Fleppensteyn

I’d blind the window. Too much screen glare.

Coffee beans are called that because they look like beans, not because they are beans. Coffee is a fruit juice

Just got some from a vending machine in Spain. Also in France some time ago. Pretty sure they’re all over. Only difference is that Germany really has them everywhere.

They were. I remember going to a shop with my father to spend his checks before the banks phased them out. Even I had a checkbook that came with my children’s bank account.

I think the phasing out happened in the 90s but apparently banks still accepted checks until 2021.

When a lake or river has this color, we call it blue

20 odd years ago, getting tired of job interviews and the one time I looked scruffy and unshaven was when they hired me

Where are you from, is this a joke or something? We have white eggs in Europe and Asia

I wouldn’t take it that far, just as far as my finger can go

I switched to just using toilet paper. Not sure how much safer it is.

Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.

I got a tour of the place where they proudly show these cats in the most horrible conditions. Also, it doesn’t even taste good.

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A Dutch joke?

(keurig = neat, decent, proper)

I vaguely remember (but can’t find it right now) that the PDF format became open source at some point and free alternatives came out for PDF editing. And that was already back in the 2000s when people still printed documents (which is what PDF was originally meant for).

In modern times, every browser/OS can read PDF, every text editor can export to PDF, nobody prints physical documents and there are free alternatives – so why do they still exist and who is paying?

Wow, I had no idea Acrobat Reader still exists. They charge €15,72 per month now apparently.

The languages I’m most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don’t think that’s really the case.

Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce

What’s strange is that many other languages don’t allow words starting with pt- or ps- neither but have no trouble pronouncing Greek loan words that do.

Reminds me of when I joined some classmates to the supermarket. We got kicked out while waiting in line because they didn’t want middleschoolers there because we’re all thieves anyways. So most of the group walked out without paying.

It was interesting how random people came to talk to you and were really trying to get to know you. I don’t think that would work in modern day internet.

I knew they were around because at times I randomly remembered my ICQ number and I tried logging in, but they won’t let you if you forgot your password.

I must be out of touch.

I didn’t think I’d need an app to visit YouTube.