

Merde
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!


Merde
Each decade of age took me half as long as the previous one did.
0-10 took forever
10-20 took 20 years
20-30 took 10 years
30-40 took 5 years
And I fear it only gets worse.
Parent: Say “dad”
Baby: “Dad”
Don’t leave us hanging. Who won the argument?


Let us, like Him, hold up one shoe and let the other be upon our foot, for this is His sign, that all who follow Him shall do likewise.


“Not do anything useful” would be more accurate than “do nothing”. But that’s just my tl;dr.


[…] the resolution also contains many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions the United States cannot support. This resolution does not articulate meaningful solutions for preventing hunger and malnutrition or avoiding their devastating consequences.
The United States is concerned that the concept of “food sovereignty” could justify protectionism or other restrictive import or export policies […]
We also do not accept any reading of this resolution or related documents that would suggest that States have particular extraterritorial obligations arising from any concept of a “right to food,” which we do not recognize and has no definition in international law.
tl;dr:


But the resolution passed anyway, which is why world hunger has disappeared.
You should cut diagonally. If it makes a sandwich better, imagine what it can do for a novel.


Tom Hanks in “Big”?


Here’s a rainbow that is close enough for the trees across the street to appear behind it.



They made a movie that dramatized the accidents really well:
That’s what dihydrogen monoxide poisoning does to average IQs.
…are non-US peanut butters less viscous?


I am also that guy, and it was more like 17 years ago.


Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.


Dragons, giants, monsters, that sort of thing. They weren’t entirely wrong.


first initial middle initial and last name
I do this when it’s a work-related document. Anything personal I write out my first name fully. So good luck forging my signature on possibly the wrong kind of document, people who want to forge my signature but only have one example to work from!
According to my extensive 30 seconds of research, the difference is that a sauce is an integral ingredient, but a condiment is added after the dish is served. In which case, ketchup can be either or both, even in the same dish.