Not if you were at a restaurant that serves flambé dishes…

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had this exact thought. 😕

Are you an economist or business professor IRL? Because that was an amazing answer!

I’ve never had such a wild ride in so few letters, well done lol

1. Full bowel blockage
2. Ruptured appendix

With number 1, by the time I got to the hospital my shirt was wringing wet with sweat, vomit, tears, and blood. I took it off and told the ambulance driver to just chuck it in the bin lol

Holy shit the rumours are true… you CAN put someone’s eye out with that!

Make his house the most famous house in the state:

https://youtu.be/CAqCrRVguJo?si=nuEZgdBpJecz6vVb

My experience is that the greatest amount of corporate spam is generated by people who have to try and justify their jobs ie. HR and upper management. Everyone else is too busy doing their actual jobs to write bullshit emails.

Email is the scourge of the modern office environment.

The senior execs are always braying about more productivity but refuse to turn off the pipeline blocker that is email notifications. (Honestly I think it’s a control issue.)

If it’s so urgent that it requires an immediate response, it should be an in person visit or phone call.

If not, let people get to it when they’re ready, and accept the fact that it’s not urgent.

Sometimes I swear half the fucking office building is just sitting at their desks repeatedly hitting refresh on outlook waiting for the other half to get back to them.

Anyone who wants to know how to deal with emails properly should read Getting Things Done by Dave Allen. It’s the reason why I (used to) get to go home on time every day while my colleagues grumbled about all the shit they hadn’t done yet (while still completing my full workload).

When I found that book, my workload didn’t change but my stress went waaaay down.

I care very much

I have friends who made shitty choices

In Australia we have fully socialised medical care, but you can have private health care if you want.

I paid $0 for my kidney transplant and cancer treatment.

We also get no-interest loans that only increase with CPI from the government to go to university, which is paid back via a percentage of our income once we earn over a certain threshold.

This allows people to actually raise their social status, such as our current Prime Minister, who grew up working class in a single parent family in a poor part of Sydney, before going to university and succeeding.

If I was in the US I would definitely be bankrupt and most likely dead already.

I also earn more (as a teacher) and pay less tax overall than in most US states.

So you just don’t care about the people who chose differently? What about the people who just had to take whatever job they could get?

It’s a pretty subjective question really. If you mean greatest country for rich white guys then the US probably qualifies as the best for a reasonable chunk of its history.

For everyone else, not so much.

No, Kazakhstan is. All other countries are run by little girls.

Australia is run by Arisa Trew so we’re doing pretty well at the moment.

I like the actual German name for it, “durchfall”. When I look in the toilet, it looks like something that would be called “durch”. And yep, it fell right outta me lol

Put ranch on some ranch and make ranch ^ranch

I think some people use the internet to vent after a long day at work. I’ve dinner it at times and have had to stop myself from forming an unhealthy habit

Busses: bloody cyclists!

Cars: bloody cyclists!

Lorries: bloody cyclists!

Motorbikes: bloody cyclists!

Pedestrians: bloody cyclists!

Cyclists: I’m doing good for the environment! Everyone else can fuck off!

And every one is just a single block of text that the presenter reads out, slowly…

Reeeeee