Well if you averaged out the distance from the centre of the Earth over the whole world - it would be absolutely flat…

…but it has to go like nuts to stop falling out of the sky ?

It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.

Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.

Butter - cream churned at cellar/fridge temperature.

Icecream - cream churned around zero degrees celsius.

Except data usually refers to a single set of data, so it is both plural and singular.

Public restrooms were campaigned for by suffragettes because women were unable to leave their homes for any period without them. Men would just wee against a fence.

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I was born in 1973. My grandfather was born in 1892 !

Most of the studies include processed meat like salami, which has known carcinogens and conflates the result to all red meat.

The left wing vote is split, so the Republicans can win just by getting the largest number of votes with first-past-the-post.

In terms of grade school, essay and projects were of marginal or nil educational value and they won’t be missed.

Until the last 20 years, 100% of the grade for medicine was by exams.

If they do the thing where they shrink, they never get the proportions right. Like in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, the grass towers over their heads but they can ride snails.

Brushing teeth? Put some tooth paste FFS!

They can’t really do that because the make-up would fall off. Also they never actually eat anything.

Being punched unconscious or getting some chloroform and they wake up the next day?

“They would either be really angry or I would kill them”

• Bill Bailey.

Saw a program on the TV last night with a clattery sound for a laptop with a rubber keyboard…

Accountants actually spend hardly any time doing tax work. And in most countries tax returns are automatic anyway, so no, AI isn’t going to destroy all the accountant jobs.

Because they were made from sheafs of wheat in the past.

“Corn” was the name for any grain in Britain.

It doesn’t have dynamic typing FFS, variable are typed. You mean declarations.

You can’t have statically typed objects, because they are of indeterminate length.

But that’s what they’ve always done. The NES used a 6502 processor that no one used anymore, and the Sega a Z80 after CP/M went the way of dinosaurs. The Xbox and PS2 used out of date Pentium processors.

Why are people using word processors at all ? They’re only used to print letters on paper.

Sony was the first to put up their prices.