Some fun chopstick facts: most chopsticks in the world (including China) are made in Georgia (the US state, not the country) because of the ready availability of cheap pine. One of the major reasons pine is so prevalent in Georgia (and in the US South in general) is slavery: cotton plantations in the pre-artificial fertilizer era tended to exhaust the soil after a few years, leaving pine trees as the only profitable crop that can be grown on much of the land.

I stopped for dinner once at a Chinese restaurant in Mississippi run by people actually from China. I (white guy) used chopsticks and our server just stared at me wide-eyed for most of the meal. She said I was the first white person she had ever seen using them, and she'd been working there for years. That is Mississippi for you.

I didn't have the heart to tell her I'd learned to use them eating at Japanese restaurants.

Don't be so diacritical.

I'm a school bus driver. Our director of transportation is in my phone as "Patti Busboss". I genuinely have no idea what her real last name is.

Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Eiffel offered to build a duplicate of his Parisian tower built four years earlier, but twice as tall. Chicago went with the Ferris Wheel instead, saving us from Eiffel Bueller's Day Off.

Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I'm AI -- oh the ironing.

If you're a business owner, "the customer is always right" means you're a sensible owner. If you're a customer, "the customer is always right" means you're an asshole.

The constitution isn't even legible any more since trump has wiped his ass with it so many times.

You leave useful, functional toilet paper out of this. Jeffries is basically Chthulu in a suit.

I played naked frisbee in college one time. I hadn't realized it before, but running with your nuts flopping around is fucking painful. I had to hold them with one hand which is fine when you're playing frisbee, but how the hell did men fight like that with a sword in one hand and a shield on the other arm?

I'd prefer Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Wizard of Oz in this specific case.

neckligible

I saw what you did there.