What? Aspartame is classified as a possible carcinogen, but mostly to encourage further research. There’s an old rat study that claimed to show an increase in variois cancers, but it had a weirdly cancer-free control group and used levels far in excess of “a few cans per day”. AFAIK, no human studies have ever shown any significant correlation. It definitely hasn’t been “proven and accepted by the WHO”.
All rhombi are parallelograms.
Way to fall victim to tobacco marketing! Of course attractive people putting things in their mouth looks cool…
I hate that Malboro figured out that they can use their marketing budget on memes to circumvent advertising laws…
Fuck smoking, it doubles your chance of death, poisons those around you, fucks up bird nests, smells like shit, and makes the absolute worst people imaginable richer.
If I’m not mistaken, he also calculated pi by hand (to several decimal places) during lockdown. So it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows for ol’ Isaac.
You do realise water can fall from the sky, right? 100°C might not be too useful for outside temperatures, but knowing if there might be ice on the road or not seems like a useful thing to know.
Also, as a maths teacher, having frequent negative temperatures makes working with negative numbers a lot more intuitive for students. The fact that Americans apparently use 1 for the ground floor means I’d lose out on both of my simple real-world examples of negative numbers.
Bobby Broccoli recently did a whole series on how his brother came to power and what the dynamics at play are. It’s like 5 hours long, but worth a watch if you’re interested: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAB-wWbHL7VvVT1LbcOIkqkowoZry6Rfd
Getting rid of excess rupees is the real strength of the Malo Mart magic armour.
Ravens are equally close relatives, as are parrots.
Doesn’t make him not ace.
The aye-aye is also doing much better, mostly because the population size was severely underestimated at the time of writing.
And yeah, the book is amazing. I usually describe it to fans of his other works as somehow being his weirdest book, despite being non-fiction.
I had to use one of those hex wrenches to fix my shower a few months back. It definitely felt like vindication.
Weird comic, why put the punchline in the penultimate panel?
It’s a small part on the German border which we got as compensation for WWI. It has a population of roughly 80.000 people, less than 1% of the Belgian population. The two main languages are Dutch (60ish %) and French (40ish %), but German is technically a national language.
I suspect that people in Flanders encounter way more Germans than German-speaking Belgians.
Can’t speak for the Netherlands, but here in Belgium the first thing anyone thinks of when you speak German is the war. I know I’m not supposed to mention it…
That being said, German usually sounds like angry Dutch to us, so I guess we both agree on where we are on the funny-angry spectrum.
Also, most of your examples are more common in the Netherlands, which are definitely further along the funny axis.
To be fair, based on the (lack of) spelling and grammar in his e-mails, that might actually be how he writes letters.
They mean 4000 on a single day once per week, i.e. not just 4000 steps per week spread over multiple days.
I don’t know of any television series, but Maple from Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages eventually swaps out her broom for a vacuum cleaner:
I know you’re probably joking, but in case anyone actually believes this: there is nothing the average person can do to balance out the negative health effects of smoking. No amount of exercise and healthy eating can cancel out inhaling poison.