One is all about holding a knees-up, the other is all about whether your knees will hold up.

Just as well the whole "useless memento to hubris" thing has fallen completely out of fashion nowadays, eh?

"and, of course, the tremulants sent the roof down" will remain with me to my dying day. Thank you for the link. Brought back happy memories of messing around* behind the console of our school chapel organ, a repurposed Compton.

* not a euphemism. I was a nerd, loved the wires and relays.

In this paper I will prove that the Venn diagram of perfect jokes, mathematical tomfoolery, and pointless food arguments can never have a three-way intersection....

oh wait.

We look forward to your thread enumerating the many different wrong ways to don a pair of underpants.

Tekkin't'bus t'Waitrose? LUXURY. In my day we 'ad to push Dad's horsedrawn waggon to Aldi, because he'd pawned t'horse.

It's all so difficult. Voltarol's a bit whiffy, and I don't get on with ibuprofen, so it's just paracetamol and stoicism* for me.

Glad to hear that you are well looked after.

* not really, I moan about it unceasingly when my back hurts, which is about 30% of the time these days

Photos - Fountain of the Pisseurs de Lacaune - Monument in Lacaune Practical and cultural information: Fountain of the Pisseurs de Lacaune - Tourist guide of Lacaune (Tarn)

There is an extremely fine four willies fountain in Lacaune, south-west France, but sadly it is not properly speaking a gargoyle despite the flow.
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Building work has begun. It is not peaceful.

There is a significant level of bork on Bluesky today.

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Car tyre punctured by a screw

Emergency spare wheel fitted to my car

I'm usually very glad to have a distraction from the tedious business of clearing things away for the builders.

This distraction, though, I could have done without.

As always, thanks to the excellent lads at Brooko's www.botley-tyres.co.uk who fixed it quickly and cheaply.

Tho tbf the principals are fairly base.

LEVMAXXING

Hot take: Morales is NOT NICHE.

And of course they come unperforated, because who needs perforation when you have a guillotine? 😁

Abbey does not understand. Why is the ball being photographed when it should be thrown?

I'm looking forward to seeing the first use of "fullynal", as "semi nal" is obviously only halfway there.

Schismatic? ✅
Overweight? ✅
Bombastic? ✅
Disgusting womaniser? ✅
Has creepy scheming henchmen? ✅

Ok, so where's the AI parody of Trump as that Holbein portrait of Henry VIII then?

A nice counterpoint to mine of a few days ago, you evil thief of predictable lame jokes.
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Don't throw it away, give it away! Freegle - like online dating for stuff. Got stuff you don't need? Looking for something? We'll match you with someone local. All completely free.

I use local ilovefreegle.org to give away useful unwanted stuff. Always meet lovely people who want to reduce waste. Now, though, I offer appliances and they've been claimed by an ASSHOLE. Rude, thoughtless messages. Failed to turn up as agreed. Denying the items to decent folk in more need. GRRRR.

you deserve flageolet-ion for that

I am EXCEEDINGLY DISPLEASED to discover that Google's Custom Search JSON API will be shuttered at the end of this year, and they're trying to shove "Vertex AI Search" down my throat. Anything whose get-started instructions begin with "Prepare data for ingestion" gets a hard NO from me.

In any case I didn't want to have a birthday in three weeks' time, because I've already had too many. Now, though, I REALLY don't want to have a birthday lest this should happen.

One tunnock, two tunnocks ✅

This sounds extremely silly to Brits, who can come within 200 feet of the Oval by riding a number 185 bus to Dulwich.

It also sounds scary and corrupt, but that's rather less remarkable these days.

I fear it's more a case of "an Ayatollah for an Ayatollah, and a truth for a truth".

It's well nice.

I dunno, it's not such a bad name for a folk band.

But does he have any relatives?

Many assorted plastic boxes, and many assorted lids, scattered on a wooden floor

Annals of history, prepare yourselves for your greatest challenge yet - it's the Great Tupperware Clear-out! Lids will be reunited with bottoms! Orphan lids and widowed bottoms will be consigned to the recycling bin of history!

Would this make a good jigsaw?