What am I going to do, put the $20 back in my pocket? No, that’s a dick move. I see that they’re acting like they’re in a rush. Pocketing the paper money will only slow down the transaction.

It’s a lose-lose scenario, just like the grandparent commenter suggests.

How do I know the total until I’m given it?

The store knows which items are taxed and which ones aren’t.

I get you, but cashiers are trained to be impatient and never wait for me to pull my change purse out to round it up, even if I tell them there’s more coming.

This is how it typically goes:

Cashier: Your total is $10.50. Me, handing them $20: Here, hang on to this, I’ve got some change. Cashier snatches the money, enters $20.00 in the machine and stuffs it in the drawer as I fish out the appropriate change. Me, as they are in the midst of gathering a large amount of change from the drawer: Here you go. Cashier, interrupted during their change counting, furrows their brows at me as if I just tried to pull a fast one on them.

It can’t be a quick change scheme if you haven’t given me my change yet. Just don’t be in such a rush.

“Tuliping”

Jewish hell (Sheol), though, which was more of a “land of the dead” than a place of punishment (Gehenna).

Is there an echo in here?
“according to myth”^according to myth^ ^^according to myth^^

Slight correction, that’s born with/without "original sin which is best described as a condition and very different from committed sin, which one can describe as an action. Also, Jesus was born without original sin owing to the belief that he’s also fully divine.
That “holding a child responsible for the sins of their father” business stopped being a thing around Second Temple Judaism and what followed.

Another word for original sin that helps distinguish it from what people usually think of when they think of sin is concupiscence but that’s not in my vocabulary. I had to look it up because I keep forgetting the word.

And as always, none of this applies to Mormons because they’re special.

2 days later.

The phrase “On the third day” involves counting today (e.g. Good Friday) as the first day, tomorrow as the second day, and 2 days later (e.g. Easter Sunday) as the third day.

No worries, it’s a common misconception up there with whom was conceived when we speak of the immaculate conception.

Sex is uniative and procreative.

Paradise is already both those things. There would be no need for more.

Shasta gold.

Also, tell my younger self not to buy the lifetime subscription to the local BBS and just pay yearly, because this Internet thing is going to get faster and less buggy.

Pope Fabian Ⅱ

Political extremists aren’t always the best at differentiating between correlation and causation. Let’s see how this plays out.

Do those things have the same Return On Investment?

Some times you’ve got to spend money to make money.

No way.

I received opiates after abdominal surgery only after I explained why my pain level was only stated as a 3 or 4 out of 10, if 10 was “The worse pain [I] could possibly imagine.”

2/10 is manageable temporarily but not chronically.

3/10 was the limit where I could hide it. It requires a lot of energy to maintain composure.

4/10 was where movement was restricted.

I can’t quite remember what five and six were.

7/10 means I can’t form complete sentences uninterrupted.

8/10 means I have mostly lost the ability to communicate and I begin to hallucinate.

9/10 means I am unable to understand where I am or what’s happening to me. It’s around this point where I have blacked out.

Never ask someone with a healthy imagination to work on a scale where the limit is the worst they can imagine. Besides, is the scale linear or logarithmic?

Some background for the unfamiliar:

“OP” is the abbreviation for “Ordo Prædicatorum”, or “Order of Preachers” in English, aka the Dominicans.

Saint Dominic is the founder of their order.

Thank you for looking at what I wrote and seeing humour rather than malice.

Your tea bag…

No, it’s not, because I use something other than tea bags.

That’s you. That’s what you wrote.

I’m having difficulty understanding your post but you’re on the right track with Active PFC causing issues with UPSs.

Catholics: Hungover and dutifully celebrating Mass.

Hercule?