In the order I learned them:

• 🇷🇴 Romanian: Vă rog / Mulțumesc (native)

• 🇨🇵 French: S’il-vous-plaît / Merci

• 🇬🇧 English: Please / Thank you

• 🇪🇦 Spanish: Por favor / Gracias

• 🇯🇵 Japanese: Onegai / Arigato

• 🇨🇳 Mandarin: Qing / Xiè xie

• 🇮🇹 Italian: Per favore / Grazie

• 🇩🇪 German: Bitte / Danke

• 🇷🇺 Russian: Pozhalusta / Spasiba

Police Academy

The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)

The Tenth Kingdom

So if I get this right, your dad turned homosexual from his babysitter… Then proceeded to have two, presumably biologic, kids?

What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck

I don’t know how to explain it… Like if you tried to bring your jaw backwards but without actually moving it? I think it’s the same thing as the “ear rumbling” others have mentioned. I’ve been doing it since I was very young so I don’t even remember how I learned it.

My husband used to work night shifts. When he came home in the wee hours of the morning he would get undressed in the dark, so as to not wake me up. If he happened to make a loud noise like dropping his phone, banging his belt buckle, etc, I would wake up seeing a specific pattern “behind my eyes”, so to speak, triggered by the noise. With time I realized the pattern changed depending on the nature of the noise!

Your spectrum analyzer pulled double-duty!

(not OP) I do it by clenching a muscle in my inner ear. If I sustain the clenching for a few seconds, the ringing goes away. It works slightly better for my right ear than my left ear.

Same! The good news is that in real life there is an abundance of reference materials, but little time to parse them. So this skill is MUCH more useful. I have legit had coworkers tell me that my ability to quickly navigate long complex documents to find the one paragraph that applies to our situation is a superpower.

In the US and Canada, a person’s credit score is used to figure out how safe it is to lend them money. Big ticket items such as cars and houses are often bought on credit with a payment plan that includes interest - so the entity lending the money makes money off the loan. Good credit score = Less risk to the lender = Lower interest rate for the borrower = Less money spent in the long run.

Credit cards are an easy way to build a good credit score. I use mine for almost every purchase I make: groceries, gas, bills, subscriptions, donations. The things is, I pay it off in full each month (so I don’t pay interest fees to the credit card company) AND my card gives me 2% money back on my purchases. So if I use it for $20,000 worth of purchases, I automatically get $400 back. Free money!

Also, my bank limits the amount of transactions I can make in a month to 12. They charge a small fee from the 13th transaction onward. If I had to pay for everything directly by debit, I’d probably end up paying tens of dollars just in fees, each month!

Edited to add: By using my credit card and paying it in full, I demonstrate I’m trustworthy when it comes to credit, because I pay it back. That’s what a lender wants! This makes my credit score go up, which in turn helps me when I want to buy a car or get a mortgage on a house. I got my first credit card when I was 18, following the advice of my parents, and that has served me extremely well 15 years later! Who would you rather lend $20,000 to: someone who makes $50,000 and reliably pays back their credit card in full each month for 10 years and has zero debt, or someone who makes $500,000 but carries a $100,000 debt on their credit card?

So people who are savvy about credit do not buy everything “on credit” just because they pay for it with a credit card. It is legitimately a good way to save (or even make) money, at least in the US and Canada.

Many developed countries are majoritarily irreligious. But it’s also hard to draw the line between religion and culture.

I think we see aspects of this in the behaviour of the rich and ultra-rich (where “screw the rules I have money” applies). It’s pedophilia all the way down.

Is it unethical if they volunteer? I’d be down!

I use the right Shift key to capitalize when touch-typing. I only use left Shift for Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

Yes! All of it, yes! It took me a long time to stop internalizing the “you’re not reaching your potential” message. Being happy where I am is not a bad thing! I’m glad you’re happy too, especially in such a demanding industry. Follow your happiness! 🫡✨

Program coordinator with the local government (civil servant). $65k a year, which I still can’t believe I got. It’s 15k more than what the previous person in my position was getting. I simply asked if it was possible to go higher, and that’s the offer they came back with.

Everyone tells me this means I could’ve asked for much more, but I feel that’s about fair for what I bring to the table. I overperform in entry-level jobs, but I don’t have the time management skills and emotional resilience to do well at higher levels. I’m already hitting my limit barely one year in - but this time, I’ve got a good team, a great manager, and will hopefully have my meds adjusted so I can keep going.

Chin-length layered bob, and also extremely happy with it. I wore my hair about bra strap-length most of my life, but once I went short I never went back. Shorter cuts are much more flattering for my face shape and personality.

You have “bras” twice in the proverb, it should be “On lui donne le doigt et il nous prend le bras”.

A Canadian Space Agency project about detecting life on Mars. My contribution was minuscule, as a young naive grad student, but I hope it gets built on over time.

https://falseknees.com/comics/268.html