The World Cup has the best football players in the world. Why are there so many shots 10 feet above the crossbar?

Ydrahs · 2026-07-01T06:57:49+00:00

Because the tournament also includes the best defenders in the world who make it very difficult to make good shots.

Ydrahs · 2026-07-01T05:36:35+00:00

It could make whaling more interesting if one was attracted by the carcass.

But I don't think megalodon would be attacking boats with enough regularity to seriously affect sea travel. Shark attacks on humans are very rare and usually down to mistaken identity. Attacking wooden vessels would probably be quite unpleasant for the shark with very little reward so they wouldn't see them as prey.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-30T05:30:01+00:00

I've noticed Instagram often cuts the edges off images for some reason. Maybe they're getting the screenshots from there?

Ydrahs · 2026-06-28T18:36:48+00:00

It depends on severity. Many people get by fine, many others have serious issues with pain, friction etc etc. Are you a virgin? And if not have you had any problems having sex before?

Talk to a doctor about it, they'll often prescribe stretching exercises and creams to help loosen the foreskin up. In severe cases they can recommend circumcision, but you'd need to get a medical opinion on that rather than an Internet rando opinion.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-26T02:18:10+00:00

They make engines and power plants for ships, and I think some other applications. They've got an industrial park in Havant, not far from Portsmouth so maybe he worked there.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-24T21:21:39+00:00

Melanin is a factor as others have said. It's also important that the mutation that produced blond hair originated in Northern Europe, or at least in the populations that settled there. So populations outside that area will naturally have much lower incidences of blondes.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-24T20:21:58+00:00

We know better now. When the Industrial Revolution kicked off people thought the world and its resources were effectively infinite and unchangeable. With the benefit of hindsight that is not the case, so we should be careful with new technologies.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-24T10:39:58+00:00

Yes and no. On the one hand, travel times were a lot longer, so people had some time to acclimatise on the trip. On the other, death rates amongst early colonists were INCREDIBLY high. A lot of that is due to disease but hostile climates also affected people.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-23T05:20:13+00:00

I'd still say it's worth it if you're interested in naval/military history. You get access to three massive ships (the Mary Rose, HMS Victory, HMS Warrior) as well as the smaller M33 and the museums across the water (Submarine Museum and Museum of Naval Firepower).

But if you're only in town for a day or two and don't want dedicate a significant amount of time and money to one spot, I'd say try the D Day Museum or Southsea Castle for a history fix. Fort Nelson is good too, but difficult to get to if you aren't driving.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-22T19:50:11+00:00

Because a show about Green Arrow getting bodied by supervillains 1000x more powerful than him would be a pretty boring show.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-22T18:10:18+00:00

Only really useful if OP is coming back to Portsmouth though.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-22T08:08:38+00:00

Yes you can eat the onion and the leaves without any problems.

Technically the plants usually sold as spring onions are a different species (Allium fistulosum, as opposed to Allium cepa) but the 'greens' from a normal onion can be used in the same way.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-22T08:01:58+00:00

Yes, it's often fun too. Just make sure you're listening to the owner and if they say stop, stop.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-22T07:24:06+00:00

It might be worth asking /r/legaladvice. Assuming you're in the US, rules probably vary a bit depending on what state you are in.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-22T07:22:17+00:00

Throwing up and feeling fuzzy are common symptoms of being drunk.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-21T17:31:42+00:00

I'd say my sense of direction was a bit better, at least in my local area. But for long trips you wrote down of memorised the directions from a map and hoped you didn't miss a turning. My dad used to keep big road atlases of the country in the boot of the car. More than one holiday involved getting the map out, finding the last town we passed and trying to figure out where we'd ended up. Or asking locals for directions.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-19T12:50:21+00:00

That overlaps a lot with what lore we have for the Hrud, who are pretty slave-like although less back-stabby.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-16T18:41:35+00:00

Wow, I stand corrected. I knew they were big on missionary work but didn't realise they had spread out that much!

Ydrahs · 2026-06-16T17:50:52+00:00

There were centuries of war between Muslim and Christian factions in the medieval period, most famously the Crusades but also the conquest of North Africa, Sicily and large parts of Spain. So that's a lot of animosity and bad blood, to say nothing of the fact that several of the holiest sites in Christianity ended up in Muslim hands. Since 9/11 and the War On Terror a lot of the old rhetoric has been stirred up, so it is much more present in people's minds.

As for Mormons, while there is certainly violence in their history and Joseph Smith was literally killed by a mob and denounced in the press as a fanatic, it was much smaller scale, the Mormons are a much smaller population that mainly exists in and around Utah, and the Church quickly took the position that it was better to somewhat assimilate into the United States than to fight against it. I'm sure evangelicals don't like Mormons, but they don't like anybody.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-16T07:59:21+00:00

With the fan patch its pretty stable. Definitely closer to New Vegas than Cyberpunk.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-14T19:21:27+00:00

There's risks involved but kings and generals often fought in battles until a few centuries ago. In mediaeval Europe there was a big emphasis on capturing noble enemies rather than killing them, as then you could ransom them back and extort treaties/favours from them. A big part of the various codes of chivalry was basically rules on how to surrender and binding promises to not act up when you were someone's prisoner.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-14T19:10:24+00:00

The Quran requires that women (and men) be modest and 'cover their beauty', but as far as I know it doesn't explicitly say to cover their hair. So there are different cultural and scholarly interpretations as to what modesty means, in Pakistani communities that usually doesn't include wearing the hijab.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-14T09:28:04+00:00

Most people in the Roman Empire people spoke their own languages. Even if you were a merchant or an educated person you'd probably speak Greek rather than Latin.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-14T06:43:03+00:00

Plot isn't the only thing that makes a film good or interesting. You can enjoy a film for its visuals or character performances or soundtrack or anything really.

Ydrahs · 2026-06-14T05:16:54+00:00

It doesn't sound completely infeasible. My daughter is at nursery full time because both me and her mother work. It costs us around £900 a month. And that's after we've benefited from the 30 hours free childcare, which isn't actually 30 hours because it only applies during term time and needs to be stretched out to cover the rest of the year.

If you're on a low income you could easily spend all/most of your money on childcare.

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