Dear Bob. I’m so fucking sorry.

Why would vaccination end? Not from the US - what did I miss?

I see, thank you. Where I am school lunches are 3 -course hot meals, period, and I never questionned it. There’d be public outcries and newspapers articles if they gave kids a bologna sandwich.

And it’s sooo typical of their hyper-inflated personal and national egos:
They didn’t wonder for one minute why on earth foreign companies would pay up. For the honor or doing business with the greatest country on earth tm? Because they’d have no choice of other buyers, since no other countries has car / computer / whatever manufacturers who’d buy their products instead?

They. Are. So. Fucking. Insular.

Thank you.

Aren’t all meals hot? I’m confused.

Tbh I’d love a key, sounds like something I’d really enjoy!

I’m sorry what?

French woman here. I used to live in Damascus and I know Lebanon a bit. It was a wonderful place with great people (and dumbasses, obviously, but the great people were really great). Just wanted to say: I get it. I see you.

Where I’m from, the hyperbole would go “You’ll get punched.”

It was common in France until my dad’s childhood, in the 60s. There were commercials for Ricoré (half coffee, half chickory) in the 80s. AFAIK, you can still buy it in all supermarkets.

Fwiw, it’s répertoire.

“Vegetables” are not A Thing. The word just means a part of a plant we eat as a savoury dish. Some are seeds (like peas), or pods with the seeds still inside (green beans), or leaves (spinach, chard), roots or kinda-roots (carrots, garlic, beets), or (baby) flowers (cauliFLOWER, broccoli, Brussels sprouts - all from the same recent cabbage ancestor), lots are fruit (pumpkin, zucchini, cucumber, peppers, tomatoes). I found it fascinating when I planted my first garden 5 years ago, knowing squat about nature. Veggies are just plants where your pick the good part.

Not a staple where I’m from, but aren’t there japalenos in there? Bell peppers ?

France. I fear I’d be driven out of town.

Oh thanks. I’ve come across the name, never seen one. TIL.

What is it? An ugly ham? A weird champagne flute? I’m lost.

I mean, most languages are not written.

I had that exact same model 15 years ago. It got stolen and I’m still not over it. I got basic Kobo readers instead; they work fine with Calibre and any ebook you can get. I don’t touch Amazon with a ten-foot pole, and I never use the Kobo account you have to create when buying the device.

But I’d give somebody’s left arm to have the Sony back. It was perfect.