It’s a very good piece.

Dionne Warwick?

That’s what they say about Magpie Lane, Oxford, which forms one of the boundaries of my old college.

What an awful situation. No words.

Datsh the shicagoo wey! Also he *did* try an Irish accent early in his career in “Darby O’Gill and the Little People”. It was terrible. Later he said that he didn’t do accents because he said it shouldn’t be necessary to in order to inhabit a character.

Sleep ➡️ slept
Creep ➡️ crept
Weep ➡️ wept
Peep ➡️ pept?

Maybe the Danish airport authority should deploy Eagles? Now there’s a thought. Great photo BTW.

Wait, was this ever possible?

Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? YouTube video by The Guardian

There’s already this great video. youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...

I don’t understand how even automatic transposition could get this so wrong.

Coming soon: Zorn’s Lemon flavour.

A traffic-light-centric variation on the classic “knock down ginger” prank.

Yep, and the driver experience is the same regardless of whether or not the pedestrian waits for the lights to change.

Text conversation between a scammer (S) and me (M). S: Its your eldest and favourite Its your eldest and favourite I'm using this number from now on, switched to o2 because they have better deals. Please save this number and delete my old one. Thanks M: Fran! How did the operation go? Is it sore down there? Tell me, do they let you keep the bits they cut off?

S: Could you please do me a favour? M: That's funny, I was going to ask you the same thing. What with your Derek being made partner at his law firm, and your lottery win, I guess you have some spare cash now. Well I have a great investment opportunity for you! You remember Aunt Saffy, whose car you ruined when you got in it after you'd had 17 pina coladas? Well, she's launching a lizard-walking business!

M: Turns out when people go on holiday, they need someone to take their iguanas and bearded dragons for a walk and - kerching! Saffy spotted a gap in the market. She's building up a client base (almost got a prospect last week) but needs some upfront cash for a social media campaign. So how about it? You provide 150k now and get a 20% share in the business. They might even let you appear in one of the viral marketing vids. You don't happen to know any reptile-based influencers, do you?

Made a new friend today.

So much sport coming to a head today!

🏏 Final day of 4th #ENGvINDIA test
🏎️ #FormulaE Season 11 Finale
🚲 Final stage of men’s #TourDeFrance
and last but not least
⚽️ Final of the UEFA Women’s #Euro2025

Indeed. Guess required but it is an intuitive one.

Looks incredible

I was going to say, no, putting the empty After Eight wrapper back in the box is crueller. But then I realised it too is a kind of false hope.

Maybe “clearly congruent” is doing some heavy lifting here. Formally proving it could be a pain but mentally rotating the purple triangle -90° about the marked point should make it obvious!

The triangles are clearly congruent. Hence the marked point has co-ordinates (a,a). As this point is on the ellipse it must satisfy
a^2 + 3a^2 = 1

The positive solution being a=1/2.

If it’s not a bank holiday but it is a US federal holiday, I think it counts.

Biggus Diccus from Monty Python’s Life of Brian: Very Well. I shall welease Wodewick!

To be fair, computer science has co-opted the term Neural Network to mean something different and specific in the field of AI, albeit still not equivalent to “Program”.

Everything may be chemical but do you really want Dihydrogen Monoxide (an industrial solvent) in your domestic plumbing?

Headline: Center of Attention

#BloodyCyclists

Alan Partridge phone-in (Woman) I enjoyed “The Hobbit” more than “Riverdance” …

… And I think lots of boys on an island killing a fat boy …

… Is not so enjoyable as Gandalf with a long white beard.

(Partridge) OK. If you’ve just joined us, we’re talking about who is the best Lord.

Who is the best Lord?

By Thales’ theorem?

Ah, ok. I had mentally blocked out the semicircle for some reason.

How do you know that the angle I have marked alpha is a right-angle?