But without Black Friday, us Europeans would have one fewer thing to marvel at.

I got thrown off Yahoo Answers for saying you could eat guinea pigs. Some kid asked what they could do wiht theirs and I said "You could eat it." and posted a link to the Wikipedia page. Nothing impolite, nothing offensive - but after some years of helpful answers, that got me kicked off. Appeals fell of deaf ears.
Silly sods.

Why does that loo-roll-tube have flowers and butterflies on it? Surely they don't come that way?

Ah, tjhat's me an pomegranates....

Steel goalposts?

224 on my first effort - but I got worse as I went along.
Have you tried this?
http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/

My dad remembered arranging the closing Curzon Street in London on a Sunday morning to crane in a new computer to the top floor. It was to do teachers' salaries for the whole of the UK. Took up several rooms.

What I remember most - and it was many years ago - was the size of the cars. Just VAST. I grew up with Minis (real Minis not the bloated BMW things) and Fiat 126s and the like. Even now I drive a Corsa...so small it ain't even sold in the US!

Very Eadweard Muybridge.

I had to google for Marathon Sticker - never seen one before.
Must be a local thing.

With sprouts, raw is the only way to go. Cooked they're vile - raw they're surprisingly nice.