In most places I've been to in Europe, the laundry machine is in the kitchen.

Not in Germany. Definitely in the bathroom.

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Thank you. That made me laugh. That is very much in the style of Bill Bryson.

All of our school districts are beginning to shut down one by one.

That does not bother me as much as Japan's Bathroom/sitting shower/tub/laundry combo thing they got going on.

Long fucking lines at every groery store at 6 AM

In Toronto,

All 3 Universities, and all community colleges are suspending in person classes for a minimum of 1 week, and in general shifting everything possible to online for the balance of the school year.

Why is a city mayor meeting with a president of another country in the first place?

Germany struck me as the most 'American' than the other W. European countries. Bigger houses like us.

They haven't heard of ground fault interrupters? You could go into business marketing them and get even richer than you are.

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Happens all the time. It's diplomacy. Usually it's because the mayor is trying to get business for his city by schmoozing the leader of a country that might either buy products made in his city or have a company from his country build a factory in the mayor's city.

Mine's (laundry machines in a hall closet more or less designed for the purpose in both locations. Truth, justice and the American Way!

I was wondering if/when this would happen:

The Los Angeles Archdiocese (the largest Roman Catholic Archdiocese in the US) is telling parishioners not to go to Sunday Mass, lifting the obligation for the next 3 weeks.

Proof that even churches don't think prayer is enough? :P

I've always been taught that prayer only works when coupled with effort and common sense. I'm reminded of the 1885 smallpox outbreak in Montreal. If I recall my history correctly, the Protestants weren't hit very hard because they accepted vaccination and called off church services, while the disease went wild with French-Canadian Catholics who refused vaccinations and refused to stop congregating at church.

My church, by the way, has called off services for two weeks and will be livestreaming sermons instead. I also just checked the local news and saw that tailgate and farmer's markets across the region are shutting down, restaurants are starting to offer parking lot pickup for orders so you won't have to come inside, flights at the airport are being cancelled for the next two months... But Biltmore House wants you to know they're still open and cleaning the place very thoroughly every day. Come spend your money.

Don't they know that H*ll is a crowded place where it's hard to "social distance"?

I'm no longer a practicing Catholic (I've become Buddhist/Atheist), but this is a big deal for Catholics. And it's Lent right now. And for a Catholic, prayer and worship are the same thing; prayer isn't just asking for things; a (devout) Catholic recites traditional prayers every day. It's almost like being a Muslim. That's what church bells are (originally) for; they are calls to prayer.

Well, most English people can’t cook, so they had to come up with something else to do with the space.

Case in point.