Dave Taylor

I quite like the "No shit, Sherlock"-ness of the two signs at the entrance to the road.

Lower Street, Islip, on my walk today.

A name misspelled most divertingly by the copyist of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

[Dover edition, Vol. 2, p. 33]

That is fair. It still makes me twitch when he does it. Which is why he does it, of course. What are friends for if not uncomfortably interrogating one's cultural paradigms via their own background assumptions disguised as 'banter'?

A friend from SK quite persistently calls me a WASP, no matter how much I explain that this is not a label that makes sense for a UK person. Or an atheist, for that matter.

Let's hope! He seems to blow whichever way the person in his ear is blowing.

Can we have the Starmer back who spoke so convincingly against Brexit when in opposition? Or is he the empty cipher obsessed with party infighting he's seemed to be since?

The time available for a reset is running down.

3*(50 - 10 - 1)

Originally elected for Witney as a Tory, but defected in 1999. It really didn't make Labour look good to accept such a nakedly careerist move. Chalk that up as one more name that had consistently given everyone the ick turning up in Epstein.

Parents-in-law came to visit us in Oxford from Scotland years ago. We drove them round all the henges, chocolate box villages and wolds, etc. But FiL only really got excited when we drove him across the Magic Roundabout.

Surprised how many comments assume that this person is characterising their son's eating habits fairly. People with misophonia all too often let their rage do the describing of other people's eating habits, turning innocuous things into supposed offences. I bet he just eats like all the rest of us.

This is what happens when you drink your Aperol Spritzes two at a time

No. The actual phrasing is "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

Each alone, not a cascade.

6*(4*4*9 - 7)

I measured my Sports Direct mug capacity at 626 ml (for Science!)
I have also had to measure the volume of my pees on quite a few occasions (for Medicine!) Never has a pee exceeded 500 ml. Mostly they're around 300 ml.

NB I have never put pee in my Sports Direct mug.

This is not the Morgan McSweeney that you think it is. Check their profile message.

8*(75 + 7 - (100+50)/25)

Can you put in a word with the contestants, please? I'm bored of four big numbers.

In what other context would you think that wiping it off with a bit of paper was a suitable response to getting poo on you?

YouTube video by vaclavwendy Fanfrnoch a koledy.

An action best performed with a fanfrnoch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYGH...

I first read this essay ~20 years ago. It didn't make sense to me then; all the attributes listed are so incredibly stupid and obviously hollow. "Who would this ever appeal to?"

Well, we learned. From a world where it was so dead that I couldn't understand it to one dominated by it in 20 years.

0.7% of 800M is not 560,000, but rather 5.6M

Golden opportunity missed to use "trivially" as a tiresome flex

For Science!

Heron's formula - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%2...

4*75*50/25

100 + 9*(6+4) - 9 - 7 for a route that uses all numbers

50*6 - 25 - 5

I never get to your posts first. Strange feeling.

(5 + 1)*(9 + 8 + 2)

Who needs big numbers anyway?

The banners that say "LOL" are quite misleading as to the level of funseeking, yes

7*(3*25 + 8/2)

Alternate version, even safer: substitute "jizz" for "cheers"

9*[(100 - 10)/5 + 9 - 1]

That felt a bit fiddly. Let's see how everyone else did it.