Yeah. And that means there wouldn't have been much opportunity to comparison shop or look for sales—they'd have been buying the first acceptable option they found, at full price.
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About a thousand each. If they'd made reservations for an expensive evening out, and had to replace their outfits for that down to the dress shoes, plus another change of clothes or two, plus the minor stuff, the number maybe isn't all that crazy.
It's an obsolete usage of "beg" that's now preserved only in that particular set phrase. One of English's many linguistic fossils, which you should learn more about before trying to critique anyone's language use.
The newsworthy parts of this:
- It was a monkey and not a squirrel.
- It took down the entire grid and not just a section of it, because poorly-designed and -maintained grid.
The thing to keep in mind about 86 is that it's a very grimdark kind of show (themes of racism, lots of character death). It's a good show and worth trying, but if grimdark isn't your thing, don't be surprised if you bounce.
Hmm . . . so what else has no one recommended yet that's worth trying. Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, of course. You might find the earlier installments in the Aquarion franchise (Genesis of Aquarion, Aquarion EVOL, and Aquarion Logos) somewhat amusing—they're more on the silly side, but so are some of the shows you listed (the first series especially has some very silly-weird stuff, like the episode where the characters are cosplaying each other).
Older shows that you haven't mentioned and might be worth looking at would include Patlabor and Escaflowne.
And as someone has already said, do finish Gurren Lagann—it's worth it.
Oh, come now. Surely he did the traditional split-the-water-with-a-sword thing . . . while somehow keeping their mount from being hit in the face with it . . .
Okay, I give up.
I would guess your first language isn't English. "Middle age" is not a statistical term, but a traditional one that arises from dividing adults into three roughly equal-sized age groups:
- 20-39 years: young
- 40-59 years: middle age
- 60+ years: old
.
The lower bound will never drop below the traditional 40 years, although there has been some argument from time to time about raising it to match increases in life expectancy.
It's useful because it's ubiquitous. Everything that can take in music files supports it.
Is MP3-encoded audio of the best possible quality? No, of course not. But for most people it's Good Enough, especially if you do most of your listening in a noisy environment. MP3s are to lossless formats what CD was to vinyl for so many years.
30-60 is middle aged
According to whom? Fifty years ago, 40 was considered the lower bound for middle age, and if anything, the number should have gone up since then, not down.
Good thing the fire took that into account and didn’t spread to the wooden floor.
Not quite as unrealistic as it seems, maybe—fires tend to burn upward when they can. I would have been more worried about the ceiling catching than the non-gasoline-soaked parts of the floor. But yeah, really dumb and stupidly risky overall.
Because the GUI may change, but bash goes on forever. 😉
(Seriously, if you need a sed primer or something, an old copy of O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell is a decent resource.)
Very few of the people who actually served in the war on either side are still alive (if we assume they had to be at least 15-ish in 1945, none of them would be less than 95-ish today). I suppose it might lead to a few problematic situations involving nursing homes, but most likely anyone trying to track these people down (a process likely to take years even with the list of names) will just find a series of gravestones.
Criminal prosecution of any who are still alive and committed crimes not subject to the statute of limitations (and not previously prosecuted) should be possible, but seems like a waste of time (especially given that our criminal justice system is sufficiently backlogged that the defendants would likely die of old age waiting for a trial date). I doubt the Crown would bother. Civil proceedings (for loss of specific objects, general pain and suffering, etc) could be brought, I guess, but I can't see it resulting in more than maybe the return of one or two heirlooms.
Their kids, who are not responsible (legally or otherwise) for their parents' actions, should mostly vanish into the large mass of Boomer-aged Canadians who have German-derived surnames. Many of them may not even know about their parents' involvement in the war. Since most of them won't have their records and personal histories splattered all over the Internet, tracing them is likely to require a lot of painstaking scrutiny of old paper documents, in return for not very much. Those hot-tempered enough to bother with extralegal persecution are more likely to concentrate their efforts on the Palestinians right now.
Like it or not, the time for any effective revenge in matters relating to that war is decades past, and the list is largely symbolic now. Should the current legal proceedings drag on for a few more years, it will become entirely so. I won't say there's no risk of some innocent descendant being doxxed, because people do really stupid stuff sometimes, but it seems like a low risk.