Interesting concept: what about teaching kids about alcohol ? before/after reasoning & reflex tests, trying to guess which drink is stronger, the calorie content, visiting a drunk tank and touring a week-end pub crawl...

I’m probably being a dick, but “in 5 years” dude is doing something I was doing a lot when I was his age (ie, not very attuned with nor frank about my feelings): rationalizing.

For friends and family (but not strangers), what I’ve done a few times when lending money (which selling a car by installments essentially is) is request all the checks in advance, and set the schedule on which I will cash them.

because dual speaker when they’re 10cm apart don’t make much of a difference ?

The main reason to wait is not yet another unjustifiably overpriced flagship, but phone with native Android 8.1 Oreo. Those have been awfully slow to come out, and are the only one that make future OS updates much easier (phone released with not-Oreo and later updated to Oreo don’t offer that).

The one that made me switch to Firefox: on Android, Firefox accepts add-ons while Chrome doesn’t. Ad-blocking, night mode... are especially important on Mobile.

You’re lucky: I had a bump on my penis once, had to have that radioed. Nobody died of fright nor laughter, so my locker rooms observations have been corroborated: everyone has one and they all are broadly the same, and doctors (mine was a female) are professionals.

Are there cases of dogs not knowing it’s too cold for them ? Assuming the dog has the option to request getting back inside (ie isn’t =locked out + trained to stay out, or terminally trained to shut up), I’d trust the dog. I still remember my dog’s pouty face when he had to go in rainy weather.

Hot chocolate from a mix isn’t hot chocolate, like cake from a mix isn’t really a cake.

That happened to me once much closer to home. My sister who is a cheapstake gifted me an influence and extremely cheap man-purse. I threw it away not so much because of the object itself, but because of what it said about my sister and her relationship to me. I now send her a list of cheap stuff I’ll actually like.

We add the extra step of threading ... a thread... in each orangette, dunking it in melted dark “chocolat de couverture” (Dark, bitter, non-greasy chocolate designed to cover up and cling to stuff, then firm up when cooling, we use the Valrhona one).

I’m French and fluent in Spanish... On the one hand lots of vocabulary is similar and grammatical concepts are usually equivalent; on the other hand there are deep differences too: Spanish is pronounced as it is written while French isn’t, nouns’ genders are switched around, conjugations are different, pronunciation…

A few tidbits: my junior-high German teacher told us that a language is learned not even from mouth to ear, but from mouth to mouth... right before our graduating 2-week trip to Germany... message received ! It worked wonders for my Spanish too.

“We’ve all had an experience where we have put a bite of food in our mouths and known immediately it needs to come right back out,”

The great thing about cocoa is that it goes weel with a lot of things, so I like to mix it up. The basis is cocoa, whole milk, bit of sugar, pinch of salt. Then comes the fun: make it thicker with corn starch or wheat flour; give it a quick with a dasj of coffee or pepper; make it exotic with banana, coco cream (coco,…

My family is more into sweets:

I twice almost got mowed down by a motorcycle, while crossing the street on a pedestrian crossing.

Whaaaaat ? Any human being !

Firefox on Android accepts all the same addons as on the Desktop, which I think is even better, even if just for ad/track blocking.

Cold shower to cut the sweat off.