Stopped clocks and all that.

Two excellent reasons to not play on that course then. Either out of, you know, respect, or if you lack that, some equally disrespectful pissed-off Vietnamese might have chosen to set up some war-era style surprises.

Would you risk it?

If Putin hadn’t decided to forcibly annex parts of Ukraine in the first place, many Russian sons would still be alive and Zelenskyy perhaps wouldn’t be seeking help from the “wrong” people (not that I think that’s an entirely valid way to think about it.)

And as best as I can tell Zelenskyy is not in favour of the way Israel is going about what they’re doing in Palestine, and I’m sure he very much recognises the parallels with what’s happening to his own country.

Of course. If you can’t be loud and obnoxious, you can’t compensate for the fact you have a tiny penis.

Which I wish they’d quit because they’re giving the rest of us with tiny penises a bad name.

Both definitely happen, but this is almost certainly a formal writing versus common vernacular thing.

As for why, I’d guess the pronunciation as a word could be mistaken for the actual word “vat” or, worse, “fat”. Most people want fat on their goods almost as much as they want V.A.T., but now there’s confusion added into the mix.

Well, I suppose there’s precedent elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Specifically anyone who likes stinky cheese, or enjoys tucking into things like hakárl or lutefisk.

Regardless of who the star turn is, this is grounds for a class action lawsuit if ever I heard one.

On the other hand, there’s very little chance that would go well for Owens or her would-be audience.

… how do we convince them to push for it?

Tough times require tough measures. Either you find what the students do in there acceptable or you don’t. If you don’t, someone needs to check, and if not that sysadmin, then it’s going to have to be someone even further away.

One alternative would be to have the restrooms be locked and to be unlocked on request. How key management works with that I leave open.

This would be ideal if there was a suite of unitary WCs, because one key per room per person.

Not ideal in the case of emergencies, I grant you, but then, you don’t want to be using a filthy restroom in an emergency either, so I guess go the whole way into that and put a chemical toilet somewhere outside nearby. OR the old outhouse with hole in the ground if you can’t stretch to that.

The attendant doesn’t have to be a custodian. The member of staff with the office closest to each bathroom is now responsible for at least checking that bathroom once an hour. It’s a budget crunch. Everyone has to do their part!

And if that doesn’t fix the budget crunch within a week or two, the bathrooms are now being checked.

I’m leaning towards no. If you’re sat on the toilet in a small WC room, that urinal is going to be nearby and very close to face height. Also urinals are only really usable by half the population.

Sanitary wipes might be a better plan. Even better if they can be made reusable, but that could be too much to hope for what with the need for yet another bin, and the propensity for confused people to put things in the wrong one.

The problem with that is not the students, or the layout, communal or otherwise, but the unwillingness of the institution to pay a toilet attendant.

There is a solution to all of this. Unitary WCs. Each has one toilet, one sink, at least one method for drying hands and at least one sanitary disposal for non-flushable items. Mirror optional. A toilet brush might also be a good idea.

Communal rooms should go the way of the dinosaur.

That way, anyone, regardless of persuasion, intent or comfort level, can use a toilet in peace. And if they want to invite someone else in for safety, so be it.

All the problems with this solution are excuses, and usually not very good ones.

Terrible as Ebola is, I’ll be surprised if this doesn’t disappear from the news cycle in a week or two only to resurface again in three to six months, regardless of how bad it actually is.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s awful for those with it and their loved ones. It just feels like Ebola is a constant and convenient bogeyman with how frequently it turns up in the news. It’s almost like it’s being kept on a low boil on purpose.

A lot of British Pakistanis like to holiday in Pakistan, and I mean, a lot, and like any sufficiently large group of humans, there’s bound to be a handful who bear a grudge.

Which is to say that If I hear that something terrible has happened to him, I won’t be in the least bit surprised.

(Which is NOT to endorse someone doing anything like that. This is merely an observation.)

The answer is racism and doctrines of cultural supremacy. Also a lot of guilt about what happened to the Jews in WWII as a result of racism and doctrines of cultural supremacy.

(This is overly simplistic, of course, but it covers quite a lot of it.)

I wonder how much the current US administration being who they are has to do with this.

Previously, North Korea’s line was that the South was occupied or controlled by colonialist America, meaning they’d always refuse to “reunite” with the one true Korea. But, Trumpian politics and government, especially the apparent friendliness towards the Kim dictatorship democracy, if not some level of imitation of it, have removed the last remaining reason to believe that the South is under US control.

Therefore we might surmise that the North have finally accepted that, no, the South have been doing things their own way for a long time and the US influence, if there ever was any, has long since gone away.

And so there’s no need for any reunification in their constitution. The South is too far gone. Written off as a total loss.

OR. This is some kind of double-bluff and they’re hoping the South will let their guard down and they have the concepts of a plan to have the regime take over Seoul.

I think you’re mixing up who the holster is.

Linux Mint may be for you. It’s literally Ubuntu stripped of Canonical’s crap, and I expect they’ll make the AI stuff something you have to explicitly install if you want it. They already did that with Snaps, for example.

When your neighbour is a bear, it is wise to be wary of it.

FreeDOS is a free MS-DOS compatible operating system. EDIT.COM was a commonly used editor on MS-DOS and can be run under FreeDOS. I was making a comparison with Floppinux being a bare bones OS with a basic editor (vi).

Actually, the original incarnation of EDIT.COM was as the alter ego of QBasic, so that was literally a BASIC editor, but that’s more a fun fact than a selling point.