Bidders choose the amount they bid. The winning bid is what the ultimate value of the piece is (as far as it’s most current evaluation). Auctioneers may set the initial minimum bid on an item, but that is not what dictates the winning bid - the winning bidder does that.

You said Mnuchin was swindled (by Koons, when he purchased the piece from someone else who isn’t Koons) - and then you said “The point is, it’s not their money” when I asked you how Mnuchin was swindled. It seems you’re the one who is confused. So if you are saying Mnuchin bought the piece with other peoples’ money,…

There are multiple kinds of ramen for which the seasonings come in concentrated paste or liquid form, and are meant to be either diluted in water and heated or mixed with pre-heated water (not the water drained from the noodles) to form a broth - my wife and I eat them on a near-weekly basis. And even if the…

It’s not whose money? Mnuchin’s?

What’s the “swindle” here? Was there fraud or deceit involved? When it comes to auctions, the buyers ultimately decide the value of the item they are buying - unless it was a counterfeit, the buyer got what they were told the item was and paid the amount they felt it was worth to them. Someone being foolish with their…

Well it would have been Christie’s and the estate of S.I. Newhouse (the previous owner) who swindled this particular buyer, not Koons.

I was meeting with an architect / builder client just yesterday who brought this up* (with a different example, not a sink), but said that the method involved using some type of super glue rather than water. We all agreed it must be a joke.

“If they (...) aren’t flexible enough to schedule their project around your existing workload, then you know they probably wouldn’t be a good client for you in the long run.”

Always good to snark on peoples’ charitable efforts.

Even more irritating is the fact that nobody involved bothered to take the few minutes and minimal effort required to photoshop out the camera & tripod reflections in the images used for promoting the auction.

Let’s see what Koons himself has to say about that:

Ah, yes - having to resort to pointing out typos: the true sign of a winning argument. Responding to argue against something I never said (which you have been doing from your very first reply), however, does mean you don’t understand.

The benefit is that you end up with a broth that is different than if you had cooked the noodles in it - and with some types of ramen, even the noodles will end up different than if you had cooked them in the broth. Furthermore, some ramen noodles take much less time to cook than the broth part if you are adding…

“the people with whom she is sharing the inconvenience of the unexpected several-hours delay are acting like this is her fault”

Ah, so you don’t know what the word “if” means. But at least your consistent with certain regards:

The logic with that being an instruction with some is that some are made to be prepared that way.

Because, as pointed out in the article, the directions for some brands say to do it that way.

“Why are people so afraid to just label new foods as new foods? Why does it always have to be a “twist” on something familiar?”

Do you know what the word “if” means? And being that you said “usually it doesn’t come down to eating *nothing,*” the implication is that sometimes it does.

And I never said bringing your own food is always going to be the solution.