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For worldwide recognition, the Shahada in Islam ('there is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet') would have to be up there, in variants (some 'I bear witness that', and so on).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:21 PM on May 1, 2024 marked best answer

I get knocked down / but I get up again
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:55 PM on May 2, 2024

I submit Theodore Roosevelt may or may not have been stronger, but absolutely had personal beliefs more centred on fighting and personal physical strength.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:01 PM on April 27, 2024

The notorious Australian cheese brand, changed in 2020(!)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:50 PM on April 24, 2024 marked best answer

I’m pretty confident the device on the bonnet is LED driving lights.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 6:44 PM on April 23, 2024

It all depends where. In common law countries you would not have a ‘default’ ruling, guilty or otherwise; you may have a mistrial.

In NSW where I am, first, intimidation like this would be its own separate [extremely serious] offence. Secondly, the judge would have the option of either declaring a mistrial and starting again, or continuing proceedings as judge-alone.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:33 PM on April 18, 2024 marked best answer

When was the last time you had a holiday? When I feel like this it's usually because I haven't had significant time off in too long.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:32 PM on April 15, 2024

It's the Scunthorpe problem. Interpreting words in the absence of spaces often depends a lot of context that isn't easily automated.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:04 PM on April 2, 2024

There have been lots of histories of religious movements (take the various Great Awakenings in US history), as well as the reverse, secularisation in societies over time, particularly the UK (take the Death of Christian Britain for example). In Britain the history of it is to the point that you can talk about a 'secularisation debate' over what exactly the decline of institutional religion means, and what has caused it.

To your gut I'd observe that, there are very… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:07 PM on March 24, 2024

Gently, the way you and others here define 'faith' 'belief' and 'spirituality' seem so broad as to be useless for actually identifying what it is about how people interact with the world that's numinous. In the twentieth century, the Soviet Union officially, and more or less successfully, made Russia, much of eastern Europe, a good deal of central Asia, and the lives of its foreign socialist followers, atheist. But does that kind of totally atheist Marxism-Leninism also count as a 'faith'? Where… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:02 PM on March 25, 2024

Sounds like vertigo symptoms, which can be brought on by inner ear complaints.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:26 PM on March 21, 2024

It's a young men's (under 30s) thing in Australia. See it all the time.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:38 PM on March 20, 2024

Similar to beccaj’s example, Sydney had Ernie The Fridge Man.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:39 PM on March 13, 2024

One such is in The Road To Wigan Pier (pp191--192):

Under the capitalist system, in order that England may live in comparative comfort, a hundred million Indians must live on the verge of starvation--an evil state of affairs, but you acquiesce in it every time you step into a taxi or eat a plate of strawberries and cream. The alternative is to throw the Empire overboard and reduce England to a cold and unimportant little island where we should all have to work very hard… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:37 PM on March 10, 2024

If you haven’t done Sloth On A Hot Tin Roof I don’t know why you’re even trying.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 1:04 PM on March 10, 2024

A lot of what you're smelling on the airport tarmac is unburned fuel and fumes, as well as exhaust from fully burned fuel. Aircraft engines, especially jet engines, are most efficient at high altitudes and at cruising speed, and very inefficient at low speeds (taking off, landing, taxiing, and especially idling). As hoyland says, the cabin's pressurisation/ventilation system---which includes its own filters---draws air from the outside, and when you're not moving, that includes waste from… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:03 PM on March 6, 2024

I have seen this musical, and from my best memory he’s about right.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:28 PM on March 6, 2024

GNU Mailman still works and does everything well, if you've already got hosting. Groups.io is a no-brainer if you don't.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:54 PM on March 5, 2024

It’s not a lyrical reference, but Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture contains long passages of the Marseillaise (to represent the invading French) and the former anthem ‘God Save The Tsar’ (the successful defence).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:01 PM on February 29, 2024 marked best answer

In NSW (and other Australian forces) in the 19th and 20th centuries ‘Special Constables’ were temporarily sworn-in officers in the context of events the regular police were too small to handle, for riot control, and especially in the case of large strikes and industrial action. They were used during the First World War and in the strikes of the 1920s, and the legislation for them was current well into the later 20thC. (It’s different now, ‘Special Constables’ are full-time police who have a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:06 PM on February 24, 2024

Midwinter (1989) was an extraordinary game for its time and in some way remains so. A turn-based, first-person shooter, action, survivalist, RPG, map strategy game (!?) set on a snow-bound Atlantic island.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:40 PM on February 12, 2024 marked best answer

It’s a volunteer disaster response agency.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 11:47 PM on February 7, 2024

More links; Tenants QLD.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:20 PM on February 7, 2024 marked best answer

What I'm really curious about is the step lower, and the step higher

Well the step higher is one of the foundational questions of the whole field of sociology as an academic discipline, so you'll run into a colossal literature running through a hundred and fifty or more years of study. Social cohesion is one of the terms you might be interested in; social ties, community formation, social capital. Older and more dated terms, no longer in use (at least in the normative… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:55 PM on February 5, 2024

Buy a rice cooker, a litre measuring jug, a good frying pan, a good sauce pan, and enough tongs. The rest is theory.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:14 PM on January 31, 2024

Ambulances tend to have very hard service lives, by the nature of the use they’re put to. They’re driven urgently every single day and don’t necessarily get the maintenance other working vehicles do. I’d look very hard mechanically at any former ambulance I was buying.

That said, if what you’re after is a van to live in, pay attention to the models that are used for ambulances in your area, they’re usually highly adaptable and the parts plentiful. Mercedes Sprinter vans, where I am.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 12:29 PM on January 30, 2024

Most North Americans are surprised by how well you can get around Sydney by public transport. Unless you’ve got a specific work need for a hire car (i.e. your site is out in the suburbs somewhere) you can do almost all of what you want in Sydney, Blue Mountains included on buses and trains, cheaply. The ferries are worth catching in their own right.

Cairns and the GBR by contrast will blow your budget out very fast, and it’s a long way for a weekend trip (and yes,… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 1:34 PM on January 23, 2024 marked best answer

Be aware that if you're arriving this Saturday 27th Jan, that this is the middle of the Australia Day (26th Jan) public holiday long weekend, which may mean fewer places will be open than normal, and cafes and restaurants may have surcharges. It shouldn't affect your Weekend 1 plan too much, but might add 10%-20% cost to the meals and flat whites.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:04 PM on January 23, 2024 marked best answer

Dostoyevsky’s Notes From The Underground.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 2:39 PM on January 20, 2024

Yeah you need to get that looked at. Losing movement is more than a simple sprain.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:22 PM on January 11, 2024 marked best answer

Babette’s Feast!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 2:02 PM on January 10, 2024

I read by the light of an LED headlamp all the time when I’m camping. Get one that dims, though, or you’ll be stuck with way too much light.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 12:37 AM on January 10, 2024

Not being facetious: since most of these characters operate as an alter-ego of a secret identity, they’d likely be operating illegally, or at least quasi-legally, from the go, since they would be unlicensed or else risk ‘outing’ themselves to the civil aviation authority.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:01 PM on January 5, 2024

I had a longer post of advice but deleted it because it doesn’t matter; in the end it’s very simple: intelligence is overrated as a life virtue and some of the biggest pieces of shit I’ve ever met in my life have been very, very smart.

Cultivate wisdom instead.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:14 PM on December 31, 2023

The cafe no longer exists, but Breakfast At Sweetheart’s.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 2:45 PM on December 29, 2023

Jim Broadbent in Mike Leigh’s A Sense Of History.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:20 PM on December 19, 2023

Also I would take it to mean ‘stores please take these off the shelves and stop selling them’, before 31 Dec 2023
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:40 PM on November 27, 2023

I have experience with this or any disability, but I do have experience with unemployment and job searching, which is that it’s left me with an unpleasant chip on my shoulder about work. It’s very easy and very common to become very embittered, very fast.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 12:53 PM on November 13, 2023

You can use the Roberts Rules (or any other variation) but the critical thing is to appoint someone as a chair.

It doesn't really matter who, and you can have a rotating chair, but that person is there to take responsibility for the conduct of the meetings, for clarifying your norms and expectations, to set boundaries, and---once you've made them---confirm the content of any decisions you make. They're not accountable for the actual decisions… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:26 PM on November 12, 2023

I think this is only definitional (in the sense of 'aid workers' being classed as such as a category of persons, and 'humanitarian aid' being considered as an activity). There were attacks like this throughout the 20thC—both the German and Allied air forces in WWII used the technique of following bombing raids to target rescuers and response teams. The reason armed conflict law protects hospitals and evacuation centres so strongly is because attacks on them have happened all the time.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:47 PM on November 4, 2023

This seems like the exact niche that the R.L. Stine Goosebumps series filled.

(You're absolutely going to have to cut off reading It before you finish, by the way).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:32 PM on October 24, 2023

‘G’DAY MATE yeah good to talk to you glad you got my email. Need some details from you and you just need to go through the list and get me the responses. Looks long but it isn’t, no worries yeah you’ll be good ay. Anyway cheers mate thanks bye’

DISCLAIMER I am Australian and the above may need to be translated into your cultural vernacular
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:58 AM on October 24, 2023

Dishwasher cleaner tablets or fluid are pretty good for cleaning out machines. You run them either in a cycle of their own, or with an ordinary cycle.

The bad news is that your dishwasher almost certainly doesn't depend on the hot water from the domestic system. Modern dishwashers have their heating element built into them (and get a good deal hotter than a domestic system), so if it's failed, you are looking at either a repair or replacement, eventually, or going back to hand-washing dishes.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:34 PM on October 23, 2023

Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 (AKA the Ode to Joy) has lyrics in both German and English, likely good translations for all the other languages of the EU of which it is the anthem, and is incredibly recognisable and pretty much universally known.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:02 PM on October 23, 2023

To me the issue is that you’d be bringing amounts of moderately flammable fuel inside the house, so the issue becomes isolating it, in its storage, away from the actual fire.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:08 PM on September 26, 2023

Alcohol isn’t going to help you alas. Only splashing.

Here’s what I do when I, a huge softie of cold water, go swimming in the surf: get in up to my knees, then splash lots of the cold water on my head, hair, neck, back, underarms. Then again. Then I dive in and scream once and then it’s fine. And then I get out before I go blue
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:03 AM on September 25, 2023

It’s been a very long time since I saw a phone number and details for a gay hookup on a toilet door. They used to absolutely cover the walls, dozens and dozens.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:59 PM on September 22, 2023

The few times I’ve had IV treatment this happens to me (the hand going very cold, cold to the touch and pale). I have excellent circulation otherwise.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 2:00 PM on September 21, 2023

A nice pen or a set of pencils.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:49 PM on September 7, 2023

Sideshow Bob rake stepping. Or just a lot of rakes
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:00 PM on September 5, 2023 marked best answer