I hear it pronounced as "lawn" all the time and it pisses me off to no end. Be thankful that you don't hear it.

I think detectportal.firefox.com is used to detect if the current Wi-Fi connection requires the user to log in on a portal page, like the public Wi-Fi at airports or cafés. It redirects you to the log in page. Why would you block that?

Pretty sure there's no way my government would allow it. Sure, secretly kidnapping me might not be too difficult, but my government would never officially give permission to the CCP police to have a talk with me (as the Australian govt. did in this article). I live in Taiwan btw.

Kinda glad where I live there's absolutely no way our government would allow CCP police to reach me. (unless the CCP police goes undercover and kidnaps me)

Loco Roco is the game I grew up with. It's a really cute game where to pass a level is easy, but to ace a level hard. Give it a try!

Does the set of whole numbers not include negatives now? I swear it used to do

• Chinese (Mandarin) - native
• English - fluent
• Japanese - still in the very early stages of learning

gee, you must be fun at parties (/s if it weren't obvious enough)

Aluminum has always been my favorite element and metal. I feel the urge to punch this anon in his aluminum-hating fuckface.

lol so it was a joke. I would have totally fell for it if I had not heard of it before and still had a vague impression of what it was.

Is this a joke I'm too dense to get or is this just plain bullshit? What I found on Wikipedia was this:

Haggis (Scottish Gaelic: taigeis) is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with chopped onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach though now an artificial casing is often used instead.

I don't even think a three-legged mammal exists. However I did find this: (emphasis mine)

Wild haggis (given the humorous taxonomic designation Haggis scoticus) is a fictional creature of Scottish folklore, said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. It is comically claimed to be the source of haggis, a traditional Scottish dish that is in fact made from the innards of sheep.

But obviously that's something different as it's native to Scotland and is just fictional.

fellow stinky tofu here

More likely Taiwan.

whistleboeing

I set my AC to 26°C (79°F) in summers. As far as I know, most people in my country do somewhere between 20 and 26°C (68~79°F).

Thank you for giving the correct explanation. Pretty sure all those other "explanations" are just jokes though.

一 (one) also means top (in gay contexts). It's because 0 looks like a hole and 1 looks like a penis.

I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find any convincing answers. I did find one answer saying it has to do with the milk's density, but the density is about 1.03 (both dairy and soy milk) and when you run the numbers you get that 936 mL is only 0.964 kg.

There is also no pre-metric units for volume, so that isn't it either. Also, some other milk brands sell their milk in 930 mL, 1857 mL, 1858 mL or some other really arbitrary number.

My guess is that it's close enough to a full liter so that the customers buy this thinking they got a liter of milk.

They don't sell milk or soy milk in gallons. The soy milk I got was 936 mL. 936 mL is 0.2472 gallons, which just so happens to be close to a quarter gallon. A quarter gallon is closer to 946 mL.

When I wrote the previous comment, I actually thought that 936 mL was exactly 1/4 gallons, and it kind of surprised me. The tool I used to convert units rounded the result to 2 decimal places.

Yes, that is what they're aiming for.