Yup

A pretty shitty museum really. Discman was only made by Sony.

When Conan’s ratings were scaring the affiliates, many attempts were made to get him to change the show. One of the last-chance attempts was when Conan was brought into Lorne Michael’s office and briskly told that it didn’t have to be good. It just had to get an audience. He refused, and was canned soon after.

Because it’s fine, and it’s one of the more “normal” options for first-timers.

I have never seen a manual urinal in Britain. Never.

I was today years old when I realised Americans have to manually flush their urinals. It’s basically half the advantage gone.

Japan’s copyright laws are basically the same as everyone else.

Given there was only one writer, and he knew nothing about computing other than how to turn one on, nope.

He doubled down exponentially because he can’t be wrong.

Yes, a widespread nickname…

Soccer is short for Association Football. If you really want to fixate on club names for some reason, you can take in Wrexham AFC, AFC Bournemouth, AFC Wimbledon, Barrow AFC, but I don’t see the relevance myself.

I don’t really get your point. You’re expecting a nickname to make it to the club’s formal name?

Found a PDF of a 2014 study by Stefan Szymanski at the University of Michigan. Compares Soccer/Football use in The Times, NY Times, British football bibliography, Guardian, Independent and Time Magazine.

As the close relative of a football journalist, I spent my early life surrounded by historical books, journals, fanzines and programmes from around 1900 to the 2000s. Strikingly, pre-1970s, soccer and football were wholly interchangeable in every social grouping, every purpose, every outlet. Dockers down the pub would talk about footy, football, or soccer as if it meant the same thing. It is only with the xenophobia of the 70s that it became an “American” word and a naughty thing to say in certain company.

Soccer was a widespread term for it among all classes up until the mid-late 1970s, with books, magazines, newspaper columns, and so on using the term interchangeably with football. There appears to have been a switch to actively hating on the term, and it coincides with the rise of the hooligan in the 60s and 70s, and general xenophobia as demonstrated by the rise of the far right. It is at this point that “soccer” becomes a filthy American term among a certain type of “fan”.

The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.

It’s a Tesla tho