Limey – A British Person – Lament – express regret or disappointment over something considered unsatisfactory, unreasonable, or unfair
I recently traveled to to Princeton, NJ for a friend’s wedding. This is news in itself considering I haven’t been to a wedding ceremony since the marriage of 2 lesbian friends in Fallbrook some 20 years ago. I normally skip it and go straight to the reception. This time was different as this was one…
A leaf blower is basically a reverse vacuum cleaner. It blows instead of sucks. It doesn’t pick up leaves, so they can be transported somewhere to be created into mulch, it has no goal other than to blow leaves from one place to another. It moves leaves but it doesn’t remove them. We must conclude…
The United States relies heavily on Fahrenheit—a measurement system that almost no other country in the world uses. Baffling right? Surely it is easier to understand that water becomes ice at zero and not thirty two and that water boils at 100 and not 212. Let’s take this example: In metric, 1 millimeter of water occupies…
A lot of people drown in pools, but it’s not because they ate an hour ago, it’s because swimming is hard and we can’t breathe under water. Yes it’s possible to get cramps from any kind of physical activity but if you have enjoyed a lovely meal before swimming it may, in fact, provide you with the energy you…
I started drinking at an early age…….I’m talking about coffee here by the way…….and I have to confess all we had at our house was Nescafe, that weird mud colored dust that we spooned into some boiling water. Tasted like shit and you had to add tons of milk and sugar to make it taste…
The following is allegedly an actual question given in a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam. Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Answer: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into…
My Credit Card gives 10 bonus points per transaction, so that’s effectively 10 cents per transaction. So I am thinking if I make a couple of thousand 1 cent transactions I should be able to make 9 cents profit for each one. If I could get someone to write a script to automate this I…
People often ask me “Do you have a 4th of July in England?” to which I respond “Yes, we use the same internationally accepted and used calendar”
“The average hip replacement in the USA costs $40,364. In Spain, it costs $7,371. That means I can literally fly to Spain, live in Madrid for 2 years, learn Spanish, run with the bulls, get trampled, get my hip replaced again and fly home for less than the cost of a hip replacement in the US.” This…