Wait, America doesn’t have those? The merry fuck?
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I learned that Mister Rogers was apparently bi. In an authorized biography, he is quoted as telling one of his openly gay friends that, if sexuality were measured on a scale of one to ten, “Well, you know, I must be right smack in the middle. Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive.”
As a former American colony, it's funny how we have it half and half over here. Some restaurants do have these machines, yet they take your card anyway and complete the transaction from behind the counter.
Just last year, my mother had to get her credit card replaced after using it to pay at a restaurant. Literally on the ride home from the place, she began getting notifications that someone was attempting to use her card. And we tipped too, what a shame.
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I haven't visited a McDonald's in years. Hell, a fast food burger is a rare thing.
But then there are people in Russia who apparently are like.......I need to fill my fridge with Micky D's.
I mean, we do...bolted to the cashier's station, far away from the tables, and the waiters take your card to it
The angler fish maybe, but the goblin shark looks like s normal shark trying to cosplay as a unicorn.
Man, I’d fuckin’ refuse. I’d rather go up to the counter and pay. And it mean, at that point we’re leaving so it’s not even out of my way or anything.
To be fair, the reason a lot of the real deep sea fish we see look so horrific is that they are designed for the metal crushing depths of the ocean where they reside. By the time we see them, they are usually dead and/or out of their natural depth. See everyone's favorite punching bag, the Blob fish;
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Maybe time travel will be our only hope of saving earth and our species from extinction. But of course it’d also introduce an infinite amount of new ways to fuck things up.
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Maybe time travel will be our only hope of saving earth and our species from extinction. But of course it’d also introduce an infinite amount of new ways to fuck things up.
Twilight is longer than The Lord of the Rings
That is unexpected. I recall reading the LotR books and feeling they would never end. This observation is even more surprising because the detail Tolkien managed which I felt was entirely unnecessary and made reading the trilogy a slog. i.e.: paragraphs of cardinal directions while Frodo walked to Mordor which made it feel like I was reading MapQuest directions and not novels of high fantasy.
The Two Towers truly is a book of extremes. Every page in Mordor is a slog; overly verbose and just agonising. Conversely, everything involving Rohan and the Riders and Helms Deep is fucking awesome.
I don't recall anything being "fucking awesome" during my read. I only finished them on the principle that I'd come so far, quitting wasn't an option. LotR is probably the one instance I can think of where the film adaptation is superior to the source material.
The US Space Shuttles Rudder split and folded out during landing to act as an air brake to slow the shuttle down even more then that drag chute. Since the shuttle got one shot at landing because it's essentially a glider once it re-enters the atmosphere, not overshooting the runway was important.
Also, in general, the shuttle landed under computer control but the pilots were ready to take over in the computer started having issues. Really, a lot of things spacecraft do are done under computer control, such as launches.
Also, in general, the shuttle landed under computer control but the pilots were ready to take over in the computer started having issues. Really, a lot of things spacecraft do are done under computer control, such as launches.
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Did you know a stoat can be impregnated within days of being born? Weirder still, the eggs stay in a kind of stasis, potentially for years, until the proper conditions are met for them to start growing within the mother.
This is the kind of thing I'd expect from bugs and fish, not mammals.
This is the kind of thing I'd expect from bugs and fish, not mammals.
I mean, technically speaking fish don't exist. Biological classification is *wild*
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I have seen some restaurants start using those, but most still take your card and bring it back.
