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I have to admit it did a lot for me and I can't believe I am saying that. But I literally just looked at this map for two minutes, trying to figure out what it was that caught me off guard.

Maybe inverting made South Korea look less like a peninsula "down there, hanging", and more like something "up there, that people want to climb"?

Maybe it's because I am not used to seeing this orientation and it's refreshing and hence I look at it more closely than subconsciously thinking "meh I know what countries there are and what's depicted"?

Like, this shouldn't make sense, it should not make a difference, why does it make a difference to me, I don't get it.

I don't know how many stars you are planning on doing, but I hope it will be ready by next year's Dia De Los Muertos or Halloween! Looks super cute and well made!

Jane Goodall was still alive when this article came out. It's nice to know she probably read about that, if not saw this live, before her demise.

It is weird, and I don't know if they had something like that. My guess is that getting small change in the first place was rare and it was not worth bothering for most.

Just for context, I am talking about копейки (kopek). Around 2003, the ruble was actually rather strong, with up to 23₽ to 1$. So 23 kopek would be 1 cent.

The last time I was there was in 2019 (for two obvious reasons). Back then the exchange rate was shit, with about 60-80₽ to 1$. The thing was that few places even gave you change in coin form. I remember relatives telling me that pharmacies are basically the only place that had prices with kopeks. The way it would work when shopping - apart from the fact that 99% paid with their phones and not with cash, I was the exception since I didn't have a Russian bank account and couldn't get one with my Russian passport - was that they would round prices, usually in your favor. So if you owe 2763 rubles (or 2762.88), and you gave them 3000, they would return either 240 or even 250, depending on how much change they have. They would also get majorly annoyed if you didn't have "760" on you since they usually didn't have change. I rarely got change back to the ruble (in this example 237). I definitely never got kopeks in a supermarket and just couldn't use them there.

So maybe accumulating change would take long time?

Please note that I am not a local, so my knowledge of Russian money culture and habits aren't the best or most reliable source. It's my experience but there are surely more qualified people around here to chime in.

Reminds me how I visited relatives in Russia and they were just throwing their change away. Literally in the garbage. There was barely a place that would take them anyway so why keep it. It still feels very weird to toss money like that, even if it is not even a cent.

I remember I asked my husband in all seriousness to please kill me. Not in the heat of the moment, I actually meant it.

I don't remember the pain. I guess it must have been bad but I cannot even imagine what it felt like or where it was located.

A rectovaginal fistula is fun too. Imagine having a mix of period blood and poop exiting your vagina.

Did you just... write an erotica piece about Trump and Clinton?

Yeah, it's somehow strange to equate some superficial gimmicks or lack thereof with seriousness.

Fucking hell that is amazing

Then you're definitely not from the Munich area

Looking back to my first 20 years I wonder why tf we all thought it's a great idea to bike through storms and blizzards instead of just walking

That could be me at 18 years, 3:30 am, with way too much alcohol in my blood going home from the sbahn station after clubbing

Absolutely. Even if I make pizza from scratch with whole wheat flour and homemade sauce, the amount of vegetables I can reasonably put in/on it is so limited. If I want to mimic a typical pizza as it is served in Germany, I need about 2 mushrooms for the whole thing. Even with the sauce, there is just so much sauce I can put on the dough - and so many veggies I can put on it - before it just becomes a soaky pie. And this is nowhere near a ratio I can really approve of. Our usual dishes consist of 50-80% vegetables. With pizza, I feel like we are just eating 50-80% dough.

Just because whole wheat is good, tomato sauce is good, veggies are good, and a bit of cheese is good, doesn't mean the combo of it is anywhere near balanced and healthy. We usually balance it with a huge salad but honestly we just don't like filling up on bread/dough, so we rarely eat pizza.