When I visited one part of China I was looking for a big bottle of water to keep in my hotel room and went to the local store. I found a big 5L plastic bottle but when I looked at the label I realised it was Baijiu, not water. Something like 57% ABV, and it cost the equivalent of a few US dollars.

Don’t those things literally have a bus variant though?

Not even a parent, just have friends who are and empathise with their situation.

Holy misinterpretation batman! Its fine to not want to meet. OP seems to think its rude that someone with a baby can’t just dump them somewhere so they can meet up for adults only coffee. Its the indignation that makes them the asshole.

YTA. People with young kids tend to socialise way less because they dont sleep and its a lot of work. When they do socialise the kids tend to be around because organising childcare is difficult to organise, can be expensive, potentially stressful for the kids. Very frequently the options are take your kids with you to socialise, or dont socialise at all. Its why new parents suddenly start socialising a lot with other parents.

And it might not be as bad as you think, depending on the kids. They may be happy entertaining themselves and sleeping, and you can have a relatively normal time until they wake up and get restless at which point the mum might decide its time for them to leave. Or they could be crying and screaming the whole time.

Thats pretty much how it happens in the film too.

Because the restaurant pizza in Norway costs like 30 usd.

My wife doesnt like how much noise it makes and says its messy and violent and dangerous to open anything with a gun. We are eating a lot more soup now though.

I don’t know what to do.

Don’t worry, you might have to fight in a great war soon. Im sure its all uphill from there.

Tolkien was actually around before (post)wartime rationing decimated British food standards.

It does though because it floods the medium with content from people just looking to make money. And it happens everywhere. When ebay started it was an online garage sale, now it’s mostly businesses. Etsy used to be a place where creative types sold their crafts, now its flooded with dropshipped tat from Ali Baba. YouTube used to be random people uploading stuff for fun and expression, now it’s mostly about sponsorship money. Twitter used to be a novel way for people to briefly express their thoughts, now its a fascist propaganda machine.

By the way, which disto do you use?

You have to save the city! But no rush, just show up whenever you feel like it, it’ll all be there waiting for you.

That might have been true twenty years ago when the racist political parties were fringe groups with a few % of the vote share in most countries. Now that they’re frequently getting 20 or 30 something % if not winning elections outright I don’t think many people still hold the illusion that there aren’t a lot of racists in Europe.

Yes they are, and the USA just re-elected someone who tried to institute a Muslim ban.

Buffy and Angel are still pretty great.

There’s no way you’re driving 500,000km in an ICE without replacing stuff like spark plugs, clutch, alternator, filters, sensors.

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

It actually started decades ago with daytime soaps which were designed to still make sense to someone who was busy with housework. Now it just applies to way more shows.