That’s not surprising to me at all. He seems like he would be.

I don’t remember where I was made aware of it, but it was probably this. I used to listen to NSTAAF regularly. This fact probably just got buried in the back of my head until it had the opportunity to come out now.

Yep, the same sound as when you yawn. I can make it happen without yawning. Honestly, I can only make it for 5-10 seconds before I get “tired”.

Regarding clicks …I’ve no idea what that one is.

Related: I’ve imagined a story where the obedient grunts in the military realize they just the nameless henchmen in an evil organization.

This was a really recent realization for me. I am one of the people who can voluntarily activate the tensor tympani muscles in my ears to create a low level rumbling sound. I recently tried explaining this to someone else and they still think I am making it up.

This sounds like owning a 3d printer.

Dihydrogen monoxide.

Literally kills thousands of people a year.

Just the peel? That is going to make every other part of acquiring and eating a banana really weird.

Oh God you just reminded me of a funny story. I had a boss that was probably 600lbs+. He was huge. The bathroom was a single occupant situation, and the toilet was positioned what I would consider a normal distance from the wall next to it. Typical distance to allow reach to the to dispenser.

This monster of a human had literally crushed a crater into the drywall from sitting on the toilet and being pushed up against wall. Every time I used the bathroom and saw it I laughed a little. I think I was just amazed this person could actually function.

I’ve no embarrassment about shitting in public, but I still prefer my own bathroom for sanitary and comfort reasons.

Not quite what you are asking, but the first time I saw the video from 9-11 of a plane crashing into a building was around 2014-2015 when I moved to NYC. The people I was working with there couldn’t seem to believe that I had never seen it.

There was a burrito shop that had a frequent customer card that you could use to earn points towards a free menu item. You could register the card online and for whatever reason you could add multiple cards to the same account.

A friend of mine realized that if you registered a new card they would give you a decent chunk of points just for signing up, then you could merge that account in with your existing account and get free points.

Every chance he got he would grab handfuls of the cards, activate them all, and get tons of free food.

I do this, but recently had the realization that my small percentage of cash back is sourced from the fee the credit card company charges to the vendor. After this realization I now prefer to pay cash when dealing with small local businesses. I’ve even found a few places that will give you a discount for not using a credit card which is quite nice.

My wife says I pronounce crayon wrong. The way she says it, it’s a single syllable word that is the same as the first syllable of cranberry. I say it as two syllables: cray-on.

Being fully honest, I’ve started drawing it out and articulating both syllables more because I know she doesn’t like it.

Is it you and your memory just isn’t as good as it used to be?

I agree. There are tons of resources out there that will tell you how to do it and typically they come with plenty of comments from other people telling why the particular example is wrong. From there you should be able to piece together a lot of the common mistakes, and understand how not to make them. If you can’t understand the why to any of them, perhaps it isn’t something you should be trying yourself.

I found my old TomTom GPS in a box last year. I struggled to find a reason it might be worth keeping. In the end it got recycled.

Messy Joe’s

Blockbuster gift card.

I woke up in a bathtub once. The specifics are missing, but I remember someone suggested playing beer pong with tequila instead.