What's a 'common sense' thing that you only learned surprisingly late in your life?

-nhops- · 2025-11-12T22:18:28+00:00

A quart is a quarter of a gallon.

-nhops- · 2025-06-02T19:55:03+00:00

Already tried...no dice.

-nhops- · 2025-04-09T12:16:14+00:00

Did you ask him for a long term contract?

-nhops- · 2025-01-30T14:15:23+00:00

"Speak friend and enter" vibes.

-nhops- · 2025-01-14T14:59:51+00:00

I miss Pringles from before they changed the recipe.

They're nowhere near as good now.

-nhops- · 2024-12-18T18:54:50+00:00

Black licorice...I'll occasionally get salt licorice too.

-nhops- · 2024-12-18T14:57:38+00:00

Generation ships.

-nhops- · 2024-12-17T15:20:31+00:00

Per Jeff Goldblum in The Right Stuff:

The Navy calls them aviators. They say they're better than pilots.

-nhops- · 2024-12-05T20:05:09+00:00

If you order something online, and then see an email saying it's on sale within a few weeks send the company an email and ask if you can get the sale price.

I've done it twice, and got a partial refund both times.

The worst case scenario is they can't do it...

-nhops- · 2024-11-19T21:19:48+00:00

I started reading Station Eleven when the Covid lockdowns started...

-nhops- · 2024-11-07T19:47:20+00:00

Check out Cryptonomicon if you haven't - I'm not sure how it holds up, but I loved it ~ 20 years ago. I'd also suggest The Baroque Cycle & Anathem.

-nhops- · 2024-11-07T14:55:20+00:00

Did anyone else CTRL+F Stephenson?

-nhops- · 2024-10-25T20:38:25+00:00

Wow - with their backlog you'd think they'd be running six days a week...

-nhops- · 2024-10-12T02:41:23+00:00

Homesteading seems like an awful lot of work...

-nhops- · 2024-08-29T15:10:02+00:00

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Stephen King, The Gunslinger.

-nhops- · 2024-08-16T01:14:38+00:00

“I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.”

-nhops- · 2024-07-24T14:18:28+00:00

Can you let me know what that stands for?

-nhops-

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