Where I live if you fall and injure yourself on an established hiking/climbing route, in season, you will be rescued for free (regular ambulance rides are free anyway).

If you climb or hike off track, out of season you might be charged for a helicopter ride or mountain rescue. As you can imagine it’s not cheap.

We have our Aircon cleaned around March or April because when everyone turns them on and realises how badly they smell in July all the cleaning services are busy.

YMMV But another fun AirCon fact*.

A few years ago we switched from running the air con hard at 20°C or so when we got home, having it turn off automatically late at night, running it hard in the morning and turning it off when we went out…

To…

setting it at a supposedly “high” setting of 27°C and leaving it on 24/7 (July to September)

The running cost was the same and it was very comfortable coming home to an already cool dry environment. We never felt the need to lower the temperature either. It was lovely.

*“fact”. I’m sure the condition of your home insulation, outside temperature and conditions, draftiness of windows and doors etc all play a role.

McDonalds is especially egregious recently. Time was you could get a set for ¥500 (about 5 dollars) Then suddenly all the menu items went up to ¥700 - ¥800. That starts to get very very close to the alternatives which are much better. The only competitive edge they had was price really.

Yes. Maybe “confirmed” was the wrong word.

I just checked the BBC news website. The sub wreckage has been found. They are confirmed deceased.

Looks like purple broccoli.

Done right it’s lovely.

This is not done right.

Ah Rolf Harris. Haven’t seen him on TV for years. I wonder why.

A short time later.

Oh.

Yours wouldn’t. The low profile, low weight ones do.

And once people try it they usually like it!

In the forward direction I do sometimes get a false positive, but only enough to sound the (not very intrusive) alarm. The only time it’s actually stopped is when I was pulling out of a parking lot and the brakes applied. I never saw what it was in front of the car but another car honked, and a few people gasped so there was something. (2021 Toyota Sienta. Standard, boring family car)

Also I’ve actually been spared being hit as a pedestrian by auto stop on a Honda Freed.

My car’s reverse stop has saved me from a couple of dents.

My car stops if it senses it’s going to hit something in reverse (forward too of course but that’s not relevant for this thread)

In Japan the gesture for “come here” looks like the gesture for “go away” everywhere else.

Today I learned that Reader’s Digest is still an ongoing entity.

I love these wonderfully petty reactions to the Reddit issues.

Are there any other good examples out there for me to enjoy (I have already seen r/pics.)

I bought a leather belt in Prague as a nice souvenir. Stil wearing it almost daily over 20 years later. I replaced the stitching but the leather is still rock solid.

I am enjoying being able to observe this story from the beginning, before the media started writing about it. It’s been an interesting few weeks.

If you want to post about your poor performance in a 3 year old Switch game you are welcome to joing my community crappyanimalcrossing.

I love this kind of justified pettiness. I am pretty petty myself, and its something that I guess is a supposed bad quality, but it can be so much fun.