The Onion a little over ten years ago:

Horrified Subway Execs Assumed People Were Buying Footlongs To Share With A Friend

Perhaps his stident, Aristotle?

Squeezebox has been through several names through the years. It’s now called the “Lyrion Music Server.”

That’s probably true. Every drunk non-smoking russian I’ve met was just happy to make a new friend.

Also:

• Any vacation spot with a lot of Russians, like Cuba. Nobody wants to tell a drunk Russian to put out their cigarette indoors, and smoking is allowed in open spaces (even covered spaces like open lobbies)
• Rome. Igneous rock is very porous, and everything ancient is made of it. Decades after smoking is banned there, the stonework will still be leaking the fumes out of its pores. The smoke was inescapable when I toured 15 years ago despite it being banned in indoor public places, and it will be inescapable 15 years from now.

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This is what I often did before going to a party. Sometimes before, sometimes after driving more than 90km to get there

Thanks. The article title “tricks for Lent” points to the non-serious nature of it. Plus, it uses the phrase “According to legend” several times and doesn’t even mention the particular monestaries, nor the specific monks involved. I think it’s just meant to be a humorous jab at legalism.

Typically, if practices get so bad that they have to be forbidden by an administrative authority, then you would have some written document forbidding the practice. Although that would acknowledge it wasn’t legitimate to begin with, it would at least suggest the histriocity of it.

I tried to look this up, but ended up empty-handed. Could you point me in the right direction?

The point has been missed.

There are temporal consequences of sin, even after guilt is removed.

Also. around the mediterrainian, fish is a food staple of the poor. The point is to eliminate excess.

I’d argue that an inlander ordering fish at a fancy restaurant on a Friday during Lent is not following the spirit of the law (which can be more of a discipline than a rule, depending on the local episcopal authority), especially if it’s not a special occasion and the fish was caught hundreds of kilometers away.

My favourite is:

Them: We want less red in the pie chart. Fix that remote vulnerability.

Me: We don’t even have that component enabled. It’s reporting on a DLL file version, not the vulnerability itself.

Them: Just lower our vulnerability score.

(Me wondering if I deploying dozens of fully-patched systems would have the same proportional effect)

Tenable (or how our security folks have our scans configured) doesn’t seem to get that.