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That one has a surprising amount of airplane terminology given it’s from before the Wright brothers flew the first sustained powered airplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

@fakefattrusty Thanks for pointing out that reusable discs exist! I hadn’t been up to date about that. Just googled them and there are now several on the market. They seem like they might have some advantages over reusable cups for some of us.

They are known to occasionally take even small scissors that are allowed by the rules (but I’ve flown with small scissors without problems so far). So make sure they’re not your favorite pair. One tip I’ve heard is to bring an empty box of floss to use as a thread cutter. I would… Read More

They were less evenly distributed through all of the internet at the time, though, so it was easier to avoid them.

Hampsterdance!

Every once in a blue moon, I still run across a page that is so ancient, it’s part of a ring. Although link rot has invariably affected the neighbors in the ring.

Because articles on BuzzFeed are written by different people, and different people have different phrases they resort to. If you take a look at BF articles, you will see that it’s rather common for an author to make a number of articles about the same subject. This results in a certain… Read More

Perhaps that’s because none of the men in the article were acting like you. Some of us are selective as to *which* men we bash.

From what I recall, shows on broadcast TV that ran at that point in time pretty much all had that problem. They’d have advertisements for other things such as current movies, but the car advertisements were particularly insufferable.

@prolix You’re welcome! And you have tons of informative comments on BuzzFeed as well!