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I saw an Indian newspaper in UAE (back in 2009 I believe) with a matrimonial section where people were described as having a "wheatish complexion".

I have no doubt that someone reading this ( and certainly, I , at 4 decades on this planet am in that club) badly needs to follow this line of thinking...

Neat ! Never seen that before - reminiscent of the old Syndicate Wars intro... https://youtu.be/EJO_pBML7xw

For some reason, KOTH never caught my eye when it was on regularly. Saw it again a few years ago and loved it.

Oh wait - I didn't know this was the case. Is that the case in all countries with fabs (i.e. that they're state level/state controlled) ?

Crap, you're probably right. I completely overlooked the IP side of things...

Medicine, ideally surgery. I have zero knowledge of it and stand in awe of what I see high end doctors achieve. This isn't even a humanitarian "help my fellow man" thing. It just s…

Not quite an ELI5, but perhaps high-level-ish query - I'd appreciate if anyone who has industry knowledge could explain it like I have an electrical engineering degree but only a p…

While I love him dearly, I'd definitely take any advice (or anything in fact) that the good Mr. Barnum was selling, with a pillar of salt.

Same here, though in my case i assume it's mock (hopefully?) insult in a few Indian Telegram groups where I'm the oldest member by about 2 decades. "Unkill" is the phrasing and "bo…

I ended up with the same approach. I used to do my idle browsing on both, the PC and the phone. In an earlier bout of productivity (many moons ago) I blocked all the usual suspects…

Agreed, not much to be gained from dissecting the joke itself. Though reading through the tweets, the range of interpretations/misunderstandings is kinda amusing. Also people getti…

Hear hear, I wondered if I was alone in this. There's shows I'd watch and even (as far as I can tell) enjoy, but after a few episodes, I'd skip to Wikipedia for a summary so i didn…

Very cool - I'd never heard the term paregoric and I assumed it was perhaps the class of drugs used for slowing diarrhea (like say, Loperamide). I'd never have thought literal tinc…