when they made those smoked cheese slices exactly burger sized, they knew exactly what they were doing

the teacher is just there so that when the others all argue about what an answer should be, they can deploy their Serious Teacher Voice and make a decision happen

-two deeply autistic nerds
-person who is always rolling a cigarette but never smoking it with encyclopaedic trivia knowledge useful only for pub quizzes
-shy & quiet friend, only answers one Q but it's the most important one
-loud and confident drunk person, may not even actually know the others???

Finding it comically telling that my phone can broadly identify the subject of photos and yet there's no way to tell most social media sites "do not ever show me pictures of this thing, I hate it"

I think he was a "mixed drinks are a bit gay, aren't they?" kind of guy. You remember how the early to mid 00s were 🤢

It was the same works night out where one of the women brought along her husband (ex-squaddie, football fan) and because all the team other than me were women, he cheerfully thought I'd be the guy for some Standard Issue Bloke Chat all night

I claimed the last train was at 9pm and scarpered IIRC

I did once absolutely go off on one when I was with co-workers in a bar that IIRC had a Roman-themed name, was located within about a mile of a marked fort on the Antonine Wall and yet no one I was with had ever heard of it and asked if I meant Hadrian's Wall?

UNLESS I AM LYING ALREADY A-HA-HA-HA

(if pushed, I'd probably claim to have read Ancient Greek at school

I didn't. It was Latin.)

I once made up some true and false facts about myself for this kind of icebreaker but then panicked and forgot which ones were purportedly true and which were supposedly false (this is actually a fact)

wait is this because of my last post? I have lived out of the spotlight and thus am now perfectly suited to later life intrigue in the shadows?

an instagram suggested post for MI6, the secret intelligence service

a surprise algorithmic interruption to cat accounts, lizard accounts, and bald industrial scene dudes over on insta

Evidently I live my life in such a way that I cannot participate in icebreakers at corporate events and training courses. I have never met any famous people, there are no interesting yet slightly unbelievable facts about my life that can be shared as part of a guessing game

god's right there in the photo, orange fella in the middle - can't miss him

yeah, it can be for sure. I'm not like that with food myself, but with other things I will be super interested and enjoying it, then days or weeks or months later it's like a switch is flipped and it's gone forever as an interest which is apparently definitely an ADHD thing

Yakuza's Shopfronts Are One Of Life's Little Pleasures - Aftermath Welcome to the world's #1 walking simulator

A great piece by @lukeplunkett.com on @aftermath.site on this incredible sense of place that the Yakuza series provides.

also, watching it for the first time when I am old enough and aware enough to understand what it is doing would be good. Much as 19 year old me enjoyed the cool sci-fi action thing that reminded me of Warhammer 40k, lmao at, you know, everything it's also doing extremely well

Starship Troopers

no seriously, I think it just completely commits to its whole thing, and the Klendathu drop sequence when you finally catch back up to the opening scene and everything goes to shit is my THIS IS CINEMA meme moment

also the very first time I watched it with my dad and he hated it

at least playing as Alexios you get a good Deimos. A broshep player gets nothing 😆

If I found out that a friend had played through Mass Effect as broshep, I wouldn't be upset, I'd just feel a little sorry for them

If they had played AssCreed: Odyssey as Alexios though, I'd probably sit them down in a Saw franchise style trap where they had to play as Kassandra or get exploded idk

Ideas Guys do 90% of the work

Another 9% is volunteering to make the wiki and I guess the last 1% is actually doing the thing

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

his post has strong "guy who feels like a big man screaming at check-in desk staff until they comp him a ticket just to get him to fuck off somewhere else" energy

ohhhhhhhh last time I went to an optician, she referred to me as an indoor cat* and I kind of see why now

*because I'd said I worked indoors sitting looking at a screen and that my hobbies were mostly doing the same really

this feels like a problem since approximately 70% of my conversations with you have been in the early hours of the morning, shouting over loud music

I have more than one of the dinosaur cushions, this was just the easiest way to take a photo that didn't involve showing the full breadth of my sofa and all cushions, given the sofa usually doubles as a storage spot for Things That I Have Left On That Side Of The Room Recently

By way of example

this "Mandelson" character sounds like a bit of a bad egg, if only anyone had known, eh?

Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by 2000 AD

youtu.be/byd5PRryi_Y?...

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

always room for more newts, got it