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I’m 50, what do you mean “old status”? I’m young but there’s some seriously suspicious stuff going on with my body.

Only if you’re lucky!

I don’t think I’ve ever had bad food in Germany. In England my limited experience is mixed, some good, some bad and some interesting lunch choices like salted peanuts.

The fish is not raw, it’s gibbed and cured. It’s also eaten a lot in Germany and Scandinavia.

Also, we have vla in the Netherlands, and mustard soup! And we frown at people calling kale a super food, because it is considered one of the most generic winter foods over here.

Like Bob from the Bobiverse.

Everything in science is made up, including math. Then it is tested if it passes scrutiny.

I agree with you, but I’m afraid some people don’t care if everybody loses, including themselves, as long as no one has it better than them.

That makes sense, thanks for clarification.

I’m pretty much the same, but for the games of chance; As long as the prize isn’t monetary, I tend to do really good. Coin flip because two people asked the day off and only one can take it? Sorry for the other guy.

Another thing that I’m really good at is pushing a button. If for some reason something doesn’t work after pushing a button (either computers or machinery), just complain to me it isn’t working. I’ll ask if I can try, and somehow it always works. Actually a very usefull skill when I worked as an operator in various chemical plants. Coworkers had mixed feelings about it tough.

There are people who are always lucky, and those who are unlucky. The lucky ones tend to win more coin flips, have less accidents, and if they fail it will be upwards.

it might sound preachy to those who are ignorant

Am I reading it wrong, or are you saying that people who have a different point of view are ignorant?

You Suffer?

Pink Floyd

AC/DC especially has the same drum rythm for all songs.

Depends on the kind of stupid. I’ve met the kind of stupid who inspired the likes of Dunning and Kruger, and those people are dangerous. I’ve also met the kind who very well what their own capabilities were, and they could do better than some of the people that were considered “smarter”.

Current research states Neanderthals were generally as smart as us.

Darts.

You must be a fellow Dutchman!

Long story, but TL;DR: These are the factory settings for most older combination locks.

Feynman in one of his books explained that he picked locks as a hobby during and after WW2. So he knew how to pick locks, but his method for combination locks was not practical, basically a guessing game. At some point, a safe (I think installed on special orders by some overseer of the Manhattan project) was locked and no one knew the combination. So someone sent for a locksmith to open it. Feynman was hoping to find this locksmith, so he could ask him how to open such a safe. But, when he came to the room with the safe, the safe was open and the locksmith gone.

So he did what any sane person would do; he found out the name of the locksmith, started following him around for a bit and ultimately bought him a drink in a bar. When he introduced himself the locksmith recognized his name, Feynman being notorious for his shenigans including lockpicking. So he asks the locksmith how to open this kind of safe, and the locksmith responds “no idea”. So Feynman asks if he had no idea, why did he take the job and how did he open it. Then the locksmith explains that he was just going to show up, make some noise and all that, and then explain that he couldn’t crack the safe, here’s my bill thank you very much. But since he knew that these safes were all deliverd from the factory with either the standard combinations 0-25-0 or 25-50-25, he tried those first and that’s how he opened the safe.

Feynman found it baffling that someone had a big heavy safe custom installed for him, but was then too lazy to change the combination. He also went around the labs (where a lot of files realting to the Manhattan project were kept), and found out that quite a few combination locks on the file cabinets were still set to default.