Did it have the crap dub track, or subtitles?

Way-aye, David!

They do NOT write 'em like that anymore.

I approve this message.

'...Kaneda!'

I bought a house in the mid 80s, built in the 1800s, by an Ishmael Pursglove. He lived in this two-up, two-down terrace with a wife and NINE kids.

...Somehow.

3/3

Now, few adult males have ever asked me to strip in front of them in my life, but I did take a moment while processing this weird list, before focussing on the obvious, and naturally asked: "So can I keep my socks on?"

He laughed.

...And then stabbed me in the scrotum.

Twice.

2/3

Tonight, a customer asked if we had brushes.

"Here we go again," I thought.

"Yard, interior floor, paint and varnish, hair or pets?"

"Yard", he said.

"No".

Many years earlier, my vasectomist (that's a new word, btw, invented by me) asked me to remove my trousers, pants and shoes.

I need clarity. It's the way my head works. Meanwhile, I work in Retail.

A few months ago, I had a customer ask me if we had sponges. I stopped, utterly bemused: thinking deeply for a moment, I asked:

"Cake, cleaning, human or baby?" 😉

1/3

Bwoke?

I smell a rat.

You can still move north!

The use of the word "alleged" appearing when discussing the Apollo 11 landing site gave it away, for me!

My reading of "Stickman" is part-inspired by Rik Mayall's approach to Jackanory.

My kids (now aged 37, 28 and 24) love it.

...I think?

Amaze, amaze, amaze!

Fair point.

But it generally enables us to throw rocks and pointy sticks at large herbivores!

...Which is the only reason why we're here, I suppose?!

8 years ago I tripped over a power cable outside and fell, with my big angle grinder in my left hand (off, fortunately) into the kitchen.

To save me and the grinder, I took the fall on my left elbow, transmitting the shock to my left shoulder.

Numbness and tingling throughout my arm, since 2018.

3/3 (I paraphrase)

"If I was reliant on this to get to the Moon, I'd leave it on."

And so it was.

2/3

The crew were unhappy about this. If switched off, there was a potential risk of it not starting again.

A request was sent to the manufacturers: "Can we leave it on?"

The reply, twenty pages long, explained in detail why switching it off made sense. The last lines of this document state:

On the back of Artemis II, I'm reading the Apollo 8 flight journal, available online.

In those crazy days of analogue, and hand-woven computer memories, there was a plan to *switch off* the spacecraft's IMU to conserve electrical power, and switch it back on when near the Moon.

1/3

Ouch.

...but fair.

I left a copy of a friend's "Tales of Pirx the Pilot", by Stanislaw Lem, on a train in Germany in 1984. I like to think it's still on the Deutsche Bahn, wandering from station to station at near-random, and attracting new readers.

...But probably not.

Should I buy a smaller, wooden, boat (and I really ought!) then it WILL be dazzle-painted.

The oldest book that I personally bought new, still own, and - perhaps most importantly - recently re-read, is 48.

(And unlike an aging Kindle, the book smells better year by year. 😉)

"You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go."

Sassoon

Can you mount 'em in a Dremel to sand them?

Watching the live Artemis coverage. Give it a minute, and you can see the Moon getting bigger and bigger.

(Reminds me of my KSP days, when the increasingly increasing size of the Mun turned into ground-rush, no fuel, my subconscious squeaking "pull up!", and Kerbals smeared over the surface.)

I like the 'dishwasher' one: but cheese for the win.

And now, the weather...

In the space of four hours, I've had thunder and lightning, two inches of hail, sunshine, snow (admittedly not much), high winds, and now back to light breezes and sunshine. 0°C tonight, up to 16°C on Tuesday.

It'll be "hot hail" and "locusts" next, I bet.

That's the Most Unprofessional Thing I've ever read.

IF the engineers have made a decent airplane, AND the pilot has experience enough to get it from A to B; wtf he 'believes' outwith his work, has NOTHING to do with his job.

I'd be legally approaching the airline for abjectly promoting nonsense.