Don't. Just on general principles of having to show your social history so they can see you've never criticized Dear Leader.

And no socials or a scrubbed phone is considered to be a sign of thought crime

Do they provide the snakes pre-squeezed, or are you expected to extract the oil yourself?

Dating myself here but I always used VO5 hot oil to somewhat fix the relentless black dye damage.

No idea what state of the art is now

The terrible facial hair didn't help that image at all.

Still eternally grateful this was all before digicams and social media

A very nice cut. Well shaped around your face, lovely tumble on the curls.

I would have killed for that level of hair nicety when I had long hair... sadly long waves and a tendency to grow laterally just left me looking like a goth cowardly lion :(

Anywhere he can. Bonus points if its gold plated, doesn't flush, and some underpaid minion has to clean it up and thank him for the opportunity

I am disinclined to disagree, matey

Looks like what one of Biffs henchmen would wear in BttF2

I'm just gonna call them "a touch of the Patels" next I endure the misery.

I reserve kegsbreath for the description of the spattering

The bad kind that feels like Andre the Giant is maliciously wringing out your guts like a filthy sock, and your whole consciousness is one pool of explosively anal misery and regret for that lifetime of poor decisions which brought you so low.

They're well spirits. Not even Costco noname quality. Like the type of tequila that comes with a plastic sombrero and inevitable subsequent ulcers and crippling shits

Actually planning on exploring billionaire obsessions with fantastic utopian SF&F in my thesis. It's like they have the road map to how to make a positive difference all laid out, and then say "fuckit. Im doing this evil mode, but damn I love the cool names"

I'm rather looking forward to a quiet week in the Lakes, driving on the other side of the road stress notwithstanding.

Wife's never been and a bunch of my family hail from there. Should be fun

Ah Euros. No idea of what makes a real drive....

People here shit bricks when I say nearest real city to where I grew up is 1700km, and even then still considered east coast

All brit citizens must enter on their brit passports now

And as its 5am here, I'll pick this back up tomorrow. Gotta sleep at some point

I'm actually one of the Innumerable Legions of Daves.

Henery Crun is a Spike Milligan/Goon Show ref. And not a linguist, but a lifetime comms person with a background in cultural anth

I have the opposite problem. Given a reasonable amount of beer I'm fully conversant with the inlaws. I can manage the amts etc. But the tests are hochdeutsch, and swiss german is much more relaxed.

Only thing blocking my red passport

For serious linguistic fun, look at "Chinese" and how an agreed orthography can quasi-unite a whole bunch of barely mutually intelligible dialects

Its like here in Switzerland with Switzertüüch. A full and complete language locked in by a decision to use hochdeutsch as the written language. Chinese as well, if you think about it

Really want to read it, as Tolkien was The Man for English dialect, and Gawain & the Green Knight was written in yorkshire English, before Chaucer won the dialect wars

My father was big in the Yorkshire dialect society in the 80s and 90s.

I regret it's falling away. Tho I've heard there's a Tolkien translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, somewhat recently discovered

Fuck no. What is that bullshit

Dafuq?

Once went into a coop supermarket restaurant in Norway with the Swiss wife. She was absolutely confused, but I could manage due to old/middle English correlation.

All absolutely negated as the cashier was Filipina and spoke perfect English. But the principle worked!

I'm a bit different from the average Canadian as born to Brits, with a father big into Yorkshire dialect.

It's a weird place to be, but my old English is horrible but present, chaucerian pretty good, Shakespearean well developed, and post colonial schism I try to stay current

Unless you really like ingesting high-speed bugs, yeah.

Fastest I ever cracked up to in my 20yr old MX5 was 240ish. And I was getting smoked regularly

In Germany? Pedal down. I once got smokingly passed by a Porsche doing at least 260, as I was humming along at 220 at the time

Ahahaha. Gotcha. As a Canadian I've always lived in the flux between the various takes on the language, good to know!

Buahaha. Mostly healed, but thanks. I shall defend the postern gate