Since it’s French it’d be  “clah-foo-tee” - it’s one of those French words Americans will likely say well.   (Now if we could just fix “foyer” I could die happy.)

Meh, he calls it “energy”,  I call it last night’s bean burrito.

Wow. That was so delicious reading it ADDED 6mo to my life.

Curie was the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes (in two different fields as well.)  You could do worse than that cake, let me tell you.

I don’t much care if they judge - Mom used to say “You can only take criticism from people you respect.” 

“MAGAts”

Am I a bad person that I wanna slap that little fucker’s smug mouth into the next county?

You have a point and, truth be told, Times New Roman?  Really?  Nothing says “letter from Grandpa” quite like it.

So ... it’s like an online store ... in real life.  

“Most of the pain and illness attributed to third molars is caused by the surgery, not the teeth” <- quoting the quote

Oh sweet tap-dancing Jesus let it go. I once ordered gnocchi and said it in Italian and the waitress laughed and said “No, honey, it’s said guh-notch-ee.” I let it go because it was a meal in a restaurant not a language lesson and it arrived on the table hot and tasting good.

I’m terrible at doing math in my head (worse when the poor server is waiting for me to use the chip& pin charge machine.) The local tax is 15% so I usually glance at the receipt. If it’s, say, $4.74 I’ll tip from $6-$8 - more if it was a group of us and we all wanted a mix of sep and merged bills (because that must be…

I was a mid-level IT analyst at a financial institution at the time. My mother passed away unexpectedly - she passed on a Thursday evening and I was away that Friday and the following Monday & Tuesday. Her funeral was Tuesday and I pulled it together and went back to work on Wednesday.

Years ago we’d saved and took the classic London and Paris vacation for our 15th anniv. During the London leg, I saw and used their standalone, self-cleaning public “loo” It was coin-operated (it was 50p because I remember joking about a “50p pee”) and was a small self-contained room with a toilet and a sink to wash…

I had a friend who was flying here (into Canada) on a one-way ticket (he knew generally when he wanted to go back to Germany but hadn’t decided before he left.) He got an extended chat with customs - not from a “OMG he’s a terrorist!!!” view but more from a “single, early 30's free-lance programmer who speaks perfect…

A suggestion: women who would find those comfortable may also what to try “trunk briefs” - the size and basic structure’s identical to boxer briefs but the leg is never more than 1-2in long.

This is so clever. I have a small apartment so that oven is “emergency only” until Sept.  A crockpot sitting on the counter cooking away wouldn’t overheat the kitchen at all.  If it’s too hot out for a hot meal, let it cool and have meatloaf sandwiches on toasted garlic bread with a nice salad on the side.  YUM!

Shengen Treaty signers have a very confusing 3+3 months rule. If I understand the wording (that gave me a headache): the passport has to last 3 months beyond the day you’re leaving to return home.

“Packaging and Containers”

The self-checkouts here in Canada have a console for the, usually, one staff person who looks after the self-checkouts. The console shows, essentially, the list of items being scanned in - so the staff person could see “Carrots” on the console but watch the guy drop avocados in the bag. I suppose you could wait until…