During my younger days, I was backpacking in Thailand and visited a famous market. Wanting to try my hand at haggling I asked a clothing stand vendor if he could do me a deal on some t-shirts. He told me if I bought 29, i would get the 30th free.

I’m reminded of the psychiatrist in The Sopranos who tells Carmela to take what’s left of the children and leave.

You’re paying too much for pigs man. Who’s your pig guy?

The Netflix Wednesday show is the best example to me. There is the most overly obvious best possible day for when each week to release it each week and instead of running them weekly through to Halloween, they released a highly anticipated young adult Tim Burton series in…August.

After years, at Christmas, I treated myself to a current gen console. I have managed to find time to play a total of 2 games

Total woman

I seem to remember reading a Fanfiction of exactly this scenario, which I have since lost, but in general the Culture had better relations with the Necrons (Newcrons at that time) than the Imperium

My dad has a can of coke from celebrating Manchester United’s first Premier League win under Sir Alex Ferguson in 1993. I plan to drink it when we win our next.

If we just replaced all commentary and analysis of the Labour Party with this picture, I think it would save everyone a lot of time, and make things significantly clearer.

That’s actually an interesting thought. I can think of a couple of British shows which successfully made the jump but not a single one in the other direction. Lots of game and reality shows but no comedies.

Wheel of Time

I was told “white rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit” in the 90s and was also told it should be the first words you speak when you wake up

In Germany a wine bar can be called a “Winegut”. Whenever I walk past one I have to say “Winegut? Ok, but beer better”