Oh. I make around US$70.000 into my pocket a year for being a computer science professor. This forum costs around US$0.50/month. My parents took my first holy communion money in 1992, around £120 (punts). On more pressing topics though, is it true that y'all in North America don't own kettles? And t...

Sorry for the downtime ... just noticed it now.
Got some sort of DoS attack courtesy of the Ukraine.

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Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:59 am

If I'm past page one of a thread and click the thread title at the top left of the page, it doesn't take me to the first page of the thread. It just reloads the same page.

Should be fixable! Will have a look when I get a bit of time (I promise!).

Spot on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ92cggLMx8 Nah. I mean even the examples he cites are undone in a quick google search ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0bClUp9I6w Kirk orders Spock to Sick Bay, where McCoy finds evidence of extreme physical and emotional stress, a condition that will k...

On the subway or in McDonalds, no small talk except maybe if there's an incident like a pipe bursts or the ice cream machine explodes and you're sharing a counter with someone, someone may comment on it. I was sitting at my favorite table, like a counter with stools that gets shared with other peop...

I've been wondering whether specifying imaginary/real numbers even matters since imaginary numbers seem like impossible numbers or impossible solutions to impossible problems when you read certain instructional material about them AND when you get an "invalid input" error from a calculator when try...

What are conversations about money like in the U.S.? Do y'all talk about how much money you make? When making small talk, do you ask people what they do for a living? Would you ask how well it pays?

She's secretly a Busey? What's a Busey? (Seems on-topic ...) Does your food and soft drinks and stuff taste different because of high fructose corn syrup? I understand that Coca Cola used to be sugar-based in the U.S. and is still sugar-based (sucrose-based) in many other countries. I guess I'm won...

What do non-U.S. Americans think of U.S. Americans calling themselves Americans? Do you consider yourself as an American?

Anyone else feel intimated by tipping when they visit the U.S.?

We'll count non-U.S. citizens (North, South, and Central) as honorary foreigners.