Scunthorpe
Just never go to Scunthorpe
Anyone who swims out to it gets immunity from elimination
Literally was telling my friends about the loopy water slide while we were looking at this
Though I just realised I’m a walking stereotype
No contest, just look at these guys
Terrible coffee
Ooh neat, think that’s from the same root as troth/betrothal in English too, proto German for truth & fidelity
I get that, but also, it’s always seemed like the purpose of the ring is to signify the state of being, so engagement ring to show the state of being engaged, wedding ring shows the state of being married, or wed, I guess it works both ways
Not a strongly held view by any means 😆
French as well - le bague de mariage
Gotta be Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
On higher end ones maybe, but this works fine so idk - it’s conceivable they both use the same internals just with a different battery mounting geometry
Antitrust (2001)
First computer in about '99, which I’d “built” (I was 8, so I mostly just watched while my dad’s friend built it and occasionally let me plug some wires in)
First phone, Nokia 3310 in 2003, with a Simpsons case, I think I’ve got it in a box somewhere…
Was about to say the same thing - just annoying it’s not all available online in the UK
I’ve got two - a potato ricer, basically a big garlic press you put a boiled potato in, instant perfect mash.
And one of those spiral apple peeler/corer/slicers, makes cooking anything with apple in so much faster (it’s a fiddle to clean though unfortunately)
Is that 25/80% of men will have thinner hair, or 25/80% of a man’s hair will thin?
A person and a human? So if a legal person like a company pisses it still takes the same time, neat
The word “asteroid” literally means “star-like”, because when they were first observed, no telescope could see enough detail to know what they were, so they were basically just called “those things that look a bit like stars”.
Even when eventually we figured out what they were, they were generally considered to all be spherical like tiny planets (see: The Little Prince) until the 1970s when one of the Mars probes flew close enough to have a look at one.
Oh I completely agree, just made me giggle