The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

The ECJ has just decided that dead people have a right to paid vacation that goes into their estate and the widow can claim it. Strange.

[Syt]

I can kinda of see it. If you quit a job but still have vacation days left, you will normally get them as a pay out. Guess that she was claiming with his death there was no opportunity for him to claim the vacation, therefore a payout applies, which s due to her as the widow (she - or any other heir - would also get all residual salary payments as any financial obligations/receivables are inherited).

[alfred russel]

Yeah but nearly everyone in California lives near the coast.

And nearly everyone in Japan lives on Honshu.

Another major difference is that California was built up in the era of the car and in a society affluent enough that planners assumed everyone had a car. Plus we built an incredible interstate highway system. For shortish distances, it is hard for trains to compete with cars in the US, and for truly long distance travel trains are not competitive with air (even in Europe).

[alfred russel]

Concentrated hair growth was probably well after we learned to use tools. So I guess nature already knew.

Maybe nature has anticipated my loss of ability to use tools and having my hairline recede accordingly.

[mongers]

Concentrated hair growth was probably well after we learned to use tools. So I guess nature already knew.

Maybe nature has anticipated my loss of ability to use tools and having my hairline recede accordingly.

[DGuller]

I can still use my tool.

[Ed Anger]

It's covered in blueberries.

[alfred russel]

I can still use my tool.

I think it is time to stop the constant practicing and schedule some away games. 

[DGuller]

 

[derspiess]

That's actually some good advice, DG.

[Ideologue]

I liked your comic Tim.

[Jacob]

Today I learned that the name "Gropecunt Lane" (and variations thereof) were common streetnames in Medieaval England - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

[garbon]

Today I learned that the name "Gropecunt Lane" (and variations thereof) were common streetnames in Medieaval England - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

I know there is still a Grope Lane in Shrewsbury. When I was there, I admit it looked exactly like what I thought a Grope Lane would look like.

[MadImmortalMan]

I've come to the realization that sprawl is actually the solution, not the problem.

Humans don't want to live in Little Boxes(R).

Every time some human gets nearly unlimited power to do whatever he wants, what does he do? Versailles, Lake Bled, Berchtesgaden....They make themselves some place to escape from everyone.

People need space from each other in order to be healthy.

[The Brain]

I've come to the realization that sprawl is actually the solution, not the problem.

Humans don't want to live in Little Boxes(R).

Every time some human gets nearly unlimited power to do whatever he wants, what does he do? Versailles, Lake Bled, Berchtesgaden....They make themselves some place to escape from everyone.

People need space from each other in order to be healthy.

OK Typhoid Mary.