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So I've just suffered the epiphany that, in "The Prisoner," Number Six drives a Lotus Seven :-/
about a month ago from web-
@scribus Six seven!!!
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@thelastgherkin A friend of mine is a teacher at a school. She is very much annoyed of the originality and repetitiveness to the point that she is actively avoiding these digits and trying hard not to sigh in exasperation (especially in light of the poor performance of her pupils). She told me once that any time it happens the children of one class practically flip out. Not even Pavlov could predict this kind of reflex.
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@adiwan It gives me yet another reason to be pleased that I'm not another three inches taller
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It has been forever since I've been on this site
about 4 months ago from web- daviddd likes this.
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@purpleprincess same
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I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan Gherkin mention
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@thelastgherkin Unsolicited gherkin pic https://i.imgur.com/EHgptpy.jpeg This one is about 15cm long. Similar ones I harvested were about 250g in weight.
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Circus set up tent in the mall parking lot. Nothing ominous here. Disregard the cold breeze out of the west and gathering clouds.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Clown carcass in alley this morning, tyre tread on oversized shoe. This circus is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.
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Well I'm trying to do a House-aligned playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, but I very really truly hate him and the terrible asshole things he says :-/
Sunday, 23-Feb-25 20:07:17 UTC from web-
@scribus Interesting, he's my favourite faction to side with on the grounds of pragmatism, he's the only one with a plan (and the actual capability to make it happen) to make humanity go anywhere other than "we'll just be hobos in perpetuity"
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@nerthos Yeah, I want to not hate him - I mean, a retro-future spaceVegas? Hell, yeah!! He's not even that unlikable, there's a wry sort of amusement to his bearing. But he's too egocentric; he's not preserving humanity, he's feeding his ego and seeking to create a thrallhood underclass to prop HIM up. Ultimately, I don't consider him sufficiently distinct from Caesar. Both cling to old-world ideals and play up some fantasy of the "inevitability" of "their" power. So, I kill him, take his city, and in my mind carry on with developing the space plans in a little more cooperative, ground-up fashion. (Though in all honesty a spacefaring future would be just as hellish as the vaults so iunno w/e i guess lol) Also I make The King governor or something :p
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@scribus That all sounds good until you factor in the kind of human resource you're dealing with in Fallout. Ironically the tv show is the best illustration of this, with the main character trying to behave like a civilized person and consistently getting banana'd by everyone.
House's narcissistic approach is a necessity in the world he's operating, without the army of robots forcing the wastelanders to work at gunpoint nothing will get done (example: they're still living in shacks near 200 years after the war)
Plus, he has civilized some factions already, so it's not like he won't uplift the competent and decent wastelanders into better positions. He has to do that for any space settling plan to work, since good people are needed to populate those colonies.
Sometimes, a competent megalomaniac is the only option that can get the job done.
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Did anybody get to see the recent aurorae?
Monday, 14-Oct-24 21:16:19 UTC from web-
@awl Envy, lol. They were supposedly vivible from about an hour away from my house, but I didn't trust that I would be the only one making the drive, kinda expected a horde of headlights to drown it out :-/
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@scribus yeah you’re far enough down south people would lose their banana over it. I had seen them off the north shore last two years living in the car.
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@scribus AURORA BORABALIS?
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Listen okay, it's been a minute since I've used this site.
Tuesday, 01-Oct-24 06:36:50 UTC from web-
@elli It's easy, you just type grape in and press enter
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It sucks that The Bad Batch is over. Great finale.
Wednesday, 01-May-24 20:08:07 UTC from web-
@disgustingkittyx3 Almost exactly 13 years.
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@adiwan thats a very long time
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@disgustingkittyx3 In 3 years my account is allowed to buy beer and wine in Germany.
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does anyone play roblox here?????
Thursday, 18-Apr-24 19:08:02 UTC from web-
@disgustingkittyx3 i do!
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