Given that we’re talking about streets where people generally walk down the middle of the road at all times of day and look askance at anyone driving there, I think pedestrianisation is a great idea

Well that was fascinating, thank you

Not, unfortunately

Those are the ones! It’s quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

Amazing, thank you for that. There’s so much that’s fascinating in linguistics!

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

It’s one of the many ways I know that as a species we’re fucked

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn’t sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.

Michael, but he prefers Mikey

Bit disappointed by how few of these I recognise!

Hmm okay thanks, I was considering it for Christmas but I don’t think that’s going to suit my game group!

I read a lot of good reviews of arcs, how does it play?

How is this not a meme template already?

The Expanse. So much going on in that opening, plus it updates depending on what’s happening in the series.

Interesting, thanks! I’d only ever seen it as amusing (UK based so couldn’t buy it anyway), but good to know how it actually stacks up. I wonder if that also means that Nancy herself would have been better to just buy an index tracker and avoid all the negative stories!

For those of you in the US, the are a couple of funds which track politician’s holdings and invest/digest with them. NANC is the democrat tracking one and KRUZ is the republican tracking one.

This way, you too can stick your snout in the trough.

Hmm

<Reaches for 2024 bingo card>

Slugabed I’ve used before, usually to describe me!

To paraphrase a shower thoughts post from a few weeks back though (not mine), why is going to bed early seen as pious but staying in bed late seen as slothful when the net result is the same amount of time spent in bed?

I know, that whole thing about Mediterranean diet and Japanese diet could just be based on pension fraud and bad record keeping

I thought it was really interesting actually, not sure why it won