Tolkien outliving the Apollo Program feels similarly weird

So, British public sector Lord of War?

He’ll be installed in a Neuralink Gilt Chair in the Oval Office by the end of the year, rule via tweet for a few years, then conveniently pop his clogs directly after winning a third term that will be taken up by whoever wins the GOP Battle Royale in the meantime

Apparently mediums used to do this so that they could hold blocks of wood with their feet and make sure that ghostly knockings happened on cue

Put like that, it reminds me of the Xhosa cattle-killers

The first one, for anyone like me who’s going ‘Wasn’t that a quote?’

I don’t know, I think having enough shoulder to wedge yourself slightly might be enough of an advantage on the descent to make up for it being a PITA on the way up

‘The government cannot spend as effectively as a single person’ - the words of someone who has never heard of buying wholesale

I knew it was still said the same, so I guessed that it was the formerly-Spanish Dutch spelling, but, on looking it up, Wikipedia points the finger at the Spanish rewriting the Latin ‘maiorca’ to have the letters that they’d usually pronounce that way

It got the point across perfectly well, it just also derailed my train of thought to consider shepherd’s cottage pies of various mixtures and the possible culinary reasons for them not working. Might have to do some experiments.

Well, now I’m wondering what the ratio is where it stops being a lamb cottage pie and becomes a beef shepherd's pie

Possibly an argument that they’re less likely to be properly sharp, since the blade is often riveted in place and a pig to get at with a whetstone

So, they’re betting the farm on being von Papen rather than von Schleicher

If anything, that’s *too* metric

Yeah, mostly just silly comments, and then you telling someone off for joining in on the anti-rabbit conversation with recipes. If I was ‘bossy’ and ‘mansplaining’, it was only to the same degree as your fine example.

90 is still bigger than 77, isn’t it?

Seems like someone doesn’t know what ‘most’ means.