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In the UK: White-yellow cheddar (aka tasteless):

Americans are really soft.

Who cares? They're only Irish, not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Isn't there another word for female other than cow? A cow is a different species.

Same genus, Bos. If you're Tibetan a yak is male and a nak is female.

The current resident in the reefer is

Wyoming and Idaho are very nice places too. That's already happening to some extent. The people leaving CA typically aren't going to the Peoples Republics of OR or WA. With a fairly mobile population people tend to self select. It's nothing new. White flight from decaying cities started in the '50s. Then it was flight to the 'burbs. Now it's flight to another state.

Personally I left NH, about as red as it gets back east, in '88 when I saw the times were changing. I didn't know where I was going and I didn't have work lined up but I figured I would know home when I saw it.

I grew up in upstate NY but bailed from there around '71. Upstate wishes NYC and environs would drift out to sea.

"Many saw Gillibrand as moderate or conservative. Michael Brendan Dougherty in The American Conservative wrote after her victory, "Gillibrand won her upstate New York district by running to the right: she campaigned against amnesty for illegal immigrants, promised to restore fiscal responsibility to Washington, and pledged to protect gun rights."[

"A member of the Democratic Party's relatively conservative Blue Dog faction while in the House, Gillibrand has moved her political positions and ideology toward a liberal, progressive position since her appointment to the Senate"

She was appointed to Clinton's seat when clinton became Secretary of State and immediately became Hillary Jr. Just another windsock politician.

Yeah, there is that...

Not everyone is a happy camper. It did do wonders for the economy, chiefly tourism, when planes started servicing the islands. It's one of the more isolated places in the world without air transit. With restrictions removed and an improving economy Japan also boosted tourism.

Would it have done as well as a sovereign nation? I don't know. Historically the islands would have been scooped up by someone if not the US, but by the time of statehood Britain, Spain, Russia and so forth weren't grabbing pieces of real estate anymore.

Puerto Rico is another problem. The government is completely dysfunctional so it's hard to imagine it succeeding on its own. otoh, it would be stupid to make it a state and inherit all its baggage.

If only he'd told Starbucks how to make decent coffee

"Nothing succeeds like excess" or, in the words of Meat Loaf, "Anything worth doing is worth over-doing."

There's a book about that. When a few guys split out of Peets and set up Starbucks, the first thing they did was switch to cheap robusta coffee beans.

More likely that was when Baldwin sold Starbucks to Schultz to concentrate on the Peets brand. I've only been to Starbucks once when my brother shuffled through his deck of gift cards and decided to use the Starbucks one. I lived.

I'm not interested in the milkshakes that seem to be Starbuck's real draw and there are several local shops and roasters that I prefer to support. If I get really ambitious I've got some green beans from Sweet Maria's.

One of my customers is Irish. They make the best scientific CCD and ICCD cameras in the world.

The Irish are practical and make good engineers and, occasionally, scientists.

They add a half chip, if needed, to meet the target weight.

I've never seen anyone with a covered toilet roll holder. It would be harder to get hold of the end.

Eh? Sink, bath, toilet, that's three. On the floor. In front of each one.

Those stinky Muslims wash their arses with a spray, splattering s*it everywhere. Amusingly they call them a shataff, which is Scottish for "s*it off."

I've never seen a set with mats for the bath /and/ the sink. I just move mine across. And I've never seen a pedestal mat sold on its own. They may exist, of course.