There's that (practically useless) thing, there are all sorts of palm gestures like U+1FAF3 "PALM DOWN HEAD", U+1F91E "CROSSED FINGERS", and of course U+1F595 "MIDDLE FINGER", but there's no fig gesture [°] in emojis, and proposals to add it were filed and rejected twice [^]. The Unicode consortium priorities are weird.
As far as Spam Musubi - the US military brought Spam to the islands during WWII, and it quickly became available off-base. Combined with wartime fishing restrictions on the islands, the quickly became the easiest meat source available to locals. They made do with what they had, and spam sushi was invented along the way. Eventually, it took on a cult following of its own, and the rest is history - but Spam's place on the Hawaiian Islands originally comes from hardships imposed by the US military occupying the islands during WWII.
It is not Rugby but American Football you are talking about.
Rashomon is film by Akira Kurosawa from 1950 where the killing of a Samurai is told from various points of view. That is why the story telling you are talking about is called that.
> I wonder what happened though, and how kids managed to study constantly drunk.
They learned early how to be functional alcoholics. Drunk kids these days just don't know how to handle their liquor and society has been going down the drain because of it.
I wouldn't consider functional alcoholism to be a good thing for anyone. It's especially bad for brain development under age ~25, before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed.
Upto half a liter isn't much, especially considering that most traditional brews were lower alcohol content than the typical stuff today. So they probably weren't drunk, but who knows how that might have affected them in the future.
Half a liter is ⅔ of a standard bottle of wine. Even if it is only 11% ABV, this still equates to 55 ml of ethanol. An average 14 year old male weighs 112 lbs, about 70% of an adult’s size.
So if we extrapolate linearly, 55 ml of ethanol would be equivalent to 78 ml of ethanol for an adult, which is 6.5 shots, assuming a 1 oz shot
Everything you're saying is true, but the wine was watered down. I grew up in (Eastern) Europe and I used to have a glass of wine with my parents at dinner time when I reached my teens pretty much every time they did (we had a small vineyard, like most people, and wine was plentiful). However, I was mixing it with mineral water (50-50) and with a heavy meal, I never got drunk from that.
Pickles in Texan movie theaters has been on the decline the last 20 or so years, in my observation. In the 90s, they were available commonly but the younger generation wasn’t eating them very often. Those were my teen years, and I remember occasionally a peer would get one but it wasn’t what I’d say was super common. Our parents generation and older were more likely to buy one. I actually went to the movies today, and I couldn’t think of when the last time I’ve seen a pickle in a theater. I’m sure they still are but I have seen one being sold or eaten in well over a decade.
I have fond memories of playing conkers in Dublin in the late 70s/early 80s, thanks to a number of horse chestnut trees at the end of our street. We'd "borrow" a knitting needle to piece them.
It should have 10, but many existing fonts only have 7.
Here's "Proposal to revise the glyph of CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O": https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5170-multiocular-o.pdf