could be better than a sub.

You didn't used to know what Bleach is, either.

[Kim]

You didn't used to know what Bleach is, either.

And once I knew about it, my knowing about it made it cool enough to surpass sub sandwiches, even if just barely.

[Fifthfiend]

And once I knew about it, my knowing about it made it cool enough to surpass sub sandwiches, even if just barely.

I can't argue with that.

[Kim]

because it's stupid

Yeah, you're right. Subs are still better.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

You didn't used to know what Bleach is, either.

And once I knew about it, my knowing about it made it cool enough to surpass sub sandwiches, even if just barely.

I never picked you for a laundry guy. I mean, whiter whites are neat (kinda), but I'd never describe them as cool. I don't suppose... Uhm.. You don't sing the Sound of Music every time you hang out the clothes to dry, do you?

SWB

[Osterbaum]

Can we get back to talking about sandwhiches?

[Amake]

I go to sleep and suddenly everyone goes back to talking about subtitles. Weird.

Yeah, subs rock. The store where I live sell fresh-baked 60 centimeter long bread things that I like to turn into giant subs filled with Thai food and cheese and vegetables. I get hungry just thinking about it.

Also on a sub-related note, is it just me who's sad the colloquial 'bway for the subway franchise never caught on?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

My problem with subs is subways whole 6 inches vs footlong. Firstly it's in bloody imperial. Who the shit knows how long 6 inches is? Secondly I don't usually want to eat a whole foot but 6 inches is too short. At my regular subway back home they knew me and would make me a 9 inches and charge an inbetween price but they are grouchy over here and won't make me it.
So I'm stuck between undersatisfaction and oversatisfaction.

[EVILNess]

Actually, I had typed my opinion on anime before I read the entire thread then added the first line in kind of a bemused way as I was just wondering if to the casual the thread would seem off topic.

Blame me not for a failed attempt at irony, but for being to lazy to delete my opinion on anime.

[Krylo]

My problem with subs is subways whole 6 inches vs footlong. Firstly it's in bloody imperial. Who the shit knows how long 6 inches is? Subway is based in the US, sooooooo.

Also: 6 inches = 15 centimeters (about) and foot = 30-31 centimeters (about).

If I gotta learn this conversion shit, you should have to as well. It's only petty misplaced anger at our backwards measurements fair.


Secondly I don't usually want to eat a whole footPussy.

6 inches is too short. That's what SHE said!

[Mike McC]

Why choose? I'll gladly consume a Quiznos sub while listening to some Scientist.

[Magus]

You guys are obviously missing the real point behind this controversy: patriarcho-centered contests of aggression that remove attention from mother-centric feminist topics of expression. Phallic symbols like subs and dubs that support a male-oriented fight-or-flight mentality should be dropped in favor of yogurt and affordable high-mileage vehicles that support a female-oriented care-and-share mentality.

Further reading: The Sword and the Chalice

[Krylo]

...Dubs are disc shaped.

Who has a disc shaped penis?

Man, and fight or flight? There ain't no fight or flight with either of those. Just eat or look really stupid when you drive around.

You need to stop watching The View.

...Yogurt DOES sound good though.

[Flarecobra]

Pretty much.

It's also distracting folks from Lady Cygnet's (and others at points) lack of understanding that the dubs are not the cars/vehicles themselves, which makes some of what's been posted additionally humorous. A dub never could and never will have an exhaust pipe, get driven around, be sat inside, etc. You should research before entering into a debate and taking a side if you don't have the facts already!

So basically, all it really is is just a big, fancy looking toy car?

[Krylo]

Dubs are 20 inch or greater rims.

Not the car.

Not even the tire.

Just the rims inside the tire.

[Amake]

Clearly we're using "dubs" in this context to refer to cars equipped with such devices. Kind of like how a sandwich equipped with a foot of length and a variety of delicious toppings take its name from the franchise specializing in them.

(I have no idea if any of the things I just said are true.)

[Krylo]

Kind of like how a sandwich equipped with a foot of length and a variety of delicious toppings take its name from the franchise specializing in them.

More like how the franchise specializing in them took their name from the most common name for them.

Blimpie is the only franchise that decided to go ahead and give them a new name.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I totally have never hear anybody call any sandwich a sub except when referring specifically to one bought from Subway.
Don't want none of your crazy-jive talk in this here thread.

[Krylo]

You live in crazy land, that's not my fault. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich)

The use of the term submarine or sub is widespread,[2] and its origin is disputed. One theory is that it originated in a restaurant in Scollay Square in Boston, Massachusetts at the beginning of World War I. The sandwich was created to entice the large numbers of navy servicemen stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard. The bread was a smaller specially baked baguette intended to resemble the hull of the submarines it was named after.[4]

Another theory suggests the submarine was brought to the US by Dominic Conti (1874–1954), an Italian immigrant who came to New York in the early 1900s.[5] In 1910 he started Dominic Conti's Grocery Store on Mill Street in Paterson, NJ and named the sandwich after seeing the recovered 1878 submarine called "Holland 1" in the local Paterson museum in 1918. His granddaughter has stated the following: "My grandfather came to this country circa 1895 from Montella, Italy. Around 1910, he started his grocery store, called Dominic Conti's Grocery Store, on Mill Street in Paterson, New Jersey where he was selling the traditional Italian sandwiches. His sandwiches were made from a recipe he brought with him from Italy which consisted of a long crust roll, filled with cold cuts, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, oil, vinegar, Italian herbs and spices, salt, and pepper. The sandwich started with a layer of cheese and ended with a layer of cheese (this was so the bread wouldn’t get soggy)."[6]

They've been called Subs or Submarines since about 1918 or so.

Subway didn't exist until the 1960s.

Yeaaaaaaaah.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Those are rolls. What the fuck.

[Krylo]

They have like ten million names, and roll is the least common amongst them every place that isn't the crazy world you live in.

In fact, I had to check the Wiki to make sure that is a real name, as I have NEVER heard them called rolls before.

Edit: Hell, you type 'roll' in to google image search and you get softcore porn LONG before you get any kind of sandwich.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Dub is compensatin'.
Sub is emphasizin'.


By the way, roll is the word German English teachers* who fake a british accent teach their students.
So maybe it's a British thing or a fake British thing.

*German people who teach English to people unwilling to learn ze Englisch.

[Krylo]

If it's a British thing, that just makes it wrong as sub sandwiches were invented in the northeastern united states in the late 1800s by Italian immigrants.

I mean, I don't call liverwurst... uh... I don't know, something completely different that doesn't even make any sense--because it's a german food and the name is liverwurst. Same goes for bratwurst, and sushi, and spaghetti, and tetrazzini, and... well you get the picture.

[Aerozord]

*checks forum*
crap you guys are still at this?

[A Zarkin' Frood]

liverwurst.
Only it's called Leberwurst in German.
Lots of foods have different names elsewhere. for example chips (british) and french fries (american) are the same
Then there are foods who have the same name but are something different. Like chips (potato chips (AE), called crisps in BE) and chips (means french fries in BE).
At least that's what I learned. May be wrong. Or not. I don't believe anything I learned in my English lessons.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

If it's a British thing, that just makes it wrong as sub sandwiches were invented in the northeastern united states in the late 1800s by Italian immigrants.

I mean, I don't call liverwurst... uh... I don't know, something completely different that doesn't even make any sense--because it's a german food and the name is liverwurst. Same goes for bratwurst, and sushi, and spaghetti, and tetrazzini, and... well you get the picture.

It's bread with some meat inside it. You can't really lay claim to inventing it.

[Krylo]

Only it's called Leberwurst in German.And Leber is german for liver, and wurst is german for sausage.

Same word, just half-assedly translated.

Also, most liverwurst (that we eat in North America) is actually called braunschweiger in german, BUT that is a subset of liverwurst, so yeah.


Lots of foods have different names elsewhere. for example chips (british) and french fries (american) are the same And French Potatoes (translated) in icelandic countries, and frites or pomme frites in others.

I think the British just like coming up with names that aren't actually related to what they're called in their home countries at all.

At least fry kind of sounds like frites, and the french part is just due to them coming from Western Europe--France. Most likely it's an anglicization of the icelandic or finnish word brought over by immigrants.


I mean, yeah, lots of foods have different names in different places, but only the British like to come up with names that have no relation to the original, as far as I can tell.

It's bread with some meat inside it. You can't really lay claim to inventing it.

Special kind of bread. Yes we can.

We also get to claim 'specially sliced fried potatoes'.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Maybe you're right, I think that may be due to the british being crazy world rulers once (At least they were slightly more succesful at it than some others). So all food is "British", It doesn't even need to come from a (former) colony, especially if it's good.
I don't like saying only the british do it, though. But I can't think of any examples right now.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

But Italians have been eating shit with that bread before US was even a country and the rest of Europe had too with either Italian bread or breads that are similar enough to lay waste to the claim of its 'invention'. If anybody invented it, it's the Italian.
And bakeries in Italy sell a whole variety of types of sandwiches which are effectively subs and all of them have different names- none of them being subs.
The fact that it's made by Italians from Italian bread should really tip you off.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Wait, I thought those sandwich things with some kind of specific bread for which the accepted term is "Sub" (For the sandwiches, not the bread) were made using Baguettes?

EDIT: Or at least something that looks very similar from a certain angle.

[Tev]

Silly Smarty. Didn't you know that we Americans invented inventing things? Things just weren't invented until America invented inventing.

[Krylo]

I believe the difference there involves moving away from traditional Italian meats, breads, sauces, and cheeses to a wider variety of fillings and breads.

But whatever.

Point is they've been called subs since 1900, and are credited as having originated in the NE united states (regardless of how true that is). Also that rolls is a silly name for them that many people have never heard, and, most of all, Sub sandwich is not because of Subway.

Wait, I thought those sandwich things with some kind of specific bread for which the accepted term is "Sub" (For the sandwiches, not the bread) were made using Baguettes?

Most are, now.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yeah that is the rationale behind it, I just think it's bullshit and they effectively the same :)

Also rolls is the name that the empire uses. Come back to us when you have conquered 1/4 of the globe without cheating and claiming some kind of economic control.

[Osterbaum]

You shouldn't encourage them.

[greed]

Subs beat dubs as far as I'm concerned. Even if the only place that offers them here is Subway.


And French Potatoes (translated) in icelandic countries, and frites or pomme frites in others.

I think the British just like coming up with names that aren't actually related to what they're called in their home countries at all.

At least fry kind of sounds like frites, and the french part is just due to them coming from Western Europe--France. Most likely it's an anglicization of the icelandic or finnish word brought over by immigrants.


I mean, yeah, lots of foods have different names in different places, but only the British like to come up with names that have no relation to the original, as far as I can tell.

Well it's chips of potato like chips of wood, that's what I always assumed. So it makes some sense especially with the big chunky irregular chips that are more popular in the UK and here. But at least here in Australia chips and French fries are somewhat different things. Chips are the big chunky ones like what you get at KFC or a fish and chip shop, fries are the small thin very regular ones like at McDonalds. Though if only fries are on offer they're usually referred to as chips as well. We also call what the British call crisps, chips too. Things get very confusing if a store offers all three.

[Krylo]

Also rolls is the name that the empire uses. Come back to us when you have conquered 1/4 of the globe without cheating and claiming some kind of economic control.

Come back to us when the best of your military isn't getting it's ass kicked by drunken hicks with muzzle loaders.

And Greed: You're a prison colony. We don't care about your slang. We aren't going to start calling all our knives shanks, either.

[Premmy]

Winstson Churchill invented subs because he realized his sandiches we'rent warry enough.
"My GOD these sandwiches don't look like machines of death! this is an atrocity!"

[Fifthfiend]

Jesus Krylo, 20 posts of this.

What have I told you about sticking it in the Barrelpants?

[Krylo]

Jesus Krylo, 20 posts of this.

What have I told you about sticking it in the Barrelpants?

I haven't slept in over 24 hours and I'm bored.

I apologize.

[Melfice]

Come back to us when the best of your military isn't getting it's ass kicked by drunken hicks with muzzle loaders.

And Greed: You're a prison colony. We don't care about your slang. We aren't going to start calling all our knives shanks, either.

You come back to us when your country isn't asking demanding threatening the rest of the world to come bail you out of wars you started. [/ohgodspleasedon'ttakethisserious]

Anyway, in the Netherlands subs are subs when bought from Subway (alternatively, if you're not familiar with the whole "sub" phenomenon, it's just either a baguette or a... roll is the best way to translate it, I guess?).
Here, we simply use the metric system. You either order a 15cm long sub or a 30cm long one. If you're a nerd, you order a footlong.
They're baguettes when bought in other places ("belegd stokbrood", literally covered baguette when it has stuff on it).

French fries are either pomme frites, "frieten" or "Belgische frieten" (The last two are respectively "fries" and "Belgian fries" for the really big and chunky ones)
Chips are the thin slices of potato and are simply called (potato) chips.


My preference, a sub.
I don't have any use for dubs anyway.

[Tev]

Come back to us when the best of your military isn't getting it's ass kicked by drunken hicks with muzzle loaders.Don't get his attention turned to this! We'll be hearing about how the French bailed us out of that mess for months!

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Come back to us when the best of your military isn't getting it's ass kicked by drunken hicks with muzzle loaders.

Nah we've done that, proven we can. Now we're all about pretending it's still the 19th century.

Also I'm hungry now.

[Krylo]

Don't get his attention turned to this! We'll be hearing about how the French bailed us out of that mess for months!

Yeah, but then he'd be trading getting his ass kicked by drunken hicks for getting his ass kicked by the French.

I'd just let sleeping dogs lie if I were in that position.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

We were just letting them win one cause we felt. Then they got all uppity so we kicked them to shits 30 years later. We are a parent, firm but fair.

[Geminex]

Of course you are. And you totally would have won those world wars in a similar timeframe without your errant child's assistance. Especially that second one. I mean really, who needs all those supplies and material? Or those soldiers? Or a counter to Japan? Formalities, am I right, old chap? They might be big, but they're not a chip off the old block, eh? And now let us drink tea and eat buttered scones before taking an evening off to polish our monocle and tend to our moustaches. Because that's what the british do. Wot wot?

[Magus]

...Dubs are disc shaped.

Who has a disc shaped penis?

Man, and fight or flight? There ain't no fight or flight with either of those. Just eat or look really stupid when you drive around.

You need to stop watching The View.

...Yogurt DOES sound good though.

Spoken like a true chauvinist. I suppose you'll use me like a sex object for "talking back". While eating a sub, no less.

In any case, I'm off to my lamaze class. I'm not pregnant (I plan to have a career instead of being barefoot in the kitchen while you spend all our money on frivolous "spinners"), I just find it relaxing and empowering.

[01d55]

Those are rolls. What the fuck.

AMERICA

That's what the fuck.

[Osterbaum]

We call a sandwhich "voileipä" ("butter bread", directly translated) no matter what kind of a sandwhich it happens to be.

FINLAND

[Fifthfiend]

Oh yeah well we have curried lamb in pita breads because
PAKISTAN

oh god i'm sorry i just wanted to play too it looked like so much fun i don't even think that's the right shade of green what the hell

[Mike McC]

Of course, you know who makes the best sandwiches?

YOUR MOM

I always looked forward to brown bagging it at school.

Also, The joke is now completely dead. I am literally terrible.

[Amake]

SVERIGE
brought you the word "smörgåsbord", bitches. Never mind that "smörgås", the word for sandwich, actually means "buttered goose". No one Actually uses that word in conversation anyway. We call it "macka", as in macking. That's right, Sweden's sandwiches are like having sex.

And yes, I used a different yellow for the correct colors of the flag. Is it possible to be patriotically nerdy?

[Magus]

I hate to break it to you guys but the only real name for subs is

HOAGIES

Also what's up with people who call them grinders, that's just out there. Next they'll be substituing poor boy willy nilly.

[01d55]

Oh yeah well we have[/SIZE]

Don't be posing.


That shit is naan. Pita is a euro word.

Oh and way to totally fail to recreate my joke everyone. Here's a hint: it's replying to a request for reasons with an aggressively stated absence of reason. Good job putting reasons at the top of all of your sad attempts.

[Magus]

You seem to be implying we were looking anywhere past the use of pretty colors.

[synkr0nized]

"America" has three colors. It's still winning.

[Krylo]

"America" has three colors. It's still winning.

FUCK YEAH! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI&feature=related)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

That shit is naan. Pita is a euro word.



The Turks use Pita bread to make their kebabs. And kebabs are fucking awesome. Germans agree!

[synkr0nized]

Yeah they are.
Florence sure surprised me with the number of kebab places scattered about [though being so high in tourism maybe that made sense?].</offtopic>

[Fifthfiend]

Don't be posing.


That shit is naan. Pita is a euro word.

Bitch please, stealing western shit and calling it ours is as time-honored and authentic as the Bollywood remake of There's Something About Mary.*



*I swear to God.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yeah they are.
Florence sure surprised me with the number of kebab places scattered about [though being so high in tourism maybe that made sense?].</offtopic>

It bizarre. LIke Auckland where I'm from has a ridiculous number of kebab places (it's like the 2nd highest takeaways behind fish and chips) despite having no significant turkish population and being as far as you can get from Turkey. It similar to Florence which as far as I know has very few Turks compared to say Milan.
Berlin is also littered with the places but they have a fair few Turks.

[Azisien]

The number of shawarma places in Ottawa is almost triple the number of Tim Hortons.

But you might have to be Canadian to fully appreciate that.

[Premmy]

Bitch please, stealing western shit and calling it ours is as time-honored and authentic as the Bollywood remake of There's Something About Mary.*



*I swear to God.

I kinda want to see the dance number for that.

[Osterbaum]

There are a lot more kebab places in Helsinki than, for example, chinese or indian restaurants. Hell, there are more kebab places than McDonalds or Hesburgers (that's our local burger joint). I love kebab. It's possibly the best hangover meal ever.

No one Actually uses that word in conversation anyway. We call it "macka"
I would totally call it smörgås.

FINDLANDS SVENSKA

Also, because I didn't do this earlier:

SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE

Now it's got three colours as well.

[synkr0nized]

Well, I'm sufficiently hungry now, and we've prattled on long enough.

Let's go eat.

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