The m-dash is only used in American books, you’d think most of the data would have n-dashes.

PS am proofreader, will replace all your ugly m-dashes with n-dashes.

Universities and research institutes are not profit driven. They do most of the innovating. Patenting someone else’s invention and then selling it for a profit isn’t innovation.

Indeed.

I should have taken the night train (I took the normal train from Freiburg to Berlin, it took 13 hours instead of 6.5 and I missed my rehearsal).

I don’t drop it but it does fall off things because I forgot it was there.

Male mindset. The women loved every one of those babies. I remember talking to an old lady who’d lost 7 children and when I asked her if she ever thought of them she said “every morning when I tie on my bonnet.” (she wore national dress, this was somewhere in the seventies)

Fun fact: a lot of sinus infections are just a cold but the doc wants to sell antibiotics.

Misogyny.

Because all those guys who go on about how great reverse parking is are terrible at reverse parking.

Unless you mean parallel parking, because then it makes sense.

Parking lots aren’t “traffic”.

It’s not. Over here there are signs everywhere saying “please only park in forwards” because they’re sick of dented and scraped cars and cars that have been parked askew and take up two places.

How is parking between two cars safer than pullong out backwards not between two cars? It’s not as if you’re pulling out onto a main road.

But you can’t play with others without network.

France is nice, but be aware that finding somewhere to live is a nightmare because legislation favours people who already live in France.

They have a bunch of forums with different subjects. Believe it or not, you can piss people off by making a joke about acrylic yarn 🤣.

Huh. I’ve never seen that before. Men don’t mind.

I’ve been banned from Ravelry for many years and I have no idea why. They used to not message people when they got moderated, so I haven’t got a clue 🤷.