The fessor seems contrite, and a lot of us had unpleasant traits as kids. Thankfully, there's this thing called growing up...

It makes life quite a bit busier for those of us playing Yellow Car, though.

Could be worse. You could be Douglas Adams' Rain God.

Remember not to down a jar of Loyd Grossman bhuna curry sauce during conversation.

Or Basil Rathbone. Either he or Mr Brett, I'd suggest, is acceptable. 🙂

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Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

I advise making use of the little switch at the bottom of your rear-view mirror. The dragon suddenly becomes a newt.

Cobb the Pirate from the original version of The Secret of Monkey Island, wearing a skull-and-crossbones hat and a large badge reading, "Ask me about Loom."

Too late to ask without acute embarrassment, now. I feel your pain. You might need to get married just so he fills in his half of the invitation spreadsheet—make sure there are Firstname and Lastname columns! 😉

If you steal from this book to feed An AI made from peerless greed May boils burn upon your skin And worms bite you from within.

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

The Expanse was great hard sci-fi aside from the blue space magic. Speaking of which, your post reminds me of the Gunnery Chief's celebrated comment in Mass Effect 2 (albeit with regard to conservation of momentum rather than gravity): "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space." 😁

I'm assuming she did, and the OP would have had 12 years' worth in the event of winning sole custody.

There's a brilliant sequence in Enchanted when Amy Adams needs help with the housework in a New York apartment, and her song summons a bunch of rats, pigeons and cockroaches. Worth watching even if you hate Disney. 😁

This is mildly surprising given that in his early webcomic. Casey and Andy, his author avatar character was in a relationship with a genderfluid (albeit generally female-presenting) Satan.

It wasn't a common occurrence, and used for emphasis rather than parenthesis when we did, so there was only ever one. :)

Newspapers will often use en dashes instead of em dashes (mine certainly did) so they fit better into headlines and take up less space in narrow columns of text.

In Windows, hold Alt and key 0151 on the number pad. I'm a former journalist, so the dash is an important part of my grammatical armoury. :)

For several hundred years the writings of Aquinas influenced the Christian world's attitude to sex—he said it was exclusively for procreation and shouldn't be fun. Thankfully, that view is now less prevalent than it was.

So much better than not re-delivering letters.

The level of pettiness that Fesshole commentators describe as magnificent and the slightly higher level that gets decried as obnoxious strikes me as a very British sort of distinction. 🙂

It's best to write "Gone away" on the front and cross out the address. More likely to be returned to sender that way.

Underappreciated response!

Don't be too sure. There are about 7,000 Whitehall staff whose job grades are between Senior Civil Servant (SCS) 1 and SCS 4 (most senior, generally chief execs of ministries). I'm confident at least one or two of them would habitually be doing something akin to this.

He had some customised fantasy armour made. Putting that on might have momentarily warmed his stone heart before he reverted to resentment and hubris. Of course, he could have taken large steps towards solving global hunger, but looking like a Conan villain and destroying Twitter was more important.

Pretty normal to keep them in a pot, but not weird at all if you'd rather not. This is perhaps one of the few issues society will likely not judge you on. 😁

Wait a minute, his flight has just been delayed. IS YOUR DAD A TIME TRAVELLER?

Hope it was shortcrust rather than filo, at least.

You need to warm the war by swilling some water from the kettle round it.