Hardly, because beer isn’t a prerequisite for clean, safe water. People have known how to clean water for a long, long time. Beer back in the day, at least during the middle ages, wasn’t very alcoholic either. And gross, really, really gross, I suppose mostly drunk by people who didn’t have access to wine or cider.…

Brewing beer involved, as I understand it, heating the wort to above-pasteurization temperatures. I believe hopped beers, which were uncommon, hade anti-microbial effects as well (for microbes except those involved in the fermentation).

But the notion that alcohol was consumed as a safe way to drink water is false.…

Also, the table is easy to remember as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 + 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and how it mirrors itself. 18 -> 81, 27 -> 72, 36 -> 63 etc.


Neat table.

Not quite:

I’ve read all the discworld books, except Tiffany Aching and the auxiliary books. I’ve read some of the TA books, I think up to and including the winter one. I like some aspects but they often feel a bit too juvenile - which isn’t odd, as that’s their intention. But it felt like more of a chore to get through them,…

Hollow bones. Like birds.

Captain Jack does not folloe style advice, he makes them

“Galen” could just be Mads Mikkelsen crying for help as he feels himself slipping into insanity.

That’s a reaaaaally funny* joke for all you scandinavians out here.


* not funny

That’s actually great advice.

Lettuce is like... water and crunchy bits? Is it possible to be allergic to it at all?

“If you want to be polite to the customer”
In all likelihood, they did not want that.

“I don’t have fifteen minutes”
Well, then, the door is behind you. Go.

“The customer is always right! the customer is always right”
No, go toss yourself off a cliff and into a fire you entitled piece of stupid.

Whoever invented that…

I’ve done this as well - it happens. Easiest way to putt it out is to put the pan over the flame and suffocate it. Or take a lid or something and suffocate, but the pan is faster and prevents the flames from taking in the fan above the stove.

I anticipate that come opening day, a huge crowd will amass outside the gates who, against better judgement, already bought their tickets. The gates will begin to open, only for the staff to realize that the hinges are broken.

Some people will get in, most will remain outside until they fix the doors a week later.…

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about being represented by Nami.

I smell a GM tool. Yes.

Whitener is mostly your friendly neighbourhood glucose syrup, some milk protein, and some other stuff I can’t remember. What the hippies call “additives” and “chemicals”.

Is it tilted towards the user? That’s superbad.

So many of these are baffling to me. A lot of these encounters could have been handled really well. I get that the clerks may be concerned that customers buy a shitty game, but, y’know, talk to them, discuss the game in a friendly and supportive manner, as you would with anyone, instead of scoffing.

If someone enters…

I really don’t think that OP had any issue with the clerk, but with an annoying business practice.

And a friction-reducing nano-eyepatch