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The man was an ascetic. He'd have hated everything about Paddy's Day, but this just seems like it's taking the piss.

By the end, I was fantasising about doing exactly that. 🤣

Them: The dimensions we allow are A x B.

Me: OK, yes. But if I carried an apple in a pillowcase - which is wider than A - is that going to cost me more than if I carried on an apple in a sandwich bag, which is smaller than A.

They hung up.

Reminds me of my call to Ryanair about the dimensions of their carry-on luggage, and the extra cost of your carry-on is bigger.

Me: Your website says your dimensions are A x B. My bag is soft, so it can squish smaller than that. Will I be charged more because flat out, it exceeds A dimension.

Agreed.

The correct term is "fewer".

Fake strawberry and real denim.

That's not what "ceol is beatha" means, Journal.
That translates as "music and life".

Wall chart.
I just add symbols for anything relevant onto my WFH year planner. Keeps it all nice and clear to me, obscure to the casual onlooker, and easy to dispose of if the need arises.

I just used the NATO alphabet to spell out my whole name over a bad phone line, and my partner of almost 20 years stared at me the whole time.

"When did you learn to do that?!"
"I'm literally a military brat. It's standard issue."

For a second, I thought it meant he was dead.

That is really soothing...
And there are some very clever little horses in the mix, too.

Age verification?

I remember watching the news report of the Titanic wreck being discovered.

I remember watching the Berlin Wall fall on a black and white telly.

I remember my mother telling us not to play in the garden when the Chernobyl disaster became public.

So, I've never been to a con - mostly because it's expensive and I'm afraid of exactly this happening - so I'm curious.

In general, can you get your con ticket money back if this happens? Or are you stuck with tickets to a con without the people you were there to see?

Daniel: I know they say couples start looking like each other after a while, guys, but this is getting ridiculous.

I get that this is probably not a show for my generation, and fine. I'll curl up with my comfy TNG - ENT Blurays and let the kids have their fun.

But SFA is so threaded through with older Trek references that I can't help but feel they meant it to be for my generation, and they screwed the pooch.

Or, Starfleet Academy, I mean. 🤷

I hung on to see the Sisko episode, and ironically, he was the one thing in the show they UNDER designed. Cookie cutter outline, and no real resolution to the age-old DS9 question.

I think the thing that's bothering me the most about Star Trek Academy (apart from the lazy dialogue, thread bare plots and flat characters) is that visually, it's completely over-designed.

From the sets, to the editing, to the camera angles, to the uniforms, it just reeks of a lack of confidence.

I mean. If he's diabetic, and he's not interested (or can't) eat for some reason, he can take a minimal, maintenance dose of insulin and deal with it.

Surely, a grown ass adult should know how to regulate their own glucose levels.

Source: T1D for almost 30 years.

The fact that he made it so Radar looked like he'd had all the oxygen punched out of his body is honestly one of the most powerful things I've ever seen on a screen, so I totally agree.

Gary Burghoff, reading that communique is the most heartbreaking piece of acting I've ever seen.

Plus, didn't they plough through the middle of Viking Dublin to build that blasted thing? Surely 30-odd years of use isn't nearly enough to justify all that destruction.

As the smart girl who was often used as a buffer between bold boys, I'm so glad that strategy is finally being examined.

"Too soon marred are those early made" - Capulet (Romeo and Juliet)

Even the Tudors knew pregnancy was extra dangerous for a tween.

Oh, like they're all not addicted enough to screens already.

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He didn't misspeak when he said "Iceland" at Davos.

They're talking about invading Europe from the north & he just repeated what he'd heard in those private meetings.

Greenland, then Iceland... then Ireland?

Three peaceful, democratic, socialist nations they think they can roll over with panzers.

Guess where they all got their recent confidence from.
Go on. Guess. 🥭

Chip Wreck.

🤣👏👏

Love that this was pre-blocked for me by the MAGA2 blocking list.