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2·17 hours agoJust maybe don’t practice your Cockney accent while there… The locals seem to hate that accent, for some reason.
9·17 hours agoIn 1990 my father negotiated a new contract for himself, with IBM. He’s a computer programmer consultant that can program in 72 languages including Cobol and Lisp.
The one thing he absolutely insisted upon was that he wouldn’t have to carry a pager. He still refuses to carry a cell phone.
10·19 hours agoGiddyup Buttercup is gonna sue for patent infringement.
No. I have no idea how that happened. Just someone I know that pronounces it that way
The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an…
While they may weigh the same, the steel will do more damage when dropped.
Most people aren’t really familiar with the history of the world, especially the period of time that would correspond to ≈ 30-50 years before they graduated secondary school. I assume this is because there seems to be a pattern where you just don’t actually catch up to current events in many history classes.
Also expecting the average person in the US to be familiar enough with world events to even know who Nelson Mandala or Narendra Modi are, is a good way to have a bad time. I don’t like it either, but as Carlin said, “think of the average person, now remember that 50% of people are stupider than that.”
The Baha’is use sundown as the end/start point of the day, do with that information what you will
Feathers*, just like modern dinosaurs
I didn’t forget that he was released, but enough people thought he died in prison, that we named the term after him.
A Google search on “ancient desert water traps” so I could remember who built them