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Am watching the Canada-Finland hockey game at a bar. On the period break, I was just now ordering a new beer. There was this lady ordering white wine in front of me. "What kind of white wines do you have?" "We have Chardonnay Riesling and italian Asti." The lady thought about it for a good...

I'm currently going through something similar. Ever since I came to my current country of residence a few years ago, after work, I went to this one place that was next to the workplace of a significant someone. She'd come there after she was through with work, we'd share a glass or two, and then...

Learn to drink. It is a panacea for all kinds of ills. Granted, in the long run you might get a few other ills to worry about, but you are looking for a short-term fixes, right?

Roll with it. Everyone has been through break-ups, and felt like total shit. No need to interpret every seemingly cross-wise glance as a personal attack and lash out. Just chill, nobody here is out to get you.

Well, I'm not NR, but in his absence I'll see what I can do. Sadly, the comment rings true. Nowadays youngsters in Finland don't know how to cut properly anymore, so they just stab.

This thread reminds me of a promise I have to keep. ... I am so going to do that. And I'll go light on the steam, as I know a turkulainen can't handle too much heat in the sauna.

Why is teaching evolution in the classroom still controversial in the United States?

I think the only games so far mentioned in this thread that I have played are Warcraft (I & III), StarCraft (original & Brood War), Civilization (I think I, II, IV), and Bubble Bobble. Yeah, I'm not much of a gamer. Pretty much the only games I've played in the past five years or so are Hearts...

Rick Santorum 89% Ted Cruz 88% Marco Rubio 86% Jeb Bush 73% Scott Walker 72% Googling up some of these candidates and... well, all I can say that I probably wouldn't vote for any of them. On some issues I can agree with them, but mostly their stances and statements are too radical for my...

Sitting quietly by myself and thinking about stuff. Exchanging ideas. Taking something, and making it work a little bit better. Learning the rudiments of as many things as possible.

I think there may be a misunderstanding here. It is not my intention to suggest that if you do not make enough to meet the deductible figure (which would in my opinion be SUBSTANTIALLY less than 75000USD), then the government would subsidize the difference. My idea was simply to have a...

I'm not sure. Universal Basic Income usually means an automatic handout from the government, while this would be more along the lines of the beginning portion of a person's income not being taxed. The main benefit, and, as I see it, the main thing needing to be fixed in a progressive taxation...

How about a flat income tax rate, with a sizeable one-and-only deduction? This might ensure that the poor aren't taxed out of house and home, while incentivizing people to contribute to the economy as their hard work won't get taxed up the wazoo every time they cross an income bracket?

TIL women seem to have a sixth sense when it comes to someone sneaking a peek down their cleavage.

First, I think I might disagree with you on the land usage issue. Most US states have laws requiring pipelines to be built underground sufficiently below plowing depth to make the land usable for farming, and I would imagine this is also true in this case. As I understand, the Keystone pipeline...

I suppose you could argue that an oil pipeline is not important enough to warrant the use of eminent domain, but in that case it would seem to me that few pipelines would ever get built. A pipeline of any substantial length can easily pass through the lands of hundreds of owners, and if all it...

Could be that in a few weeks we will hear of Ebola spreading to more countries in West Africa. Now that the rainy season is ending, tens of thousands of seasonal laborers from Sierra Leone and Liberia have for decades now migrated to Ivory Coast to work on the cocoa plantations. Ivory Coast...

My take is that, if you want people to take you seriously, there is an air you need to project. Regardless of the circumstances, you usually need to appear calm, composed, and in control of the situation. So, if you make a mistake or do something out of turn, you try to keep others from noticing...

Aww, cheer up. Maybe one day we'll teach you guys how to play some hockey.

Dum-de-dum-dee.4-0. We're on a roll here.