Can’t say I have ever heard that expression.

Not yet.

I hear it’s been a stressful time. I’m in Seattle. Practically everyone knows someone or other who works at AWS.

Yeah, when I lived there, I would pretty casually walk around with upwards of the equivalent of a thousand USD pretty commonly. Wouldn’t bat an eye at taking more if I thought I was going to spend a lot.

That was my experience after the Tohoku Earthquake, yep.

That part is outside of their control.

I can see how that would be very useful for them to see! I would try not to feel awkward about these things. Easier said than done, I know, but especially with those who have been practicing a while, seeing or hearing something “gross” or personal becomes very mundane to most medical professionals.

And that’s okay! Someday you may be asked again and be more comfortable with it in that situation.

It’s used pretty widely throughout the country in my experience.

My last frost is approximately now.

I’m one as well, but tend to very literal and don’t always know which interpretation of something will hit and immediately get stuck in my brain.

I would choose something that at least has some resemblance to your real name. I’ve always found it awkward when somebody tells me that their name is, for example, “Liang but call me Peter”. I’d rather call you Liang. Or Larry? Something related to your name somehow.

To me, it’s not really any different than anyone else choosing a nickname and it would be kind of weird if my name was Sean and I decided that everybody should call me Vladimir.

But maybe Cliff does have some resemblance to yours, and I may have had more interaction with Chinese people than your average westerner has.

It definitely seems unusual in the US. I’ve never met a Cliff and was actually myself kind of guessing that it might be more common in the UK.

I’m an American and that’s what I think of it as well. And when I first hear it, I think of a physical cliff, not a person.

WE have had to listen to those assholes even more than you have had to.

Showing how uninformed you are despite somehow apparently engaging in these sorts of conversations. One would think you’d have learned that you’re talking about American right wingers after all this time of people making it fucking obvious.

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Don’t many or most office workers in India rely on takeout for lunch?

Hydropower has terrible environmental consequences. Emissions aren’t all that matters in terms of the environment.

Or nurses, or physical therapists, etc, who now are considered “non-professional” degrees and thus won’t be able to take out as much in student loans.