I was just going to point out that my father-in-law, at the time Chief Aerodynamicist at British Aerospace in Woodford, took the spoiler off the car he'd just bought because it was useless below closed-circuit speeds. So if the film referenced in the joke above is about racing, then obviously 1/163

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

And Joan Greenwood 😍

So hard to photograph but
incredible to see

I was very occasionally bloody-minded when I was a kid, and I can imagine myself solemnly writing my homework using every one of the words in this AI slop and daring the teacher to mark me down for it.

I was minded to reply here, but I wanted to illustrate it and long story short I've spent the last twenty minutes just reading Krazy Kat Sunday strips, and to be honest that's probably the best result all round

Oh I'm sure you create an atmosphere. Sitting on your own without a laptop, not being silent.

The camo could come in useful when you're on the way back from the boathouse and you see your tutor coming

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

"...in a moment of overenthusiastic gardening..."

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

I use mine as a PIN, because it'll probably be the last thing to go 💀

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Just elsewhere this morning I was saying no to the novels but yes to [some of] the poems -

favoritepoems.diehoren.com/2018/04/prou...

But one of the best things his work has given rise to, at least as far as teenagers of the 1980s are concerned, is that video. And one of the best things I’ve found about *that* is the Dazed article, in which Donald Sutherland talks about how he got the gig – and about Kate Bush being wasted:

If Tommy robinson was a journalist he wouldn’t have thousands in cash and a flash car

Proper laugh at that. God, yes. (Hate the novels, like some of the poems.)

The Odyssey with a laugh track. People shouting "Play 'Scylla And Charybdis'!"

'A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers' - Leonard Bernstein

Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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Not unknown behaviour in all sorts of fields. Robert Millikan measured the charge on the electron in the 1910s and got a Nobel Prize for it: according to Richard Feynman, later measurements by less eminent physicists gradually nudged the value up to where it stands today.