Bob’s Your Uncle is a pretty fascinating phrase, because it doesn’t have a clear origin.
The earliest references to it are as a song title, mentioned in advertisements and later in a newspaper review, but neither the actual music or lyrics are known today.
Very soon after this first appearance, it starts appearing in print as a phrase people are using.
I appreciate this is probably the autism, but I’ve always been fascinated that most people seem to be comfortable with stripping down and being oiled up and touched by a stranger.
The odd thing is, I’d totally understand this in a sexual context - but for people to want this kind of contact just as a service, like a haircut or something, seems utterly alien to me.
I realise this doesn’t answer your question, but like I said, I’ve always been fascinated by the concept.
Still our number one favourite.
Both me and my wife had a Gamecube. For my stag weekend, I hired a country house in Scotland and took both, networked them together, hooked each up to a projector and we played Double Dash with 8 players at a time. It was loads of fun!
Started off with Toad in the original.
With Double Dash I moved on to Paratroopa / Koopa Troopa.
And with 8 I moved onto Shy Guy.
For the in-between games, I kept the same as the previous entry. Even though he’s not a light racer like the others, I switched to Shy Guy because I like the noises he makes.
Teeth.
American period films almost always have the main characters with super-white gnashers.
The Saga of Erik the Red states: “In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name.”
In fairness, a lot of news organisations are run without input from adequate journalists.
Another touch typer here. I cut my teeth on online MUDs in the 90s - literally a type-fast-or-your-character-dies situation.
I noticed a lot of the players doing that neck grabbing thing in the World Cup this year.
I get a visceral reaction every time I see it. It’d be a massive red flag if someone tried to do it to me.
Is it a new Andrew Tate/alpha male kind of thing? It’s weird and I don’t like it.
Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.
I think it mostly depends on the community. There are people from all over the world on here, and different groups have different demographics.
Unless you’re using a server that’s super-picky in its federation, I can’t see that the server makes much of a difference.
Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fair number of bots posting here.
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
You include car safety features in your list of reasons that you think the EU is going to collapse?
I hate to tell you, but you might be onto a losing battle. It’s been a mandatory safety feature on all new cars in the EU for a few years now.
Black Books (s1e4). It’s a daft Father Ted / IT Crowd style comedy.
The main character’s posh friends are angry at him for being extremely drunk at a dinner party and traumatising their son, who has been walking around with a shocked open-mouthed expression ever since walking in on him going to the toilet in their kitchen. He tries to downplay it by saying that’s how children normally look.
“What? What? He looks surprised. All children look surprised. Everything’s new to them.”
FWIW, the UK currently has a bill in place that will lower the voting age to 16 before the next General Election (so, before Aug 2029).
I think it’ll be a good thing. Young people are a good deal more aware of what’s happening in the country than old people are. I mean, the current arrangement has stripped away the housing and career prospects of young people and brought us to the verge of fascism again.
For information based things, absolutely.
Something that people don’t seem to understand is that there’s a difference between AI and GenAI.
And that within GenAI, there’s low cost stuff like text and graphics, and high cost like video and audio.
And that with tools developed with GenAI often do not use GenAI when it is run.
AI is super useful and you use it in a bunch of applications already without even realising it. The camera that interprets speed signs and displays them on your dashboard = AI. Spam filters = AI. Google translate = AI.
I don’t know what you think my greater point was, maybe you’ve accidentally conflated me with another poster.
My point actually is that these are not unprecedented rates. These are entirely precedented rates. This is gross capitalism destroying the world as gross capitalism always does. What you’ve lost sight of, though, is the respective scale of things.
As I said, the US alone needlessly wastes vastly more energy and water than the entire world’s usage of AI consumes. For energy, it’s several times more, for water it’s orders of magnitude more.
You make out that solving these massive problems is impossible, so instead you’re railing against AI. Which of course is your prerogative, but just remember that there are much bigger wins out there.
I guess it’s kind of like the save icon. Floppy disks have been out of use for so long, that there are adults who have never seen a floppy disk, but know the save icon.