Happy birthday! You don't look a day over 45, despite being a day over 45, that's the joke dot gif enjoy it you fabulous fellow!

Place a pair of shoes, trousers, and a shirt on the ground outside your front door.

The number of times a client has asked me to do that to "fix" badly shot footage is... more than none.

Generally the generative nature of this simulation ruins suspension of disbelief.

Way...

Satanic Quagmiric Language

Premature disfactulation...

Which implies the existence of the party/fun continuum, comprising vast areas of enormous tedious parties, and tiny pockets of mind-blowing concentrated fun. The two states are, unfortunately, mutually exclusive.The universe being fractal, this also explains politics.

"The new Netflix four series property 'Mechanicals' will explore the rich potential of the early lives of the Take On Me antagonists. Many fans are excited to discover the origins of..."

If they can't even spell tattoo, even at that price I wouldn't get one.

Quite! The subtle distinction, although technically correct, between an editor's advice being bollocks, or THE bollocks.

Cleaning house: setting everything straight in a metaphorical sense, often with political undertones. It has an imported transatlantic language redolence to me.

Cleaning the house: doing housework.

They are simply hatching all the additional Marks, Dan, like pupae slithering from elongated egg membranes. Nothing nefarious about that.