The guys in the photos, they're all gangsters, I tell ya an they all sound like Jimmy Cagney.

Encarta! Took me a while but that was what I was trying to recall!

Broadly? I thinks that's a very American centric perspective. About the last system of justice I'd like to find myself at the mercy of outside those in totalitarian countries is the American one. It has earned itself an awful reputation, in Europe, at least. It's such a shame that countries like the UK appear to be behaving like client states of America.

It has earned itself an awful reputation in America too amongst the people who understand it. Unfortunately, most Americans are too stupid to understand it or too hateful to even try.

I agree with you. That's why I said, "it's highly unlikely he would be treated fairly or get a fair trial. "

> It is my opinion that the US is probably one of the best countries when it comes to the rights of a defendant ― well, before a guilty verdict.

Perhaps in the ~5% of the cases that actually go to trial.

I'm exactly on 93% too, I'm am going to clean out my Google drive which is full of stuff I could put elsewhere and will give me another few years. It's about time they increased their limit from 15GB though!

It's unlikely they will, there's an upgrade path called Google One that gets you 100GB storage for about $20 a year, across all their products, and shareable by family members. It also comes with human tech support.

Tesco give you an effective 1% discount on some future purchases for using their clubcard at the checkout, that's provided you use the coupons they send you periodically before they expire. I prefer to do as little shopping as possible there and instead shop at the far cheaper German discounter Lidl down the road. They don't have any of that loyalty crap.

In Germany Lidl recently started an app that gives you discounts.

Netherlands too. Really disappointing.

Do you have ALDI Nord or Aldi there?

Not the parent but yes, we have.

Same reason high visibility jackets are I presume. I always think they're green but others tell me they're yellow. I have normal color vision as do at least some of the people who see them differently

I always just assumed school buses were yellow because they're always referred to as yellow, but then my 3 year old child said "look at the orange bus" and as I looked, I realized that indeed the colour of a bus appears to be more orange than yellow. Now I can't un-see it.

Can't imagine confusing orange with yellow. Do you know what the general consensus is on the color?

Federer says yellow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1at7aQqjhC8

Yes I think I'm in a minority on the issue but I'm not alone!

I'm using them for years as a form of backup. Very reasonable priced, works flawlessly for me though I mainly use as a form of backup for a synced folder. GDPR compliant.

I remember being called by someone to whom we'd sent a trial installation CD, this was in the days before remote desktop software. They didn't know how to insert a CD and were defensive with it Why can't you make it easy for normal people?

Probably because they didn’t have a cd-rom unit and they were trying to push it in the 3 1/2” disk drive. If they had a real floppy disk drive (5 1/4”) they probably would have succeeded, but I seriously doubt that the installation would have gone through smoothly...

Lol!

I think most people get it that prize is twice as likely to be behind one of the two other doors rather than behind the door you pick. So one time out of three you'll get it right while two times out of three the presenter indirectly indicates the winning door.

Edit. Be nice if my downvoter would explain what's wrong with the above.

This is probably the clearest explanation, sorry you were downvoted.

Thank you! It's nice to know someone else feels that way.

Apparently you should not do that

Without the cuticle, eggs must be refrigerated to combat bacterial infection from inside. In Europe, it's illegal to wash eggs and instead, farms vaccinate chickens against salmonella. With the cuticle intact, refrigeration could cause mildew growth and contamination

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/why-eur...

"which can cause mildew growth and bacterial contamination should the eggs sweat as they come back to room temps"

If you keep them in the fridge until cooking, that's an incredibly small window for anything to grow though.

It also seems to shorten shelf life. Whether it is the drier air inside the fridge I am not sure, but unwashed eggs left out last longer. Always far longer than the insanely short printed date which I think is 2 or 3 weeks. A good few months is nearer the mark.

U.S. grocery store washed eggs also last far longer than the printed sell-by date, in the fridge, a good few months also. I have eaten em many times.

I dunno if one eggs storage method lasts longer than the other, but they both last an awful long time, apparently.

I have heard the water content/texture does change after a long time, making them unsuitable for baking applications where the composition matters. I'm not a baker, I dunno. They taste fine and are indistinguishable scrambled or fried.

You may pinpoint the major flaw in my feeling - they last so long the elapsed time wasn't precisely measured. :)

Let enough months pass and they seem to thicken up some - still edible, but definitely past their best. None of the box we misplaced at the back of the store cupboard were off.

You're braver than me I'm very squeamish about certain foods and would never trust them beyond their use by dates, meat, milk, butter and eggs being the main ones

I thought milk and butter are highly unlikely to cause any harm or distress that you wouldn't notice from spoiled taste.

Meat as well but you have to be accustomed to how raw meat is supposed to smell which may be more pungent than you think.

Trust your nose. The date isn't a guarantee. I have had food within the expiry date that seemed off, I ate anyway, and it made me sick.

Meat in the US is highly processed. It generally receives colorants, shaping, or processing depending upon the meat and where you buy it from. Deli meats for example are shaped loaves of meat for easier cutting and different flavorings. A butcher is generally the best bet for getting actual meat and they typically cut the meat the same day as you get it for maximum freshness.

Butter is best before. Honestly can't remember which date type eggs have - we've entirely ignored them for decades. Never yet encountered an off egg, but they do thicken texture a little if you use the months old box you find at the back of the cupboard. It was an experiment, k? :)

Use by we respect - but even then only ish. Mainly as there is a lot of slack built in that date to allow for people with a too warm fridge, or it sitting in their nice warm car for 2 hrs first.

Generally we just go the traditional route to gauge: Smell, texture, separating, colour change, etc. Milk that's turned is super easy to detect. Was even easier before homogenisation.

Use by date, at least in the US, is a completely arbitrary date assigned by the producer as to the date after which peak taste is no longer guaranteed. It has nothing to do with spoilage.

We have two days in France : best by which means nothing and use by which does not mean much either.

Genuinely interesting! I was brought up storing them in the fridge and have never (knowingly) had an issue.

I will do a little more reading - thanks for the link!

Last time I was reading about this I also saw that refrigerating eggs that still had the cuticle could draw the cuticle through the shell which would also pull in the bacteria and other stuff that had been trapped.

No idea if that part is true, I couldn't find a source either way and I live in the US so it doesn't impact me.