For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it’s because we’re “closer to the sun” as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.

    The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.

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      That doesn’t sound pedantic or pointless at all. That just sounds like pointing out something really, really stupid.

      Like that guy who was afraid too many people on an island would cause it to tip over. Like it was floating or something, and not just higher ground.

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      That feels like the “you know we’re tired because of all the tryptophan in the turkey” debate.

      Are you sure?

      You sure it’s not because you just ate 4 lbs of food in the middle of an afternoon on a day off?

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      It works if you include the amount of matter the sun radiation has to pass through in your distance measure.