I had a friend whose dad was a tradie. He bought an old hearse as a work car because of the size and well, it was cheap. Took his wife to the hospital to give birth to my friend and the nurses freaked out about a hearse being parked in the parking lot. It had signage on it for his business and he explained that it wasn't used as a hearse but they called the cops. Cops were all so what, it's a vehicle, it's registered, it's insured. Perfectly legal. Just call us if they try to go home in that because there is nowhere to put a baby capsule.

It still happens though. I've seen adults rip in to teenagers because our shop has run out of a product that was on special. I'm not that big myself, just older, fatter and with a little grey hair. When I tell them to talk to me that way instead of to a 14yo, they shut up quick and walk away.

It's a tough time right now, people are stressed out and some don't have a healthy outlet. I guess getting through traffic during summer to go to a shop that is low on stock due to - whatever reason this week - it can be a breaking point. But threaten or swear at one of my colleagues who have been on this planet for less than half as long as you, you deal with me mate (verbally, I wouldn't know what to do if someone squared up to me but my words seem to work).

I know some would say call the boss, but usually, the shift boss is younger than me and has just a little less of an idea on how to deal with assholes than me.

If you can afford a plane, can get away with pretty much anything because hubby is President, and know someone who can fly, why the fuck not just take off in that direction, but maybe turn left - or right, because you can.

Hell, check out the quality of the seatbelts and do a loop while you're at it.

The closest planet to Earth is Mercury. Something to do with orbit speeds around the sun.

In a linear drawing it's Venus, but Venus spends more time behind the sun compared to Mercury or something like that.

I saw something about humans evolving stronger, more nimble thumbs help with texting.

Evolution doesn't work that way. If your texting ability stops you from reproducing, then the stronger texters who do reproduce may, eventually lead to a race called homotextus or something.

Basically, if it doesn't stop you from reproducing, it won't affect evolution.

A bub in the womb has constant pressure provided by mums body, gravity is also somewhat regulated by the pressure in the womb as that pressure is essentially constant. Blood doesn't really pool in a particular spot in a baby unless there are vascular issues.

If you look at your foot, you can see more veins near the surface of the skin than you would if you look at your lower leg because there is far less fat or muscle. With all those blood vessels near the surface of the skin to help transfer heat/cool between the blood and skin surface, feet are great temperature regulators.

Both. New tech leads to new tech breakthroughs. New tech is expensive and it takes time to find ways to mass produce them to make them affordable.

So, by my maths (dodgy at best), more people died on the titanic, but crew weren't counted because they didn't buy a ticket?

First no Bill Posters, now, No Alcool.

This persecution can't be reasonable.

Rules are rules. Don't know the password, you don't enter the fort. You can't argue with that logic.

Vaccines only work before you contract a disease. If you aren't vaccinated against rabies and you contract it, you are as good as gone.

Their eyeballs aren't as moveable as ours. In the birds you have mentioned, their eyes are also at the side of the head. Their eyes, food intake system (beak/mouth - wasn't sure of the correct terminology), airway and sinuses take up most of the head so they eyes don't have much movement. It's a bit of a look around - body catches up, look around, body catches up, repeat thing. Or it's a look around, not happy, retract the head and go the other way or fly away sort of thing.

Police called for domestic violence compliant. Find man and dead spider:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/02/australian-man-screaming-at-spider-why-dont-you-die-triggers-full-police-response

The birth rate is declining, but people are living longer. It will take a generation for any change to be noticed.

In Australia? It was very iffy. You could be given land by the King but it would take months for that info to get to Oz. In that time, the Governer of Sydney (the basic whole of Australia back then) could have given someone else the same land under the authority of the King which also could not be disputed. It would have been the word or the King against the King. Given that the currency in the early settlement days was rum, essentially people just got drunk and bitch slapped each other, or they took convict labour and the First Nations people and forced them to build fences(ish), or they died and squatters rights sometimes kicked in or the whole lot was forgotten.