Nurgus

It's not about what you like, it's about what you can afford.

Just because handcuffung is normal in the USA, that doesnt make it normal or sensible. No one gets cuffed in a normal traffic stop or house visit in the UK for example.

That's not neither, it's one of the options.

Ew, Joe Rogan.

There's no year zero, it goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE.

At this rate we'll be renting individual strawberries to show off at parties.

(This was a real thing with pineapples, once upon a time.)

Och aye tha noo.

Woke always boils down to "the extreme opposite of bigot".

This is silly. The top left one is clearly from a cow and one of the others is a sheep.

Sorry, I know I'm not always the clearest. :)

Virtually no one could afford air travel prior to the 1960s, that's a very large part of my point. It got affordable in the 70s and very affordable in the 80s.

In the UK, at some point during the 80s, it became normal for almost every single working family to get on a plane and go somewhere sunny once a year for two weeks. Every year. Minimum.

They were and still are given a choice. I can fly from London to New York on British Airways first class or Easyjet. Consumers consistently choose the cheapest headline price.