That sounds even easier!

So you’re saying if I don’t want to talk to my neighbor anymore I just have to identify and gift them their least favorite foods?

I haven’t been to many musical events, but in my experience they can be pretty olfactorily offensive by themselves.

At the time, I worked nights in a tech call center. There were generally three guys working the shift but it wasn’t the same people every shift, it was a small but rotating cast. There was also a supervisor but they spent the majority of their time in a private office halfway across the building from us.

One of the three guys who was there most nights would mostly ignore calls and would do a pretty poor job with them when he did answer. Instead of working, he’d spend the whole night browsing HotOrNot, occasionally vocalizing his opinion on some pictures.

Since there were only three people on the shift and it was in a call center built for a hundred or more, we were permitted to sit at any desk (they had roaming profiles). Only one member of the night shift ever sat close to the guy I described more than once. Besides being personally unpleasant, he was a heavy smoker and thus olfactorily offensive as well.

The HotOrNot guy was there when I got there and I’m pretty sure there when I left. No idea how he kept his job.

Seems you’re right! I think I read it around the same age. Thank you for the reminder.

I remember a book featuring … Al the Gebra, I think? In it all tungsten in the world disappeared. One thing in the book that surprised young me was that X-ray machines stopped functioning.

Apparently “tungsten has important niche roles in x-ray tubes.”

Or at least not legally required to be listed to avoid liability.

Blood pressure, I think.

So does the water go the opposite way in Australia or not?!