Isn’t all that from the untrustworthy western propaganda machine?

Guinness 0% and you might be onto something. It is really good.

I don’t think you understand.

Not doing the activity that requires protective clothing is safer than doing the activity with protective clothing.

For westerners motorcycle riding and leather jackets are luxuries so it seems the vegan solution would be to not ride and not buy leather.

For the western world motorbikes are largely a luxury. Don’t do the luxury thing AND don’t wear a dead animal seems like a reasonable position to take.

It’s kill-o-meter or (literally!) kilo-meter. It is not ko-lom-o-tor.

Noone says cen-tom-o-tor or mo-lom-o-tor so why are you pronouncing kilometre like a halfwit?

Cauliflower cake with spinach added is awesome.

I used to run Mumble for my Battlefield crew (probably Bad Company 2 I think) on a Nokia n810.

Your laptop will definitely handle it.

Did you miss the subtle subtext in the first sentence? Or do you not know anyone at all who was or is in the military? I only know two or three but still one of them cut off the top of his own head with a ceiling fan. Thats the level of decision making and impulse control you expect from sober young men in the military.

In much of the world most houses will have existing electrical wiring but no network cabling.

Driving is largely a chore. Now you’re qualified to perform the chore. I think your feel is completely understandable.

Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story.

Gotta be getting team killed for a vehicle.

Most people are not directly collecting rain to drink.

Almost all of that applies to NZ.

I vaguely recall a rule somewhere that elastic deformation cannot exceed the speed of sound, for reasons having to do with shockwave propagation or something like that.

Can’t exceed the speed of sound in the material, not speed of sound in the atmosphere.

But that nitpick probably doesn’t change your assertion that it’s not going to work.

Decent size cloth so I can hold two corners and basically use it as if I was towelling dry.

Mid to late 90s in regional Australia. First terrible dialup and then a government subsidised asymmetric dialup/satellite hybrid. You’d click something and wait a bit while the request went out at 28.8k then the response would come back much faster than the 486dx could handle it.

Search mostly sucked but Lycos knew where all the porn was and Jeeves was ok for other things.

“Shaving” with hair clippers or a beard trimmer is adequate for any work or social situation I’ve been in for the last 20+ years.

I’ve been using the same set of cheap hair clippers on head and beard for almost 10 years.

No razors, no paying for haircuts, no shaving cream, no cuts, no razor burn.

Freestyle skiing, snowboarding, skating, bmx, motocross, mountain bike etc says you’re wrong.

While it’s possible to compete in events for most or all of those things competition is only a tiny part of it.