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There seems to be a thing in SoCal (never seen it in the Bay, though maybe it's a thing there too?) where in functions/conferences etc you'll be served cold water with slices of stale cucumber in it. Does this custom divide opinion with you guys? I think it tastes absolutely nasty.

Inspired by a post on AskBrits (where it obviously refers to WW2).

British seaside towns are some of the most deprived in the country, thanks to their economies having been destroyed by cheap flights to Spain where the weather's more reliable than in, say, Blackpool. Is this primarily a UK problem or is it a thing with seaside resorts all along the North and Baltic Seas?

Online I generally only see variations of the same 5 or 6 designs for mens' black rings (mostly tungsten carbide) and I'm bored. Does anyone have black rings with more interesting designs?

Edit: Oh haha only just saw the moissanite post from earlier

I see a lot of "first watch" posts on here from people who don't seem that young, and I'm just curious as surely if you didn't have at least some kind of cheap £20 watch in your life before then, it's probably because you didn't particularly like watches and never saw the need of having one. What made you suddenly decide otherwise out of the blue?

I was born in the early 90s. Until recently I assumed that smoking on planes would have stopped being a thing in the 70s or 80s but no, apparently it was only banned in the mid-90s. How the fuck did it take until the mid-90s for people to decide that allowing people to light things on fire in a confined space in mid-air with filtered oxygen would be a really, really bad idea?!

Other things:

- Leaded petrol

- Daily milk deliveries by specialist milkmen

- The vast majority of the population only being able to choose between four TV channels (how did it even take that long to get a fifth?)

- An actual old school white supremacist regime in Africa