• Unless you’re in Europe. Having to bring your own tools is a north american thing. Here all tools are provided, even pencils and tape measures. Hell, my last construction job even provided clothes and work boots, but that might be company specific. Also, generally north american construction companies require you to have your own hand tools, but not expensive power tools like large drills and saws. Cordless power tools can go either way but I always had my own.

Source: worked 15+ years construction in NA, and did a year in Europe before changing careers.

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IF I have like 10-12 hours, I’d take acid over mushrooms any day of the week. So much more predictable, and as someone who has little interest in microdosing, it’s a more controlled experience.

I’ve never had a bad time on acid, but I definitely have with shrooms.

Those types are what me and my wife like to call “neo-hippies,” or “bobos,” to borrow from French.

Imo, it’s a combination of that, and really outdated teaching methods.

La Francophonie is large enough that people never need another language to access additional information. They even have their own pronunciations for Anglophone celebrities, which is bizarre at first.

I once had a conversation in a bar where people were talking about a famous musician named ‘Kenny West.’ My friends were astonished that I had never heard of him. It took me like 5 minutes to realise that they were talking about Kanye West…

Like I mean come on, he says his own name constantly in his own songs…

For sure. Being a native English speaker, it’s worth paying a little extra to go to the cinema in Switzerland for me.

The French don’t do subtitles, they dub everything.

It’s horrible.

I’d watch that religiously.

Is that another name for physical therapy?

Back in my old city, which has a large Chinese population, I went to a physical therapist a few times for a hurt back. The staff didn’t really speak English, but it was covered by workers compensation so I gave it a go. Those people were absolute magicians, I tell ya. I’m not exactly sure what they were doing, as I was almost always laying face down, but I’m pretty sure it involved needles, and they definitely did some electroshock therapy, but boy did it work great. I just let them do their thing, and it really seemed to help along the healing process.

He probably didn’t want to deal with the air he would’ve introduced into the system. Or he was extremely lazy. Or both aha.

Realistically, the pressure was probably less than 1 PSI, as residential gas is measured in “inches of water column,” especially after the regulator. Where I did gas work, even before the regulator was never more than 2 PSI.

Gas is verrrry simple in almost all single family home applications. If you test all the joints with soapy water (with the gas turned on) you will find any leaks very quickly. I know it’s scary, but water will do much, much more damage in a small amount of time than gas. Of course, if you’re simply not comfortable doing it, hire a professional, but trust me, if lazy apprentices who don’t think past their next vape hit can do it, so can you.

Groundbreaking? Not exactly, wildlife crossings on major highways have been in Canada since the 90’s.

Age of Empires Il still has a very active scene with new content all the time. In fact there’s a new expansion dropping this week!

The thing is that English can be precise, and often is in the written language, but people simply don’t speak like that. Indirect expressions and implied meaning are utilised more often than lengthy, often Latin or Greek based, terms in the spoken language of native speakers.

FYI: Chamonix is not in the south of France.

I also wasn’t sure how to answer, as a Canadian who lives abroad.

Hey, I have this shirt!

Agreed, but as a young nation of immigrants, it kinda comes with the territory. As a Canadian who lives abroad, people have asked me to cook ‘Canadian food’ for a dinner party more than once… I don’t even know what that is.

Right!? Are we just not allowed to reference certain body parts anymore? How are the Republicans at their next convention going to explain where they want the twink they hit up on Grindr where they want dat dick?

They’re just so ubiquitous in English. In my experience, people coming from the Romance languages have a very hard time with them, because most of the actions they describe are a single verb in their mother tongues. Imagine having to remember what two words mean, but then also having to remember that when you use the two words together, they form a distinct, sometimes even unrelated, meaning.

And there’s thousands.