I had a nasty infection on my foot when I was younger, like full on pus-volcano type thing, it looked and smelled terrible. The city I lived in back then was one of the biggest teaching hospitals in the country, when they asked if students could come watch I said sure, of course! Next thing I know there was like a dozen of them in my room, taking turn prodding the pus-volcano with a stick, cleaning it out (extreme pain), and just overall commenting on it and leaning over it super close. I’m glad I helped their education but damn was it awkward especially since I was about the same age as them at the time if not a bit younger if I recall.

That’s a nice obscure reference there, lots of interesting trivia around that film and as a french living in NL, sounds like I should watch this. Looks pretty janky though haha.

Yeah these days the standard on the toilets have gone way up (and stayed free, looking at you Belgium/NL), TBH for me even the unmanned ones are okay in case of emergency, it’s more that these stops lack a simple row of vending machines imo so I only use them if I really just need a quick bio break, they could be so much better as a more nature/calm alternative to the ones with shops.

The big stations along “autoroute du soleil” have been huge for a while though, at least since my childhood over 30 years ago. Beaune, Montélimar, etc.

In France there’s some really nice gas stations on some of the popular highways. In the summer there’s so many tourists going on vacation through these that some of them even set up temporary art exhibitions or special activities like bouldering, bow&arrows, etc. I remember doing my first “dive” in a special water cube on the parking lot of Montélimar’s station when I was a kid, good times. Of course none of that is even remotely similar to putting a beaver themed slop-shop and calling it a day, the shops mostly just sell local products and the usual essentials.

I lost 35kg within 8 months by going hardcore on controlling my diet. I did have to eat more once I started exercising, which I needed to because all the muscle was melting away right along the fat. It definitely works, but I did “fall off the wagon” once I stopped counting the calories. Now I’m trying to find that long term balance of sport and diet I can maintain in the long run.

Literally everything.

I like to imagine that Americans from the random states in the middle with perfectly rectangular shapes do the same thing, but since it’s just rectangles, no one realises it.

You should do that both in times of peace, and in times of war.

Can’t right now but might check this out later, sounds fun haha.

In the end there’s just a massive mountain of empty wrappers on the couch, they stay there until the next morning.

As the other person already said, not totally relevant to the discussion at hand, but I do find that bit of trivia fascinating. The processing power version makes so much more sense logically, but it was put to the wayside by production executives because they thought the average movie-goer wouldn’t get it, since computing was still somewhat niche at the time.

My best guess is they mean that leftists tend to prefer abandoning mainstream social media platforms than fighting against the right on them. Hence Facebook, twitter etc turning full right wing while we find refuge in places like here.

So that’s a very common mistake to the point you could argue it isn’t one anymore, but originally it’s “Junglist massive”.

That reflection does not look like 123kg to me, how??

Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).

Right, maybe it’s “longer” instead? Not sure!

At least add “more” afterwards…

I’m willing to do both, just not consistently…

Going to the wrong ones mate. The best ones are cheap.

Saw there were only two comments, thought maybe I had a chance to get that joke/reference in before it’s too late, but of course you’re already here.