Thanks, Jerome K Jerome

For "a few weeks" read "thirteen months", but since this post is getting a response I thought I should dig the article out:

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.

Of course, the problem with this essay isn't that it's bullshit, though it is bullshit. Bullshit is perfectly acceptable basis for a humanities essay - provided it is articulate, well-argued, rigorously-cited bullshit, which this is not.

And you tell the young people of today that, and they won't listen because they'll be too busy watching Bluey on the bus.

Which is why the Romans had no word for "citizen".

She's such a clown

Her face must have been wreathed in smiles

Yeah, she cortege-inormous break there

I don't do a lot of music gigs. Maybe Pet Shop Boys

Amazing! What a band

The Animals!? Well jel

@robinince.bsky.social Maybe one for you too? Don't forget the bread and jam

Foreword to the 2020 edition reads simply "Oh bollocks"

Yeah Putin's lot have done him

I've got chop, whit and and some bastard called New Carl, with whom I will not be sharing my chop.

"Spirit of Olaf and, if you will,"

Easy to miss because if you know the Wirral, you know it's Viking country so it could just be a generic Olaf.

Anyone else reminded of that time a guy's corpse was found inside a zipped-up gym bag and MI5 tried to convince us he'd done it to himself?

I dunno, I reckon Norman probably has some contacts. Sandy less useful unless he can distract the kidnappers by teaching them to mine their inner conflict and maybe kiss a little.

Is this about Wicked, or 28 Years Later, or Alien: Earth or either of the last two Doctor Who series closers or the new cold war or