In fact, I do prefer to buy generics. There are dozens of us!

Wait, we are? TIL.

Lots of great recommendations here. I’d also add Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. Her Penric novels are quite fun, too.

I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. My neighborhood isn’t the best for walkability – there are definitely better areas in this city in that respect.

To the nearest convenience store: 1.5km To the nearest chain supermarket: 1.9km To the bus stop: 140m To the nearest park: 480m To the nearest big supermarket: 5.8km To the nearest library: 1.9km To the nearest train station: 800m

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 6450km

I wanted to like the game, but one game where the other players adopted the ‘backstabbing’ style ruined it for me.

Yeah, that’s fair, especially in software work.

I see what you’re getting at – hinting at a sense of serenity?

The phrase still annoys me for some reason.

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Fair point, but something about the tautology of the phrase has always grated on me :\

You just reminded me of this

Those who champion “brutal honesty” are more interested in the brutality than the honest

I use this, and I struggle a little to disengage when the person I ask interprets it as “help me figure out how to solve this” when they don’t actually have the “short answer”.

“it is what it is”

If it weren’t what it is, well, it wouldn’t be anything at all, would it?

clean water

I used to have a cat who did this. He would lead me to the bathroom, jump into the tub, and then wait patiently until I turned on the bath faucet – just a trickle!

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I think everyone can relate to being anxious before a big experience! From your other comments, it sounded like you had a fantastic time overall. Thanks for sharing!

Was there anything unpleasant with the experience?

I was half-tempted to ask “cinnamon or caramel?”

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto.

I was kind of a space cadet, so I never learned the planets by mnemonic, just by remembering their names.

Now Pluto’s been demoted (but not in my heart 💔), and I never actually need to refer to my list of planets anyway :\

I’ve loved “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” ever since a character in Robert Asprin’s Mythadventures series used it. Fun books.

Thanks for clarifying! I haven’t heard it much, and all I really had in my head was something like “dudes”.