Here's something I meant to share with @Homer Potvin a while ago, but it fits here. 4l (1.06US gallons) of TopValu (store brand at a usual-level supermarket chain) "Whisky" for $22.03 USD (plus 10% sales tax, so $24.23). 37% alcohol, so 74 proof. Hard liquor is cheaper here than in the states, but that's about the same as a fifth of Maker's Mark. It probably wouldn't make Diet Coke taste worse, but why risk it?
I think just whisky, possibly vodka. There are some other bottom shelf branded lines that do brandy, but I think rum and gin are all halfway legit, or at least not sold by the bucket.
Australian films. I’ve never been able to put my finger on why, but Australian films stick out like a sore thumb. I can spot one with the volume muted. It could even be an indoor scene and I’d still know it was Australian the second I laid my eyes on it. I suppose it could be down to the fact they’re about 40 years behind every other country. Oh, and they’re always beyond terrible.
I don't have strong opinions about Australian films, but I've found that I can usually tell if a film is non-English language before anyone speaks just from the film quality. (Japan often assigns English-ish titles to non-English films because the locals are more likely to understand English than French or Ukrainian or whatever, so for example Money Heist is known by that name in Japan rather than the original La casa de papel.) Pisses me off to no end when I get it wrong because Mrs. A and I rely on subtitles one way or the other, neither of us is a strong enough listener in the other's language to be able to enjoy a movie without help.
I've not clicked on it but that attachment may now be available in @Friedrich Kugelschreiber 's post.
I’ve just deleted the link anyway. But yeah it should be deleted from the server key point being that we don’t share the personal details of third parties in that way
When an employer says to an employee, “We’re going to have to let you go.” What’s that supposed to mean, ‘Let me go’ ? Wouldn’t that phrase only be appropriate if the employee had asked if he could leave in the first place? It makes it sound like the employer is giving the employee permission to leave, rather than the truth, which is that they’re being told to leave, either because they’re being sacked or made redundant.
"Let go" as in "release", not as in "allow you to leave". I let go of the dog and it bit the postman.
Why does everyone have such a hard on for IPAs? 95% of the liquor store is pale ales and it's whack. Even in the winter, dark beers seem rare. WTF happened?
My husband would agree with you. I'm not a drinker, but he likes for me to buy beer for him since I tend to buy weird stuff because I like the name. His only stipulations are no IPA and nothing too fruity.
For a book/movie that's supposed to be such a paragon of hard sci fi, it's always bothered me that the inciting incident for the entire story in The Martian isn't really possible. The atmosphere on Mars is so thin the wind can't blow much more than grains of dust, much less a rocket ship.
Andy Weir wrote about dreading the moment when Neil Degrasse Tyson read the book and made that exact observation.
When you wake up early (04:40 early) for whatever reason, and know you won’t be able to get back to sleep, so get up and start the day, knowing full well you’ll start flagging around noon and probably nod off in front of the TV and fuck up your whole sleeping pattern a day before returning to work.
My sleeping patterns have been erratic my entire life. The silver lining is when I go over seas, I barely notice the jet lag.
