The Incas had social security for the ill, disabled and elderly.

Ya like jazz?

Given how much goes to leasing rolling stock and the low profit margins, it’s unlikely nationalisation will bring down fares :(

This video also explains it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8m9kMaK4Ds

I had a classmate in Year 6 who would phone me, but pretend to be another classmate, I have no idea why, because we were friends and I gave her my number. I’d ask her in class the next day, and she’d deny it. So when 1471 came out, she got busted and I called her back. But still kept trying to deny it was her. It was so weird.

My Year 1 teacher was Dutch and she pronounced it skwerrl and no one had a freaking clue what she was talking about until she drew one.

I bet they used the word “woke” about 10 times per minute. I hope they’re triggered as heck.

No no, it was us Europeans for not helping with Operation Epstein Fury.

https://www.poetryverse.com/ogden-nash-poems/camel

I remembered it from that poem when I was a kid, just remember it IS the other way round.

Isn’t there a metal band that has an album of 1 second tracks?

No way a teacher wouldn’t know this!

You have to pay for library cards where you are?

They couldn’t escape the orange turd even when they WERE in space!

And he didn’t wear a suit.

Afaik countries only have to promise to join at some point, they can just kick the can and nothing will happen.

https://rejoin.info/q/euro/

Oh yeah, that’s it, Oxford. I learnt about rugger and brekker from The Treasure Seekers books. I’ve never heard anyone else say brekkers, at least in my area, brekkie is more common.

Now I’m surprised that “starkers” has posh roots.

Yeah, it’s like saying we should call rugby “rugger”, because that’s what the old Etonians called it (I don’t know if they still do).

This picture makes me happy :)

I found your nightmare job: https://www.1happybirthday.com/faq.php

I just tell them “personal commitments”, and they don’t pry any further, but maybe that only works for crappy minimum wage jobs.

I bet there’s something you’re good at, or even just okay at, that you might be good at teaching to someone who isn’t good at it.

I have periods when I go into a slump and I feel like how you described. I’m definitely not a role model, my life is falling to bits, and I’m a failure at life, as a certain family member likes to keep reminding me. But the fact that my nephew comes to me when he’s got a problem shows I do have something to offer. I bet there’s something you can offer someone, even if you might not have the mental energy right now.