“We were only selling them defensive weapons, you see. We obviously weren’t expecting them to use them offensively. Anyway, they’ve promised not to do it again, but obviously they’ll need to defend themselves from retaliation, so although we’re very disappointed in them using the weapons incorrectly, we’ll obviously have to continue to sell them weapons to defend themselves”.
What about building a ramp hidden behind a very thin hedge?
Then if someone goes through it: cool action-film sequence!
Yes, but its meaning depends on where exactly in the country you are.
The phrase “You alright, pal?” Might mean “Are you okay there, friend?” or it might mean “If you take one step further, me and me mates are going to absolutely smash your wee bastard face in”.
Normally you can hear the threat in the tone, so you won’t often get them confused.
I know exactly what you mean (and I’m very familiar with the behaviour in real life), but I can’t say I’ve personally seen it on Lemmy. I know a lot of it depends on what you’re subscribed to or federated with, but rather than “100% arseholes” I felt Lemmy was more like “95% pretty nice people”.
Yorkshire:
T’ (Glottal stop sound)
Do you ever worry that maybe it’s just you?
[Edit] I mean “just you who thinks this”, and therefore there may be an issue with your perception of others, I’m not trying to say “just you are an arsehole”.
We also had:
5. Stick it on top of the wing, firing roughly forwards and hope for the best (Nieuport Scouts)
6. Mount it on the side of the cockpit at a jaunty angle, shooting outwards diagonally away from the propellor, and attack the enemy diagonally, like you’re a pawn on a chess board (Bristol Scout)
If you play “Wings Over Flanders Fields”, you can start early war, and fly the early unarmed two-seaters, and let your observer take pot shots with a rifle, whilst the enemy attempt similar. I think you can put it on autopilot and do the shooting yourself.
It’s a bit of a shit to get it running in Linux, unfortunately, but it’s possible.
Yes, it does appear that “all-you-can-drink” seems to be part of the offer in many (perhaps all?) cases.
Anyway, definitely don’t start taking off your trousers and underwear.
I had a similar problem with a cafe bar doing a “Bottomless Brunch”.
Anyway, it turns out it’s some weird, trendy new phrase for “all-you-can-eat” or “buffet”.
It is not in any way along the same lines as a “Topless Beach”.
Brilliant, thanks. I’ll see how I get on with Pushing Ice, but popped the others on the wishlist. I imagine I will very much like stuff like this, so added Fred Saberhagen too (The Berserker ones I’ve heard of before).
Thanks for the suggestion, his stuff looks interesting. I realised I already have (but haven’t yet read) “Pushing Ice”, which looks like a standalone novel - but looks like there’s also a whole set of works in the “Revelation Space” universe. Any recommendations of specific books of his?
You can only use Apple Branded iSocks™.
If you want to use normal socks you need an adapter.
We don’t quite know what you mean. Do it on Prince Andrew first, as an example.
Yes, a good reasonable name like draft-final-final-final-final_v2_to_print_THIS_ONE_b
I may agree with some of your comment, but “trump” has definitely meant fart (at least in some parts of the UK) from at least the mid 1980s until the present day. It’s seemingly still used by young people as well, though not as commonly as it was when I was younger (though I did hear a “who’s fucking trumped, it fucking stinks” on the bus last week).
We all laughed at Donald Trump when we first heard his name in the 1990s, though most people didn’t believe he was real (and it was hard to check such things, pre-internet). We certainly didn’t believe he had a wife called something like “I want to trump”.
Though we did play Top Trumps, we also definitely laughed at its name, and amongst our group of friends, introduced flatulence-based punishments for the loser.
Here’s it in some dictionaries: “(intransitive) British slang to expel intestinal gas through the anus” Collins English Dictionary
“to release gas from the bowels through the bottom”
Cambridge English Dictionary
“slang or colloquial. The act of breaking wind audibly”
Oxford English Dictionary
I don’t know why this matters to me so much :D
Maybe I’m just scared that our language is dying.
That’s actually quite heartwarming :)
The short answer is (as far as I’m aware):
Common methods for boiling water in America are:
(Points other than the first one about 120v and 240v are /s)
Sorry, I’m not American, and I’ve likely only seen it on Lemmy, and likely in satirical forms.
Anyway, I’ve read the other linked info and a bit more, so at least feel I do know now :)
I’m also not a youth, but I’ll absolutely take that as a compliment, thank you very much :D
Yeah, but what an anecdote!
It was so amazing, a former Beatles member resurrected himself and moved in next door, simply to say ‘what had happened was “just absolutely incredible.”’.