We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!
I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-
Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!
Okay, but that’s not wh-
We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.
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Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.
I’m weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?
There’s no safe way to answer this without giving away plot points, I don’t think. Most important thing is that it’s sci-fi, not a drama about developers in the way you might expect.
I loved Season 1, but I felt it became bogged down after that - almost a soap opera.
The gameplay was fun (though I agree about the ghosts), but I found the writing obnoxious. Super melodramatic and weirdly absurdist, but at the same time really quite tedious.
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“Surplus” tickles me for some reason. “I was really sorry to hear that Min-jun passed away, but to be fair, he was surplus to requirement.”
Not everyone speaks English as their first language.
“Am I being detained?”, my inner monologue screams.
Yes, but not deliberately - I think it depends on the species, but they’ll eat decomposing plant matter, faecal matter, carrion, soil, fungi. They’re not too picky. If the bird guano contains tiny flatworm eggs, bad news for the snail.
The larvae (possibly not quite the right word) eaten by the birds lodge in the intestinal tract near the cloaca. The eggs they produce are passed out, and snails eat the eggs.
~This comment is best read with Hans Zimmer’s “The Circle of Life” playing in the background.~
As I understand it, Inuit is still the accepted ethnonym, in both singular and plural. So an Inuk but an Inuit girl, I think.
For context, this is from Frankie Boyle’s 2016 Hurt Like You’ve Never Been Loved.
Mango comes from Malay, and the man part means “mango tree” (where the gga means “fruit”).
“Mango tree, fruit! Mango tree, stop!” seems kind of biblical.
Give him all the fowl language you like, he won’t quack easily.
Don’t tell anyone, but I am not a trained duckologist.
Typically you’ll have to break the stem, right?
Giant hogweed really is quite large, often more than head-height - you’re more likely to confuse carrot with cow parsley or hemlock or maybe yarrow, I’d have thought.
Seriously! They’re the biggest land carnivores bar none. If you’re 5’ - 5’6" a bigger polar bear will be able to look you levelly in the eye while on all fours* and on its hind legs, it’ll be more than half your height again.
*survivability of said staring contest is low
How was there a demon of misspelling before standardized spelling?
I’m yet to see a convincing, authoritative historical source on the “whale killer” factoid. Follow the trail on asesina-ballenas and Basque fishermen and you get nowhere.