The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI

[Flying Pig]

An orange a day, in your lunchbox?

 

[Synobun]

An orange a day, in your lunchbox?

Too expensive. Oranges are $1 per... While on sale. I also would not trust a lunch box anywhere near other people. Getting my food stolen does not sound like a good time.

I suppose I could juice some oranges before hand, put it in a bottle, and then put it in my coat, maybe. Though it would get awfully warm after a while...

 

[Flying Pig]

Where on earth do you work that your co-workers steal an orange?! Picking the chocolate bar out of an unattended lunchbox is fair game, but come on!

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Where on earth do you work that your co-workers steal an orange?! Picking the chocolate bar out of an unattended lunchbox is fair game, but come on!

He has every reason and justification to fear that, as humans are fundamentally douchebags.

 

[Farm Boy]

Are apples cheaper around where you are than oranges? Could keep that in a coat pocket no problem. Or maybe a banana.

 

[Synobun]

Are apples cheaper around where you are than oranges? Could keep that in a coat pocket no problem. Or maybe a banana.

Apples are about .69 each. Not too sure about bananas. I can definitely experiment with different sorts of cheap fruit to see if any of them get the same result.

 

[Flying Pig]

I always find that cutting a lime in half and eating the inside cures a cold; I think that's to do with the vitamin C boost, so that might work.

 

[Borachio]

Also the citric acid has some effect on the bacteria in the throat (or is it the build-up of mucus?), I believe.

There's some special kind (and expensive) of honey that has anti bacterial properties too.

What's this got to do with viral infections? I don't know. Does a viral infection help bacteria get established?

Let's consult someone who knows about this sort of thing.

Anyway, honey and lemon drinks certainly don't do any harm.

 

[salty mud]

When a girl invites you back to her country, offers to let you stay at her house and even offers to drive you around everywhere so you can see the sights, and when I asked if she was being serious she replied with "yes," being very serious... Is this a sign of interest?

Serious question. I thought women were subtle creatures. This is as subtle as a car crash. And I still don't get it.

In addition to this I should say I've noted changes in her behaviour. When we are with a group of people she is quiet and doesn't say much to me. When alone however she always gives me her full attention and seems genuinely interested in what I have to say. It almost feels as if she is scared to talk when people are about.

That makes two of us.

 

[Borachio]

There you go then. I wish you all the best with this project and every success in the future. (Which is what people tend to write when I haven't passed an interview for a job.)

 

[Farm Boy]

Also the citric acid has some effect on the bacteria in the throat (or is it the build-up of mucus?), I believe.

There's some special kind (and expensive) of honey that has anti bacterial properties too.

What's this got to do with viral infections? I don't know. Does a viral infection help bacteria get established?

Let's consult someone who knows about this sort of thing.

Anyway, honey and lemon drinks certainly don't do any harm.

Honey naturally has anti bacterial properties, and it seems like all of it(that's real) is always darned expensive. It's pretty amazing stuff. Honey compresses were used up through WWI because of the antibacterial properties. The only two things the pediatrician specifically said not to give kids under a year old was well water and honey. I think the honey might clear out too much of their healthy gut bacteria or at least that's the concern.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

I am back to have fun! Has anyone miss me ?

 

[Borachio]

I have! Where've you been? Are you back to liven things up a bit?

 

[cardgame]

On a scale of 1-10, how awful are british 't's such as spelt, with 10 being the worst. possible. thing?

 

[Arakhor]

Uh, zero? I quite like them.

 

[Borachio]

With 10 being the worst possible thing? Such as Armageddon and world wide mass destruction with a wailing and a gnashing of teeth and general death. Plague and ... and... such?

So how much do you hate leapt, slept, dreamt, and such? As much as I dislike color, humor, candor, and such? In comparison?

So not a great deal, I suppose?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I didn't know 'british t' was a thing. I use and see 'british t' all the time in American English.

 

[Borachio]

I ask you, "leaped" just doesn't look right on the page, staring back at you, now does it?

It's pathetically crying out to be "leapt". Do you say leaped or leapt?

 

[Leoreth]

On the subject of British t's, which British accent is it where people tend to drop the t at the end of a word?

 

[Flying Pig]

I think Cockney does that - a lot of 'generic inner-city' ones do