We shall name it of course after our beloved queen.

Yes, of course. Sorry.

Let it pass and hail to this glorious land, Virginia!

Er…What? Who’s Virginia?

The Queen of England, you dog!

Oh, right. Except…I don’t know how to put this. She’s not called Virginia, but Elizabeth.

I’m well aware of that, but she is, I trust you will agree, a virgin.

Er… Yeah, as far as I know. I mean, I’m sure she is.

But do we want to name a country after that fact?

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I mean that’s basically why a lot of us are great at small talk: we actually do care about the contents of that low stakes conversation with strangers.

Different types of oils form different polymerized surfaces, too. Related to the greentext, some people came up with the idea of flaxseed as the best oil for seasoning cast iron based on some theorycrafting about chemistry at a high school level, and it turned out that flaxseed oil seasoning chips and flakes really, really easily.

So there are a bunch of people out there doing it wrong and complaining that it’s too fussy.