The cobblestone roads shook up all the drinks I was carrying home on my bike 😠

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    It seems the solution to all your problems are:

    • Big trucks
    • Suburban sprawl
    • Privatized healthcare
    • Rabid anti-communism
    • Christian-fascist leaders
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    Two nuns are riding their bikes back to the convent.

    One nun says to the other, “I don’t think I’ve ever come this way before.”

    And the other one says, “It’s the cobblestones.”

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    Ha! I needed baguettes, got two and tossed them in the bike basket, feeling so European, until one loaf bounced out and was run over by a car, at which point I felt oh so American!

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    As someone who’s lived on a cobblestone street before, it’s nice to look at, but a lot less functional than asphalt or concrete. Especially trying to walk home from the bar with a few drinks in you.

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      They’re apparently also pretty good for slowing down cars in pedestrian-heavy areas, but yeah, taking a fall on those after a few drinks does hurt like shit haha

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      I was very fortunate to go on a vacation last month in Belgium where we rode bikes to several different towns.

      It was awesome, but the cobblestone streets in some of those old cities are ROUGH. Just bone shaking. The chain on the bike I was riding bounced off once when I needed to shift.

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    The worst part is becoming accustomed to fresh, high-quality food and espresso within 100m of every human at all times.

    Also, OP, why are you having “American Breakfast”? Where’s your croissant?

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    If you shoot your finger against the side (like shooting away a cigarette bud) several times, then slowly rotate the bottle around it’s axel while it’s standing on a table several times, you can safely open them without them squirting all over the place. It truly works, also with shaken soda/beer cans.

    What I do with these groceries is put them in a bag on my back or in my hand when cycling. The rack is for other stuff like veggies and other stuff that can handle the shaking or might get shitty when stuffed in a bag.

    But you have a nice rack on your bike. Although it looks hard to take anyone on the back, unless they stand upright.

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        There’s more CO2 dissolved in the water than there can be at atmospheric pressure. The CO2 is constantly trying to escape, but in order to do so it needs a nucleation site that disturbs the water. When the drink is shaken, lots of little bubbles form, and stick to the inner wall of the drink. These bubbles are nucleation sites. Flicking the side of the drink makes them float up and pop.

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    Now I’m gonna tell you a “secret”.

    We European drinks mainly water from the tap, when we don’t drink beer or wine od course.

    (except many Italians mi, they’re stupid and buy water in plastic bottles).

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      All I know is that it’s beige and from 2011! Held up pretty well all things considered, the battery still lasts for 10km or so, which is plenty for getting to work and doing grocery trips :D