It’s a stretch, I agree, but it’s about all I can think of.

I am petite, and safety aside, that posture looks EXTREMELY uncomfortable for sleeping. Now, I have been known to sit sort of on my hip and pull my knees up a bit into the seat, especially if I’m lucky enough to get a window seat, so I’m basically curled up against the fuselage. I can still have the seatbelt on…

Well, in theory, a French bulldog could be trained as a medical alert dog or to retrieve items for a patient who has limited mobility. (A similar job as a service monkey.) They’d need a suitable temperament, of course, and that’s often the clincher for small dogs.

The only conceivable argument I can think of is if the flight delay caused her to miss a critical chemo appointment, but even that seems like a stretch, given that cancer has an unpredictable course and treatment itself only offers odds, not guarantees.

Can we blame it on hiring a South African immigrant as CEO? ;-)

Well..... Soyuz has had some fairly serious problems, actually. And not just in the distant past, when it experienced two separate Loss of Crew incidents. During the ISS program, they’ve had a launch abort and multiple ballistic reentries, including at least one that injured a crew member on landing. Soyuz is a…

You can get shaved ice here in Minnesota too, but you definitely have to pay attention to the signage if you want shaved ice and not crushed ice, because yeah, if it just says snowcone, it’s gonna be crushed ice.

There’s an XKCD for that:

Reminds me of when my aunt got back from a vacation. She’d left her car in the airport parking long-term parking lot. When she returned two weeks later, it was in the impound lot because they’d resurfaced the lot. They gave people two days’ notice to clear out their cars. From the long-term parking lot at the airport.…

That absolutely happens, where some rando recognizes some easy marks, pretends they are in charge, and starts accepting payment for a lot they have absolutely no responsibility for, then makes themselves scarce before anyone figures out it’s a scam (and certainly before the tow trucks start showing up).

I get what the advisory was intended for. It wasn’t saving Santorini for the tourists. It was saving Santorini residents *from* the tourists. Like warning people to stay indoors because there’s a hailstorm predicted.

He’s mainly terminally online in the social media sense -- and doesn’t even have the staying power to do anything more than reposting other people’s stuff or making extremely brief replies with minimal content.

50 yard line?  I think he started inches from the end zone.

Not a fan of either, and honestly, no matter which one of them technically wins the fight, isn’t the real winner the audience? :-)

Oh god, tell me about it. My back’s been bad ever since I slipped on the ice years ago and sprained it (it was a gorgeous winter night, and I went out to toss something else in the trash bin, and was looking up at the stars and didn’t notice the patch of ice until suddenly I was on my back — stupid, really). Two days…

Oh yeah. This was years ago now, before the pandemic.  My daughter got a little whiplash that resolved after a couple of days of muscle relaxants.  Meanwhile, my back had been all sorts of messed up, and it actually felt *better* afterwards.  :-D  (Note: I do not recommend getting rear-ended as a sort of amateur…

And it’s time to bring out the story about my grandma. :-)

“That would be something like someone just rear-ending you when you are at a stop light.”

Most CEOs do this, but way more subtly, and it takes a few decades before the house of cards ultimately collapses. By which time they’ve squirreled away plenty of loot for themselves and they make off like bandits with their golden parachutes. He’s crude and obvious and super ego-driven, so he keeps his companies…

Not exactly the same thing, but there’s a vacant Sears in Burnsville, right by the I-35E/I-35W split. It looked very tragic until about the last year. The parking lot is constantly SLAMMED. Or so it seems, until you realize that oddly, the cars are only near the boarded-up entrances, not by the parts of Burnsville…