The carrot thing was cover. It's true that lack of vitamin A can adversely affect your eyesight, and carrots have vitamin A, but taking lots more than the minimum doesn't make your eyesight *better*.

The British were shooting down a lot of attacking German planes during WWII, thanks to RADAR detecting and locating the bombers. So that the Germans didn't bomb the RADAR antenna sites, the British downplayed the importance of RADAR and made it seem like their fighter pilots had superior eyesight / night vision.

Where I worked, the vacation policy was pretty clear...you didn't have to look very hard to discover that unused vacation days didn't carry over. That was noted in several places, and you'd see it while you were looking for other details.

I wish I knew what this map signified...like, maybe how the local populace prefers their potatoes--mashed, fried, as Rosti/Potato Pancakes, as Frites/French Fries, etc.

Or maybe it's Top Search Engine Queries--Hot MILFs Near Me, Heisse Frauen Bei Mir, Les Femmes Chaudes Pas Loin D'Ici, etc.

Five comments...but all are by "guest" as part of one long comment. So, commenting here on that to break up the monopoly. Also, like all the many many other multi-comment novellas by guest, TL;DR.

Milo of Croton:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_of_Croton

Just watching that gives me hives.

Or maybe there really is a movie called "Loin King" and it's so terrible, that it's overrated even at a general opinion of "unknown." I mean, "Loin King" sounds like a porn parody title for one thing.

Satan believes in God.

Maybe no place good, but places.

I accidentally applied to that because I thought it was for "Jacuzzi."

Time flies when the frog is on the phone. The frog's on the phone when he's having flies.

I've had similar things happen when some company was asking me to please interview for a job or "explore an opportunity." Despite not being interested in leaving where I was, I took a day of vacation to travel for the interview. Then, even though *they* were the ones that prompted the interview, they did a lot of dumb things like be late, or just start looking at my resume after the interview started.

I got a lot better at fielding the initial inquiry. When they couldn't even give an intelligent answer to my question, I knew to not pursue things any further.

Counterpoint: If you keep buying with every paycheck, you buy more shares when prices are down. When the stock market bounces back, you'll have more than if the market made a straight line up to the eventual price. Of course, you need to buy something that has nearly no chance of crashing without recovering, so invest in the S&P500 index and not in Bitcoin or NFTs.

This is how ALL instructions were for a Japanese-made products in the 1960s. They got someone there in Japan who claimed he could speak English to translate the instructions and/or manual. Stereo equipment would have a 20-word long sentence with no verb.

Later on, someone must've had the bright idea to have someone whose native language was American English to translate, or at least check the translation.

Paying your bills on time is one of the three biggest factors in your credit score. It is good to use a credit card and pay it off every month. Never being late is what makes your score high, NOT the amount of interest paid.

Also, charging close to your limit may lower your score temporarily because of a high credit utilization, but it should return a couple weeks after you've paid the bill.

"Hey babe, why the long face?"

In order to REALLY get attention and validation, you need to "discover" that your toddler is transgender.

Well, based on what's in the news, that is.

Doubly ironic that the guy protesting the protestors makes a claim that he is "Smarter than the 'Scietists'."

Once while browsing through the stacks, my eyes fell upon a book titled something like "How To Love Your Kids Even If They're Complete A**holes." I took a photo of that and kept it for future use, which hasn't really presented itself.

Any billionaires that I've ever heard of have a staff of people to keep us from finding out their address.

Missing: What you *think* you know that isn't actually true.