Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

That’s some serious constipation.

[Doctor Phibes]

Don't you use the term water butt over here for a barrel?

[jon-nyc]

No. We’re civilized.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

No. We’re civilized.

We have water butts, you have...

[jon-nyc]

Cretin Barrel.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

That guy and his hot takes. It can't just be an interesting stat, it's gotta be all the tension in the whole society boiled down into one graphic.

[jon-nyc]

It would be interesting to see when GenX took the lead over silent generation and compare that to where millennials are with respect to boomers.

[Mik]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

That guy and his hot takes. It can't just be an interesting stat, it's gotta be all the tension in the whole society boiled down into one graphic.

How much tension can there be in a society so rich? Are there proportionately more in poverty now than then? Of course, then you get into defining poverty which is its own can of worms and depends on the result one desires.

[jon-nyc]

Considering millennials can be as old as 45 there can be a lot of tension. We have made it illegal to build houses in much of the country and that policy has winners and losers.

[taiwan_girl]

"Taxi" is one of the few (maybe only?) words that means the same and sounds the same in (almost) every language in the world.

English – Taxi (pronounced: /ˈtæksi/)
Chinese (Mandarin) – 計程車 (okay - this is not quite taxi. Actually means "car that calculates by distance". LOL. But if you say "taxi", everybody will understand you.)
Spanish – Taxi (pronounced: /ˈtak.si/)
French – Taxi (pronounced: /takˈsi/)
German – Taxi (pronounced: /ˈtaksi/)
Russian – Такси (tak-si)
Arabic – تاكسي (tak-see)
Japanese – タクシー (takushii)
Hindi – टैक्सी (taiksee)
Indonesian - taksi
Thai - แท็กซี่ (tháek sîi)
Japanese - タクシ (takushi)
ーetc.