The menu flavour text is bad but the slop-art 'illustrations' of options are also shoe-gravel tier irritants I find. Especially when the supposed cheese toastie clearly has an egg and yellow ham on it, or half an extra slice of bread clipping out of one side

Oh that's *very* good

fellow UK bird observers - other than the (slutty, frankly) evening robins, are there any good crepuscular urban dwellers i should be looking / listening out for?

"Flesh it out", in reference to that tweet in particular, really turns the stomach something special.

The Exorcist, Scream 2, and Candyman (all in one night, one new year's eve at my cousins' when my parents weren't paying attention)

Guys I have to know: are the Powerpuff Girls Catholic?? Can we substantiate this in some way?

sucking down great big gulps of that stuff that makes you see mighty quetzalcoatl doing hula hoop with jane fonda

Beano/Dandy, then 2000AD - my first Judge Dredd prog, I remember my baby brain thinking "they're allowed to do this in a comic book??" and was of course hooked

Woah hang on how have you got oridge flavour Carmageddon working, I gave up hope on patches many a moon hence

Why'd they change it? Who can say.

Fun??? I forbid!!!

Help, my dog keeps reading* online forums** and can't stop posting*** on them

*smelling
**lampposts
***pissing

Glad to see this book slip out away from Unbound's squalid little self-beshitment unharmed (and improved?)

Do yerself a favour and buy it as a treat for you or indeed any other fan of snarky robots full of milk

Cor bloody eck that's some good photography eh

shh shh don't tell them or there'll be none left

Have just seen I'm the umpteenth person to suggest something similar, sorry. That'll teach me to read the whole thread first

So with this little mechanism, I'm assuming the local versions of those terms were used in the original but connotatively unknown to me, and the translation I'm reading has used our reality's equivalents instead

With any sci fi or fantasy fiction I always mentally have the equivalent of the Princess Bride bookend in place: I'm assuming the original telling of the story is in the language of the fantasy world.

No harm, no foul? 🧙‍♀️👑

Still, a bit cruel of the shop assistant to both verbally turf you out of the shop and give you the confusing new nickname "Spot"

My hottest take is that fireworks are backwards pretend-at-war bullshit and the people who set them off from their terrace gardens in built-up areas are a bunch of antisocial cunts (who should be locked in a small box with a lit catherine wheel, so as to cure them of their retrograde predilections)

Also, to be fair, I do tap my dog gently in with the tip of my shoe when he's umming and aahing about crossing the threshold into our flat after walkies

I'm afraid at this point shoo-in lies buried in the mud of the linguistic basement, long since murdered and replaced by its eggcorn pod person doppelgänger

I'm not a one for prayers
But if I were, God
Today would be the most hilarious day to answer them

They still call him "Dr. Lecter". He's done pretty well not to be struck off.

Hey, look, if I hear the ultraviolent cannibal who escapes maximum security prisons for fun has a huge hang-up about politeness, I'm choosing to make frequent use of his now largely defunct honorific too.

... on the lord's day, no less, Kieron. For shame.

She's after a bit of Launcelot's baguette, one fears

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Deeply impressive to conjure figurative mind-bicycles in only a pair of stanzas, and then just as quickly void their tyres with the spikes of absent grammar