I often think of the American I saw claiming that they needed their massive cars over there because sometimes they needed to transport "some wood, or a dog" - tasks apparently incomprehensible to the European mind

If they think taxis are expensive just wait until they hear how much an ambulance ride costs!

I decided not to do the maths but I'm glad someone did

She's 88, so the odds of her voting for *anyone* in 3 and a half years can't be much above 50%

This is why when the local head of state heard about him being born, his response was famously "right enough, happy with that, I will take no further action on this matter"

From Quentin Tarantino, notable sui generis, non-referential filmmaker

The state of government in early Christian times was also not very Christian, because Christianity was not the state, it was, like, a few guys! What is she talking about!!!

It remains a mystery to me why they recorded that song, released it, and then said "well, let's make sure we never do *that* again

"OK so that truck you're driving was owned by a guy called Buck. The thing you need to know about Buck -"

I dunno, if I was asked to build a system that could transcribe two calls simultaneously, I would hire two guys; doesn't mean you can do 20,000 calls by hiring 20,000 guys. My main question would be why are you building this when the major conferencing apps have it built in?

It's an utterly content-free statement. It says nothing about the game - which the commenter hasn't played - just a stranger's purchasing habits. What am I meant to get out of that?

I learnt a lot from my father, who was a cyberdeck maker,