Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

Ok, a 1937 dollar is equivalent to $21 or so today. Still it’s remarkable.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States..."

[Copper]

And with the stroke of a pen they rewrote history.

No more colonies.

If only they remembered to mention reparations for the descendants of the colonists 250 years later.

And no more calling names like yanks and chaps.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

"Chic Lit."

LOL.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

"Chic Lit."

LOL.

Basically, blokes love to read pretentious philosophical shite, horrendous political books, or comics.

[jon-nyc]

There could also be sex differences on propensity to review books online.

It would be interesting to see this normalized by total number of reviews by genre. You’d then see a relative lead among men in most of the non-fiction segments.

[Copper]

When are you biologists going to learn?

There is no difference.

[George K]

[taiwan_girl]

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[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

One of our dogs

[George K]

This is more than "mildly" interesting.

That's a fine-looking hound.

[jon-nyc]

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[George K]

[George K]

New Shoes

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

New Shoes

Isn't that wonderful?

My mum said that when she was a little girl she'd walk up the road to watch the blacksmith at work. It seems so strange from a modern perspective, but she was only born in 1930, so really not that long ago - and this wasn't really out in the sticks, it was a suburb of Manchester.