But are you as ashamed as Shinji, is what I wonder. I can’t believe I got the ref, though. I’m not even a fan of the show but that scene was so out of nowhere… I guess it did mark me.

Yes! That’s what I usually do as well. Unless there is some house specialty I’ve been recommended and I came for, I will try a “reference dish” to get a baseline.

Right. That speedometer goes all the way to 270 km/h but on average we drive at about 30km/h in a city. That’s why our cars can last 400000 km while a Formula 1’s engine last about one race.

Unless you bought something, then you get the exact item in your ads too. Because hey, we know you liked that book! Why don’t you want another copy of it, uh?

I love that my kids actually do not do that and stick stuff anywhere they can. With age they understand some surfaces are off limits so as to not damage them, but my windows and light switches never stood a chance…

Beautiful!

I like to think of myself as European, thank you very much.

You ever heard of the snip? Because that’s what I think they’re hinting at.

In my company they give us all a factory tour so we can see what are work helps facilitate. It’s pretty cool, honestly. Helps make things less abstract. When I worked as a roaming tech it was my favourite part : arriving at a new client and discovering their factory or offices or whatever and seeing them do their thing. Very cool stuff, once in a while.

En gros dans ma boîte ils te modifient le salaire mensuel pour Décembre (et aussi un peu avant les grandes vacances). Mais c’est toujours le même salaire per annum donc c’est un tour de passe passe, quoi. Ça aide les gens qui arrivent pas à économiser, j’imagine.

Thoughts and prayers :

• I think it should happen more often.
• I pray it does (instead of school shootings, let’s say).

In France we have the “thirteenth month” as we call it. I never had one, but in that latest job they announced having one, so I was rather chuffed to finally discover the practice and asked them about it during the interview. “so you gonna give me a full month salary bonus at the end of the year?” cue a long, convoluted explanation… which boiled down to “no, we just shuffle shit around so you get more in December, no extra money, really”.

But it just shows how ingrained that idea of a Christmas bonus is.

Hopefully. Anyone with braincells would have realized that a long time ago…

Using ouija boards as serving trays and food carrying boards was certainly a bold move.

Chaud devant !

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企业 seems to mean “business / company / corpo / firm” and my dictionary says 企 is also an abbreviation for it. So I guess that’s how we get to the OP’s joke. I’m guessing 鹅企 would be read “Goose Corp.” then ?

Oi! You got a license for that shooter ‘ere, gov’?

Asshole in the Middle?

Wait wait wait… are you saying you don’t have any commemorative coins in the USA?! Holy shit I never realised! We have special coins all the time in Europe. My kids absolutely love when they find a special 2€ coin with some cool engraving on it.
How sad! You could have so many, too! By default each country in the Euro zone has its own heads, while tails are always the same. Easy peasy!