It’s quite well established that it’s a British dish. Curry in general isn’t, but Tikka masala is. It’s like Canada claiming Pizza Hawaii.

Everyone always forgets that Chicken Tikka Masala is a British dish and one of the most popular meals in the country

I usually do my best to just take an extra wide berth to get by. It’s usually only going to happen late at night or so when it’s super quiet, so in that case I will just cross the street myself.

Kinda just signalling, don’t worry I want nothing to do with you. It helps lull them into a sense of security.

I was living in South Africa at the time, and went to Kruger 😅

In spite of the elephant incident, honestly one of the best places on the planet. Highly recommend.

Because it’s in this thread. So clearly this thread triggered that thought. This isn’t a “what are your general issues with the fediverse”.

What? I don’t see that being the case her. There are lots of really interesting stories you get from this kind of question

When I was sitting in the car, parked, engine off. And some incoming pickup pissed off the elephant and he turned towards us…

Shoes belong in the entryway. Socks in the bedroom. Socks will always be put on before shoes.

There are a couple of niche situations where one might put socks and shoes on at the same time/place, but the norm of socks first then travelling to the shoes dictates that socks first, shoes after.

The one exception is when for example, changing in a public space, or outside, where you don’t want to get your sock dirty, so you put sock then shoe and then sock then shoe

At the end of the day it’s the fundamental issue of allowing all infrastructure to be owned by any individual or small group of individuals

I was just about to make a reckless Ben reference lol

His experience in this case is exactly as I have experienced the US “justice” system. Thank fuck I don’t live there anymore.

The large vehicles he’s referring to are industrial large vehicles. Which require special licensing. Even the big ass pickup truck they showed could make the turn with no issues at all going at a reasonable speed.

I have been enjoying RecklessBen’s content lately. Obviously started by the Lego controversy, but his other stuff is phenomenal.

And when they go “overboard” it’s just people being goofy like in ye olden times rather than super fake

If you are zipper merging before the lane closes you are doing it incorrectly. In a proper merge, there is no space for someone to overtake along since the zipper occurs right at the point that the lane closure has been created (and is usually designed at for a multitude of reasons)

I wasn’t talking about traffic stopping, I was talking about the point at which the merge should take place

Bricks and Minifigs would disagree…

You don’t zipper merge before the lane actually closes

Yep. It’s awful. And then you have the occasional other situation when it reinforces that women can’t be “real engineers” so a few of my friends and colleagues have been at booths at events and have to deal with awful sexist nonsense because of this being the awful sexist norm.