It's not about never. It's about the waiter not coming back for another ten minutes. Yes this happens. Not with a good waiter, but they aren't all good.

I hear you. Even my children complain about other people's children when we go out to eat. :)

Not Always Right is the mother lode for these kinds of stories.

Love this line:

The difference being that this hypothetical person is my friend, and as such I might expect him to give me a nice gift. That's what friends do.

Litfiba are great. One of the few Italian bands I still like from when I was a kid.

Sims can be very accurate. Yes, there are discrepancies, but the human mind is very good at filling in the blanks.

Simulators can be surprisingly real, and the human mind is good at filling in the rest. I've been in a couple of full motion flight simulators. If I hadn't known it was a sim, I doubt I could have distinguished it from the real thing.

A millisecond is one thousandth of a second.

No, I'm sorry bro, because you are incorrect.

I know that a millisecond is a thousandth of a second. I never mentioned a millisecond. I mentioned microseconds and centiseconds.

I'd have been very impressed with his stopwatch and superhuman reflexes frankly. :)

Indeed. It should be centiseconds.

It's not microseconds, it's centiseconds. A microsecond is a millionth of a second, while a centisecond is a hundredth of a second.

I agree, professor. It is what you are used to.

Not in a typical US sized plug. :)

The US Navy, along with various tidbits from the Australian Navy, the Indian Navy, and the Singaporean Navy, is searching this southern zone.

Your outlets are weird! :)

After a few years in HK I've come to think UK-style outlets are the best. They're large but they never fall out accidentally, they have a built-in fuse in the plug, and they're childproof even without a socket cover.

The system was rather complex and required extraordinary engineering prowess.