I remember reading that it would've actually cost a lot more for people to fake a moon landing back in those days than to actually go there. When viewed from above, the shadows in the Apollo photos are parallel because the light source is so far away!
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A while ago, I was speaking to someone from the UK online. They were the type of person who assumed that all of the UK's problems were being caused by migrants, and they were outraged at an article which said that migrants and other vulnerable persons will receive priority care. They had no issue with other vulnerable groups getting priority care, except for migrants.
They then went off on a tirade about how "migrants are taking over" the UK. So, I asked them if they personally knew any of these migrants, if the UK is really being "taken over" by them.
They said "no" and didn't know what to say after that.
Aw yeah New Zealand! I often have trouble telling Australian and New Zealand accents apart though, they sound really similar to me. Love Australian and Kiwi accents!
South-ern, with the "sou" rhyming with "how"
"Deckles" and it rhymes with "speckles"!
I had the same thing for a while when I was little, so I can relate hehe. I remember getting a dictionary for my birthday because I had a phase where I was into books. No worries!
I get this sometimes, I think it's because the nerves that are actually triggering the itch are someplace else, kind of like when you get that itch inside your ear that you can somehow relieve by scratching the roof of your mouth with your tongue. I feel itchy now!
My dialect is confusing to some people. I was speaking to a Californian friend over Discord and I pronounce the word "Southern" in a way that she didn't realize what word I was saying until I clarified that to her, and she was like "yeah, that's definitely a different way of saying it". Another word that trips some people up is "decals"!
Laptops! I have a gaming desktop computer and also a gaming laptop that I use if I'm going to be somewhere other than my house for more than a day. Mobile games pail in comparison to what can be played on a decent gaming laptop. I wouldn't even think about trying to run even a rudimentary 3D game on my 3~ish year old smartphone which has 3-5 seconds of input lag for everything LMAO
Thank you so much! I have fond memories of that one because it's one of my first ever drawings that I've uploaded to social media. Can't believe a year's gone by already!
Me and a close friend have this 2+ years long running inside joke about a particular city in England that nobody else would get. We could be talking about the most random and seemingly completely unrelated thing and the inside joke about the city gets interjected in. Sometimes I beat my friend to it by mere seconds!
The one I'm having now! I have hyperthymia and when I have flare ups of it those can last for several weeks or months. For those who don't know what hyperthymia is it's basically a constant state of mild mania.