Bouba's Delivery Service

Wild-assed speculation of the day: people think steampunk is about nostalgia for empire (please take it as a given that I don't think that's good), but it's just as much about nostalgia for CLUNK and CLONK and DING and WHUNK.

Henry inadvertently shaming Tom with the goat halters was a brilliant moment.

Our air fryer has a clockwork timer. You wind the dial back with your thumb, and then it TICKS and WHIRRS and DINGS.

This is why most of my friends roll physical dice at the game table despite all of us having An App For That.

Always interested in moussaka. Funnily enough, the Serbs make moussaka with sliced potatoes instead of aubergine, and get VERY defensive at anyone expressing surprise when served it this way. (It's pretty good, too.)

In just 9 months, Mark Zuckerberg has cruised in his superyacht so much that the $300 million vessel has burned 2 million liters of diesel and spewed 5,300 tons of CO₂. The Facebook co-founder has now...

And yet I'M killing the planet if I want an egg for breakfast.

Yeah, I hardly think that was "rehabbing" so much as "philanthropy sometimes means gritting your teeth, schmoozing that prick and thinking of all the children whose lives the project will save"

Me: NO, Dubya was a terrible president. At the time we thought bad presidents were measured on a linear scale. Your Bushtalgia is nostalgia for your lost innocence before you learned the hard way that bad presidents are measured on a log scale.

Me: NO, Dubya was a terrible president. At the time we thought bad presidents were measured on a linear scale. Your Bushtalgia is nostalgia for your lost innocence before you learned the hard way that bad presidents are measured on a log scale.

Cholera Avoidance 101:

THIS is where we get our drinking water.

THAT is where the poop goes.

THOSE are rubber cots with a hole cut out for the butt and a 20-litre bucket underneath.

Any questions?

I did thoroughly enjoy that description of her "nice mode" as "a treacly-ingenue persona with no prior online footprint."

Many of whom are on here. That was a mighty fast block.

ESPECIALLY the quickie marts. Japanese 7/11s are a wonderland. To say nothing of Lawson.

I think we might be at a point where there's not much to be done about the hard core of smokers without either running into unworkable or "believe it or not, civil liberties are still important". We really have gotten the numbers down remarkably.

I remember Msscribe. As the good Rabbi said, all else is commentary.

I want a Big Boy. You could put all sorts of things in his burger hand.

Feed-and-seed = country store. Sells stuff that farmers and other rural people need. Absolutely FASCINATING to wander around. Like this.

Well, to be fair, I've never personally seen the GP directly googling symptoms. Have seen them Google "medical device that you're going to go and buy afterwards because we sure as hell won't prescribe anything" and "contact details for making referrals because the clinic website is Unhelpful".

Say Hello to the Glitter Beetle — Phil Torres Some insects are more shiny than others. This weevil takes the prize for glittery, sparkly, and all around amazing.

There's a real beetle that looks like it's been rolled in glitter. There's a thing you know now.

Remember that Henry was following George around as a male role model for a bit. I think that experience scared the bejeezus out of him. #TheArchers

Every time

a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket is standing in front of a lamp with the words life written on it . Alt: Life finds a way

The Great British Sandwich will always find a way to inveigle a bukkake of mayo in there.

What worries me is that it doesn't have the little "NO MAYO" flash on the box.

The ones here literally Google it and don't even turn the screen away from you.

That's not what DM is for. It's cosmetics and household stuff, not medicine. "Drogerie" is a false friend.

Especially when you tell them that no, you don't get to try the expensive new drugs here until you've exhausted every possible cheap old one.

The Dutch healthcare system is essentially "paracetamol and piss off"

If you're going to be told to lose weight and try mindfulness by the real doctor, then you may as well go to the woo doctor who will at least be nice about it.

In Dutch drugstores you'll see paracetamol-based cold cures sharing shelf space with homeopathic ones. They're both equally useless, but one has been known to kill babies when the parents misread the package.

There's obviously a triage system where they're really hoping that the elaborate herbal stuff makes the disease go away on its own before they have to bust out the precious penicillin.