Mark

In a similar vein there's the story that to celebrate Blackburn winning the league back in '95 their top scorer Alan Shearer rushed home after the match, ran upstairs to where his wife stood waiting in the bedroom, threw her onto the bed then vacuumed the floor where she'd been standing.

Carney aiming for this year's Neville Chamberlain Appeasement Award.

Sadly, he bloody well did.

About point 4, from the BBC:

"I did apologise to the president," Carney told reporters at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea on Saturday.

There's a copy of The Gruffalo somewhere in the house with a corner chewed off. The book, that is, not the house. I don't know if it was one of the kids or dogs that did it.

My daughter thinks maybe a type of halfbeak.

Small grey fish with a long snout wriggling on top of shore rocks having just leapt out of the ocean.

Small grey fish with a long snout and distinctive orange tip, wriggling on top of shore rocks, splashing tail in water.

This wee fishy leapt onto the rocks in front of me this afternoon, wriggled around for 30 seconds then thankfully found its way back into the ocean.

No idea why, not sure which species, didn't have the chance to ask, happened so fast.

Distinctive orange tip to it's snout, body is about 25cm long.

A crow cawing, perched on a power line, in silvertone.

Noisy friend.

A quote from the little-known British sequel to The Stepford Wives.

Line delivered by Mollie Sugden, playing Her Maj.

Go feral.

Ew, sorry Alberta that you have such a snide government. Let's fix that statement for them, help see them for what they are:

"We're very disappointed that the teachers of Alberta understand that class size is important and are prepared to go through hardship to protect education in the long term."

Yes, and albeit outside your remit, but my word it makes a great story, so do some butterflies.

It's scary how many educators cling to dogma and appeal-to-authority. My particular (least) favourite was my son's elementary teacher who stated that her decision about a (provably) undecidable aspect of math was correct because "the Newfoundland and Labrador school district says that's the answer"

Yeah, it could actually do what it's supposed to do in n clock cycles, rather that not-at-all, or in n^m clock cycles.

"Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it" is such a a great, and often true, line.

Well, no, not really, but the ability of large language models to capture context and create knowledge is being oversold. Try looking up what happens when you try to evolve/train a model to predict prime numbers...

Oh that is good.

From his perspective, yes. From the child's, no. But forget that, there is no version of reality that I can grasp where he is a father, never mind a grandad. Not in a disparaging way, more a "I refuse to accept it isn't still 1994" type way.

He only wants it for the shiny, shiny, gold. Same way he held onto the Club World Cup trophy for so long, to display in the Oval Office.

Someone please sit him in front of a tv, place a phone by his side, switch on the Shopping Channel and he'll be enraptured for the remainder of his presidency.

80 years ago the atrocities the Third Reich performed upon humans to "advance scientific knowledge" were uncovered. It's not just deeply sad but utterly shameful that since then, while we've made limited progress, we (collectively) haven't grasped that experimenting on animals is equally unethical.

I still wonder how it would have gone if Gazza had been there. I think Hoddle misunderstood how little turnaround time Paul needed to get from pie-eyed to pitch-perfect.

It was her ability to changes the speed of delivery for me, slowing it down, lowering the volume, taking a scene instantly from something lighthearted into deep pathos. Much like Violet Carson. Wonderful.

Yes, she said that Gerald has just popped out of the hotel for an hour because he's been told about this place where he's sure to find a shag or two. For some reason he left his camera behind.

The opening 5 seconds before he opens the door could have been from any 1970s sketch show.

The way to strengthen democracy is to give people a say *and* to give them the opportunity to understand what they're saying. Leave either part out and it doesn't work. It can't just be about "voice" and "ownership", it must include "education" and "knowledge".

Double Dwarfers Delight today!

Curly Watts!

The Eastenders character who felt like he was borrowed from Neighbours.

Usually, when it is your actual anthem being sung, it's my jaw hitting the floor rather than my ass, as to why a nation would let yet another second-rate singer self-indulgently murder a song that means so much to so many. As an outsider, great entertainment though.

The orange cretin is mistaking "fear of what the drunken toddler will do next" for "respect".

They've been briefed. They've been told. They simply don't care. They convince themselves it's for "the greater good".

I guess they never turned up for the second ethics class.