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…i think the social conditioning to marry prince charming was profound; kind of like religion, we all want to believe in someone to sweep off our feet and make our dreams come true…

…i don’t have my finger on the pulse of generation alpha but for awhile i hoped generation Z might leave that baggage behind them…

…i think it’s been patched + restored since 2009…

…Планета бурь instead of alien (although the original alien is a fantastic film)…

…funny thing is aperture science isn’t even included in that graphic but it fits right in…

…i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the news broke about an hour later…

(yep, but i just woke up as i was typing, so i’ll leave it as a mark of shame)

…get that f*ucking plural-comma out of my face…

^{1 head + 5 handle}

We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats.

…that’s not where they’re supposed to go…

YOU wOULDN’T
DOWNLOAd A
CIVILISATION

…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…

East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…i shop women’s shoes when i can; they generally offer a much wider selection…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…

…it’s how you imagine people look or it’s what you imagine people look like, but not both…

TIL!

…i also had no idea aluminised tetrapacks were recyclable; always figured composite materials were dead-end landfill fodder…

(the changeover wasn’t entirely in the sixties, though: as a kid, we used to peel cartons open and scrape off the wax for craft projects clear into the early eighties, never realised the packaging had changed prior to the advent of plastic screw-tops)

…typically they’re coated with food-grade wax…

beep-beep-beep-beep! beep. beep.

…when i trained as a rescue diver, i learned that it’s not drowning unless you die: if you survive, it’s a near-drowning…

…two-thirds a dram of scotch whisky…