I had a lovely experience with a Parisian lady where I, for the life of me, couldn’t remember “magasin” when I was trying to buy my child a toy as a gift and bless her heart she stayed with me until she eventually got it and we both squealed together.

Comfortingly, as the price of oil has fallen and their cost to extract and refine it remains fixed (or increasing with the very high wage inflation rate there), the amount of net profit they get has fallen non-linearly.

Ireland introduced a postal code system a few years back called EirCode. It’s pretty great actually but the official site does have a per day limit.

I’m honestly surprised to see it referenced here.

That Ireland flag though. Looking very Iran-ish.

Wikipedia defines it as:

The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime.

Link

If you’re on android you may need to give it permission to access your location.

Ha! I did actually cop that. :)

Ah it was in jest but sure here we find ourselves.

Never thought I’d say this but…

I am proud to live in a red state.

Edit: On the map you donkeys

Western China too. I flew over it and it’s like an endless mountainous wasteland.

I appreciate the effort so thank you. That’s not the one I saw but the idea is very similar.

The one I saw was much larger and involved ladders but this definitely gets the idea across.

Edit: just watched that video through. Can’t sleep here and that’s pushing me into “get up for snack” territory. Looks delicious.

I saw a video a while back about a charity in India and they had this custom… Structure within a building I suppose you’d call it… Where the sikh folks were cooking up an absolutely gargantuan amount of food. Huge fire had to be lit underneath it. The food pit looked around five meters / 15ft across.

The amounts of everything that went in are somewhat similar to what you’re reading in that recipe.

I’m trying to figure out a way to dig it out of the internet because it was a fascinating watch. If I manage it I’ll be back. Maybe someone else has seen the video I’m describing and will know where to look.

Oh shit. My home is underwater. :(

It came and went where I was. It was difficult to see with street lights so we went to a nearby football pitch which was dark and could see it then.

Phones definitely making it look better than the eye sees it.

Edit: look North

I believe it should be. I’m 8 timezones away but our news said yesterday:

expected to arrive as early as today and to persist through until Sunday.

Yeah it really is infuriating. I started MT at 26 and fought until I was 36. Nobody laughs at anybody in a Thai gym. Those who would are rooted out early because there’s always someone better than you.

Go in, work your balls off, don’t be a dick, keep coming back and you get respect. It’s that simple.

I… Never knew this option existed. That is such an amazing feature.

Never once have I ever answered a withheld number and been glad after that I did.

Oh jeez. Fuck that salesman. :( That’s an awful thing to do to a kid. Money comes so hard at that age.

I had a self build and a decent CRT at the time so scaling wasn’t an issue but I remember how horrible it was in those days on LCDs. It actually put me off moving from the CRT for a long time.

I definitely overclocked that card and it was really good for that even on the stock cooler but I do vaguely remember it struggling with HL2. I can’t remember what CPU I had so that could have been the bottleneck.

ATI 9800 pro held a special place in my heart. If I remember correctly it’s what I played half life 2 on.

I woke up in my mother’s arms.