I'm proud to be #BlockedByWhy too

Ah right. It's a while since I was deep into Perl, and I never particularly wanted redundant patterns so I never registered them

I now realise that I haven't a clue what my suggestion would match - I suspect it's an invalid regex

And the fourth matches A****I?

Smoked eel is lovely, but yeah, jellied eel is not something I'm prepared to try again

I see uncritical support for the IOC's one time only, all or nothing, SRY gene test 'to identify men' platformed today. Fun fact about that. It's entirely possible to test positive after being pregnant with a boy. Fetal DNA can cross the placenta and linger in the maternal bloodstream for decades.

It's much more impressive for those who do know - anybody can be nominated*, but to be a finalist you need to have enough people nominating you to already beat almost everyone else already

*Like all the people who get nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes

So in one of the biggest French cities!

(Maybe not as much since Brexit though, *sigh*)

It may not have been an option in France

Oh yes. I loved them as a child, and there's nothing that's made me reassess that opinion since

At Hiroshima we went across to Miyajima, which is sufficiently a tourist destination that we bumped into 6 people that we knew the day we were there

(It was a week or so after the 2007 Worldcon)

2025 from Sapporo we were meant to go north, but due to storms sailed a more southerly route to Alaska

The first time we went to Japan, we ended up in Hiroshima for a couple of days at the start of September, and that was when we understood why AC is sometimes necessary

Hokkaido in late May is rather fine

Not to mention the Chrises, particularly Chris Ryan

Yeah, but this *is* @aptshadow.bsky.social, so not entirely inappropriate

We once missed a flight from Prestwick to Stansted (so Scotland to England), and though we looked at bouncing via Dublin and going by train, the only way that worked was hiring a car and driving

*We'd arrived at 3pm for a flight we were supposed to check-in for at 13:00. The hour did have a 3 in

That, or being from Canada they had visa waiver entry to the UK, and could easily enter the UK and then leave again

Yeah. With trains there was the concept of the platform ticket, but I'm not aware of any airport equivalent, what with the whole border control thing

You and me, yes. But there are some people out there who seem to stop thinking a bit too early when 'solving' problems

Assuming a filter coffee maker with jug. Put item to clean in jug? Add soap? Run coffeemaker without filter so jug fills with not-quite-boiling water?

I think that ought to work, but unless your room only has luke warm water, not as well as the basin

I insisted on getting to Elite, just in case there was a bug at that point. There wasn't, but hey, I was being paid to play and it wasn't as though I wasn't finding other glitches in the process. Most did get fixed, but there was only a small handful of free bytes left to fix code in

I long ago lost the list of all the bugs in the original Beeb version that I'd found during testing, but they did make to fix most of them before release

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We've now watched S2E1 of new Bergerac and yes, they've not changed it since season 1, but yes, that was different from the original Nettles version

Different from season 1 of new Bergerac?

(We liked the new casting in season 1)

Better engine maintenance at least partly due to better design is my opinion. I don't think the number of ICE vehicles has dropped enough to make that much of a difference

As one of the people making them, I love how well the name badge matches its owner there

It's nice having a private loo and shower. We had one of those on the Indian Pacific in Oz back in 2010. OTOH the Croatian sleeper back from Zagreb in Feb had only a washbasin, and the bunk bed was a pain getting into

(4 sleepers for us in 3 months, not having done any in a decade)

We've not been on the Caledonian since before the refurb, but it was pretty nice when we did it, all those years ago. We will be on three sleepers next month though, one Czech, and an Italian pair to Sicily and back

I suspect you'll be at least 90 minutes late into Inverness, so refund time?

Ah. But yes, I'd say that's a hell of a high quote unless you're living in Gormenghast

FWIW one of my sisters was missing a tooth, but had an extra small bone in her ankle. She always reckoned that Mum had mis-assembled her