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Statistician: 1+1=sqrt(2)

"Oh, thanks! What I'd like is some extremely hot sauce in a bottle labelled 'ketchup'".

Civilised countries like the UK and other European countries. Technically it's not free because it's paid for by taxation, but it's free at the point of use: if I go and see a doctor, I don't get billed, but I do pay 9% National Insurance tax.

Americans are so dumb when it comes to timezones we could just assign Maintana to GMT+5, Washconsin GMT+6 and so on downwards. It wouldn't make any difference to them and it'd be a lot more fun for the rest of us.

True story: "The meeting is at 1500 EDT". "Your state is currently on EST so if I turn up at the specified time I'll be an hour late. Are you sure it's 1500 EDT and not 1500 EST?" "Yes, definitely 1500 EDT". /me turns up at 1500 EDT to find the meeting has already finished.

I misread IDOTA as IDIOTA.

I'd be interested to know how I can pay my electricity bill with my free healthcare. Also I need to go to the supermarket today; how do I convert free healthcare into a trolleyful of food?

Simple. We let them get away with it. Compare:

"Your PC is out of date" "Don't be stupid, it's only 2 years old and still works fine" with

"Your phone is out of date" "OK I'll buy a new one".

There needs to be a lot more of Answer A to Statement B.

Maybe it's a Samsung phone and a "Made in USA" sticker, shipped in as components and stuck together in the USA, thus fulfilling both "designed" and "made" in USA even though there are some foreign-made components (2). Then onshore those components bit by bit until the process is complete.

Technically that's 100% buffering.

Oops! Thank you :-)

Also see: Kitten Kong

There's also the Escher Magritte picture of a (smoking) pipe, captioned "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".