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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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.

Douglas Adams

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You forgot Texas City

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

someone who lives with the queen

Surely that would be the Queen's lodger?

[–] [email protected] 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".

[–] [email protected] 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)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

In the UK, The Scout Association went fully co-ed in 2007 and Girl Guiding remains a girls-only organisation. Both are doing just fine.

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