Carrie K

There's a couple of residential streets here where it's now basically one continuous street party. With 6 year olds high on sugar running between the adults legs and the occasional parent wandering by wondering if anyone has seen a small skeleton?

And after too long living in Germany my grammar is itself greuselig... "frog" not "Frog".

To be fair, apparently, to a lot of people (at least _some_) over the Pond, even a blow up Frog is frightening.

I never did understand why bogroll needed to be "medicated". If anyone can enlighten me, I'm all ears.

Me looking for the dates of next Easter school holidays where I live... and it even gets _that_ wrong.

1990s ever ready 4xa battery hulking great beasts of lights that were really expensive and always got nicked if you left them on your bike during lectures. (As opposed to today's microscopic things that are two-a-penny. And don't even need batteries.

At least you had an excuse when they were this awkward:

Nobody told us this in advance. At 6pm on the Friday night we worked this out for ourselves, fortunately, for everyone's sanity.

It really highlights how journalism today is a major source of the entshittification of news. Kuenssberg didn't actually _want_ an answer to the question that she asked, did she? She wanted a soundbite.

And that just makes me want to read it more urgently...! When the embargo is lifted, please remember this request.

I'm now going have to _read_ your thesis. Hints please as to where I can get a copy...

How did the egyptians know about onesie bikini bottoms and sunnies _and_ those days on the beach without enough sun?

My go-to convergent-evolution example.

Unless this thinking is stamped out very loudly and publicly, and quickly, noone (businesses, individuals, whatever) can ever make any assumptions again about ILR meaning what it _should_ mean. (See also international and ah hem, UK constituional law).

You could sit our fist on the kitchen table at 18 months and _just walk way_. It was amazing.

Can totally support. It is just _fun_ for everyone. 4180km down and it's still _fun_. (There's probably a whole thesis somewhere in this about how tactile, personal and involved it is as a means of transporting kids, who still love it.)

_be_ wary. Very wary.

Cops and Robbers is _not_ Allan Ahlberg's best.

German pseudonymised patient data.

Unsolicited _chickflick_ pic.

Me (temporarily) in a wheelchair: Watching the faces of the people in the full lift as the doors open in front of me and concluding that none of the apparently healthy people are going to make space by instead taking the stairs. My language in response: @$%&(<÷%$#*@^$%, please? Thank you.

I hope the Chinese (?!) manufacturer has got a lot in stock... (I'm kidding, of course they will already be on a container most of the way to the US, won't they?)

You probably haven't seen the fallout when someone asks the haunted question and the seller replies that yes, they do, in fact, believe the place is haunted. (Note that the Solicitors on both sides _immediately_ regret offering fixed fee.)

Me sitting in my constituency law supervisions: "Er, but, hold on, what if...?"
Consti supervisor: "Oh, nooo. You don't need to worry about That happening. We wouldn't ever need That here."

Hubby to me some while ago (me frustrated in my in-house advisory role where people just aren't willing to understand GDPR and instead just stay petrified of it): "You should just go into consultancy. Name the business, "GDPR, it's not that hard or that awful." There'd be a lot of money in that."

And planted as part of an estate development, by the looks.

It landed _on me_ perfectly. It was my reply to you that apparently landed badly😆. Sorry!

Ok, correction: "Shark encounters (by reported sightings and recorded injuries/deaths)". Is that better?

Shark sightings on the Gold Coast per 24hr period.

Maybe try to make it look like they (and their families) are wanted and welcome and that some kind of civil society will be there to support them? It would be a start.

Couldn't get a picture unfortunately but the rural Bayern version of this yesterday was a goat in the front of a cargo bike.