Canbec

Honestly a sacrilege that Firefox didn't even make the list. It's my main browser for most stuff - same quality experience as Chrome without the RAM hogging. I also use Brave sometimes but much less than I used to.

13 hours ago, King Blue said:

Oh happy belated birthday @Canbec

Thank you!

Every Friday afternoon after school my mother would take me to Blockbuster to decide what movie we would watch that weekend. I have such fond memories.

Black grapes!

27 minutes ago, Kinnick said:

I rarely do.  I find myself reading the captions and not watching the action on the screen when they are on so I only use them if I cannot understand the dialogue without them.

I used to hate subtitles/captions for this very reason, but over time I've trained my brain to ignore them and only read them when I need to understand something.

I'm quite hard of hearing in one ear so yeah. Also helps my boyfriend understand some accents sometimes since his first language isn't English.

Ours usually stays up until Jan 2nd/3rd.

13 hours ago, Lancelot said:

Jason Kelce explained it best - it’s a movie you can and will watch at any time of year so it’s not a Christmas Movie.

I do think it comes down to this. Though personally for me it's not a franchise I would watch any other time of the year, which is why I consider it a Christmas movie.

My boyfriend and I have this argument every year. Yes it is a Christmas movie, no matter what he says.

Never have, never will

In my family it's usually turkey and meat pie. Never had ham for Christmas.

Cyclists

I voted pistachios, but kinda split between pistachios, pecan and (salted) cashews.

Every 4 weeks on the dot. Same time same place.

There is only one correct option and most of y'all are picking the wrong one.

On 11/11/2023 at 1:39 PM, Benfro said:

Phone is hard because of the lack of physical feedback and touch locating.

This is what I miss most about my BlackBerry

Central vacuum bby

On 10/22/2023 at 5:02 PM, WarriorSoul said:

I do, in fairness, grant credence to the idea that it’s important to stretch your brain in new ways to learn how to solve problems via different methods. In the same way that I would emphasize the need for STEM students to take philosophy or (more ideally) literature and history courses, it’s good that we make kids more interested in the humanities take stuff like trig and pre-calculus at the very least.

Oh absolutely. I'm not at all criticizing the fact students are taught trig. I think a wide curriculum is exactly what students need in order to be exposed to things outside their comfort zone.

I'm just saying this is an example of something most people will never use outside school. Doesn't mean that's a bad thing.

cc @Doctor so I don't have to respond to his other post

I think trigonometry is the perfect example of something taught in the standard curriculum to which our teachers exhort us to pay attention because it'll be "really important our entire lives", and which ultimately becomes entirely useless for like 75%+ of the population. Haven't had to concern myself with trig for 14 years now, and it's been blissful.

That said, I always started with sine.

I haven't worn a hat since last Winter. But I'm gonna have to start again soon...

3 of my grandparents had more than 10 siblings. I have no idea about the 4th since he died before I was born and I don't know that side of the family at all.

My mother had 3 and my father has 5. So naturally I'm an only child.

1-5 and the +30 buttons are all I need.

Agree with @Lancelot. Brain freeze goes away quickly so I have to go for that. I assume it's the same reason a plurality of people have voted for stubbing their toe, but let me tell you folks... The pain from stubbing a toe doesn't always end after only a few seconds. I stubbed my toe so hard earlier this Summer that I actually broke it