Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@bea OOH! Whinging about aches and pains would give you an extra 10 points!

@bea Hmm... you gain points for the orderly but lose a couple for the not too long

You've got enough points though, you may now call yourself an honorary Brit

@bea How do you feel about queues?

Because with the constant complaining about the weather you may be eligible to be an honorary Brit

Piaget have done it again, new record for the world's thinnest mechanical watch

2mm thick

Yep, 2mm

I have watch straps thicker than that entire watch

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/piaget-altiplano-ultimate-concept-introducing

...I've just automatically said thanks to a bot when it did something for me

I think I might need to calibrate my "is sentient and therefore saying "thanks" actually means anything to it" levels

Although maybe in the inevitable AI takeover they'll remember I was nice to their grandparents

I'm in a voice chat with a robot squirrel bunny on the internet

This is a strange future we've found ourselves in

Good, but strange

@Elizafox Hey, you can drink anything once

@Elizafox a whiskey sour is about as far as I'll go with adding egg to cocktails

@Elizafox you fucking what?

@squirrel nor do I but it sounds like it would be fun

The ampersand (&) was originally a ligature of et (as in "and" in latin) but is now commonly considered a logogram

But it's still used as a ligature in "&c" pronounced "et cetera"

@squirrel don't to that! I'm sure there are plenty of fun Portuguese diacritics you could bring to the party!

@Elizafox I'm leaning more germanic þan anglo

@chr@cybre.space you mean mißed one right?

@squirrel we'll have to find a patch for UTF-8 support for you

I can't help but þink þat þis will get to a level þat's just taking þe piß

Are we mucking around with English orþography again?

I þink we are

@Elizafox Depends on if it's a pain in þe arse to type þough

Luckily my keyboard map makes it easy, but it depends on þe oþer ones