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I read an article a couple of months ago about autism being linked to delayed fatherhood: http://www.nature.com/news/fathers-bequeath-more-mutations-as-they-age

I read an article a couple of months ago about autism being linked to delayed fatherhood: http://www.nature.com/news/fathers-bequeath-more-mutations-as-they-age-1.11247 http://www.nature.com/news/fathers-bequeath-more-mutations-a.... Being different was something that touched near and dear to my heart like many self-conscious geeks and my old man didn't have me until he was 41. I know N=1... but when you're debating with your friends whether or not this (http://imgur.com/m52Wo4a http://imgur.com/m52Wo4a) can be classified as a sandwich or if it warrants a new nomenclature entirely and realizing that these are the people you are associating with it's difficult to not look for answers.

jessaustin 9y ago
How would that not be a sandwich?
- 0x4d464d48 9y ago
  There are several points of contention but here are some of the most common points I've encountered: - When the term 'sandwich' is used in reference to a bagel being used for the 'bread' there is a presumption that the bagel is sliced along a transverse equatorial plane with the hole of the bagel being orthogonal to the ground. This photo clearly defies that convention. - A sandwich by most conventions is kept between two or more slices of bread in layers. If there are more than two layers between bread in a sandwich they are stacked vertically and separated by individual slices of bread. The subject under discussion has two layers, which is conventionally acceptable for a sandwich to have, but they are not stacked vertically. Some scholars have argued that this means that it is incorrect to call this a 'sandwich' in the singular sense but it is acceptable to call the entity a composition of 'sandwiches'. This is just a taste of the great bagel debate currently raging across very small niches of geeks but hopefully it gives you a flavour of why no definitive answer has been accepted by the community. And this has not even touched on the bagel-complete problems such as the topological properties of the mobius bagel http://images.tastespotting.com/uploads/thumbnail/125155.jpg http://images.tastespotting.com/uploads/thumbnail/125155.jpg.

jessaustin 9y ago

How would that not be a sandwich?

0x4d464d48 9y ago
There are several points of contention but here are some of the most common points I've encountered: - When the term 'sandwich' is used in reference to a bagel being used for the 'bread' there is a presumption that the bagel is sliced along a transverse equatorial plane with the hole of the bagel being orthogonal to the ground. This photo clearly defies that convention. - A sandwich by most conventions is kept between two or more slices of bread in layers. If there are more than two layers between bread in a sandwich they are stacked vertically and separated by individual slices of bread. The subject under discussion has two layers, which is conventionally acceptable for a sandwich to have, but they are not stacked vertically. Some scholars have argued that this means that it is incorrect to call this a 'sandwich' in the singular sense but it is acceptable to call the entity a composition of 'sandwiches'. This is just a taste of the great bagel debate currently raging across very small niches of geeks but hopefully it gives you a flavour of why no definitive answer has been accepted by the community. And this has not even touched on the bagel-complete problems such as the topological properties of the mobius bagel http://images.tastespotting.com/uploads/thumbnail/125155.jpg http://images.tastespotting.com/uploads/thumbnail/125155.jpg.