Granite State
@granitestate.bsky.social
Living in Austria. Bassist, Wahlwiener, preferisco parlare Italiano.
Follow my band here: https://linktr.ee/crashharmony
Follow my band here: https://linktr.ee/crashharmony
Pizza is not a pie just because some provincial immigrants in the 1940s couldn’t figure out how else to explain flatbread to the `Merigan. There are similar oven baked flatbreads all around the Mediterranean. Adding tomato sauce doesn’t seem sufficient to turn something into a „pie“.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Pizza is not a pie just because some provincial immigrants in the 1940s couldn’t figure out how else to explain flatbread to the `Merigan. There are similar oven baked flatbreads all around the Mediterranean. Adding tomato sauce doesn’t seem sufficient to turn something into a „pie“.
Wu is the mayor of a midsized city of barely 700K inhabitants. Mamdani is mayor of a major city with a population of 8M, almost 12x as large. There’s simply no comparison here. Governor of Massachusetts is a better comparison to mayor of NYC.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wu is the mayor of a midsized city of barely 700K inhabitants. Mamdani is mayor of a major city with a population of 8M, almost 12x as large. There’s simply no comparison here. Governor of Massachusetts is a better comparison to mayor of NYC.
Also quiz your average Englishman/woman on their knowledge of Irish history. Shocking.
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Also quiz your average Englishman/woman on their knowledge of Irish history. Shocking.
Europeans aren’t really that much better than Americans at history. And often (looking at Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Turks, Romanians) the history they do know is tendentious and wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Europeans aren’t really that much better than Americans at history. And often (looking at Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Turks, Romanians) the history they do know is tendentious and wrong.
Everytime I go to a restaurant in New Hampshire I am shocked by how slovenly everyone is dressed. Every man has a baseball cap, a t-shirt or a sweatshirt, depending on the season. But women are dressed exactly the same. Why do we have transgender panic when everyone is in unisex jeans and sweats?
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Everytime I go to a restaurant in New Hampshire I am shocked by how slovenly everyone is dressed. Every man has a baseball cap, a t-shirt or a sweatshirt, depending on the season. But women are dressed exactly the same. Why do we have transgender panic when everyone is in unisex jeans and sweats?
Sadly, not as true as it once was. When was the last time you were in Italy? Standards are dropping there as well.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sadly, not as true as it once was. When was the last time you were in Italy? Standards are dropping there as well.
Patriot fans were rooting for the Chiefs to beat the Colts. What are you smoking?
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Patriot fans were rooting for the Chiefs to beat the Colts. What are you smoking?
Italians don’t normally eat breakfast anyway. A coffee and a cornetto maybe.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Italians don’t normally eat breakfast anyway. A coffee and a cornetto maybe.
The “American cheese” in Europe is certainly even worse than the Kraft American standard.
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The “American cheese” in Europe is certainly even worse than the Kraft American standard.
The “hot dog” is originally European (hence the name frankfurter) and, at least in Austria, are generally better than the American version. Certainly better mustard.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The “hot dog” is originally European (hence the name frankfurter) and, at least in Austria, are generally better than the American version. Certainly better mustard.
Please use any specific experiences you had with air conditioning to draw sweeping conclusions about European culture in general.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Please use any specific experiences you had with air conditioning to draw sweeping conclusions about European culture in general.
The MTG of Romania is named Diana Șoșoacă. The MTG of Austria is probably Karin Kneissl but she fucked off to Russia a few years ago.
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The MTG of Romania is named Diana Șoșoacă. The MTG of Austria is probably Karin Kneissl but she fucked off to Russia a few years ago.
MBS is not very popular among devout Muslims or Islamists to be fair. He’s kind of perfect for the far right - MBS has stripped away the concern with social justice and anti-Imperialism that motivates a lot of radical Islam but kept the authoritarian elements and ramped up greed.
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
MBS is not very popular among devout Muslims or Islamists to be fair. He’s kind of perfect for the far right - MBS has stripped away the concern with social justice and anti-Imperialism that motivates a lot of radical Islam but kept the authoritarian elements and ramped up greed.
You wouldn’t have been thrown in a concentration camp for describing Hitler as fascist, the term was seen by Nazis and even a lot of normal conservatives as positive at the time. Comparisons to Mussolini worked in Hitler‘s favor.
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
You wouldn’t have been thrown in a concentration camp for describing Hitler as fascist, the term was seen by Nazis and even a lot of normal conservatives as positive at the time. Comparisons to Mussolini worked in Hitler‘s favor.
But the bassist sings here. Even John Entwistle simplified the fuck out of his basslines when he had to sing. Waters is no Geddy Lee.
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
But the bassist sings here. Even John Entwistle simplified the fuck out of his basslines when he had to sing. Waters is no Geddy Lee.
Carbonara? That’s a Roman dish. Plus it was only invented ca. 1945 so not in the wheelhouse of a “traditional” Italian nonna.
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Carbonara? That’s a Roman dish. Plus it was only invented ca. 1945 so not in the wheelhouse of a “traditional” Italian nonna.
There is no such thing as “homemade” calzone. At least not where my grandparents come from. You’d need to select your grandmother’s region carefully. I loved my Marchigian grandmother’s minestra, passatelli and polenta, but might not be for everyone.
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
There is no such thing as “homemade” calzone. At least not where my grandparents come from. You’d need to select your grandmother’s region carefully. I loved my Marchigian grandmother’s minestra, passatelli and polenta, but might not be for everyone.
And now we get an extra quarter!
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
And now we get an extra quarter!
But you could. I know many many UK/US dual citizens. It is remarkably common in finance circles. A dirty little secret neither British nor American conservatives like to advertise.
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
But you could. I know many many UK/US dual citizens. It is remarkably common in finance circles. A dirty little secret neither British nor American conservatives like to advertise.
No, my question is why are we assuming he is naturalized rather than simply an American born asshole who grew up in the UK?
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
No, my question is why are we assuming he is naturalized rather than simply an American born asshole who grew up in the UK?
I have literally a dozen American friends, resident in the UK, whose American born kids grew up there and are now dual citizens. It’s not uncommon at all, especially in finance circles.
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I have literally a dozen American friends, resident in the UK, whose American born kids grew up there and are now dual citizens. It’s not uncommon at all, especially in finance circles.
Dual citizenship is not uncommon. Not that the BUCR necessarily checks their members’ citizenship, which would also be ironic.
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dual citizenship is not uncommon. Not that the BUCR necessarily checks their members’ citizenship, which would also be ironic.
I lived in the 1980s and
90s. It was an objectively better time to be alive because there was no social media. Not sure how anyone who was alive at the time can argue with that. Cultural products like music, films and books had real meaning in your life that they simply can’t today.
90s. It was an objectively better time to be alive because there was no social media. Not sure how anyone who was alive at the time can argue with that. Cultural products like music, films and books had real meaning in your life that they simply can’t today.
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I lived in the 1980s and
90s. It was an objectively better time to be alive because there was no social media. Not sure how anyone who was alive at the time can argue with that. Cultural products like music, films and books had real meaning in your life that they simply can’t today.
90s. It was an objectively better time to be alive because there was no social media. Not sure how anyone who was alive at the time can argue with that. Cultural products like music, films and books had real meaning in your life that they simply can’t today.