Heee! Heee! Heee! There's one born every minute! The vendor is certainly hoping for one, and "no one ever went broke underestimating ...", but seriously, is the vendor delusional, naive, or merely seeking to test the greater fool theory?
Here's one for my fellow American Baby Boomers: You know you're getting old when you remember saying the pledge of allegiance at the start of a school day while facing a forty-eight star flag.
There's another, legit member and frequent poster, who doesn't get the idea behind "So trivial, but it really ticks you off." Make that plus one for STBIRTYO.
This may not be an issue in most places in the UK, but in northern U.S. states, Tesla owners were "left out in the cold" recently.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224913698/teslas-chicago-charging-extreme-cold
Please excuse if I have already posted this, but I found it on a Facebook page by a fellow I used to work with:
I had the rudest, slowest, and nastiest cashier today.
That does it! I'm DONE using the self-checkout lane.
My reading on this matter tells me that "thou" was a singular form while "you" was plural, but if you can be on familiar terms with God ("Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by thy name."), who ranks above and would be owed a more respectful form of address?
This reminds me of a story a French teacher (that is, a teacher of the French language, not a teacher from France) from my high school told 50+ years ago. It seems there was a French man who had a servant of North African origin. This servant had limited French language skills and never learned...
Here's a trivial issue to kick off 2024.
My wife and I have lunch at an upscale (but not terrifically expensive) restaurant nearly every Sunday. All the servers have got into the practice of using the pronoun "we" when addressing us. I don't know if this is a training policy of the...
In my hometown (established in the mid-to-late 19th century) I passed older houses on my walk to school which had hinged cast-iron doors at ground level (meaning just above the dirt). These were backed by coal chutes. I was too young to see the coal deliveries, but before my time a coal wagon...
Here in the U.S. there is a more sensible variation of these signs reading "Construction Zone Ahead. Speeding fines doubled when workers are present." The conditional clause makes all the difference.
Broadsheet newspapers. Now some newspapers still think of themselves as "broadsheet", but if I don't have to hold my arms wide apart to open to an inner page, it's not "broadsheet" in my book.
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