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clarification for non-brits 

Sixth form is where you go if you're between 16 and 19 and got good grades in school

I ended up leaving after the first year of that after my AS levels because reasons

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one of the CDs was Ozric Tentacles which I'm sure might explain a lot

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Honestly I spent most of my time at sixth form in the common room listening to Muse and anything else we had a CD of handy

alcohol 

Jacob's Creek Chardonnay review:

serviceable after the first glass, the first glass is rough as hell

As part of the process for prepare flax for spinning you are apparently meant to "heckle" it

...

OI FLAX, YER SHITE!

As proof of me hanging around with robots a lot, someone just mentioned that their joints were stiff and my first thought was "better get out the 3-in-One oil"

scrying the future, musk 

If the DoJ go after Musk for the "420 and we go private lol" tweets one of the headlines will be "Man who makes batteries gets charged"

Someone on /r/debian is asking about why there isn't a package for Godot yet

reddit.com/r/debian/comments/9

They are literally waiting for Godot

I love it

musk 

no news on whether or not he's called the SEC paedophiles for criticising him yet though

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musk 

Musk is getting sued by the SEC for fraud

cnbc.com/2018/09/27/tesla-fall

Apparently the DoJ is also looking into those "take private at $420 lol" tweets

Yep, he's fucked

Pro-tip: Comrade is a handy gender neutral honorific to use in place of Mr, Mrs, Miss, etc.

Apparently Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4 will require 105GB of hard drive space

ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE GIGABYTES

Free game idea to anyone who wants it: in the vein of theme park and theme hospital, a game where you build and improve your garden with the goal of attracting vast numbers of adorable hedgehogs, squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies, and other adorable critters to it

alcohol 

Recent news headline: "British teenage girls are among the heaviest drinkers in Europe"

Obligatory response: INGERLAND INGERLAND INGERLAND, INGERLAND INGERLAND INGERLAAAAAND!!!

WE'RE WINNING!

hedgehog cafe #3 built, this one's going off to be our first branch in London

Everyone shall learn and use the metric system

Especially people my parent's age who live in countries that have been using the metric system since the sixties and they still haven't learned it

Thus spake the octopus

Huh, so now there's a booette and a chompette to join bowsette

Place your bets on what the next one will be, I'm thinking it might be bullet billette

English is mutable, everyone knows what you're getting at when you write "alot" so feel free to write it as "alot" rather than "a lot"

Thus spake the octopus

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