I always liked the song. Never watched the show.

All movies are fake, and all superhero movies look fake, but they’re a delightful spectacle on a big screen with a proper sound system.

I always had a lot of trouble watching these movies because the stop-motion effects looked so janky and fake to me. This noticeably improves the viewing experience for me.

I saw an infographic ranking apples by sweetness, and the only two apples I actually like were #1 and #3 on the sour end of the spectrum, with the #2 sourest apple being something I’ve never tried.

Out of every 100 un-vaccinated people who get COVID, very roughly*, 5 of them will be hospitalized (and 2 of those will die).

How is Prince not the Prince of pop?

In our large travel suitcase, we keep a proper corkscrew (for wine) and plastic knives (for cheese). Because you can’t simply give up and start gnawing on your wine bottle.

Yup. I had a very kind airport security person let me mail my jackknife home to myself before boarding a plane once, but that was pre-9/11. There are no guarantees.

Sex should only happen with informed consent, so there is a moral imperative to make sure the cheated-on partner is aware that their relationship is open.

I assume in Australia, you only have to memorize the four non-poisonous snakes.

Depression-eating is also a thing. If you’re clinically depressed, staying well-nourished helps you feel better, but is also a somedays-impossible investment of energy.

When I was in Thailand, the hotel’s breakfast buffet was always the leftovers from the night before in warming pans, plus lots of fruit in bowls over ice.

Counterpoint: Ketchup is the only reason to eat French fries, ever.

I think it’s in the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, where he has a character notice that his Catholic friends are better at accepting the situation and moving on, after the character abruptly ends a relationship with someone they liked, than his non-religious friends are.

Hey, folks, something I read today is that if a drug is fully approved, then you can ask a doctor to prescribe it for “off-label” use.

Press and jiggle. Press the TP to the location, then jiggle to allow sticky stuff to transfer. Repeat with a fresh section of TP until your location is clean. No chafing involved.

Eggplant: One of those things I’ve never liked.

Putting a paper mask underneath your fabric mask would probably be allowed, if you can show them the mask underneath fits their requirements.

1) Cook a pork roast. Make sure it’s big enough there will be leftovers.

We have one of those decorative foil maps of the earth. I assume it’s a reproduction of a map created not long after the Americas were discovered by Europeans, because it’s very inaccurate, and it has these little pictures of life/people from different parts of the world that are also very inaccurate.