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Top stories for Long   When arriving at a restaurant at your appointed reservation time and being told there will be a 20-minute wait, how do you respond? Wally White, Have visited 100+ countries, 50 US States, & 7 Continents • Updated November 30 My wife and I went to a hoity-toity restaurant that had just opened and gotten rave reviews. So when we arrived at our reservation time, we were told it would be about 30 m... Read more » 51 10   Will Prince Harry return to visit the royal family after Camilla gives birth to her baby? Nobody, former Retired British Military (1991-2015) • Answered November 3 He may visit as long as he asks permission. The baby will be born by caeserian section on Christmas day. Just after the Kings speech. It has been announced the baby will be... Read more » 794 484   What's the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke? John Lilly, Partner @ Greylock Partners • Updated January 16, 2010 Coke Zero is made by the Coca Cola division, and designed to taste as close to "regular" Coke as possible -- not marketed as "diet" but as "zero calorie" and sweetened with... Read more » 545 94   Why did Judas Iscariot throw away the the thirty pieces of silver and hang himself instead of living his life with shame and dying old if he never believed that Jesus Christ was the Son Of God? Dick Harfield, lives in Sydney, Australia • Answered October 9 It is only in Matthew's Gospel that Judas Iscariot threw away the thirty pieces of silver and hanged himself. In Acts of the Apostles, he kept the money and used it to buy ... Read more » 333 22   Why do British people have a bowl in the sink? Robert Theobald • Answered May 21 Ably answered below………. maybe. My son asked me this a while ago, he said " I'm 41 years old, and still don't get the idea of having a bowl in the sink! ". Well yes, with mod... Read more » 1.6K 277   Therapists- if a client was dissociating, having a flashback, body memory or another trauma related episode in session, and asked to hold your hand to help them stay present or to feel safer, what would you do? David McPhee, Ph.D. Psychology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (1994) • Answered April 20, 2020 My answer appears after the story. I once had a rather histrionic client who'd received a prescription for an antidepressant, and wanted to have a ceremony/ritual about taki... Read more » 457 11   I missed my period and I'm always wet. Why? Quxxnthila, Proud To Be A Women • Answered October 21 So, here's the deal, sugar. There can be several reasons for this tag team of no-show periods and the floodgates being open: Baby on Board: First things first, we gotta rule... Read more » 3.9K 176   Do the Trump supporters get laughed at and made fun of in Europe? Asked in RIP, GOP • Answered by Jon Kime • November 13 I was on a tour bus in Norway two years ago when the guide mentioned the Nobel Prize. Out of nowhere a trump supporter in the back of the bus started "trump, trump, trump".... Read more » 1.8K 823   How do you call out someone that claims to have been in the SAS? Chad Singleton • Answered October 31 I'm in the SAS. One way to tell if someone is bullshitting is to ask them to hold a screwdriver and point it at you. If you find the fat end in your face, you know that thi... Read more » 2.3K 525   My son bought a new car, the contract is signed and he drove it home. The dealership called and said they accidentally gave him a better model than they signed for. What should he do? Curious George, Production Manager (1997-present) • Answered July 6 This is common. They tried to do it to me once and I said I was going to cancel the deal. I'd be in tomorrow with the vehicle and pick up my trade in. They spent a couple ho... Read more » 13.1K 787   If I am invited to an expensive restaurant by a relative to celebrate their birthday, and I have to pay for my own meal, should I feel obligated to a buy a gift on top of that? What is the correct etiquette here? John, lives in Severn, MD • Answered November 11 The correct etiquette is to show up but stay only for a few minutes; enough time to have a congratulatory drink with the cheap-skate relative. Leave a birthday card, sealed... Read more » 2.8K 239   Where was Darcy on the wealth scale of the time, and where was Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice)? Erik Painter, studied Comparative History of Ideas at University of Washington • Updated July 15, 2022 In the period the novel was set in the early 1800s, power and class were not just about income. At the time of the novel, out of 8 million people in England and Wales, only... Read more » 648 32 Read more in your feed

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