Re: Computer pain

Wood Avens <woodavens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

However, there are more signs of religious (by which I mean
Christian) affiliation in day-to-day life in the US than there are
here in the UK, going on the basis of my experience of the Peoria
area of Illinois where my son lives.

One example: my son belongs to a Darts Club, which has an annual
party: they say Grace before the grub.

Sure, but what that means is that for some fraction of the members
it's important and the rest are willing to say "If they think it's
necessary, it's not worth complaining about--we'll get to eat soon
enough." But you don't know whether the ones who care are 80% or 2%.
Or even 0%, but it's written into the by-laws and they've always done
it and everybody just assumes that somebody else must care.

Another: garage sales in the US are on Saturdays (and often on
Thursdays and Fridays too) but never on Sundays; in the UK, the
more-or-less equivalent, the car boot sale, is almost always on a
Sunday.

Here they typically run both Saturday and Sunday.

I agree that 90% of the time you'd never notiice any difference.
And then you trip over the other 10% and you remember you're in
another country and they do things differently there.

Don't forget, though, that some of what you notice may in fact be
background. Americans tend to notice that the British sing an anthem
that exhorts God to save their queen[1], but I don't think that many
of us take this as evidence that Brits in general are particularly
devout.

[1] Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God ... Defender of the
Faith.

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