Actually, the main reason to wear boat shoes on deck is that their treads were designed not to mark up the lovely aged teak (or even the non-slip painted sand surface of a fiberglass deck). Yes, those razor-cut-like grooves in the soles gave better traction on slick surfaces than many tread designs. But light-colored,…

“Your bill is low because the rates are low in your area.”

Where do you live, Jonathan? Just because a one-size-fits-all dollar ceiling for food stamp eligibility works for you (not that you likely have ever had to rely on food stamps) does not mean it works everywhere in the USA.

Between credit card and day pass people, lounges are getting very full during busy times of day — i.e. when most of us need them the most. Those with day passes in particular will get turned away. Don’t accept lounge day passes as compensation for being bumped etc. unless you really know you can use them before they…

What’s wrong with just explaining what “transitive” and “intransitive” verbs are? Anyone learning another language will find it useful to understand what these terms mean, even if they never see them used to explain English grammar.

Neutral Correction: I believe Florida man and Tesla man are only 120 degrees out of phase with each other.

Right, except there’s probably no basement since most houses in FL are built on concrete slabs.

As a longtime Galaxy S user, I have a hunch some of the resistance to recent Android OS updates is due to Samsung’s insistence that we utilize the annoying, useless, and clumsy Bixby tool on our phones. When Pie was rolled out, it overrode the ability we had to completely disable Bixby, turning the button, located…

Is not that scary hole an X-Ray machine?  Sure looks like it.  No mention in the story but all checked bags are X-rayed just as carryons are.

This post begs for a link to one of Assateague Island National Seashore’s horses’ response to a speedo-clad tourist who thought it was a good idea to pet any horse (feral or domestic) on the rump without making proper introductions first:

Bonk!

This contraption looks a lot like the vacuum cleaner bags that go with my Kirby. Minus the vacuum, of course, which could have been quite helpful in the absence of gravity.  The part where you put your fingers to “assist” is known as the finger cot.

All my adult life I’ve had the bad luck of living in places (Atlantic provinces, several New England states, Alaska) where beer cannot be sold in supermarkets. Not sure how to vote!

Security’s true motive was obviously to sabotage the impending marriage. Because you know what comes next . . . can’t have these people reproducing and sullying our pure White paradise!

In neighboring Connecticut they complain about stuff leaking down from the ceiling in the ground floor restaurant: https://thetakeout.com/decomposing-body-closes-restaurant-connecticut-1835414080

I hate global climate change as much as the next retired federal scientist, but I really wish articles like this didn’t conflate “Alaska” with “the arctic.” Most of my state is south of the Arctic Circle (66.33 N). The Swan Lake Fire that leads off this story is not even close to being in the arctic. It is 30 miles…

It is simply not credible for any entity to assert that all data it collects is immediately and completely deleted. It’s also impossible to verify this assertion.

If you think people are getting more disgusting, you should see what hygiene was like for our ancestors. Yet somehow we survived!

1) Brushing my teeth after 12 hours and several meals is not optional.

You’ve obviously never lived in a place that is very cold (I live in Alaska) and traveled to one that is hot and humid (my DH was domiciled in Hong Kong for a while; plus I grew up in Australia and visited US-based grandparents in the northern hemisphere winter). I’m not wearing shorts or a sundress to ANC from…