I appreciated this comment, that’s a great show and tell story.

It’s becoming that way, but it’s still definitely closer to British English.

I think the term of art these days is that you have a ‘trains agenda’

I only had it a few times in Australia but I didn’t like it, it tasted very different from the other colas.

No need for that sort of insult. We’re talking about water here for fuck’s sake.

Sounds like you have hard water

Vitamin C is ascorbic acid, but otherwise agree

*knows

Occupational hazard. Doesn’t mean said engineer isn’t owed compensation though. On the contrary.

Interesting, so it’s a Yiddish variant of Scheißer?

Yesterday

Cursèd Saracens did spoil my day

Give us strength to crush those hordes, I pray

Oh, I believe in Huns to slay

Uranium powered fission technology, not all nuclear. Look into Thorium

I dunno, sounds like a solid Anglo-Saxon name, like Æthelstan.

JR pass massive price hike recently