What's actually going to happen is that your job will be outsourced to Nicaragua so they can pay the cashiers pennies.

That has literally already happened in Canada with the fast food chain Freshii.

Tibet, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, India, and Soviet Russia.

There was a TIFU post of a guy who one had three cat faces as his driver license signature.

And then he had to take out a mortgage and the bank made him sign a whole ream of paperwork to put in an official signature change.

One of the proctors leaked all the answers for the tasting portion of the 2018 exam (widely reputed as the hardest--by a vast margin--portion of the 3-part Master Sommelier exam) to two people.

And because the group of test-takers each year is so small and they are all in constant contact each other for study and practice, it was impossible to know how many people got the leak.

And so they just blanket disqualified everyone and made them all retake the test next year.

Didn't that entire generation of sommeliers end up getting disqualified over a cheating scandal?

> Yosuke Matsuoka

He was the guy that announced that Japan is leaving the League of Nations (after being condemned for conquering Chinese Manchuria) in an incendiary speech.

Also:

> Following his return to Japan, Matsuoka announced his resignation from the Rikken Seiyūkai and his intent to form his own political party modeled after the National Fascist Party in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dsuke_Matsuoka

I would like to see the same show, except it's about Sommeliers instead.

That would be so much more pretentious that it might just wrap around to being interesting again.

Think of all them porn you'll never get to watch if you go blind.

"Ceremonial" is probably a more accurate assessment of his actual role.

But when the two of them have ruled for a combined total 49 years out of the office's 62-year history...

And the third prime minister is the son of the first one.

The novel was written because Katherine Patterson's 8-year-old son's best friend was struck by lightening and died. And the book served as therapy by proxy for both of them.

David Patterson later wrote the screenplay of the film, I can't even begin to imagine how you would feel about that when you are revisiting that.

Also, importation of hard liquor had a big hand in it.

It's not really a war so much as it was just a long series of brawls.

Well, that disease just completely dropped off the radar after a few weeks of media hysteria, eh.

They found something like 9 different "Cities of Troy" built right on top of each other dating back all the way to the early Bronze Age.

Yes, they are Potemkin parties that are allowed to exist purely for show. None of them have ever voted against the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in all their history. (and every once in a while, they'd kill a few of these minor party members just to make sure no one gets too comfortable).

The articles for these parties literally refer to them being "awarded" their seats in the Congress.

That's a pretty classic malignant bowel obstruction, and that can kill you.

The second sentence of that section notes that the ruling was particularly fiercely enforced by William the Conqueror, to deal with any English malcontent.

In case you are wondering, yes, practically the entire team is Asian.

https://www.buchholzmathteam.com/team-members

And to prevent the recently conquered English from plotting rebellion at night.

> The topics depicted in the novels and poems were wide-ranging, including women's suffrage, physical disability, sexual impairment, secret sex societies, bestiality, India-rubber dildos, slave rape, duels, mock crucifixions, Turkish harems, and prophylactic devices. The Pearl often contained extensive political commentary, including references to the Reform Bills and Contagious Diseases Acts.

Back when people preferred to intersperse their wanking with deep discussions on the property requirement for voting.

Optometrists still use atropine to this day.

It is what they used to use together with morphine (Twilight Sleep) to knock out women giving birth so they'd sleep through the entire process.

But you'd have to be given a pretty high dose to get to that point.

Atropine and jimsonweed poison (scopolamine) are bronchodialators and will reduce the production of phlegm.

They will certainly cure asthma, but they'd also cure you from life too.

The earliest origin of this idea traces back to this 2000 Straight Dope article, which cites no sources.

https://www.straightdope.com/21342933/what-s-the-origin-of-the-dunce-cap

In fact, the pointy hat has a long history of being used as a symbol of shame, for example the Capirote, which was a mark of humiliation worn by heretics undergoing the auto-da-fe.