Lol, I didn't know about that one, or Henry IV of Castile, the Impotent, from the cracked article. I knew about the "bewitched one". Genetics is a bitch, with this pedegree, he was lucky he wasn't "the three-headed". Also there was one who had a son who died at birth and who was a freak, black skinned, deformed etc,…

You'd really have to go out of your way to schedule your massacre in a day that's not a saint's day. And it'll probably be a saint's day in some country anyway

Many days are more than ONE saint's day. Today it's Pío X, Ciriaca, Anastasio, Fidel, Bernardo and Tolomeo. Remember to greet El Comandante or whatever he calls himself these days. Also to greet your dog if it's big and likes to rescue people in the snow, and to mock people with astronomical views that were made…

I think the Hollow Earth theory says that Earth is hollow, but not that we live inside. Of course there surely are hundreds of theories, but this one takes the prize for stupidity, since it cannot explain something really obvious like days and nights (and another list of things, too long to even start to enumerate)

gravity would round it off. The same way the article says you would be pulled in diagonal instead of downwards, the floor would be pulled the same way, eventually making it round

Avoiding those disruptions you say would be a non-suspicious reason, but I can easily think of others as you do

I don't seem to be able to approve without responding, so, there. Interesting link.

Let's just say I'm brainy

"otra cerveza" is better than "más cerveza". But you'd do well to learn more sentences and have a phrasebook handy, because, despite @Steve Hall's experience, most Spaniards don't speak English at all, specially if you're with people over 30. Also, pronunciation is really systematic, every vowel is always pronounced…

That's lucky for you, but you understand it doesn't apply to 99% of people, right? And to no people who's fresh out of school at all

And don't get me started with their oversized turtle friends, they're the worst of all

I lack the will to run if I'm going to miss the bus. If I'm going to be one minute late, I say "fuck it" and wait for the next one instead.

Yeah, but the point is that if you do care, it's too late when you find out.

there's an Alberti poem that deals with shit pies. I'd paste it, but it's not very good. More of a long joke than a poem

Scott Adams also said that people are promoted for being competent until they reach a position where they're incompetent, then stay at that position by not being promoted again because they're incompetent.

That's if your country doesn't have over 20% unemployment. Here it's more like "hey, we fired 30% of the staff, but we expect the same turnout or more. Of course we're not paying for overtime. If even after regularly working 11 hours instead of the 8 on your contract you have to pull a couple all-nighters in a week…

Ok, not the same name or face, but the rest is the same, including the necklace

You can't cure someone if you don't know he's sick. Plus treatment is much more effective when caught early, which is why so much money is invested in detection. It's just much easier to add years of "being ok" to a patient if the earlier he's diagnosed. About curing, I'll leave that to the doctors, but it doesn't…

What, I'm not a doctor, but I'm working on early onset detection... with (computer) Science!

believe me, the medical establishment is cracking on Alzheimer's, but prevention is usually cheaper than cure, specially if it doesn't involve drugs