My dog is happy at least.

Used to use it regularly 20y ago and it was shocking then, can't imagine how it is now.....

And if you even do, the name of the show is buried 30 paras (and 10 adverts) in.

"Burying the lede" used to be criticism, it's now clickbait SOP.

Things were inestimatbly better before the enshittification.

I can't honestly hear Empire State of Mind without singing "chips cheese curry makes me feel brand new"

Came here to post this dammit

One word for you. Grits. I really don't care about how amazing the rest of US cuisine may be, a bowl of warm gravel mixed with tapioca is enough to bring the average to 0.

Can I suggest you treat yourself to xchg rax, rax? (From wherever you buy your esoteric books!)

esoteric.codes/blog/xchg-ra...

Only ever so slightly out of range (if USD conversion were honest) but the new pebbles are coming and look super! repebble.com/watch

@ianbetteridge.com 's law.

Maybe Vanta would be a good name for a kitteh.

(Yes, I will try to fit Die Hard in, because, but some years a chap needs to vary the routine!)

A Knight's Tale after the Holiday is extra fun because they both have Rufus Sewell and Shannyn Sossamon........

Brit here. It took a good 10s, but I twigged the meaning :)

The other thing I find funny about Starship Troopers is that Heinlein clearly ripped off his earlier book Space Cadet.......

(Though if it's your own book CAN you rip it off? Is it just a do-over?)

Went to an Einaudi concert recently. Announcement at the start "no phones". Dark auditorium. Every thirty &%^&%#&£& seconds one new precious snowflake had to lift their phone to "oh only film a little bit".

I'm thinking maybe the Death penalty might be too harsh, but I'm wavering.