Yeah. They wrap the boxes with two plastic bands to keep the contents from tumbling out. I would wind them together to make a giant flat coaster.

It also gave me something to do with my hands.

Recycled the plastic that is used to go around office paper boxes so they don't open into coasters.

If I'm doing that, I'm not laude.

Yeah. I went to a tech school, so the school was set up to teach the importance of communication and team building because they knew the engineers needed to be taught this and that understanding human systems was as important as understanding technical systems.

There are these butterflies in Central America. They're blue and orange and yellow and have poison in their wings, just enough to stop a bird heart. But the birds know this somehow, so they don't eat them. But there are other ones, butterflies, they're orange, blue and yellow too but no poison wings. They're just flying around, looking dangerous, getting by on their looks.

It probably wasn't written to the quantity it is today, but it doesn't mean it wasn't used.

Mass literacy wasn't a thing until the past 100 years, so a lot of people didn't even write anything down about their lives.

Even once mass literacy was adopted, the written word was generally sent to specific places. Outside of combat messengers, letters generally went to specific places where people would pick them up. If you were able to read the written message, you were probably in a known location to the sender.

It isn't until cellular text messaging or Internet chat where it became common to not know where a person was when you were talking to them.

Having watched the interview, his personality matches his look.

Americans would likely use the term "small town" over "village" in most of the country.

Also the physical layout of a small town would likely be different and much more car dependent.

I could usually get away with saying "Bacon is a vegetable" when ordering a vegetarian burrito with pinto beans; the pinto beans were made with bacon.

Based on stated consumption levels, you are probably not an alcoholic. However, your thought process indicates that you may be at risk.

I've put in as much effort to my profile as I wanted to. Sounds like a lot of others did the same.

Studying EVE Online was enough to make someone a finance minister.