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  • I've seen these sorts of things at subway exits/entrances in airports, where you have carts for moving lots of bags at once. There might also be shops nearby with shopping carts that people have tried to take on the escalator in the past.

    I'm not Korean(perhaps someone familiar with the place might be able to offer more insight), just offering some possibilities, but it's difficult to know without more context.

  • If it plays music, it will play adverts

  • I thought so too before moving here, but there's two cities, and a lot of empty space (in the north in particular) with lots of towns and villages, it's not like Monaco or the Vatican City in that regard.

    That being said, it's still all very close together, you can drive from the northern most point to the south in about 1.5-2 hours.

    The funniest thing I've learned about the geography is that there is a North/South divide where people from either don't trust people from the other.

  • Schengen - the village in Luxembourg where the Schengen Agreement was signed. The population was 5196 in 2023 (appears to be the last census quoted on Wikipedia) and the "Schengen Area", covered by the agreement represents 450m people.

    Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

  • Caution CW: contains simulated road accident resulting in death - was considered safe for TV in the UK

    https://youtu.be/mKHY69AFstE

    I think OP was picturing a situation like this.

  • A Choose your own Adventure Rejection

    Edit: didn't remember strikethrough formatting correctly

  • I'd never really thought about until now, but do Chinese (specifically mandarin speaking) 3 year olds use Ma in place of the English speaking equivalent of "why" (repeated ad nauseum until the adult being questioned snaps!)?

  • It's Latin for "a person not welcome"

  • Thank you for sharing this. I'm going to try it out on my Italian friends :)

  • Yes, particularly as I get older the equipment doesn't drain fully and needs a little help.

    There's a rhyme about it "no matter how much you shake and dance, the last few drops go down your pants", well I choose to wipe instead of relying on the absorbance of my pants or trousers (the original saying is American so means trousers really).

  • At the end of the article, which is already a litany of clownish buffoonery, it states that after destroying (effectively) the MRI machine in order to retrieve the rifle, he failed to retrieve a loaded magazine. So it was just left on the floor as they left.

    Edit: autocorrect had changed it to clownfish

  • I agree, the job of politicians is to reframe Trans rights as policies that benefit everyone. If everyone at a negotiation feels like they are winning you have a successful negotiation. Who cares if the new policy disproportionately benefits one group, we are all better off because of it, and in the case of Trans rights give them the same (non-codified) protections as everyone else.

    (This is if course ignoring the oft used tactic of the far right which is to do the opposite and reframe beneficial policies (eh. ACA) as something that only benefits one group by calling it a funny name (eg. Obamacare), so it's easier said than done, but that is what the democrats should be doing more of, imho)

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  • First visit to the vet plays out like an Abbot and Costello sketch!

  • 45 and 47

  • plus Ƨa change, plus c'est la mĆŖme chose

    (The more things change, the more they stay the same)

  • I mean, yeah, he'd have to hold the phone, no way that thing would stay the nook of his shoulder with a neck like that!

  • These are beautiful, thank you for sharing.

    It really speaks to something when I'm rooting (no pun intended) for a Kiwi vine to find the pole, like "come on buddy you can do it". Very satisfying to watch.