I was standing in front of a parked SUV the other day and I swear its grille was chest-high. I'm 5'4", I'd definitely not survive if one hit me.

Some years back, a couple of my friends drove Toyota Rav 4s. They were cute little all-wheel drive cars with three doors. This article tracks how the Rav 4 "evolved" into the ugly, massively bloated vehicle it is today. https://www.carwow.co.uk/toyota/rav4/news/8854/toyota-rav4-generations-evolution

The tiger in question was the guru's consort, who transformed into a tiger and flew him there. His shrine is full of gold objects & venerated. Hers is round the corner from his, rather small and dim. It's a beautiful place, looong walk to get there but worth the effort.

They got blue passports, that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Big woop.

My most recent experience in the UK is that they're fairly generous with painkillers. I was in an orthopedic ward - broken hips, ruptured tendons, that kind of thing. We all got oxycodone and paracetamol (plus laxatives to ward off the consequent constipation). I enjoyed the oxy but didn't become an addict.

He challenged his critics to a fight. He got one. He's an idiot. No-one was suppressing his speech, they were reacting to it. Then he scoffed at them for not fighting for what they believed in. I doubt very much that he was beaten into silence, by the way. He'll go on yapping.

Oh, oh, let's have human basketball played with a goat carcass, we could call it Buzbasket.

Ken Cheng is a British comedian. He likes to take the piss out of business people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng

Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.

And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.

Amazon gets these dumb answers because it emails buyers with the questions. So Joe Blow gets an email saying, "will this fit my XYZ?" and he answers, "I don't know, but it works ok on my ABC". It makes the Q&A section mostly useless.

My personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.

That's a swarm - get in touch with your local beekeepers group/organisation and someone will probably come and collect it.

Otherwise don't fret, the bees will do their thing. Scout bees will leave the swarm and look for a new home for the colony (the queen plus a third to a half of the original hive). They report back with details, and a collective decision is made on the best choice. The swarm will then leave. (Honeybee Democracy https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147215/honeybee-democracy is a good read on this.)

Back home the rest of the colony have a new queen pupating. She'll eventually hatch out, go on a mating flight, and come back to start laying eggs.

My father, a union organiser: "You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back."

Stood me in good stead down the years.

"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."

The Russian government cracks down really hard on anyone daring to protest against the war. You can be jailed for even calling it a war - it's a "special military operation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_protests_in_Russia_(2022%E2%80%93present)

My first adventure in Linux back in 2003. No idea how I achieved this, but from memory I just reinstalled and all was well.

“Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,” Vice President JD Vance said in a post on X Saturday night.

Big yikes. "Insurrectionists"? Bloody hell.

I discovered when I joined a volunteer litter-picking group in my town that some people really hate trees. And I must emphasise HATE. They hate the shade they cast in summer, the way the leaves block the all-important View. They hate the fallen leaves in autumn. They hate the bare branches in winter. They hate the risk of branches falling in storms. They hate the racket the birds make. I was astonished - it never occurred to me that people would feel so strongly.

Turns out I'm a bloody tree-hugging extremist.

Couple of HR people had sex on a desk, not realising they could be seen from the upmarket hotel across the street. Oops!

There were quite a few other incidents - it was quite a lively workplace - but this was the funniest.

The other grim thing about that Nestlé story is that often the mothers didn't have access to clean water to mix with the formula, and many babies consequently sickened and died.