I have two words for you: ice cream.

I rest my case.

Amazing what spending over $1,000/month on hair stylists alone can do.

Granted, she was always good looking, but don’t underestimate what almost unlimited money can do for you.

Make sure quick booting is turned off in Windows. It can mess up a shared disk otherwise.

They are thinking that they have made billions of dollars, so why stop now?

Yes, Quebec’s health system seems to be one step below the rest of Canada. That’s why it’s very odd that The Pontiac has no orphan patients. And the doctors don’t seem to be overworked. When I have called my GP, I can usually get an appointment within a week.

I have noticed that a large number of for sale signs near me have pictures of 20-something female models for the agents.

My experience has been that real estate agents are rarely 20-something female models, and that anyone who contacts them will be passed off to someone more realistic existent.

Oddly enough (because in many ways it is the red-headed stepchild of Quebec regions), everyone in the Pontiac region of Quebec, west of Gatineau/Hull, has a family doctor. We were assigned one within a month of receiving our provincial health cards.

In Sesotho, a language of Southern Africa, there are no swear words, however there are insults that (I was told) may cause someone to want to fight or even kill you.

Those insults:

• I’m not your mother
• You are like a cat that jumps across a ravine and scribbles up the other side

Cookies are my driving force, and I am in my 60s.

I have found that Language Transfer is the best language learning system I have used.

French, German, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, Spanish and Italian all taught by the same guy. Each course is a set of audio files you can listen to on Soundcloud, YouTube, download, or use the minimalist but very functional phone app.

Completely free, supported by donations.

No, these usages specifically don’t use “vor” and “nach”. Presumably idiomatic spoken German

I think that in some parts of Germany, viertel zwölf means 12:15, but in others it means 11:45. Just to keep things interesting!

I learned the latter near Frankfurt, 40 years ago, and the former in Eastern Germany this year.

I also have RockSmith and a bass guitar. However, for 3 years I have been playing in local groups (the last year has been a community open mic where up to a dozen musicians sit around and strum together) and having a lot of fun. The thing is that these are almost all elderly people, self-taught, so they are not trying to become rock stars, just to enjoy playing music together. Playing music I have never heard before has been very good for developing my ear.

I go through periods of playing RockSmith a lot, and then not playing it at all for several months. Discovering user-created tracks that can be added as DLC has been fantastic.

Omitting the apostrophe in “librarian’s” probably wouldn’t make their day.

There have been a few disastrous wine tastings over the years. In one of them, a white wine was colored red with food coloring. Tasters then described it as they would a red wine, apparently unaware that it was white.

I believe that there was a second judgment of paris, too. It was supposed to show that the first one was a fluke, but the American wines did even better the second time.

Given that she, and her entire band, have been proven to use recorded tracks instead of performing live at their concerts, I don’t see that this is a big departure.

The other thing I would mention is that even if you learn standard Japanese anime is going to have a huge amount of slang and idioms.

The good thing is that, as in most modern Japanese, it will also have a huge amount of English loan words. The pronunciation may be slightly different, but you can recognize things like “hambaagaa” or “paypaa”.

Of course, sometimes it can go too far, like when I lived in Japan in the 90s and on days when they encouraged people not to drive themselves, it was a “No mycaa dayi” (“No my car day”).

Do you have any idea how much more expensive flying used to be? When I was small, in the 1960s, people might take one overseas flight in their lives. Some never did.

A quick search indicates that a round-trip flight between New York and London in 1965 cost about $3,500 in today’s dollars. Now it averages $800.

Not that I disagree that airlines are nickel and diming people and keep pushing to see how far they can go before it hurts their bottom line.

Let me know when you find a movement that is not kinetic!