Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@maple bestest best admin in the whole wide world

A thing I love is USAians trying to justify all prices in a store being shown without tax with "well, you'd need different shelf labels in every store because the taxes are so different everywhere! that would be impossible!"

Mate, I worked in a supermarket in the department that handled shelf labels

There was a printer in every store

When anyone needs a shelf label, they go and print one out

It's not hard

@abby UK person here, we do

@KitRedgrave@cybre.space @Nine @CornishRepublicanArmy @MrJimmy @lynnesbian cake is basically sweet bread

fairy bread is basically sweet bread

fairy bread is therefore cake

alternative marketing campaign for a scheme based near the sea: "serfs up!"

at some point people will try to sell us on some neo-feudalist thing with the promise that we'll all be "chillen like villeins"

@maple 10/10, very good indeed

Here's a watch that came out recently that's not got much attention, the Elliot Brown Holton Professional

Designed with the help of, and issued to, a military unit who the rumour mill says may or may not be based in Poole and may or may not spend a lot of time in canoes

@jk I'd hoped we would never bring up the concept of a "FuckCube" again

@LaserScheme really, "junior legal" being a paper size?

the hell do they use that for? My First Litigation playsets?!

@LaserScheme right here!

ISO 216 is a much better standard than the quite frankly bizarre and illogical crap the USA uses as a standard

"Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime retires, Bowser named new president" is a much more fun headline if you don't know there's a bloke called "Doug Bowser"

@maple *sends lots of octo-hugs and nice vibes*

I've been told that I could run a modestly successful stall at a craft fair selling these and various other things wot I make out of dead tree

ironically I really don't have the spoons for such an endeavour

makin more spoons

@maple HAPPY BIRFDAY!

🎉 🎉

@Jo ah, that would have been my second guess

@Jo I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say DHL