We call it 'being mogged', as in 'Help, I've been mogged' or 'There's been a mogging'.

Someone else posted this list, but I haven't tested any of them myself yet: rigorousthemes.com/blog/apps-be...

likewise - and 'Infart' (in Sweden) gets me every time.

My parents jumped on that whole 'Back to the Land' bandwagon in the '70s; it...wasn't great.

sounds like admin are dealing with some kind of coordinated bot swarm at the moment - hopefully they'll manage to tamp it down before too long.

@olliegerlach.bsky.social One for you, perhaps?

Chocolate goop.

managed to get Halloween treats, mince pies, *and* hot cross buns in a single Tesco order a couple of weeks back.

Moved from France to the rural US Midwest ~age 10 & worked SO hard to shed my accent to fit in - but unfortunately despite being back in Europe approx 30 years now, my US accent has stuck.
OTOH, was later able to weaponise the 'Perky Midwestern Nice' accent to terrify posh senior lawyers.

Have you tried them grilled, like a pb&j croque monsieur? Incredibly scrumptious :)

Turning up for a release-day cinema matinee of Stargate straight from work at an archaeological dig, the entire crew still in hi-vis, muddy, & with trowels etc clipped to our toolbelts.

We used to have those at a deli I worked at in Ohio in the '90s - favourite thing was to bite off both ends & use them as a straw to drink the unlimited hot coffee.

The Paradox trilogy by Rachel Bach has a really nice balance of aliens to pew-pew.

Jelonek is another one you might like: Polish instrumental violin metal.

Ugh, yeah - I had to officially cite myself to get around that problem. But then there were *even more* weird niggles, since TurnItIn then decided I had plagiarized the word 'the', the phrase 'et al', and the entirety of the year 1996.

A couple of friends & I used to do this every year: grab a cottage in Cornwall (with no wifi!) for a week or two in the off-season, punctuating our writing with playing with the fireplace & watching dramatic waves crashing against the cliffs.

Good news indeed! If the NHS doesn't sort itself out, I may need to see whether CVS will allow random foreign walk-ins (their website blocks overseas access for some reason)

One keeps building a web in my tea mug if I leave it unattended (& dry) for more than an hour or two :(