Ractonducie
@ractonducie.bsky.social
Hopefully tending towards 'woke'.
Interested in history (largely WWII mil), puns and silliness...and procrastination.
Interested in history (largely WWII mil), puns and silliness...and procrastination.
I was going to post some Milligna but of course, someone got there first. Although my favourite from 'The Book of Milliganimals' was prose more than poetry...'The Bald Twit Lion'.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I was going to post some Milligna but of course, someone got there first. Although my favourite from 'The Book of Milliganimals' was prose more than poetry...'The Bald Twit Lion'.
Shades of the late, great Terry Wogan. IYKYK. 'Four hundred children and a crock in the fields, you took a fine time...'
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Shades of the late, great Terry Wogan. IYKYK. 'Four hundred children and a crock in the fields, you took a fine time...'
Our favourite local GP is one Doc Brown...and I can't ever refer to her as anything other than 'Emmett'.
September 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Our favourite local GP is one Doc Brown...and I can't ever refer to her as anything other than 'Emmett'.
Yes...please. I'd like to order one!
September 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Yes...please. I'd like to order one!
I hate how the hard-sell works...but it does. This should be my holiday read for next week. The sofa isn't getting getting changed for years though. The dogs are too comfortable.
September 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I hate how the hard-sell works...but it does. This should be my holiday read for next week. The sofa isn't getting getting changed for years though. The dogs are too comfortable.
But you just know, if he did, there'd be some Python fan on the quayside talking about a 'farcical aquatic ceremony'. I've enough self-awareness to know that I would.
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
But you just know, if he did, there'd be some Python fan on the quayside talking about a 'farcical aquatic ceremony'. I've enough self-awareness to know that I would.
If that's your only Edinburgh flatmate then you're having a very, very different Edinburgh experience than I ever had.
August 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If that's your only Edinburgh flatmate then you're having a very, very different Edinburgh experience than I ever had.
As someone who I'd like to claim has some green credentials, but would be better described as 'tight as a badger's a***', all I can say is, please look at getting the drive replaced with an SSD. By law, there should be a 'find-a-geek' service in every area.
August 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
As someone who I'd like to claim has some green credentials, but would be better described as 'tight as a badger's a***', all I can say is, please look at getting the drive replaced with an SSD. By law, there should be a 'find-a-geek' service in every area.
On this site? You're more likely to spawn a debate as to whether they should be painted in oils, woven from jute or possess a control interface with an appropriately mature social and political conscience. It's probably still worth a try though.
August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
On this site? You're more likely to spawn a debate as to whether they should be painted in oils, woven from jute or possess a control interface with an appropriately mature social and political conscience. It's probably still worth a try though.
Done. Not much but I hope it helps.
July 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Done. Not much but I hope it helps.
So it seemed. Even when there was the jeopardy of misgendering.
July 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
So it seemed. Even when there was the jeopardy of misgendering.
'Classic era' BBC Radio 2 had John Dunn's Mystery Voice feature. A listener favourite that I presume hasn't survived anywhere in the new digital world. The weeks a voice could go unrecognised suggests digital tools might have the edge over humans in voice rec. No more frustration, but no more fun.
July 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
'Classic era' BBC Radio 2 had John Dunn's Mystery Voice feature. A listener favourite that I presume hasn't survived anywhere in the new digital world. The weeks a voice could go unrecognised suggests digital tools might have the edge over humans in voice rec. No more frustration, but no more fun.
I knew that there wasn't much of an audience at Marco's Leisure Centre that year, but still...
July 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I knew that there wasn't much of an audience at Marco's Leisure Centre that year, but still...
Was he sticking Weetabix down them?
July 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Was he sticking Weetabix down them?
I'm a bit conflicted by this, because this is 'diplomacy' (please note the quote marks)...and sadly, it's probably the way things have been done for years, if not centuries. It's just not usually admitted. Doing so might, or might not be helpful. History (rather than 'alternative facts') will tell.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'm a bit conflicted by this, because this is 'diplomacy' (please note the quote marks)...and sadly, it's probably the way things have been done for years, if not centuries. It's just not usually admitted. Doing so might, or might not be helpful. History (rather than 'alternative facts') will tell.
I read that just the once. Not going to lie.
July 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I read that just the once. Not going to lie.
And listened to it, watched the TV series and on a memorable occasion, sat in a pub with a mate reading/performing from the radio scripts. Most of that happened in the 80s.
July 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And listened to it, watched the TV series and on a memorable occasion, sat in a pub with a mate reading/performing from the radio scripts. Most of that happened in the 80s.
Those that know me won't be surprised that I did.
July 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Those that know me won't be surprised that I did.
Fatal victims of such storms will be able to announce, "This storm has deaded me!" and be reborn the following week.
June 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Fatal victims of such storms will be able to announce, "This storm has deaded me!" and be reborn the following week.
Done...but with the opportunity to submit more than once I've also gone with the following. Just...because.
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Done...but with the opportunity to submit more than once I've also gone with the following. Just...because.
'That thing' where you're chatting vaguely about something and for days afterwards you get related ads and articles linked on your web browser. Seem to be getting it with mixed media. Within 24-hours, SD-2 is in an ep of 'Father Brown', in the Beaufort pilot autobiog I'm reading and here.
June 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
'That thing' where you're chatting vaguely about something and for days afterwards you get related ads and articles linked on your web browser. Seem to be getting it with mixed media. Within 24-hours, SD-2 is in an ep of 'Father Brown', in the Beaufort pilot autobiog I'm reading and here.
Forgive my ignorance, as I know precious little about the internal combustion engine, let alone the workings of tracked vehicles, but are you likely to get more road damage from tracked vehicles turning (even with track pads) or do the slower/halted tracks tend to slide easily over asphalt?
June 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Forgive my ignorance, as I know precious little about the internal combustion engine, let alone the workings of tracked vehicles, but are you likely to get more road damage from tracked vehicles turning (even with track pads) or do the slower/halted tracks tend to slide easily over asphalt?
As a curious but admitted, ill-educated monoglot, I'd love to know the many, international equivalents of 'spawny-eyed, parrot-faced wazzock'. I've some idea of what it means in my own tongue.
May 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As a curious but admitted, ill-educated monoglot, I'd love to know the many, international equivalents of 'spawny-eyed, parrot-faced wazzock'. I've some idea of what it means in my own tongue.