I use CC. The descriptive language is helpful when there is an extended take where nothing seems to be happening so you're wondering if the CC stopped working or what. It's helpful to know what is being drawn attention to. For example, you'll get "suspenseful music" or "sounds of kissing" while looking at a static scene in the adjoining room. There's more to a scene than just the spoken conversation.

Last year I watched a 12-year-old child in a pool with other similar-aged children start to act like this even though she was literally 2" from the ladder at the side of the pool. Trained in water safety, I knew what I was looking at but was momentarily so surprised because of the location (and the apparent swimming ability of the child up to that point) that it took me a few seconds to comprehend it was really happening. Fortunately her "appears to be climbing an invisible ladder" bumped into the actual ladder so I didn't have to haul her out after all, but I did make her rest for a bit while I explained to her what had happened and that I was literally right over her ready to grab her so she was not actually in danger. She told me she could feel she was drowning and she couldn't understand why no one heard her screams. She was entirely silent at the time....she only imagined she was screaming for help.

I then also talked with all the parents about it. None of them knew it was possible to drown right next to the side of a pool like that. If I hadn't just seen it, I wouldn't have known it either.

He went through all the security procedures for international travel versus local EU travel and never noticed until he was over the ocean? Hmmmm. Some people have more dollars than sense. (Cents, get it? *rimshot*)

Do British people think crocodiles never move?

The thing that struck me most was that while I might have a few quibbles here and there about details, none of the other countries seemed "wrong", whereas both of the U.S. options felt like uncanny valley to me. Ugly, unreal, and off-putting.

Can someone explain why in the Germany section: 1) someone wrote an A-U chart after the first 5 columns had already been filled up and 2) started something else all the way over to the right, next to Italy?

Never mind, don't answer #2!

About half of the female ones are very out-of-date. Romance novels, maybe? I did not know what bottlebrush was, and when I looked it up I noticed the plant it refers to grows in places like Texas and Arizona, known to be more nostalgic for the time when "girls were girls and men were men". I wonder if the word lists would be different if only northerners from big cities took the test.

This would be appropriate for Jains.

We made it to comment #2 before getting what-about-the-menz, so I guess that's progress.

My kids can do that. It's a useful life skill all over the world.

Brienne of Tarth decided she needed to try being more feminine, so she took up crocheting. It doubles as a weapon when needed, of course.

Who's Next, Ladies Fit XL

Glad to see this is becoming more known and more available. Personally, I was fine with scarves, but if I could have gotten a henna treatment I would have.

Open a private/incognito window. Just saying.