Sorry to hear that, gramps!

(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)

Hooray for Santy Claus!

Like, I can be passionate about my hobbies. I homebrew beer a lot but slapping beer on a cake would feel so childish. I follow the Scottish national rugby team, and would feel lame af putting their logo on my birthday cake, doubly so since I’m not Scottish and don’t live in Scotland. I dabble in Linux but would die of cringe if I made a cake with some distro logo on it. I have some thoughts on political systems but it wouldn’t even occur to me to put their symbols on my birthday cake. I also simply wouldn’t want to make my birthday all about one niche interest.

Agree completely - although, as a die hard Dunfermline fan, when a friend made me a surprise East End Park cake, I was childishly delighted! 😁

In the UK, it would be weird though to fly the flag itself though

Agreed, except for people trying to be edgy.

And also Primal Scream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Out_but_Don't_Give_Up?wprov=sfla1 (Full disclosure, I do own that album on CD, and I do quite like a lot of the songs. That cover is unfortunate though, to say the least)

It’s a place on Earth.

I like this idea a lot.

The thing with the ghosts, reminds me a little of Horizon Zero Dawn - there it’s not literal ghosts but recordings/writings of people from around the time of the calamity which befell earth. Some of them involved in the events, some of them just passive observers of what was happening. I found it a very evocative way to flesh out the backstory as the game went along.

Good luck! 👍

Just change it to We Wished You…

😁

Fair enough, but you keep your no good hands off Rich Evans, y’hear? 😁

Redlettermedia, Internet Comment Etiquette, Minute Physics and Crash Course.

They’re hack frauds! But they’ve always been consistent hack frauds, so it’s all good 😁

Ha ha, amazing! I salute your fortitude in getting through them all 😁

I agree that it’s amazing, but it’s fine for them not to like it IMO. I loved it but it’s quite challenging and the style wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste :-)

I managed one page and gave up. Dreadful stuff.

Sounds fun! 😁

A few suggestions:

B52s - Rock Lobster
Smoke City - Underwater Love
PJ Harvey - We Float
The Beatles - I’m Looking Through You
Sebastian (Little Mermaid) - Under the Sea

Exactly.

What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centuri?

Hyperspace bypass.

As a counterpoint to that, after WW2 the UK created the National Health Service, comprehensive education and the rest of the welfare state, while nationalising many huge industries. For the UK that was pretty radical stuff, and it lasted until the 1980s when Thatcher and her mob started tearing it all apart.

Whether you’d call that modern I’m not sure, but it wasn’t traditional either.

I agree with this, and yet British politics currently feels a lot more fragmented now than it used to.

The Tories are likely looking at being reduced to a rump at the next GE, and Labour will probably get a kicking too, unless they smarten up their act toot sweet. Meanwhile Reform will likely gain a lot of seats (vomit) and the Greens may start to get towards double digits. And the Lib Dems will likely just keep on Lib Demming along.

I think there’s a very real chance of a proper hung parliament next time with no obvious stable majority coalition possible:

• Reform perhaps to win the most seats (although I am desperately hoping that their claimed support will not translate into as many seats as they think) and try to partner up with the Tories and maybe some of the Ulster Unionists
• Labour to probably lose half their seats, and be forced to look at possible LD, Green, maybe even SNP partnerships.

And possibly neither side able to put together a working coalition that would last for very long.

In which case, FPTP would have done the opposite of the two party system and led to even more divisions! Fun! 🤪