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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Monty Hall Problem

    As many times as I've read or heard this problem, I still can't see why each of the remaining doors has anything other than a 50% probability of hiding the car. You start off with a 1/3 probability of choosing the correct door. Using an approach called Bayesian updating (for historical...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Need help on 30 year HS reunion outfit?

    My fifty-year reunion succumbed to COVID-19 last month. For shoes, I suggest black suede chukka or chelsea boots. For the shirt, tuck it.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    English already has a gender-neutral singular pronoun, "it".
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Once upon a time in English "you" and "ye" were plural while "thou" and "thee" were singular. It's a mystery to me why these distinctions disappeared and how vigorously we English speakers strive to replace them. To add to the Irish plural forms you cite, in the U.S. we have "y'all" in the...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Your first job

    I delivered papers, too. My father had also delivered newspapers for the same man who ran the office when I was a boy. My father used to tell the story of how that man had picked him up from the train station after he was discharged from the AAF following WWII. The first job I had for hourly...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Maybe it was GBS, but it seems that no one has found anywhere he wrote it. Come to think of it, the guy who explained the "bad teeth" trope had the surname of McCann. He spoke with an English, not an Irish accent, so even if his people still carried a grievance over English behavior in Ireland...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Well, I hadn't seen that man in, oh, over 40 years. Now there's a getting old sobering thought!
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    In the U.S. "braces" are something that kids get applied to their teeth to straighten them. I have been told by an English acquaintance that the British are well known for bad teeth. Does the NHS not provide for more than rudimentary dental care?
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The giant Halloween candy displays went up in supermarkets near me in early August.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    See Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pants-word-origin
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This thread has wandered away from "trivial but it ticks you off". As fascinating as first aid kits may be, where's the "trivial but it ticks you off" factor? In an effort to get back on track I'd like to offer a truly "trivial but it ticks you off" topic. "Pants" a.k.a. trousers. Sometime...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The answer is, "yes". Here's a link to a web site which describes Medicare (a program for those older folk like me) and Medicaid (a program for poor people). Because these two groups are not mutually exclusive, poor old folks can have both kinds. It gets complicated because Medicaid is a...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    How about a theme for a sub-thread, "Crimes which have disappeared"? Here's a first entry, payroll robbery. Once was a time that when payday came, workers lined up at the payroll office and got their pay in cash. That made the payroll office or the truck carrying the cash to the office a...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    My high school classmates were planning a 50th anniversary reunion, but it died of COVID. We kept things going on an email thread. I dug out the yearbook from when we were in seventh grade (12 years old, for those not familiar with the U.S. education system). I scanned the pictures one page at a...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Buying most things with a credit card and paying the balance in full each month will keep your FICO score well north of 800.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Maybe because twenty-one doesn't rhyme with "shine"? "Pardon me, boy Is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo? Yes, yes, track twenty-nine Boy, you can gimme a shine"
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Isn't that why parentheses were invented?
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