Many old watch crystals (technical term) are actually acrylic. I guess it doesn’t age well when bombarded by very small, very fast bumblebees.

Don’t forget the classics.

Hairless goblin?

I thought my slicing my hand on a tooth brush was impressive.

Awesome. My parents had this record, and I played it relentlessly. It was my gateway into ”synthetic music”.

As an olds guy, I sometimes get criticized for my proper capitalization, my commas, my semicolons, my lack of ellipsis and my full stops. All I can say is: Punctuation will continue until morale improves.

I guess pTerry just felt it was time to make a mess of Lawrence of Arabia, for his amusement.

In fact, now I remember that there used to be intercoms for apartment houses etc that had the same misdesign. Pick up the phone, speak to the guest, and hang up, and the outer door opens. Don’t want to open the door to the weird stranger? Good luck remembering what digit you should press.

Sounds like Microsoft. They can do things right when they really want to, but at almost every stage they try hard to misdesign things into something that makes sense to an incompetent American manager.

You’re joking, right? This is a joke? Please? (Oh, no, it’s not a joke)

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I’ve in fact had to have this discussion with some people, and had a very hard time convincing them that maybe the urine wasn’t the problem; what else are your finger touching, and what’s its nearest neighbor? Didn’t work. Assholes full of their ”brilliance”.

I remember typing in program listings and being very, very eternally grateful that the listing actually contained check digits at the end of every line. It was a game changer.

I remember them trying to introduce a weird decimal ”Internet time” based on the longitude of their HQ in the small town of Biel, Switzerland. Beats!

I was going to “Well akshually that’s a galette”, but apparently it can also be a Crêpe Bretonne. Mmm, requires more research.

One month isn’t enough. They should have to do it at least for a year or two, so all the reserves, formal and informal, run out. So they get the taste of real delicious despair; that’s what they deserve. And the bad teeth.