It’s a bit weird, isn’t it?

Technically, the navigational tool is “a compass” and the geometric draw-a-circle tool is “a pair of compasses” (I don’t know why) - but in general use, people just call both of them “a compass”.

We’ve had hundreds of years to rename one of them, but for some reason haven’t bothered.

“YOU. THE ONE WHO IS MOVING NOW.”

Are you The Gatekeeper from the tv/boardgame Atmosfear?

Me “Hi, is that, umm… Phones, number four, uhhhh?”

Phones4u “Haha, yes, but It’s pronounced ‘Phones For You’”

Me “Oh, it’s it a wrong number? I’ve got it written down here, it’s a number four, not a word ‘for’ f-o-r, and it’s not the word ‘you’, but just a letter U on its own, which is pronounced ‘uh’”

Phones4u “yes, that’s how we write it”

Me “Why? Why didn’t you do it properly? It’s just like that argument with the 90s boyband Fiveive all over again.”

Etc etc

Is it a weird guilt thing?

I hated that song when the programme was new, but now I feel guilty about it, because someone was trying their best, and they wrote, re-wrote, edited and worked on that song and for every instrument and vocal, someone practised and practised and performed, and even if it wasn’t quite to my taste, it doesn’t mean it was bad, and I picture them still crying themselves to sleep at night, twenty years later, going “everyone hates the song I did for Star Trek Enterprise and now I hate myself”, so I make sure to watch the full intro so I don’t hurt their feelings.

That’s what everyone else does too, right?

Without facial hair, he just looks like a thumb.

Fingers crossed for a touchpad with physical buttons.

4. Get Tuvixed because you got a bit of alien leaf stuck to your shoe.

That is some amazing cat alignment. Did they stack themselves?

He should live there for a couple of years to prove to us all how safe it is.

He’s got an office job, he can work from home and go to Zoom meetings. No need for him to physically be in the UK.

Yep. I’d eat that on pasta, toast, Yorkshire pudding :)

The toppings should still follow normal food rules, so maybe not so much the bacon, unless sweet bacon is a thing that exists? But otherwise, yeah - no reason why not :)

My personal rule is “carbohydrate bases are mostly interchangeable”.

If a topping works on bread/toast, it also works on a pizza base, Yorkshire pudding, noodles, chips (fries), rice, pasta, pancake etc

For example - tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil and pepperoni works on a pizza. I can confirm it is still delicious on toast, pasta, rice, Yorkshire Pudding, chips.

Controversially, this means sweet pancake toppings should also work on pizza bases or noodles.

Therefore this would mean that Nutella on pasta is probably pretty nice.

Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

Why are they so obsessed with this? They act as though it’s everyone’s #1 priority.

My personal priority list:

1. I can’t register with a GP in my area
2. There’s a 5 year waiting list for an NHS dental appointment, and one of my teeth is cracked
3. I can’t rely on the buses and trains to get me to work anymore
4. I’m worried about the cost of gas and electricity
5. I’m worried about the future of our planet
6. I’m worried about the government crackdown on peaceful protest
7. I’m worried about new laws to help the DWP further persecute the poor and disabled
8. I’m worried that Keir Starmer is too focused on appeasing potential right-wing voters and is doing little to oppose some of the government’s recent awful policies
9. I’m worried about about new badly thought out technology policies
10. I’m worried about the global rise of the far right
11. the recent tax cut ruins any chances of us improving essential public services
12. public buildings and publicly funded organisations are collapsing all around us.

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42963. I think the clock on my microwave is a few seconds fast
42964. At various times in their careers, I struggle to tell Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell apart
42965. But if Pluto is a dog, then what is Goofy?
42966. When I say “an apple”, I’m concerned that it sounds like “a napple”

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96527. Something about immigrants on boats or whatever the government thinks my priorities are

“But Vladimir, you were never going to find any Nazis out there! The Nazis were in you all along!”

Yes, but then the new cat needs a pillow.

I think an additional nine cats would allow a full circular arrangement where it wrapped round to the first cat again.

It will be enough for all the people who think he’s great, unfortunately - and there’s sadly a lot more of them than you’d rationally expect to exist.

Whilst I understand his desire to try and grab some disillusioned mild-far-right-wing votes as the Tories begin to Tory each other into irrelevance, I do worry that I’m hearing a bit too much right-wing appeasement off of this ham baboon and not enough of the “meaningful change” everyone from the centre leftwards has been waiting for for over a decade.

There’s a database of Nestle owned companies on f**knestle.art if you want to quickly remove a handful of secretly-Nestle products from your life.

Are Mac users compatible with normal sinks and water or do they need an adapter?

For when someone’s not quite a Barrington.

Also works for Gary/Garold/Garrington.