At my automotive electronics company, when we started working on components for electric vehicles (high voltage, but not as high as lightning or high tension wires), anybody who was going to work on EV had to take a "High Voltage Course." A little bit of it was "how not to screw up components or invalidate a test," but a large part was "How not to get killed."

I am in age between those two people. We had a hammerfore.

Over the eons prior to ~6400BC, envy, hatred, jealousy, anger and other bad things snuck from “The Otherworld” onto our realm. Maybe there’s another bad thing, and the spirit of this Good Boy is vigilantly watching the doorway, keeping that other bad thing away. Glad he’s got a couple of his favorite toys.

It's easy to forget how significant one week is to someone who hasn't gone one week ever.

I hear this sentiment fairly often. I always wonder if those people actually do *anything* now, like give a stocking hat to a hatless homeless person or share their lunch or something that doesn't require being extremely rich. I work with a group that spends a week hosting church youth groups in the summer, and we build wheelchair ramps, re-roof and re-side houses, fix plumbing...various things like that for elderly, handicapped and poor people who don't have anybody to turn to. It's amazing what you can do with a skilled adult, a couple semi-skilled adults, and some teenagers that are eager to serve. And none of whom are rich.

Once people find out, you are really knowledgeable in some area, and they are constantly seeking advice, or rather validation for what they want to do anyway, because what they really do is sometimes the opposite of what you advised. It’s a good self-defense mechanism to act like you don’t know anything around those people, since it’s very annoying, and sometimes even painful because they do the opposite of what you said, and sometimes even blame you, for some reason, despite not taking your advice.

When life gives you cold tea, have ice tea.

I'm hearing them in my head with Austrian accents.

I was at a coffee place a while back, and at the table next to me was a group of teachers (which I knew from their conversation). When their friend arrived, they looked over at my table with just me sitting there and asked, "Can we take one of your chairs?" I replied, "I don't know...*can* you?"

I waited many year to do *that*!

People forget that the US, after WWII, had conquered and occupied many of its enemies. But, once the economies were stable and there was a political system in place to replace the dictatorship, the US *left*. No other countries ever did that. Look at the difficulty in Soviet satellites breaking free once communism was weakened. History is replete with countries fighting for independence, but there aren’t many examples of a conqueror saying “You’re ready for independence. Bye.”

If you think about it, the people saying “Don’t conform! Be unique!” often conform strongly to each other, so the non-conformist might have a neat crew cut and wear a polo shirt, or be like the girl described in this meme.

Pennies?

Forg?

It doesn’t get cold, but does get diluted by ice.

Pet peeve: “Reduces undesirable effects by 150%!” If you reduce something by 100%, you completely eliminate it. “Decrease failures by 200%.” How can you get rid of more than 100% of something? What they MEAN is that the old number is 150% or 200% higher than the improved number, it that’s not what is actually said.

Isn’t it a common complaint that husbands/boyfriends don’t even notice that the wife/GF got a new dress?

WHAT?!?! I CAN’T HEAR YOU! I HAVE A BIRD IN MY EAR!

Trivia: Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three successive sets of double letters.

For a minute, I thought the guy on the left was trying to get me to look a the circle made with his thumb and pointer finger so he could punch me in the shoulder...you know, as "an American thing" that Japanese would think is cool, like other Americana such as blue jeans, hamburgers and princesses being served cake.

Mine demands a lamb-based food called "Lamburghini."

Quel domage!

If you have ever worked at a company where there are "pool cars" to be checked out for use when traveling on the company, the people (usually women) who control access to the company cars are the sourest of all the people you'll have to interface with.

Alternate take: Investing is not that difficult. But, if you want to be *paid* to do it for someone else, you need to appear to have abilities others don't possess.