Huh, TIL - it just works so naturally as a typo that I assumed it started there.

Any other good examples? Only one that immediately came to mind was “borken”, and even that usually gets used as “borked”

Kicked in during COVID, and is (like COVID) hanging around unpleasantly.

It’s a fairly good barometer of what kind of pub you’ve walked into. Pubs with a decent regular crowd will wait at the bar as in the beforetimes, with the bar staff working their way through the meta-queue - and the staff will encourage this behaviour. Pubs with a crowd of casuals or tourists seem to tend towards queueing which the barstaff do nothing to correct, and should generally be avoided for any serious drinking.

As someone who was considering taking a week off work as I would have needed to attend Donald Duck style to avoid fabric-on-leg contact, tell me more about this well tolerated topical

If you’re finding it hard to get started, totally strict exclusions can force you to start actually thinking about what you’re putting in your mouth. Even if you don’t particularly care about veganism from a moral/ethical viewpoint, try following the diet for a while. You’d be surprised how much snack food contains milk powder, or other animal products. Strictly following the rules eliminates mindless consumption, then after a while you find yourself thinking whether or not something is worth consuming, rather than just sticking it in your mouth because it’s there.

Weigh yourself consistently (i.e. same time, same outfit) - I find it easiest to do straight after jumping out of the shower in the morning, post-poop and pre-breakfast, but ymmv. And the important part, record it. I have smart scales, which makes life easier, but absolutely not essential. There’s something very motivating about watching the line go down - and will quickly highlight if you’re on the right track, or if you need to cut back a little more.

I find it easier to maintain a hard no-snacking policy, than to try to reduce snacking but with case-by-case exceptions. Stick to eating at mealtimes only, rather than allowing yourself to rationalise that slice of cake (it’s a colleague’s birthday, rude not to), bag of chips (I only had a small lunch) or dozen donuts (they’ll go stale if I don’t eat them, that’s wasteful).

Like with many things there’s a degree of default-ism with American goods, and a lot of cocktail recipes call specifically for certain whiskeys. Even more generally than specific brands - bourbon, which is PDO. Could you use other whiskeys (if you can even find a non-bourbon corn whiskey), sure - but are you “following the recipe”? Is this bad because the recipe is bad, or because you picked a bad sub?

• Calva Louise - Third Class Citizen
• Heriot - Coalescence
• Capra - The Locust Preacher
• Ex People - Dread
• Cassyette - BOOM

Edit - thought of a couple more…

• Black Moth - Blackbirds Fall
• Vodun - Mawu

Probably rust particles that have spread around in condensation - should be able to wipe that right off (not the actual rust at the break in the paint, of course)

Most trips are organised around arbitrary goals, why not beer? People want to try pizza in Italy, or see the northern lights, or swim with dolphins - all geologically locked, ultimately frivolous goals. But if it brings you joy and you can afford it, why not?

You mean like Lenny Faces?

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A wonderfully succinct explanation of why I decided - whilst still at university - that academia was not the path for me…

Why? A material change was made to the item after the point of import. This would be like taxing a timber importer as though they were importing furniture.

I think you meant 100 billion (actually, about 2/3 of that all in), but your point still stands that the project has been neither smooth nor cheap…

Carmageddon is a game that I loved at the time, and am very hesitant to revisit… I suspect it hasn’t aged well!

I wouldn’t consider this particularly lightweight - it’s a bit of a battery monster, even with the moving background turned off

Bandcamp link here - one of my all-time favourite VG soundtracks. Never heard anything like it before or since!

“Critically panned” means to receive a poor critical response. I tried looking for the etymology, but couldn’t find anything convincing… It seems to have started as something to do with panning for gold (i.e. using a literal pan to sift through dirt looking for gold flakes), but I can’t see where that shifted from “looking for small bits of good in mostly dirt” to “this straight up sucks”.

I use FedEx for work, and our account has heavily discounted rates for Priority services - not for Economy. That’s what I assumed was happening here, until I saw that you were dealing with them as John Q Public.