JohnnyCanuck

Yours too!

Yeah, but I think I would prefer that to giving a border guard an excuse...

Edit: or I guess it could accidentally go through the washer.

I saw that too and found it very surprising. Even Canadian border guards might give you a hard time for that damage.

https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/publications/bon-voyage-but#1

"If you damage your passport, apply for a new one. A damaged passport can lead to long delays at passport checkpoints. You may also be unable to cross the border or board a plane."

Edit: thinking about this some more... They buried the lede on this. This is the real headline here. Service Canada needs to replace damaged passports, full stop. If they won't, turn around and say, "oops, I lost my passport! I need a new one, thanks!"

Yeah, this can happen pretty much everywhere, unfortunately. If your passport is damaged, get it replaced before you travel. If it gets damaged while you're travelling? Good luck... There's a good chance you'll run into a border guard who will give you a hard time.

Fucking click bait. He changed his name. Leave him be.

Okay yeah. I don't think I use that as often or that it would catch me the same way.

Having this on by default with a "never ask again" option (which can then be turned back on in settings) would be ideal.

This gets me all the time. And to be clear, it's not just swipe to go back, it's the back button as well.

Look I'm sorry, i wasn't meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn't the only person to call out the inaccuracies.

Oh I didn't realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.

In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn't use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.

If vaccines were given in Pop-Tart form there wouldn't be an antivax movement.

From XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2975

10th century starts at 900 CE, so you're actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.

However, you're also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren't even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist were looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.

Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn't invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).