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Topics:
- One of the last "most wanted" Nazi war criminals lives in my town.
- What's Michael?, the other cartoon fat cat
- In the patent for Tapper, the developers admit that it's just Space Invaders turned on its side
- Brad asks "Hummingbirds have to consume twice their body weight in a day to survive. If you had to do this, what would your strategy be?"
- Realizing pop cans are 355 mL because that's 12 US fluid ounces.
- Is macaroni and cheese known outside of America? Or, if you were opening a restaurant in a foreign country, what cuisine would it be?
Microtopics:
- An oddly temperate day in the park in the middle of January.
- Not necessarily recognizing the war criminal who lives in your town.
- Checking the box that says "I did not do the Holocaust" on the immigration form.
- How it takes 50 years to deport a Nazi from Canada.
- Berlin, Canada.
- Getting a steak and a beer with the 110 year old who works with you at the grocery store.
- Where you go if you're really young and you want to become a war criminal.
- A thing that is strange but also very ordinary.
- Explaining Garfield.
- Heathcliff, the other other fat orange cartoon cat.
- Explaining cow tools.
- Tools that don't really look like anything but it's the best a cow can do.
- What it means when Heathcliff wears the gravy helmet.
- When an ancient comic strip gets funny again because the original artist finally retired and got replaced by a Tumblr user.
- Stealing all the fish from the fish counter and the vendor can't do anything about it because you're wearing a helmet that says "fish."
- Scrolling a web page and discovering how many helmets Heathcliff has.
- Managing the flow of mugs in this Space Invaders clone.
- The best electromechanical bar game that triggers your trypophobia.
- A story-heavy RPG adaptation of an electromechanical bar game.
- Playing a story heavy game and wishing the story and the game parts were separable.
- How magical girl shows and JRPGs both presentationally separate story from combat.
- Taking the fight scenes from a robot combat show and writing new scenes where the robots are going to high school.
- Learning to fly in place.
- Becoming a hummingbird and learning to do what hummingbirds do.
- Consuming the densest possible foods such as lead.
- Assuming that iron is the densest element because it's at the Earth's core and must have sunk there.
- Searching for densest foods and Google gives you the most nutrient dense foods, which is definitively not what you asked for.
- Arctic explorers bringing sleds full of frozen butter to eat.
- Eating your weight in salt every day.
- Whether 1 milliliter of water weighs exactly one gram everywhere, or just in that locked vault in Paris.
- The Canadian hotline you can call to report bars that serve you an American pint of beer.
- The metric pint.
- Ounces per ounce.
- Writing to Stephen Wolfram to complain about the dry ounce.
- That double gotcha bar trivia question about whether an ounce of feathers is lighter than an ounce of gold.
- Europeans getting confused when Americans talk about calories when they mean kilocalories.
- Using more significant digits than the speaker intended when doing unit conversion.
- Whether someone saying "a thousand" to mean "a lot" is one significant digit or zero.
- Whether in the Bible "forty" is used colloquially to mean "a lot."
- Taking a dialect quiz that tries to guess where you're from but it doesn't know about Canada so it guesses you're from the American Midwest.
- Whether recycling is still a thing or in fact ever was.
- Keeping people employed at a factory sorting plastic for no particular reason.
- Pasta and cheese being popular all over the world.
- How Canadians have Kraft macaroni and cheese for dinner all the time.
- The biscuit you eat!
- How Pad Thai is a psyop.
- Putting fish in a bucket and waiting until it becomes fish sauce.
- Fear of discovering the fish flavor in fish sauce and ruining Thai food forever.
- Putting fish sauce on pizza yourself because Domino's doesn't offer it as a topping.
- Opening a Taco Bell in Mexico.
- Asking not for whom the Baja Blasts.
- A can of cream of mushroom soup inside of a Shepherd's Pie.
- Another salty MSG flavored brown liquid.
