It’s like one of those irregular verbs. I’ve got a cool fantasy, you’re a pervert, he’s in jail, etc.

Sounds like it’s not just me that goes “ok then, try arguing with this” when power cycling an unresponsive computer.

Not everyone is immune to swearing; I don’t see any point in causing unnecessary offence; and they contribute nothing to the meaning, except perhaps voicing a level of emotion which can be better expressed in other ways.

Toyota Cymru

I have a friend who thinks LOL means “lots of love” and uses it as a generic signoff.

Had to reread it several times when he wrote “Mother in law died yesterday LOL”.

I’m British and I only eat beans and curry, so I can’t see any problem here.

Also misspelt “even”, and ended a sentence with a preposition.

Gosh. Replace management with a bunch of useless fuckwits, pay below minimum wage, murder hundreds of customers (including one of my friend’s Dad), and nobody wants to work there? Who’d have ever guessed?

But he still has to be careful with his axe.

Don’t worry guys. As long as project managers think “do the thing … like the thing … (waves hands around) … you know … (waves hands around some more) … like the other thing … but, um, …, different” constitutes a detailed spec, we’re safe.

Not more wokism! Next they’ll be demanding we stop talking about executing a child!

Maybe they tried that but discovered a small problem with beaming the away party plus 2000 tons of unsupported rock above their heads.

To Isengard! To Isengard!

Gard gard gard g-gard

A support band for Madness. To call them crap would be an insult to all the genuinely crap bands out there. They went through crap and came out the other side. Then they went through whatever level of shitness that was and came out the other side. I don’t think anyone applauded them, except when they stopped making whatever ungodly racket they were making and went offstage. I’ve never been more relieved to hear a bunch of unmusical talent-free potty-mouthed morons finally STFU.

Being trusted in a particular location does not depend on your feelings but on whether or not your behaviour demonstrates that you have earned that trust. Looking for boundaries - how much you can get away with - does not demonstrate you can be trusted, unless you frame it from the other person’s perspective, for example you could ask your mom if she’s comfortable for dates to pick you up from a few houses down the road, and if not how far out you should go. This lets her set the boundary she’s comfortable with and you can gain trust by respecting that boundary and not attempting to push it - in fact go the other way and add 25 yards to it.

Here in the UK, food banks are very often run by churches. My wife routinely buys stuff she knows they need. We are both Christians.

The worst that my country wants to do with my data is attempt to sell me shit I don’t want. (OK yeah we have one or two taboos: antisemitism and actual terrorism, but that’s about it.)

In some other countries, drawing parallels with certain emperors and certain A.A.Milne characters could cost me my freedom and possibly my life. Ain’t nothing stopping me standing outside #10 and yelling Rishi is a wanker!

Has homosexuality been redefined?

I thought huddling together for warmth in cold weather was a survival technique: a method for staying alive, rather than counting as a sex act.

And two males bringing up an orphaned child seems like a jolly nice thing to do for the child and the community. If an orphanage is staffed by one sex, does that make the whole place a massive L/G orgy even if nobody is having sex with anyone else?