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Care to share how to mess up Baked potatoes?  I mean maybe you can overcook them, but other then that there isn't a way. 

Overcooking, undercooking, not cleaning the damned thing, leaving eyes and whatnot in, the occasional bug/worm or whathaveyou. Etc., so forth, so on. That's not even getting into potential disasters involving seasoning and such.

Baked potatoes just set your expectations for the meal so low that it's not possible to be disappointing.

If baked potato is the low bar, I guess... what, everything above it is ambrosia and manna and whatnot? Seeing as how nicely baked potato is one of the most delicious of delicious things, if it is low, only that which the gods drink must be the next step up.

You. How are you getting deliveries from Olympus? Give me the divine phone number of Hermes!

Of course, the opposition to that, especially at the age it needs to start being taught (early teens), in the states is so vocal and numerous than it's basically not going to happen for at least another couple generations. S'just too many people that won't budge on the issue for much improvement to be made until they're dead.

Nah, I get to do it again in a week or two. They only got half of 'em in this go.

Wikipedia is, as usual, your friend.

Amusingly, at least one of the major schools of thought re: Jack O'Lanterns is that they did originate in Ireland. Just not carving pumpkins.

Squash in general, of which pumpkin is a subset, did apparently originate in the americas, though.

You know how you were told that there would always be slackoffs, even when you get out of school?

It's true.

had a team presentation to put together today. 33 slides across 6 people.  We coordinated who would do what and went to work.
15 minutes before deadline we were putting all our slides together and determining how they will be presented.

You're right, 'tis indeed true. You seem to have found six of them >_>

Less ribbingly, let this be a noted and hopefully learned lesson that trying to put together the fruits of a group project fifteen minutes before a deadline is a bad idea. Day before, hour(s) before, etc., so forth, so on. When you give yourself no wiggle room for setbacks, you cultivate disaster.

Given that the thing was apparently done over the course of a single day, the tight time constraints are somewhat understandable, but... if you have any option whatsoever besides cutting it close like that, take that option. Especially when you're coordinating with other people and not particularly able to keep track on everyone's efforts (and them, on yours) in real time. Otherwise you get sideswiped by stuff like part of your team not having done much of anything, instead of knowing about it and either galvanizing them or compensating for their lack of effort. Learning experience! Take more time, next time.

What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

It's less the letter U and more the extra letter. Check is shorter. Also looks a lot more like what it sounds like. Both good things.

Is spelling "cheque" as "check" an American thing, or was it an honest mistake and I'm an arsehole for pointing it out?

Bit of column A. They're both recognized, generally, but most folks I've ran into spell it check unless they're feeling meaninglessly fancy. It could be an honest mistake, too, though. The spellcheck on this browser doesn't recognize cheque as a word, so I imagine other folks just trust the spellcheck it's misspelled instead of looking into it further.

Or maybe just do some nice VR and tell all that silly physics where it can shove itself.