Andrew Russell

Cambyases
Had his biases
Ozymandias
Looked down on those with pretension to grandeur, but now lying in the sand he is

Ozymandias
Head in the sand while his vast trunkless legs just lie there
Ye mighty despair

Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Ozymandias

Hi, kids, are ye all mighty?
Wanna go out in the desert and have yourselves a sight-see?
Wanna see two vast trunkless legs standing uprightly?
Look on this pair and despair what it might be?

Also Borden sees through the shit double immediately, finds it laughable. After weeks of investigating the new act, is utterly baffled. What's fooling him this time, if not the fact that it's now a *perfect* double?

Yes, justice very much being served cold.

I also enjoyed the bit where this person - her main witness - admits he signed his evidence statement blind and a) she begins sobbing so loudly they have to stop, b)she says she's distraught at seeing him suffering from dementia and c) the judge responds "fine, won't be using his evidence then"

Atropos, of nothing.

Is that anything? Probably not, but still:

Atropos, of nothing

Even in Saki stories of upper-class Edwardians, it's apparent that the Near East starts at Vienna (and that the Balkans generally are some sort of half-mystic Wild West full of noble tribesmen with whom a young man at a loose end can go adventuring).

You can find all our Carer's Allowance work below. The campaign goes on!

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A page of text from Georgette Heyer's Black Sheep, containing the sentence "And I don't believe, for all his protestations and caressing ways, that he truly loves Fanny" followed in the next paragraph by the unimprovable "If you too think that, won't you — oh, Mr Calvereigh, won't you do anything to save my poor Fanny."

This is from the 1930s, not a parody, and oh, come on.

As a 47 year old father of teenagers, I do spend quite a bit of time wondering how strongly I should be advising them to plan on relocating to Australia when they graduate.

Basically yes. Charities (or the ones big enough to employ chuggers, at least) watch fundraising metrics extremely carefully so if they're doing something, it's working. They don't love sharing those figures but ROI is probably around 4:1 or 5:1 which is pretty good for mass-market fundraising.

These columns always distil down to: "A major input to our national energy strategy should be my personal aesthetic sensibilities" and: no.

A silence, during which Smiley's eyes seemed almost entirely to have closed. Guillam was mulling the wisdom of a wry quip when Smiley finally, softly, asked: "I wonder how this might have happened, Toby?" Esterhase erupted. "Well now look, George, these spreadsheet things are damned fiddly, right?"

I'm hearing "not great, not terrible".

Father's Day: spent most of the afternoon at the local cricket ground, playing catch and frisbee with my daughter while watching my son score 43 stylish runs, before coming on myself with 3 needed from the last 9 balls, and to everyone's surprise, scoring them. With actual cricket shots! A good day.

Everyone raves about my Maenad joke

"And with the last kick of the game Che Adams gets his hat-trick against Liechtenstein! That's the first Scotland player to score a hat trick since 2019, when John McGinn scored one against San Marino."

And they say stats don't tell the whole story.

IOW, they knew their problem and what they needed to do to fix it, but they couldn't stop the supermarkets dictating prices.

Did market research for them in 2004 ish. Big contract, they'd take us to MD level briefings where we'd hear all about their quality led premium pricing strategy, nod and smile, then get in the car and listen to the Asda/Tesco/Morrisons ad telling us we could get 24 cans for a tenner this weekend.

"No, it was here all along" he retracted.

The more you think about it, the worse it gets.

The subject cannot make the leap to figurative language. She first guesses that the dinosaur is just “bones” and then is stuck stating that the bones are “waddling, um, all up the hill” because she can see that Dickens has the dinosaur moving. Because she cannot logically tie the ideas together, she just leaves her interpretation as is and goes on to the next sentence. Like [End Page 10] this subject, most of the problematic readers were not concerned if their literal translations of Bleak House were not coherent, so obvious logical errors never seemed to affect them. In fact, none of the readers in this category ever questioned their own interpretations of figures of speech, no matter how irrational the results. Worse, their inability to understand figurative language was constant, even though most of the subjects had spent at least two years in literature classes that discussed figures of speech. Some could correctly identify a figure of speech, and even explain its use in a sentence, but correct responses were inconsistent and haphazard. None of the problematic readers showed any evidence that they could read recursively or fix previous errors in comprehension. They would stick to their reading tactics even if they were unhappy with the results.

Also points out as you say that they struggle with figurative language. muse.jhu.edu/article/922346

FWIW the study was specifically English majors at Kansas universities. "Problematic readers often described their process as skimming or relying on SparkNotes"

A lot of these responses became more explicable once I'd seen that study showing that many US undergrads can't comprehend written English. So many obvious and simple concepts seem to be floating just beyond their reach.

The "I'm terrible at dating" round on House of Games gives a flavour of more or less random folks sense of big picture chronology. Anyone can be wrong but e.g guessing 1870s for Guy Fawkes, or 17th C for printing press implies pretty patchy mental timeline.

I love Captain Beefheart but... maybe 3 times.

My Don top 5
5. Lick My Decals Off Baby
4. Strictly Personal
3. Safe As Milk
2. Bongo Fury (with Frank Zappa)
1. Clear Spot

Yeah (dogs name) is the best part of 40kg of muscle and stupidity. Not fun trying to deal with him when he's been wound up by an off lead dog and is jumping around. Especially because whilst he's not bite-y towards me he has a bad habit id leaving his mouth open when he's excited and those teeth are sharp.

There's a lot to love here, but I think it's the "towards me" that really sells it.

Lads, he's talking about *you*

Re last repost: Obviously correct, but it takes only a few replies before two dog owners chime in to explain that their dangerous, sorry, "reactive" dogs are a threat to other people and this is: other people's fault.