So glad to have others report this happening to them.

Wow Air has great deals, but you really need to read the fine print and travel light. They will do everything they can to squeeze extra money out of you. I had a good and comfortable flight from Gatwick to Montreal via Iceland, but Wow Air (unsuccessfully) pulled the poorly calibrated luggage scale scam on me in an…

Your second point is exactly what I mean about bad burgers. Cheap ones aren’t even made with beef. At least, cheap hot dogs are made with real animal innards. :)

Well, that’s dinner sorted. Thanks!

Poutine is divine, but Quebec-style fries are good with just salt or with salt and vinegar or with salt and ketchup. The potatoes are cooked twice, first blanched in oil, then browned in a slightly hotter oil. They are very soft and dark and sweet and delicious. They are the base for a real poutine (unattainable…

The only way potatoes are edible is if made into Quebec-style French fries. Otherwise, I have no use for them. I have no real opinion on sauerkraut. I have a neighbourhood who makes a chocolate cake that uses it and it is super delicious (and doesn’t takes like sauerkraut at all).

I always decline any service when I stay at a hotel because I’m usually locked in my room working and don’t want to be disturbed. I’m also very neat and take out my own trash. So my rule of thumb is to leave about $1 per night, which fits with the category of establishment I normally stay at. Like you, if stay…

Wouldn’t know, so I’ll take your word for it. I’m allergic to mayo and don’t like potatoes...

To be honest, I haven’t experienced any weather here that was as bad as expected. It’s been about 30-35 plus humidity since I got here in early May. I spent last summer in Bulgaria where for three months, it was solidly 35-45 plus humidity. It’s wet and a bit cooler here as well, but the mosquitoes!!!

I think hot dogs are better because even a really bad hot dog is tastier than a really bad hamburger. That said, I’m in the (good!) burger camp.

I live in Yucatán, Mexico, where it’s not just super hot, but it’s very humid and the sun can be relentless. On a day when I’m really active, water isn’t enough and I will have one or two rehydrating drinks. I always know that I need them when they don’t taste disgusting. Electrolit is the common brand here and it is…

I was wrong! I transcribe so much I thought the last time I encountered this problem was with an Indian speaker, but it was actually a Korean speaker.

This really became really evident to me in the Balkans, where the X in Bulgaria and Serbian (rather pronounced like the ch in the Scottish loch) gave me a lot of trouble! I had no trouble learning the phrase, “I would like [], please,” but no one could understand me when what I wanted was bread (xlyab/xleb)!

“don’t employ the “ih” as in kit sound at all, so if that’s unfamiliar to them”

I use potato chips on tuna casserole because that’s how my stepmom used to do it.

Variation on Doritos: Tostitos salsa verde.

I’m going to pretend you’re not a troll and actually answer this intelligently: Let’s say my transaction takes 10 minutes and his takes 5 minute, that’s 15 minutes the other people have to wait. What does it matter the order those transactions take place? All that happened is *I* chose to wait an extra 5 minutes.

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All of this. I have my own business and I can still manage to get away from work regularly. I set my boundaries and then I keep them. My last two proper vacations were a couple of years ago when I went camping with friends for a week. I didn’t even bother checking if I could get a signal. I just let everyone who…

I was surprised by how alien Dutch sounded to me, for the most part. I’m trilingual and have dabbled in a lot of languages so that usually helps me when I encounter a new one. For example, once I learned how to read Cyrillic, Bulgarian wasn’t as tough as expected because so many words sound like French (my mother…