"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky" - Solomon Short

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In the sciences, there is a fixed body of structured knowledge and principles that you are supposed to learn, and which is easily tested. With the arts, its more of swallowing and digesting knowledge which then slowly diffuses through your system; you don't always realise that you've learnt something. Perhaps this is why people think the arts are so fluffy.

It turns out that of the 2 packets of Rookworst I bought at Albert Heijn just before leaving (29/07), one was expired (10/07). Gah, they need an expired food bounty. Also, the receipt says "Degelijks geopend". I guess Sunday does not count as a day.

I could find 2-3 brands of canned white asparagus in Carrefour but no sauerkraut, despite asking 4-5 staff members. Bah. I think the staff don't know anything. I should ask the ang mohs who shop there instead.

Fabled Lands: Lord of the Rising Sun always goes on eBay for 18-28 pounds. The only time I've ever seen it go for below my reservation price *has* to have been when I was backpacking and unable to bid. Gah.

Every country has dumb laws. How they differ is if the police/judiciary are stupid enough to enforce them - what Mr Not-So-Creative calls NUTS - No U-Turn Syndrome.

If someone faked a degree or some other qualification to get a job, and someone else exposed the first person, I wonder if the second person would be slammed as jealous, ugly (in more than one sense), mean, persecuting the first person, trying to destroy everything he saw, bludgeoning people's reputations just because they could, a skanky scumbag, tearing the first person apart, making a personal attack, having a very warped sense of righteousness, crucifying the first person, a bitch, having been rejected by the first person, bent on giving the first person hell, ripping apart fellow humans, having no life, going on a witch hunt etc