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Not a lot of sites advertising broadcaster vans and steadycams.

Did you mean “tech news”, or maybe something with punctuation?

Ironically, from a truck driver I learned bears seem to shit an awful lot in the roadway.

Hospital. It’s 100m away. I’m in a long queue for surgery deemed non-essential in the post-covid no-doctors-left triage. All good.

So some guy sends you a particular emoji and gets to live rent-free in your head for an hour?

Feta, capicola, sliced black olives. Perfection.

• everyday - standard, conventional
• every day - daily

You in the right lane?

That one puts the ‘disco’ in ‘discount’.

Pretty much as written.

As one long breath with no breaks?

a collective struggle or defense against a common oppression.

What do you think WW1 was about?

They’re doing it while seeing him dismantle those checks and balances.

America no es solo USA

Nah, we often call them Americans too, despite them being like Canada’s trousers. Many (most? I’m not certain) Canadians know how Americans label themselves abroad and are okay being a separate group to avoid bad impressions. “eres Americano? No; soy Canadiense” or so.

But thanks for thinking of us. It’s great to be considered!

I use ‘yank’ a lot; sometimes Tank, as I’ve got a Brit friend ;-)

We are allowed to guide the growth of things and show where they need work.

Didn’t you people have report cards?

skookum. It’s borrowed from, like, old Aboriginal trade language. It means “deal’s done” - with its own hand-brushing gesture - but it also means “strong” or “resilient”, I think.

And now it’s almost a common ‘Canadianism’ – if your Newfie buddy says " 'At’s a skookum blow we gots, b’iys", you know there’s a sad BC Ferry-tale on the way, and you’re not getting Over tonight.

Stop calling me Moist.

Seeded is, indeed, the most worthless of adjectives.

… until someone uses ‘literally’ as an adjective; and in that moment you are enlightened.

Look at Sweden, again dunking dunking on the rest of us without even trying. ;-)

I lived on an island in the North Pacific for years. I worked on the ocean in a floating house and working on aluminum catwalks a few feet above the water all day.

If course I don’t know how to swim. If I don’t have a floater coat on, I’m fucked. If I do, I bob and hope for rescue. But have your lines in place if you’re out in weather because the ocean does not give a fuck. In the North Pacific, your lifespan is the water is measured in "well fuck"s.

I lived near a lake as a child. I could hold my breath for so long. I dove a lot. Never learned to swim.

Swim lessons were expensive and we were poor. Swimming is essentially a pastime of the privileged and we were not. Same with skiing. Same with hockey and football.

Meh.

And it’s fun. I still play it when I have time.

Spermatozoa with their own protein space ship for better results? Have I got that right?

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Media is the plural