On your shoulders…

I understand those words individually but not together. Do you have a translation for lay people?

My parents emigrated in the late 1950s. After the Berlin Wall came down, they returned to Germany as tourists and noticed that former East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans, my father said it was similar to the difference between British English and North American English, but the change had come in only about 30 years.

Did it come with instructions? We left ours for 24 hours and it was fine. YMMV

People are lazy, they get so many emails each day, they couldn’t be bothered reading messages properly. I have turned into a cynical annoying person and write emails with large clear action points like this:

Hi, I have some comments and questions.

Please answer 2 (two) questions so that I can proceed with my part of this work. Without an answer to both, no more work will be done and the project will be on hold.

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1. Yes or no- Does this mean that the flibbertygibbet must be completed first?

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2. You need to provide further information on the doohickey because there is not enough detail for me to be able to goober the whatchamacallit

And then keep forwarding the original email every day until I get the required information. When the boss asks why no progress has been made, I can show him the email trail asking for information.

Cover your ass, keep asking the same questions until you get an answer.

Government departments, hospital, many companies regularly call me with “No Caller ID” and then seem surprised when I don’t answer.

If it’s urgent, they will should leave a message (instead they keep calling and complain that “it’s hard to get hold of me”).

I actually just got a new phone number because I was receiving literally hundreds of spam calls, text messages, and voicemail messages in a foreign language, every week. I have “Silence unknown callers” switched on. Only my contacts can get through. If anyone else doesn’t leave a voicemail, send a text message, or email me, then it’s not urgent and I won’t even try to follow up.

This is not a captcha, it’s a trick. Don’t do it.

They copy malware into your clipboard and try to trick you into pasting that malware into an environment that will run it.

Delete/ignore and move along.

Finally being immunocompromised and getting all the vaccinations available has a positive effect!

New Zealand

Put it in the oven on lowest setting

• Heavy metals: lead, mercury
• Arsenic in small doses over a long period

I don’t know of any plants, but I do know that the leaves of nightshades (potato, tomato, eggplant, capsicum, tobacco) are poisonous toxic in large doses.

Do you mean hydrophobic?

Put them in the other room so that you save some for later, and then keep going back at intervals for just one more, until suddenly there are none left.

In this specific case, pharmacy or doctor. In the case of surgery, ask about social assistance at your hospital.

A view of Marechal Deodoro Street, near the corner with Marechal Floriano. In the background appears the João Alfredo Building, which had just emerged in the early 1950s.

Never heard of a whisper, but never heard of a lot of these either (some sound made up by five-year-olds).

“They aren’t bio-degradable. Only the dead are bio-degradable."

I’ve just started using Adguard and it seems to work well. Blocks YouTube ads too.

You’ll get a big surprise!