The toilets/restrooms at restaurants (or at least many fastfood restaurants?) are often shared and used by both employees and customers. It grossed me out a bit a bit at first, especially as they are, in my experience, quite often pretty filthy. So all the nastiness customers drag in could potentially be picked up by employees.

I've been to BKs and Wendys' where I left the establishment as soon as I entered, just because the whole place looked and smelled like somewhere you shouldn't eat. I suppose these were more often than not in pretty rural areas..

While on the toilet topic, I've found public restrooms at e.g. gas stations and shopping malls to often be, uh, less than inviting. I think I've seen more overflowing toilets on a 4 week vacation in the US than I've seen in 40 years over here, in northwest Europe.

To be fair, I've driven east/west at least 10 times over the years, so I've been to a lot of public restrooms and the bad experiences tend to stay with you for longer than the good ones.

Spectacled and spectacular.

He's hopelessly optimistic.. I wish I could shake some sense into him.

A couple of years ago I interviewed a guy living in SF who wanted to come over to Norway, to work as a software developer. I asked him why he wanted to make the move and he went on about how he had to get outta there, how he had lost all faith in the country and did not see a good future for himself if he stayed.

At the time I thought to myself that he was being a bit dramatic, but the more I read about how the US is treating its people these days the more I think understand what he was on about.

He made the move, btw.

A friend of mine is a prison guard, in Norway, and from what I recall him telling me, a solid 6 months (out of 2 years) of the education he took to become a guard was spent studying law. It's probably more comprehensive if you want to become a police officer.

I was under the impression he is a gay fish?

This was me, skiing with my dad when I was a kid. Brand new Amiga 500 waiting in my room, along with 200 borrowed floppies, and dad wants to spend the Saturday skiing. Yay.

Btw, in Norway 92% of new car sales in January were electric cars, and apparently predictions for February are even higher.

When the infrastructure is there, people appear to have little to no qualms buying electric cars.

• Proprietary charging ports/stations, $50/KWh.
• Increasingly slower acceleration as the vehicle goes out of warranty.
• Any attempt at repairing faults with the car is a breach of TOS.
• Turn signals, headlights, stereo.. all features are $5/month on the Apple Store.
• Apple Maps will guide you into ravines and gardens.

Apple lovers would mortgage their home just to be on the waiting list.

All that ruckus and he turned out to be completely innocent! /s

I just picked that up.

More evidence he's a challenged 5 year old trapped in an old man's body.

Whoever thought it was funny to parasail over the village, it was in extremely poor taste. Take your twisted hatred somewhere else

Hate of what? Gravity?

This woman should make herself available to studies of the mind.