My work once sent me to Madrid. I only have some high school Spanish.

I had a cold at the time and soon ran out of cough drops. My coworker told me where I could buy some more, and what to ask for.

When I got to the store, apparently I misremembered what he told me to say. I said to the woman, “quiero caramelos de mentales.”

She looked at me confused. I tried again, slower: “caramellos…de…mentales?”

She seemed a bit alarmed. She said something in Spanish. I said “lo siento, no comprendo.”

She called over her coworker, who asked me “what are you looking for?”

I said, “cough drops.” She looked confused. “Cough…drops? What is it?” I tried “caramelos de mentales” again, no success, just confusion.

Then I remembered I had some wrappers in my pocket so I pulled one out and showed her. Suddenly they both beamed with understanding. “Ohhh! Caramelos mentolados! You were asking for ‘brain candies.’ She thought you wanted something illegal.”

John Pinette: “I don’t know what gluten is but apparently it’s delicious”

I think what Prole is saying is that it shouldn’t fall to the library in the first place. The city should be responsible for finding a solution. I don’t think their comment was opposed to your actions (although I also initially interpreted it that way).

Hades

Hades 2

Same. HP could stand for “heaping pile.”

Is that so? The bottom of a glass is glass. But the ocean is not the glass; it’s the water in the glass. You wouldn’t say that the bottom of the water in the glass is made of glass.

Yeah I dunno. But conservatives are convinced she’s an extreme leftist.

According to conservatives on reddit, she is “far left, even more extreme than Bernie” and that’s why she lost.

Lina Khan 2028

Tilley hat for me as well. The sun and I are not really friends

Also JP, but with Jaws as a close second

Well the other side does exactly the same.

Oh?

Only if we can hold hands

I’ll be pooping

April 16th, 1178 B.C. : the day Odysseus returns in the Odyssey.

https://www.universetoday.com/15253/homers-odyssey-may-chronicle-ancient-eclipse/.

Pretty neat

That…actually sounds cool? So why is this considered a mistake?

2 - 3 year old model is effectively brand new but a lot cheaper.

I’ve always heard this, but where is this actually true? When I bought a Camry like a decade ago, I could get a brand new one for $19.5k or used ones with 50k miles on them for…$18k. so yeah I paid the extra 1.5k to not have to deal with potential random shit.

When my wife bought her car a few years ago it was a similar situation. The only used cars that were “a lot cheaper” had like 100k miles.

The lyrics are so creepy, but the music slaps

It’s usually because they can’t get full teams willing to work only the shitty shifts

…at the rate they want to pay them. In ye olden times the shitty shifts would pay more.

Would deleting the email be sufficient then? So only the pseudonymous identifier remains, with no way to link back?