Maybe the engrained understanding that you would not want to be in the way of a vehicle that Mr Punch was controlling would be lost on people now, though, even if the voice would cut through noise and be sufficiently hard to understand that you'd take notice.

Because the internet has damaged my neural wiring I just get this…

I've lost count of the number of times Google's AI has told me that something was wrong or didn't exist when the first result and its snippet is an unambiguous contradiction of the AI result.

You rarely hear "Sexagenarian", I wonder why… I am a quinquagenarian and I'd use that word if I could say it or spell it. Even my computer has underlined it. Maybe it's not a word. I'll ask my dental hygienist in 6 months.

As a genuine uncle I qualify as a genuine uncle under both genuine uncle clauses.

I am too late as it seems the Express is already using the "own uncle" authenticity language, though they've managed to get it wrong. "Own uncle". Imagine the story if it had been someone else's real uncle?!?!?!?!

It has an uncle and this opens up the opportunity for a follow-up zeitgeist piece looking at policy influence attributed to uncle authenticity and how it would be different with a male friend of the family.

The village church did a pets service last month.

You haven't experienced it unless you've seen it at night.

I have been doing arithmetic and my oldest online-only friend would've hit the 20 year mark in about 2016, but I'm married (for more than 20 years) to an online friend from that "early web" era. My baseline for thinking about people is online and probably shouldn't be.