Pedants' Paradise

[kernelbogey]

Before you buy it, there it will be in the supermarket refrigerated cabinet, sometimes in a box, sometimes in a bag, ready for you to buy it :-). Then it becomes post-bought frozen food.

Could it be that, like 'pre-loved' clothes in a charity shop, the frozen food has been been previously bought by another customer? (It should then be marked 'pre-defrosted'.)

[oddoneout]

Could it be that, like 'pre-loved' clothes in a charity shop, the frozen food has been been previously bought by another customer? (It should then be marked 'pre-defrosted'.)

Some 'fresh' food (mostly of the fish variety I think) is labelled - usually not at all prominently - 'previously frozen', which I always find rather a dubious situation in conjunction with 'fresh'.

[Pulcinella]

Some 'fresh' food (mostly of the fish variety I think) is labelled - usually not at all prominently - 'previously frozen', which I always find rather a dubious situation in conjunction with 'fresh'.

I'm pretty sure I've seen some that say it's safe to refreeze (even though previously frozen), which is generally not advised.

Tonight's chicken (taken out of the freezer and gently defrosting in the fridge) is of the 'roast in a bag' variety.
Decided to delay cooking it for Sunday dinner, as we had to get ready for choir Zoom committee meeting, so I guess it was 'pre-bought' for Sunday and now becomes Monday's meal instead?

[kernelbogey]

...Tonight's chicken (taken out of the freezer and gently defrosting in the fridge) is of the 'roast in a bag' variety.
Decided to delay cooking it for Sunday dinner, as we had to get ready for choir Zoom committee meeting, so I guess it was 'pre-bought' for Sunday and now becomes Monday's meal instead?

A pre-loved chicken, indeed!

[cloughie]

A pre-loved chicken, indeed!

Virtually late!

[Flay]

Firefox Android update:

Primary Password is replacing Master Password. Firefox is removing terminology from the browser that has been identified as derogatory or exclusionary.

[cloughie]

Firefox Android update:

Did they have Mistress Passwords or maybe that is something completely different.

[Flay]

I suppose my camera will no longer be able to have a slave flash added.

[gradus]

I suppose my camera will no longer be able to have a slave flash added.

... or your car's clutch a slave cylinder.

[Bryn]

What about all those boxed sets of various composers' masterpieces?

[Serial_Apologist]

What about all those boxed sets of various composers' masterpieces?

Unfortunately there are no feminine equivalents to masterpieces. And long gone is the time when I could have referred to that nice piece I saw you out with the other night! Added to which (!) a mistress stroke would refer to something else!

[Flay]

Unfortunately there are no feminine equivalents to masterpieces. And long gone is the time when I could have referred to that nice piece I saw you out with the other night! Added to which (!) a mistress stroke would refer to something else!

I don't think it's really about gender, but rather about master/slave/servant. I don't think that the term primary is any better.

[Pulcinella]

Apparently, a 'mutant' algorithm is to blame for the exam results fiasco.

The mind boggles!

[LMcD]

Apparently, a 'mutant' algorithm is to blame for the exam results fiasco.

The mind boggles!

As I've recently said elsewhere, nobody is ever to blame for anything any more.

[gradus]

As I've recently said elsewhere, nobody is ever to blame for anything any more.

In my working life in business the algorithm that unfailingly predicted the outcome correctly was Stages in a Project.
Enthusiasm
Implementation
Failure
Panic
The search for the guilty
The punishment of the innocent.
Blame was the name of the game and one needed political skills and fancy footwork to avoid it.