I don’t mind wheeliebin. We have a tendency to naff-ify everyday items so they always sound unglamourous - witness Brit garage “garidge” vs US “gararj”). In Australia they were called “Otto”, after the company that made them.

Not sure which words I’m uncomfortable with.

I try not to use Twat even though it can still happen when I’m really exasperated.

Also loo and bog for toilet I avoid. Only bog is really off limits though.

Inevitable. Can you make the ends thicker again then even if it isn’t really chocolate. Oh and bring the raisin one back.

There have been a few attempt to realise a better use for the EPG like the Pure Evoke-3 radio that had epg and recording (I even remember the Psion Wavefinder from the early 2000s that used software on a Windows pc and let you schedule recordings) but sadly the nearest we got to any usable nin-internet radio recording option with epg has been via Freeview, Freesat or Sky satellite boxes but that wouldn’t necessarily get you access to all the stations on DAB.

Ah good. I just don’t get the Oreo obsession. A ginger or custard cream (hell even a bourbon biscuit) yes but I’m just not an Oreo fan. Opinions and tastes obviously vary.

Yes=pretzels, No=Oreos (get the hell away from me), Potato chips= maybe

Blimey. Garibaldi’s. Much beloved by my Gran when I was young. Used to call the fly s*** biscuits. Lived in Australia for a while and often miss Anzac biscuits. Tesco sold them here for a while but we just make them out of necessity.

The price they should be.

Sorry I meant a change this big would require a 2nd term to implement and it’s that which looks unlikely.

Seen similar locally. Went in a B&M and the Xmas aisle dwarfs the Halloween aisle. It used to be little Xmas stuff until after firework night (November 5th).

It’s a funny old world but I’m not always laughing.

In opposition Labour talked about replacing council tax with a charge with would be 0.5% of the value of the property you lived in which would halve our bill but obviously mostly increase the bills for much property in London and the south east.

Can’t see them being in office long enough to even implement it.

Ha. Good point re indoors. Clearly this cat breaks all the laws of physics. Another quantum cat that can be in two places at once.

This wasn’t even a one off. This guys video channel was just him waiting for this to happen and it happened very frequently. I do remember seeing several where the police weren’t really that supportive (probably as, though it made a point it was basically planned confrontation for video views).

I say not biscuit. C’est choccie wafer. Penguin or Tim Tam are borderline biscuits.

Great pic. Miss seeing them since I moved to Glasgow. They were getting to be a common sight in Bedfordshire.

Well the herbal was great so haven’t ordered any tea as yet as was seeing if anybody had any experience with them. Good range of teas at least.

I’m now excessively mature so my memory is seeing multiple covers of the Sex Pistols’ Never mind the Bollocks filling the HMV window (I did say I was old) but with the word Bollocks covered up. That and CD’s first appearing in the store at more than twice the cost of vinyl LP’s (£13 vs £5.49).

That tells us something about where our culture has gone and is going. I feel what you are seeing reflects this. There’s a herd mentality driving a lot of norms.

That’s an interesting question. I don’t think the advantages of the fediverse are part of any zeitgeist so are not attracting new and diverse users other than maybe through places like Flipboard and maybe Ghost. The future of social media is certainly going to remain fragmented and the fediverse fragments itself by default anyway. I do think that how people use social media is changing; people are tired of overuse to some extent. Does the fediverse have a future? I think it’ll remain its own niche as corporate offerings come and go. Increased Interest may come from an unexpected growth in a specialism that is federated. I think my idealism for what the fediverse could achieve is now muted as I probably no longer have faith in open networks as the cultures are way too different so I probably now see the fediverse less through the email analogy and more through the linux analogy. If fedi plods on refining itself in its own slow way (volunteers and no money make for slow progress) then who know the next time a corp offering destroys itself and people search for a less awful and exploitative environment then it might just win out in the long term though I’m not entirely convinced about that. Does that mean i’m off to corporate networks. Not really. I’d rather just stop altogether than fall down that rabbit hole again.

To me any war on homeland soil would mostly mean crippling infrastructure via hacking & inciting unrest. Worst case scenario a strategic nuclear or emp strike on military sites though by that stage we’re clearly in a very worrying place.

I get that most objections will be on religious grounds but with appropriate checks I believe this is a good thing to have in place.