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Could also be to keep them white? I used to see teabags last century (and health food shop teabags nowadays) yellowing similarly but commercial Twinings tea bags these days remain white - could be a chemical impregnated into the paper but that seems likely to leach into the tea.

Is there genuinely that much severe head trauma in active duty? Assumed hearing damage, PTSD, lacerations and breaks and stuff but figured in armed combat direct blows to the head mightn't be as common. I'm ignorant though, does it happen in training or on base more??

"EEEEEEEEEKKK! I just got my first paycheck and there's a spider on it!"

That's true, I was oversimplifying by focusing on the third but the same applies whether remarks are intended to hurt, be neutral, or explicitly to help - point is people often assume it's the first or respond as if it is. Some people can shrug it off but I can't.

No judgement intended but your comment had me thinking "damn, how often must Americans get sick that this is such a problem?" Then I checked myself and realised I have been taking healthcare for granted, and it's not health that we're talking about really but time for being a human - collapsing when you just can't and helping dependents or family when they do the same. This inhuman profit-driven system in your country is attempting to erode what it is to be a human. We'll have to fight, unfortunately, but they will never win.

No - curtain walls are where there's no wall, just a window attached to the frame as in most modern office buildings. Apologies meant to respond to @HelixDab2 below who mentioned béton brut :)

Different in different countries

Awesome answer

There's some messed up dopamine response going on there, both for self-picking and especially for others' picking! I've often thought about how some people have that compulsion to pop, others want to pop out of a sense of sick satisfaction, compulsion by extension to another person, or out of a misguided sense you're doing something good. Pops not good

I see where you're coming from and understand why some don't get it, but it's the third one. People are very mean, including me, and especially when they are anonymous or feel they'll get away with it.

The first two - they're giving constructive criticism, or they're plain wrong - assume the person is not coming from a mean place. I wonder if you're neurodiverse or a very experienced meditator or something if you can really always shrug off a nasty remark intended to hurt.

I'm neurodiverse and took a lot of throwaway hurtful comments to heart as a kid, not because I couldn't tell they were trying to he hurtful, but because I believed there had to be some truth or insight into what they said. When I developed more self-respect I got fewer such remarks when I appeared visibly furious, or gave the same back in return. But I still take hurtful remarks - intentional or not - to heart by nature.

Point being, not everyone has as thick as skin as you, and hurtful remarks do indeed hurt many/most people no matter how much we talk about the relative damaged done by sticks and stones vs names. Hurtful intentions can convey hurt to most generally empathetic people I think. Appreciate any other views as I'm just trying to address this one as I see it. Peace

Well, the idea of using unfinished concrete (the origin of the movement's name) was something of a modern/internationalist reaction to the earlier excesses of nouveau and deco really. It wasn't that concrete is a superior material for structure, the ancients knew that. A better current example (that argues the opposite to your point unfortunately!) of form following function is cheap [edit: cheap isn't what I meant, more 'the cheapest available using today's sophisticated engineering', which obviously isn't cheap but real estate doesn't have that reputation anyway] curtain walls in high rises. Pretty insipid but people love it; there's no accounting for taste, especially among those who have no appreciation for the finer things.

Couldn't agree more (current boss is one such preoccupant) except it's spelled eke in this case, eek is for the onomatopoeic noise when frightened.

Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!

They're generally called vinegar flies, and they don't infest fresh fruit like fruit flies do when they lay their eggs in fruit.

Pardon my ignorance - what's 'play with my nuts' a reference to for Carter, aside from his gonads?

But David Spade looks like him. I know what you mean about Martin Short's vivacity though, he'd be a fine Wonka, whose idea was it to cast Chalamet

*counsel you. I'm picturing a police officer comforting a suspect who's sobbing with a hand on their shoulder haha.

Nah I think it means 'chuck your stuff in a sack and get out of here'. Sac(k) to refer to balls is probably also a very old usage from French but since it's vulgar it likely didn't become the colloquialism meaning to be removed from one's job. It is a funny homonym though.

lol dunno why the downvotes but that's hilarious if you don't use the word 'sack' someone as a synonym for 'fire' someone where you come from!

I can't believe we're still talking about that shitty propaganda! I remember anticipating an interesting documentary about quantum implications, then went to see it with some other physics nerds and being disgusted by the hamfisted mix of fundamentalist religion framed as "science". What have they done to us? WHAT DID THEY DO TO US