Everyone being build differently is what makes us resilient as a species and causes evolution. Also, if everyone was equally good at golf it wouldn’t be a fun sport anymore.

The woman next to me in the hospital was asked if she could be pregnant right after the nurse checked her birth year at more than 80 years ago. We all had a little laugh at that one.

I vaguely remember seeing ads on cliff faces etc in movies 15 years ago on television, but I think they stopped using them very quickly. Is this just a comeback of a failed test?

While hiking with my boyfriend and dog I was waiting outside a supermarket one day while he was shopping. A woman and her daughter came to give us some dogtreats and a bag of sweet buns because they thought I was homeless. I couldn’t do anything but gracefully accept. We did enjoy the sweet buns and a few days later we spotted a woman with her daughter begging at the train station and were able to pass on the kindness. We are also always on the lookout for beggars with dogs to share out some treats. All in all it caused more goodness (and only slight embarresment) in our lives.

From the report: This report is a product of field and remote research carried out between October 2019 and May 2021. The report’s findings and conclusions are based on first-hand testimonies that Amnesty International gathered from former detainees of the internment camps and other people who were present in Xinjiang after 2017, as well as from an analysis of satellite imagery and data. The report also draws on testimonial evidence and confidential government documents gathered and analysed by journalists, scholars, and other human rights organizations. One hundred twenty-eight people were interviewed for this report: 55 former detainees of internment camps in Xinjiang (39 men and 16 women), 15 other witnesses who lived in or visited Xinjiang since 2017, and 68 family members of people from Xinjiang who are currently missing or detained. The majority of the interviewees were Kazakh, a minority were Uyghurs, and a small number were Kyrgyz or Han Chinese.

I enthusiastically bought a load of quinoa to diversify my grain cabinet… anyone got some good (veggie) recipes?

We don’t have a dryer and the lines only hold one load of laundry. So every time I know I’ve done all I can do for 2 whole days. The bliss is enormous. Sucks if I accidentally skip a few days though as it is almost impossible to catch up on a backlog.

I always want to do more and never get to it. My small steps are: 1) Went from drinking coca cola to local brand sodas (i drink 1-2 every day so some impact there). 2) Became a member of a pro green and europe political party, although my contribution is only monetary + voting as I don’t live in the country I vote in. 3) Occasionally bring up subject with friends and family. 4) I recently sent my first letter to the municipality. This one was about bike infrastructure, so not about the same subject but it felt really empowering to have a small contribution to the better workings of my local community and they actually changed some signage close to my house.

Once I speak the local language better I’m interested in joining a local movement but I don’t know if I actually manage to cross that barrier when I get to it

The same place artists get it? As long as people enjoy watching what you do and are inspired by it it is worth something.

On QI (bbc quiz show) they once said the sound you make when you sneeze is cultural/learned, so I wouldn’t be surprised the number of sneezes is also somehow cultural.

As a cyclist, I kind of agree. Apparently the introduction of seat belts caused an increase in cyclist deaths because people started driving less carefully.

But it looks nice on screen, and that is what we watch movies for. Not for historical accuracy, especially in fantasy.

I once called the police in amsterdam because of smoke coming out of one of those at 6 am on new years eve. Still unsure if the police was not impressed because I sounded too drunk to be trusted or because it was just the gazillionth of the night that was set on fire.

I think before modern plumbing it was quite normal for more people sharing a bath one after the other, or going to large bath houses. The house I grew up in from the early 1900s didn’t have a bathroom and people would handwash and occasionally fill a bath in the kitchen. (We had a shower built in, but it was obviously not part of the original design)

My boyfriend and me have a system where one of us always has to “quickly grab something and follow after a few minutes” whenever we leave a hotel room with too little privacy.

For me it’s the runners high.

I think I heard someone on a podcast with seizures triggered by lights and she said wearing sunglasses and in extreme cases closing one eye helped reduce the effects on her a lot.

Those warnings are called auras, and you can have visual or auditory auras warning you of a seizure.

The position used for sex can also change this wildly, so if you have problems getting to orgasm, try changing styles.

I thought our dog was a good guarddog, as he always barks at anyone near our front door or our tent when we are camping. Until I woke up in the middle of the night because a fox was trying to eat the food in our tent and my dog was just lying there chill as fuck. I had to shout to get the fox to leave.