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Robot was the first Target book Gran bought me, weirdly I think Logopolis was the second, still love it even tho those copies are long gone Didn't pick up on just how blatantly fash they were in the book

Yeah, I agree, protest votes that really want change but have no clue what the problems are let alone the solutions

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Yeah, I was 25 when I started my degree (just scraped into the 'mature student' definition) and there were a fair few older than me that I got to know, the weird "you can't go back in later" is dispiriting and frustrating

Wheatfields is another big one, modern wheat didn't look that way at all until 20thC and it took awhile for that variety to spread

Saying Bayeaux isn't a tapestry is like saying Stonehenge isn't a henge or a strawberry isn't a berry, if the most famous thing isn't one then pick a different word ;-) But yeah, ponies everywhere until very recently

See I saw the Kharg chat and got it mixed up with Qeshm, but even then it wouldn't help much Some people have almost zero understanding of, well, anything but think they're Rilly Smurt

I think you're massively misunderstanding a fairly common colloquialism? There's no threat of violence, and pretty much everyone wants Fetterman gone Unless you really think his Fetterman's SUPPORT of Trump's violence is laudable? I'm just not seeing it

I just listened to the recording because what the TEXT said didn't seem like a loss of temper but to someone oversees there might be something I'm missing In the whole recording he's calm, collected and coherent, there's no loss of temper Am I missing something or are you tilting at a windmill?

These days? No, unless it's a joke character ("Lady Fanny" in Ghosts) But it was the normal shortform for Stephanie, Theophania and Francis Both the anglophone vulgar usages come from an English person called it, poor sweet Fanny Adams was murdered and the other woman was a famous courtesan

You mentioning this reminded me to have another look to see if I could find the Vamps complete collected and Amazon had 2 left :-D I've got the first series in boxes somewhere but never even saw the two follow ups, moar comics But yeah, explains a bit about the theatre kid doesn't it ;-)

Yup, I grew up on the border of one of the safest seats in the country and the most marginal in 1997 (my first vote), turnout differential was obvious My parents village elected a non-Tory for the first time in 160yrs last time!

I looked something up while looking for something else—the full name of the river was: El Río de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula—"the River of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula" The mission and pueblo came later, the Porciuncula is St Francis's Italian church

I missed the 2024 GE because I'd misplaced my ID, it'd been moved during some work being done and not put back :-( And there's a huge correlation between seat safety and voter turnout, that's partially how the 'red wall' seats suddenly becoming vulnerable threw Labour, it was non voters

Dad was an Environmental Health Officer, it was sorta ingrained from childhood--we moved from "house overlooking the busy main road out of town" to "house on the edge of a village the other side of a hill from the main road" when sis was born for good reason Then they found out about the radon...

It’s remarkable how much damage a Bob Semple Tank can take without compromising it’s capabilities

It's time to pay off Vandals It's time to buy the Goths It's time to install puppets In the Roman Senate now!

Yup, it was an article about how that happened where I first encountered it (I'm way more interested in queer history than cars) and it's just madness—I did love the XENA LVR plates in the print ad tho Always baffling to me because Mum was great with car dealers, but they all knew her—so different

It was reading about how Subaru got successful in the US that really knocked into me how bad it could be Bit of market research and then making sure to train all dealership staff into just Not Doing That Baffling it's still fucking happening