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My old Xperia Z5 Compact was the only phone I’ve ever owned that had decent speakers. You could actually listen music with them without getting pissed off. It was small and had amazing audio capabilities and great camera, easily the best phone I’ve ever owned.

But listening music / watching videos in public with your phone speakers on is an abomination. It should be made illegal everywhere.

I had this book when I was a child.

The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind’s eye.

Parkside’s value-for-money quality has been astonishing these past few years. I took the risk with them maybe 4-5 years ago and not one power tool from their lineup has had any problems yet. Today I just set up their quiet compressor at my garage, and the damn thing really is so silent that you can even have a discussion using your normal voice when it’s running.

Winning?

My dad used to travel a lot in the 80’s due to his job. I asked him to bring Turkish Delights if he ever came across them. I was so stoked when he opened his suitcase and handed me a fancy wooden box full of them.

This was one of the biggest disappointments of my childhood.

If your culture has taught you to “hide your shame”, you probably can’t.

If your culture has taught you that being nude is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s as simple as breathing.

I was raised by the latter one and I cannot understand the first at all.

It’s a reference to this quirk of nature:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/duck-penis-corkscrew

In my country the slashed 7 became mandatory in the national curriculum in the 1930’s. Our military strongly requested this in order to achieve better accuracy in artillery fire control - in those days every calculation was done by hand and mixing 1’s and 7’s could easily have deadly results.

This practice was quickly adopted by the whole population and it was a great success with no drawbacks. The slashed 7 makes it impossible to mix 1’s and 7’s, therefore it is the superior choice.