When I was a senior in high school, I was captain of our quiz bowl team (I can confirm I may be a slight nerd), and we lost in the local championship to our rivals. There may be a couple of us on the back row of the champion’s photos from that year because they weren’t paying attention

In our case, it's when the bank says that for them to approve our mortgage application we either have to fix or get rid of the shed on the property we were buying and it was going to cost 3x the cost of removing it to fix it up

The bus ride up to Machu Picchu was one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had. Some of the roads in Peru aren’t necessarily in the best of shape

This theory of yours has no basis in reality though

Is this something you actually believe, or are you just being facetious?

Is this the next iteration of the “Paul (McCartney) died in a car crash and was replaced by a look-alike?”

I have a sibling in law who has a dog that’s 100% my buddy. We refer to him as a street rat both because he was a stray they adopted years ago and because he always looks kind of frazzled, scrappy, and scruffy. I’m rather fond of that dog, whenever we go to visit he always spends as much time as possible in my lap

And even if the traders themselves didn’t travel the whole distance, there’s nothing stopping the traders from selling the goods to another traders who travel and sell the goods to another trader, etcetera ad infinitum

He’s the most perfectly properest gentleman to ever live!

That parade still happens?

I love how old trees like this look like river systems, it’s a really neat similarity

The Alps seem like they have some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet