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Also Canada, my optometrist has never given me a problem asking for my prescription. However, they don't measure the Pupil Distance (PD) which your lens fitters might require.

This measurement is the distance between your pupils in millimetres. It can be measured with a standard ruler. Mine is 69 (nice)

My optometrist explicitly does not measure the PD because the glasses shop they have adjoining doors with will do it for you. We often just measure ours at home because it's far cheaper to shop for glasses online.

Chapters/Indigo radicalized me.

For the uninitiated, this is a chain of bookstores across Canada. I remember them as being one of the first places where people would ask you to donate a dollar at checkout. Their charity was framed as helping put books in schools, a cause that at first glance you can't really find fault with.

Well, turns out their program only allowed for the purchase of books at full retail price from themselves. So the 'charity' was literally buying books at full markup and profits. Supposedly it was also quite difficult for schools to actually qualify as well.

So when they asked you to 'donate a dollar' they were really just asking for an extra dollar for themselves.

When the cashier asks me if I'd like to donate a dollar to starving puppies with leukemia I think, "Why don't you donate a dollar?"

But I don't say that because I know it's the cashier's job to ask and it doesn't help to rag out some poor wageslave.

If you've never tried it before, a grilled cheese sandwich cut into your favourite shapes just calls out to be dipped in ketchup. And if ketchup is too much, a creamy tomato soup is also acceptable.

I second this.

I'd eat a peanut butter sandwich without the jelly, but I don't think I'd ever eat just a jelly sandwich.

Similar question for cheese and ketchup, you'd be more likely to eat a cheese sandwich without ketchup than a ketchup sandwich without cheese

Looks like Li'l Bill is Texas Toast

It's very impressive for its age, but I don't think it will float well with that hole.

For real though, we learned about these in school. For something made with stone age tools, it's really in fantastic condition over a thousand years later. Quite humbling

Fuck yeah Timmy, get me some of that green shit and you can keep the change

"How are you," is one of those loaded questions I never know how to answer.

Is it part of a greeting? Do you genuinely want to know? Do I lie and keep the peace, or do I open up and bring you down?

Anyway, I'm doing fine, how are you?

A lot of people think of anarchism as a "haha no rules lmao" kind of thing, and while that isn't entirely accurate, arguing about the rules for grammar seems seems against the spirit of the community.

Pedantry is often rules for the sake of rules' sake, and doesn't really serve anyone.

I heard somewhere that Tony Shalhoub's character was supposed to be blazed out of his gourd through the movie, but they removed the drug references to save the rating.

But my goodness, that guy is blazed out of his gourd through the movie.

That was my first thought!

My second was, "How do you get them out?"