My favorite shrinkflation is Campbell's soup, particularly their low-sodium offerings. Costs twice as much, comes in a slightly smaller can, and isn't condensed. So you pay five times as much for them to just not put so much fucking salt into their soup in the first place.
There's a good chance Hitler would have won if he hadn't wasted so much time and military assets in North Africa, Southeast Europe and Italy. He would have faced an even larger fraction of the British navy but Germany's navy was already hopelessly outclassed as it was.
It's not weird. They and everybody with two connected neurons know the confederate flag really means "I hate black people".
the bus is stopped at an intersection or other place controlled by a traffic-control signal
This one seems kinda crazy. Like, are stop signs traffic-control signals? I have many stops at stop sign intersections and it's not at all unusual for late kids to be sprinting through the intersection to get to the bus. That's exactly the kind of situation you want cars to be stopping for just in case.
It should be worth $600K.
Yeah, the location was not one of those places with seriously insane housing appreciation. Small town in Ohio. 14X appreciation is still pretty good.
Not even an exaggeration. My parents bought their house in the 1960s for $14K. Their 30-year mortgage went almost to the year 2000 and their monthly payment was fucking $85 the entire time. They sold it fifteen years ago for $190K.
My house was built in 1942 as temporary worker housing. I tore down and rebuilt one of the walls and the original studs were just astonishing: perfectly straight and not a single knot in them anywhere. Compare and contrast with modern studs from Home Despot: split, shaped more or less like a pretzel, and 50% knots.
Interestingly, these old studs were 1.75" x 3.75". I never knew there was an intermediate stage between the old-time true 2x4s and the modern 1.5" x 3.5" 2x4s.
How could you leave out the gas leaks? In every single fucking house he inspects.
The Sopranos did this in one early episode. Dude shoots another dude in a car and is immediately like "FUCK!" and holding his ears. Rest of the series is dudes casually blazing away and "I'm all itchy!"
"Yeah, we're naming this river after you guys in honor of your stewardship of the environment. No, it's not going to catch on fire or anything like that. How could a river catch on fire?"
There's no such thing as "good genes" and "bad genes". There's just genes, and whether they're good or bad depends on an ever-changing environment. The only real measure of a population's genetic health -- how likely it is to survive far into the future -- is its genetic diversity. With their insistence on "racial purity", racists put themselves into the "loser" category by reducing the genetic diversity of their population. Sorry, farther into the "loser" category.