That happens to me with mail (package) delivery as well. The place where I live doesn't have a street name. In the past everyone could get here with no problem, but the only mail truck driver who ever made it here in the past decade (to deliver a package for me; I don't know about the rest of my family) was one who worked for ups for some reason, and I order regularly from amazon. I figured they were probably all relying on gps and can't find their way out of a wet paper bag on their own.

To me it reminds me of a short story I once read in a sci-fi anthology about a cannibal kid going to school and eating all the teachers, and all they'd do is say "he needs to express himself" and "we have to try and understand him". I think the writer had a deep trauma about this kind of educator. Or he was just nuts.

Anyway, if I'd written your Python-like skit, it would be a crazy STUDENT with a gun, and as the punchline he'd shoot the principal.

How many IQ points does it take to fill a mayonnaise jar?

Please solve for X, where X is the volume of the jar, and at least three types of mayonnaise.

Maybe I'm just stating the obvious, but a balloon filled with helium doesn't need power to stay airborne, unless things changed since my time. Though who knows, balloons these days...

My european's idea of baseball (and I've watched it. Live. In the US.):

A bunch of people stand still on an oddly shaped field for hours. Once in a while someone throws a small ball at someone else and a few others run around the field, then everyone stands still again. Most of the time, spectators are watching silly crap on a giant screen while stuffing themselves with really bad junk food.

I won't even describe basketball, I don't want to start a war.

American football and Hockey are fine, though...

Offshore? Where?

Let the guy move to Mars so he can set up a secure proxy for us earthlings.

FIFA are extremely conservative. They only care about maintaining the status quo and never really make any changes or act on anything at that scale...

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Yes, it's the game mechanics themselves that are flawed for this whole genre.

For ease of understanding I used the same punishment in my example, even if it doesn't make sense, but there are a lot of things you could do about it, but won't, because you are in a free country. The thing about freedom is that people are free to pursue their own interests, leaving them vulnerable to pressure from large groups that threaten them.

The problem is that your country (assuming you are american, apologies if you aren't) is not willing to stand up for the beliefs it was founded on. Neither is mine, for that matter, but my country, being small and poor, has little influence on anyone at all. But if the United States blocked Facebook for going against freedom of speech, guess who they'd choose not to antagonize.

I was banned from google adsense several years ago, apparently for life, and I never really understood what I did wrong (nor was I told). After a considerable amount of time I got two communications from google that were different from the normal autonotice - One telling me I could appeal, and another one rejecting my appeal, still without any explanation (it only confirmed that, yes, I was supposed to be banned). Meanwhile, I've known people who did abuse the system in one way or another or at least broke the ToS, without any consequences. I've also known others who were banned - back at that time you people were going all out with the banning - but I have to say, what a horribly broken system you have.

Well, for situations in which you remember having dreamed, and perhaps that you were scared, or having fun, or something like that, you can still remember nothing of what actually happened.

Personally I'm not much of a gamer - I play consistently, but only certain adventure, independent or old games. I read a lot, though. I frequently have dreams in which I can control myself within a certain plot, and which I enjoy very much like I would an interactive movie. I usually remember them immediately after I wake up, but then quickly forget. I never have control over my environment or think to check whether I'm dreaming, mainly because I just don't care. I never remember any real nightmares (I'm sure I have them like everyone else), though in some of my interactive dreams things always happen that annoy me or are contrary to what I'd wish that would happen.

I'm not american or canadian, but I've been on a road trip which visited exactly that stretch of land and I must say it's a seriously beautiful region, even despite Seattle. I hope it's not torn apart by a mega-earthquake; it would be a waste.