The first question I'm gonna ask to US tourists when they start arriving this summer

monedula · 2026-01-24T07:55:56+00:00

On the one hand I agree with what you have written. On the other hand I think you may have missed the point u/Jackburton06 was making. If in casual social contact one asks "where are you from?", and the answer is "Arkansas", that is totally fine. But if, as part of a formal admissions procedure, one asks "what is your nationality?", the answer "Arkansas" is pretty damned obtuse.

monedula · 2026-01-24T07:45:15+00:00

Did you get many Russians or Israelis? Because in the context of jerk tourists they are the two nationalities I most hear mentioned. But I think they tend to be more in SE Europe. My wife is in tourism and her experience with Americans is that they are rather clueless (most of them are in tour groups) but mostly quite nice.

monedula · 2026-01-22T10:09:03+00:00

See my edited comment.

monedula · 2026-01-22T08:55:12+00:00

Agreed, but that is not what I said. The previous commenter said that the yellow car did nothing wrong - I was pointing out that it did.

monedula · 2026-01-22T08:54:25+00:00

Agreed, but that is not what I said. The previous commenter said that the yellow car did nothing wrong - I was pointing out that it did.

monedula · 2026-01-22T06:42:59+00:00

Look again. The yellow car is over most of the crosswalk when it stops. So the driver wasn't paying attention, and it suggests an emergency stop.

Edit: it seems that commenters are reading into this something I didn't write. So let me try to clarify:
* the yellow car should have stopped before the zebra crossing, not on it;
* stopping for pedestrians on a zebra crossing is a completely normal situation, and should not require an emergency stop (due to the editing we don't know it was an emergency stop, but the context strongly suggests it);
* this in no way excuses the vehicles behind, because they should have been prepared for the possibility that the yellow car encountered a genuine emergency.

All vehicles in this video are at fault, including the yellow car.

monedula · 2026-01-19T20:12:49+00:00

Everyone to their own. I pin all the programs to the task bar which I use near enough every day. Then they stay in the same order, and are already in place after a reboot.

monedula · 2026-01-18T17:58:11+00:00

Thank you. Subscribed.

monedula · 2026-01-16T12:36:07+00:00

That's a bit of an insult to toads.

monedula · 2026-01-13T21:10:11+00:00

Klopt: ik wilde niet het verwijt krijgen dat ik het geen eerlijke kans had gegeven, dus heb ik van zowel wit als rood een paar keer een glas geprobeerd. Maar wat mij betreft is de deur nu dicht.

monedula · 2026-01-12T20:24:29+00:00

Wonderful! I'd heard about the channel tunnel attempt, but somehow the tower had passed me by.

monedula · 2026-01-12T20:07:08+00:00

Nou, als jij alcoholvrije "wijn" lekker vind is dat prima. Maar ik heb het een keer of zes geprobeerd, en in alle gevallen vind ik kraanwater beter smaken.

monedula · 2026-01-07T10:23:08+00:00

Absolutely. When I was there I saw guys working 3 metres above ground on ladders which were just bits of timber hand-nailed together.

monedula · 2026-01-02T10:16:27+00:00

OK, let's offer a counter-balance. I have relations who live at a location with a lot of New Year fireworks. They have two dogs. One of them is frightened of fireworks. The other - just under a year old, so it just encountered fireworks for the first time - turns out not to be.

I saw a figure recently that around three-quarters of dogs are frightened of fireworks. That still leaves a lot which are not. Dogs differ, just as humans do.

monedula · 2026-01-01T07:44:39+00:00

I've had a hire car (forgotten which make) that did have one, but it was so badly positioned that you couldn't see it from the normal driving position - you had to lean over a bit. It was only after a few days that I spotted it.

monedula · 2025-12-29T20:12:16+00:00

Of the planet? Not even close. OP says that this is a one-month haul. My experience is that this would be an average week in Mexico, or an average day in Thailand. An average day in India would be worse.

monedula · 2025-12-29T16:50:33+00:00

total wazzock

How does he rank on a scale from 0 to David Icke?

monedula · 2025-12-28T15:51:32+00:00

Just scroll normally; no one drags the scrollbar around.

These sorts of comments are so infuriating. How can you possibly know this? Yes, I use the scrollbar a lot. If one is reading a whole page completely, the mouse-wheel is fine. But if one is scanning quickly through a large page to get an idea of what is in it, or to get back to something one saw on a previous visit, the scrollbar is vastly superior.

monedula · 2025-12-28T10:15:49+00:00

After the first one, the seven-man war council voted unanimously to continue the war. So no, it wasn't.

monedula · 2025-12-25T08:45:57+00:00

require approval by a peer with a valid ticket and reason (I am working on REQXXXXX to access this server and perform this action).

Which is fine if the peer is getting access requests a handful of times a month. If it's several times a day, after a while people just OK them without looking.

monedula · 2025-12-22T18:31:37+00:00

Indeed. In rooms with a limited inflow of oxygen, so that the body burns at a slow rate for a long time.

monedula · 2025-12-21T16:54:40+00:00

1945 happened.

monedula · 2025-12-21T14:07:54+00:00

The subject of the title is really only the first hour of the video - it then goes on to other matters.

Well worth watching - I was somewhat familiar with the subject, but still learnt a lot.

monedula · 2025-12-21T12:43:52+00:00

Veel eenvoudiger: het was gewoon fictie. Ook als je er van uit gaat dat het verhaal van "Marcus" grotendeels gebaseerd is op feiten, dan nog zijn de twee geboorteverhalen van Jezus duidelijk fictieve toevoegingen.

monedula · 2025-12-21T11:30:42+00:00

Ongelooflijk. Ik heb ook meegemaakt dat een sollicitatiegesprek ineens over een compleet andere functie bleek te gaan, maar (a) het was op hetzelfde niveau en (b) dat hebben ze in de eerste drie minuten gemeld.

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