SARGE

"That cleaned up pretty nice, I think maybe I’ll keep that after all"

"tough shit, old man, you had your chance and you gave it away. $10 million and it's yours though."

Entirely depends on your relationship with your dad, though, but mine would just roll his eyes and say "fine I'll just get a new one." neither of us would in any way feel upset about it, and have a small chuckle while retelling it later.

i never said they did any thing wrong,

I wasn't trying to imply you did. I was agreeing with you.

In those days, in those distant days, in those nights, in those remote nights, in those years, in those distant years; in days of yore...

They really wanted to drive home just how old the tale is...

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Skilled truckers

I have met truck drivers that can (and have demonstrated) back their trailer up to a cargo dock blindfolded.

I've met some that can navigate turning radii (radiuses? Radiens?) smaller than my old Nissan.

And then I've also met some that couldn't figure out their 13ft tall trailer can't fit under a 12ft 8 bridge...

For the most part though, in my experience truck drivers are better drivers than 97% of regular drivers.

As an American, even the ones that aren't should stay away. Why visit a place where you might get kidnapped by government sanctioned brute squads and sent to a death camp in another country?

I'm sure they'll have plenty of proper god fearing Christian good old boys just lining up to do their solemn duty.

You know, it's always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as "barbaric" or "Savage", but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

200 years ago, the local "doctor" will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he's gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it's last use.

200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you'll be fine.

But it's better.

See? It's got the pointy bit at the end.

Who needs superior naval power when you can just turn any naval battle into a land battle? Well... Infantry battle, anyway.

Interpretatio ~~Graeca~~ Romana

So good at stealing things, they even stole the idea that stolen things weren't stolen!

"See? You stole it from those guys!"

"Steal? We would never! It's simply been incorporated into our society."

"See? Totally different."