If you can find just about any damn excuse to treat a friend, to celebrate, to commiserate, then damn well take it! That’s the stuff that the good life is made from

Excuse me, is this sir’s suitcase? Can I help sir with this?

Replace with ma’am, master, etc

In many languages the plural form is used similarly. In my native danish it’s “De” vs “du” (De is always written with a capital letter)

It’s pretty much not. Literally everyone learns best by “doing”, and the other styles (reading, visual, auditory) depend much more on the content (visual graphs are good for geometry, reading is good for history etc) than the student. Also people’s responses on surveys about learning styles are very inconsistent, it’s pretty solidly disproven since about 2008

To be fair I was frankly amazed as a child that in American tv and media they so openly had shops called “drug stores”

That there are different “learning styles”, and that some people learn better with one over another. (Visual learner, auditory learner etc.) Same for “love languages”

For what it’s worth, I’ve found totally the opposite. Way better respect given to me when I’m paid better. Much better flexibility, acceptance of arriving late/early/needing to step out for an hour or two for something. Nicer food at lunch, free food even, well stocked break rooms, the lot.

TBF I was taught to use water on pies, it makes the crust of the pastry develop a shiny crisp edge.

In the case that you have an earthquake or something big enough to cause the cave to collapse yeah you’re just dead. This is also true of rock climbing, or walking over a bridge

If you’re not suicidally stupid you’ll already be holding onto the rope leading to safety with plastic arrows attached every few feet pointing to the exit so you know which way along the rope is out. Never let go of the rope! (You’re usually tied to it also, but ofc you gotta unclip to switch rope or go around an anchor where the rope is attached to the rock)

Idk, pretty much all the deaths I hear about are open water divers who decided to go into a cave, ignoring the part of their training where someone shouts at them for an hour to never even think about going in a cave even a teeny little bit, no not even just the entrance, no not even just to look.

This includes people going in to recover bodies. You’ll notice the people dying doing that are often military divers who’ve never been trained for cave diving (true of the recent Maldives incident and also the diver in the Thai cave rescue). I don’t say this to be like oh training is some magical panacea but rather that you specifically really should not go in a cave even if you really want to without getting cave trained first. It’s not even remotely the same thing as open water diving.

Oh and yeah it’s definitely cave diving that’s the insane one. Never done it myself and never will but it’s an interest of mine because of all the procedure, backups of backups, redundancy etc needed to make it safe. It’s more like spacewalking in that regard.

Not liking it isn’t the same thing as not doing it, or even not knowing how to do it well. It’s a necessary evil, one of many things in life like having to do laundry, or waking up earlier than you’d like to. Sure there are some people who don’t do those things either (and fall out of society), but there are few who deeply enjoy them. So too with small talk, it’s for colleagues and acquaintances. The way someone becomes my friend is immediately when I realise that they are open to deeper talk

People have walked on the moon.

Serious attempt at an answer: I was terrified of this myself. I felt super tired on much less, had no idea how I would cope with a full day of work plus coming home and going right back out to be social or whatever. I ended up having to do it, plus language lessons twice a week. Have been doing it a couple years now. I think you really do adjust, at least a little. You find ways to rest in smaller periods, in bathroom at work, going out for a break with the smokers, sleeping when you come home etc. I find a lot of things I ended up sacrificing but I also find it’s not as hard as you might think. I even manage to cook most days, and stay on top of household chores for the most part. It isn’t a brag, and I think I fall back on the same recipes time and again. One one level, it just sort of all gets forced to be optimised, but I do also feel I have more energy

I can assure you that there were people who didn’t like small talk, and people who didn’t quite get that, long before the internet was a twinkle in Berners-lee’s eye

Yeah actually that sounds pretty good, might ask my partner about it when she comes home

Right. Theres nothing inherent to the act of making a bed, or having a bed made, that makes it normal. It’s literally only normal if you’re a person that normally does that. If you need a benefit of routine in life, you can choose whatever routine you want!

Tests are good vibes we like test. I feel safe warm embrace when test. Test brought dog back to life.

I once flew alone from Spain as a child and got registered as requiring assistance (due to being a child) There was an old blind lady on the flight with me. Somehow, they mistakenly thought that I was blind, and that the old lady I guess was just old. So they were dragging me around and saying all sorts of confusing things to me in Spanish, putting my hands on things etc. it was a weird experience for me, but probably worse for the poor lady. Eventually the confusion was resolved at the gate with some staff member saying to me in English “you can see me, yes?” While right in front of me. I was very confused, wondering if it was a trick question, but eventually we stumbled into understanding what had happened.

The guy who invented chiropractic literally says he learned it from a ghost called Jim Atkinson. He also did “magnetic healing”.

I went to a chiropractor as a kid because of back pain. They pretty quickly figured out it was because one of my legs was longer than the other, and did several adjustments to my back, next, and legs, none of which did very much. I was told to keep coming back and it would take time to work, and that if I stopped, the pain would come back. (Of course, this conveniently meant I would have to keep paying for sessions)

The words the guy was using about why things worked were utterly crackpot, including stuff about how adjustments or pressure applied in specific parts of the hands could affect parts of the gut or brain etc. about how my organs weren’t getting enough nerve supply. All sorts of ridiculous charts on the walls showing things that I definitely knew weren’t in the body.

I later figured out my back pain was because my schoolbag was too heavy. My legs are the same length as each other.

Oh and yes, I absolutely can and will deny that acupuncture works. It doesn’t. It’s all placebo, which is very powerful.

Oh that rabbit hole is gonna get a whole lot wilder for you: they produced man portable atomic mortars! Search up Davy Crockett mortars

South Africa made atomic cannons like this one too back under apartheid