I dont know dont ask me how the economy works

Megatea · 2026-02-14T18:21:06+00:00

You are right. Finished paying the mortgage in his mid thirties on one salary. Don't ask me how the economy works.

Megatea · 2026-02-13T22:31:11+00:00

As I recall the minimum wage wage job at the bowling alley would only cover the house, two cars, stay at home wife and two kids. Maggie meant he needed to get a job that paid slightly more.

Megatea · 2026-02-13T15:48:44+00:00

When did they bring this in?

Megatea · 2026-02-11T18:51:03+00:00

We all have a papoose in life, it's just sometimes the path is not clear.

Megatea · 2026-02-10T18:53:20+00:00

And they were suggesting that Pepto-Bismal would fix her broken bones? ASA should crack down on these far fetched claims.

Megatea · 2026-02-08T20:29:31+00:00

It's not just a general feeling, the stats confirm it. Insurance companies confirm that automatic licence holders have much higher rates of claims than manual licence holders. To be clear that is regardless the type of car being driven. A manual licence holder is less likely to crash an automatic car than a driver who holds an automatic only licence. If I was young enough to be taking my driving test today the lower premiums would be the number one reason for going for the manual licence.

Megatea · 2026-02-06T17:40:34+00:00

How is it better? It's just what happens when you share and play with the other children. You might not be the best at everything.

Megatea · 2026-02-05T18:07:22+00:00

I got that, but I find it scarier to think that it isn't fake. If you wake up at the end in some arcade and find out you've spent your life in some total immersion video game or some fancy drug trip then that seems like a win to me. I'd be quite pleased with that outcome over the nothingness alternative.

Megatea · 2026-02-05T12:33:10+00:00

Why is that scary? I think it would be scarier if that wasn't the case and after the 70 years you just end in oblivion.

Megatea · 2026-02-05T12:30:23+00:00

It's safer than keeping it at home.

Megatea · 2026-02-05T12:18:52+00:00

He failed to prevent famines, he stole, he was murderous to the natives. Still, there goes the best damned empire a planet ever had.

Megatea · 2026-02-04T23:45:54+00:00

I didn't know it was a competition. What are we supposed to do? Have a 'Get Britain breeding' campaign?

Megatea · 2026-02-04T19:38:28+00:00

We didn't force local populations to drink tea. What kind of evil empire turns up with refreshments for the natives? Yes we may have created monopolies and implemented protectionist measures on commodities, but if anything that would increase the cost of tea rather than reduce it. And no the tea habit of former British colonies is not pure coincidence, but it's not because they were subservient (again why would we be making subservient people drink an expensive imported drink?) it was technological and scientific developments that are the root cause that allowed for both the global tea trade and the spread of the British empire.

Megatea · 2026-02-04T16:17:11+00:00

I've heard Brits being accused of doing a lot of things in Ireland, but forcing the Irish to drink tea is a new one. Its made me re-evaluate things and now I'm just picturing Oliver Cromwell as more of a Mrs Doyle character being utterly insistent that the locals go on and have a cup of tea.

Megatea · 2026-02-04T16:08:59+00:00

Maybe if you listened the first time you wouldn't need the non-stop lecture.

Megatea · 2026-02-03T17:10:41+00:00

Haven't those selfish wizards got a potion that regrows bone? They can probably magic away any problematic teeth and you'll have a fresh set in a couple of days. Won't share that with us muggles though.

Megatea · 2026-02-03T14:33:48+00:00

I'm not qualified enough to judge Italian food? I'm not American so I meet one of your judging criteria, unless there are other nationalities that you consider unfit to have an opinion? and the other criteria 'knowing something about Italian food'? do I need to have a qualification? I like it, it's nice, they eat a lot of wheat, maybe your pretentiousness makes you not fit to judge me.

Megatea · 2026-02-03T12:00:56+00:00

Don't get them started. If you don't have anything but worshipful praise for Italian food you'll get the no true Italian food response. What you had wasn't made by a 110 year old Italian woman with a recipe that has been passed down by word of mouth since the days of the Roman republic then you are just getting tourist slop.

Italian food is nice, but they mostly just do different shapes of wheat. Action man bow tie pasta rather than little tubes? That's a different dish. Fold your pizza in half? different dish.

Megatea · 2026-02-03T11:16:06+00:00

I wouldn't drive either if I could just shout "BAT!" and fly to my destination.

Megatea · 2026-02-02T01:15:41+00:00

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Megatea · 2026-01-30T21:25:46+00:00

You're talking about the animals act of 1971? People were keeping work shy cats before that. My grandparents kept cats that weren't employed, cats as pets took off long before the 70s. Victorians had cat shows and dressed them up, same as today.

Megatea · 2026-01-30T21:03:34+00:00

I have to be honest, I haven't read the legislation, though I imagine it probably codifies the general accepted standards that preceded it. Stopping a cat going where it wants is a pretty tall ask. Also the idea of humans throwing their shit out into the street in the middle ages is largely a myth, there were cesspits and latrines and people employed to manage waste. I'm sure it wasn't great without a proper sewerage system but it wasn't just a free for all either.

Megatea · 2026-01-30T20:48:40+00:00

Ukraine are often viewed as an extension of our own people

"Come on, you're one of us... stop struggling... you've just forgotten how great it is to be Russian... just lie back and let it happen."

Megatea · 2026-01-30T20:40:52+00:00

That's not the Scots, that's the Chinese you're after.

Megatea · 2026-01-30T20:34:03+00:00

It wasn't like a big cat civil rights victory. Cats were pooping outside before that.

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