doc_dish

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[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or one that's just emerged from its pupa(?)

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am also in the large button, small flush gang. I assume it's that way so the flush you use most frequently is bigger, but it does seem counterintuitive.

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

I went to a site recently where the padlock code was 58008.

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

You forgot Texas City

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But in rhyming slang, you use the non-rhyming word (e.g. "china" = "china plate" = "mate")

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

someone who lives with the queen

Surely that would be the Queen's lodger?

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

This is similar to an old joke about former British Prime Minister John Major. His father had been a circus performer, so it was aid that "he'd run away from the circus to become an accountant".

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

NT (3.x & 4.0) and 2000 were also available as Workstation editions. They were concurrent with Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME (which did get missed on the above)

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

...where we came in.

The Wall ends with the first half of the sentence it started with.

I think this is...

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks. I don't know a great deal about Girl Guiding's programme in the UK, but I understand that there's a similar distinction between it and the Scout Association's programme as there is in the US.

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