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Today I learned that decompression sickness is called "the bends" after a fashion involving high heels, a tight laced corset, and a bustle that first appeared around 1820 and repeated (as fashions do) in the late 1860s patterned after a style of ancient Greek sculpture and called "The Grecian Bend". Stooped workers with decompression sickness from working on the foundations of the Brooklyn bridge in the 1870s reminded people of the fashion. IMHO with modern eyes, this look has a steampunk Tyrannosaurus vibe
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Just got off the phone with Telus because my phone bill had gone up from what I negotiated last December. I hate that haggling with a utility is a thing. A few minutes on the phone and my bill is now lower than what it was before they arbitrarily tried to raise it. The business model for the entire telecom industry is to bilk as many people for as much as possible and hope they don't notice. Note well that they back down like a bully with a bleeding nose if you choose to haggle: my bill is roughly half of the totally made up "full price."
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America has actually gotten this stupid: people let things rot in their thermoses and then shot their eyes out when removing the caps after the gas built up. Coming soon: thermoses that intentionally don't seal properly and necessarily leak because of two astoundingly stupid people in the United States... brought to you by the country too stupid for Kinder eggs.
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