Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: 28 May 2025 04:52:46 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <100lcd7$30vat$1@dont-email.me> <100le5o$318dd$1@dont-email.me> <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10102st$1j2ov$1@dont-email.me> <10131ao$28rgm$1@dont-email.me> <1015efc$2rf1i$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net R94xQVW48Qx81plJpCUy0wucK8rw3C8wbDtU7Ij2aNiZPpc6+i Cancel-Lock: sha1:hgwrGdCHlN2zLsV9ilSnMaAmRc0= sha256:Sum/TCdSDO+EwwOaNme2+Py8/L7DKdA05wHuWm1i4nE= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:67827 On Tue, 27 May 2025 22:31:08 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > That’s the kind of attitude the Communists had. There were these stories > of defectors from the USSR, back in Cold War days, being completely > bewildered by their first visit to a Western-style supermarket. Why do > you need a dozen brands of bath soap, or a dozen kinds of toothpaste, > they would ask? Soap is soap, and toothpaste is toothpaste, isn’t it? I sometimes ask myself that. I don't buy potato chips, tortilla chips, and so forth. I was going to the market at lunchtime and a friend asked me to pick up a bag of Super Dorito Lime and Cat Shit chips or something. Sweet mother of god, there was a whole frigging aisle of that crap and I'd forgotten the exact flavor he'd asked for. You're not even safe saying 'Pick me up a tube of Crest toothpaste' https://crest.com/en-us/oral-care-products/toothpaste? _bc_fsnf=1&PasteNeeds=All+Toothpastes I'm amused at bewildered looking men in grocery stores talking on cell phones. I assume their wife's list wasn't specific enough. "What brand of diced tomatoes, honey?"