I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams
Or one that’s just emerged from its pupa(?)
Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms
I am also in the large button, small flush gang. I assume it’s that way so the flush you use most frequently is bigger, but it does seem counterintuitive.
I used to have a cherry tree in my garden. I was sitting in the branches picking cherries, when I saw a blackbird (not an SR-71) sitting on the outer twigs eating cherries I couldn’t reach. He had a look in his eye that said “these are my cherries and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
Then a sparrowhawk took him out in front of me and ate him. That’ll teach him.
I went to a site recently where the padlock code was 58008.
You forgot Texas City
But in rhyming slang, you use the non-rhyming word (e.g. “china” = “china plate” = “mate”)
someone who lives with the queen
Surely that would be the Queen’s lodger?
This is similar to an old joke about former British Prime Minister John Major. His father had been a circus performer, so it was aid that “he’d run away from the circus to become an accountant”.
NT (3.x & 4.0) and 2000 were also available as Workstation editions. They were concurrent with Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME (which did get missed on the above)
…where we came in.
The Wall ends with the first half of the sentence it started with.
I think this is…
Thanks. I don’t know a great deal about Girl Guiding’s programme in the UK, but I understand that there’s a similar distinction between it and the Scout Association’s programme as there is in the US.
In the UK, The Scout Association went fully co-ed in 2007 and Girl Guiding remains a girls-only organisation. Both are doing just fine.
In the new interface, clicking the post title opens the subject of the post (e.g. the linked site or image), whereas the old interface takes you to the post. The only way of accessing the post itself is via the comments link, which is quite small on mobile.
My wife was a “Bikeability” (UK) teacher and this is how they teach people to cycle. Unfortunately there are too many entitled arseholes that can’t bear to not be doing the speed limit 100% of the time. And I say this as a car driver.
I (vaguely) remember reading a quote from Pterry who said that two types of people would come up to him and say how much they loved Small Gods: the religious and the non-religious.
I hear you’re a racist now Father Elon.
Soul Music follows on from Mort and Reaper Man (a bit) - it’s one of the few (only?) Discworld books to start with a recap! It helps to get some of the references if you know something about popular music from the 50s to the 90s but it’s not essential.
1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catwoman#Creation