The Off Topic Topic

[The Larch]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Maybe in the US where everyone has a mansion.
In Europe road parking is the norm.

Over here we have discovered the amazing technology of the garage. No scribes allowed!

[DGuller]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Not in the urban areas.

[Tamas]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Maybe in the US where everyone has a mansion.
In Europe road parking is the norm.

Over here we have discovered the amazing technology of the garage. No scribes allowed!

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/renters-urged-to-snap-up-chance-to-live-in-700-a-month-converted-garage-a3241331.html

I had a few of these beauties come up for me when searching for a place in the past.


You people do not anticipate the critical lack of homes and related infrastructure around here, compared to demand. We do have plenty of unused woodland though. i wonder when people will start setting up tents.

[KRonn]

Man, shopping for low sodium foods sucks. Local places don't have much and online retailers generally mark the shit up bigly.

Agreed on that. Drives me nuts trying to find low or preferable no salt food. I don't have any salt restrictions but I prefer no or low salt stuff as I don't like too much salt and want to cut down on the stuff anyway. No salt soup is way too expensive, but I can usually find lower sodium soups at same price as the more salted stuff, such as Campbell or Progresso soups. Other things like canned chicken, bread, spam, vegetables usually have salt with varying levels. I can find some with lower levels though. For veggies I drain most of the water out and that seems to remove a lot of the salt. I've gotten accustomed to using low/no salt and when I eat something with more salt it's really noticeable and tastes lousy actually.

[Tamas]

I recommend: cooking.

[Eddie Teach]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Maybe in the US where everyone has a mansion.
In Europe road parking is the norm.

Over here we have discovered the amazing technology of the garage. No scribes allowed!

A vertical parking lot. Not the side of the road.

[derspiess]

Man, shopping for low sodium foods sucks. Local places don't have much and online retailers generally mark the shit up bigly.

I remember being stuck at my grandparents' house with all the low sodium food.  The unsalted potato chips were the best

FWIW this commercial just popped into my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtHWHgIvHhc

[garbon]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Maybe in the US where everyone has a mansion.
In Europe road parking is the norm.

Over here we have discovered the amazing technology of the garage. No scribes allowed!

A vertical parking lot. Not the side of the road.

Still not all that true though. I think most people in New York (and from what I recall LA) still parked on the side of the road (which is the reason it is so hard to find street parking). I couldn't handle the stress of that / chance of being towed for being too close to a fire hydrant so I paid to be in a parking garage but I don't think that's the most common thing.

[The Larch]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Maybe in the US where everyone has a mansion.
In Europe road parking is the norm.

Over here we have discovered the amazing technology of the garage. No scribes allowed!

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/renters-urged-to-snap-up-chance-to-live-in-700-a-month-converted-garage-a3241331.html

I had a few of these beauties come up for me when searching for a place in the past.


You people do not anticipate the critical lack of homes and related infrastructure around here, compared to demand. We do have plenty of unused woodland though. i wonder when people will start setting up tents.

Isn't there actually a kind of typical London appartment that is basically a refurbished former horse carriage storage?

[Barrister]

So I took $40 out of an ATM the other day.  I went to spend the money only to realize the machine had spat out a $20, and a US $20 bill. 

I mean given the weakness of the loonie I guess I should count this as an error in my favour, but still - now I have to go back to the bank to get the bill changed.

[celedhring]

That's really weird. Are both banknotes the same size?

[Barrister]

That's really weird. Are both banknotes the same size?

Very close, but the US bill is a touch narrower.

[derspiess]

The human element is very much present with bundling the money and adding it to the ATM's cash cassette, so that'll happen.  I've never seen the reverse in the US, though.

What gets really fun is when the bank employees fill the 10s cassette with 20s and vice-versa

[Josquius]

Usually they're taking up space in a driveway or parking lot, not on the road.

Maybe in the US where everyone has a mansion.
In Europe road parking is the norm.

Over here we have discovered the amazing technology of the garage. No scribes allowed!

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/renters-urged-to-snap-up-chance-to-live-in-700-a-month-converted-garage-a3241331.html

I had a few of these beauties come up for me when searching for a place in the past.


You people do not anticipate the critical lack of homes and related infrastructure around here, compared to demand. We do have plenty of unused woodland though. i wonder when people will start setting up tents.

Even in my home town lots of garages being demolished and replaced with housing.
Very few people keep their cars in garages I find, it's just too much of a faff. At the parents place our garage has always been storage/dad's workshop/tumble drier room.

[celedhring]

The human element is very much present with bundling the money and adding it to the ATM's cash cassette, so that'll happen.  I've never seen the reverse in the US, though.

What gets really fun is when the bank employees fill the 10s cassette with 20s and vice-versa

Yeah, I've never understood why you guys have banknotes the same size and color. Ripe for confusion or downright chicanery.