Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

I like it when an instance gets mentioned as something to block and I find out we already blocked it a while ago

wondering if this is a thing in USAian as well, the phrase "full and frank discussion" as a euphemistic synonym for "massive argument"

Why yes BBC, this is exactly what I expected you to do with all that TV license money, 9 hours of a cat riding a roomba in front of a christmas tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Xkt1E7PJY

It's similar to wassailing where people go around door-to-door offering cups of mulled cider in return for gifts

And I guess trick-or-treating

But so much more metal

This is Mari Lwyd (image cw'ed for skull)

In Welsh tradition, at christmas, Mari Lwyd will come around all the houses in the town with a bunch of mates and sing loudly that they want to enter your house

You are then obliged to sing back with reasons they can't come in and the argument continues until you run out of ideas and it then comes in with its mates and you have to give them ale and food

In the UK we like to name our gritters (vehicles that spread grit on the roads to increase traction in icy conditions, owned and operated by the county council)

Lanarkshire just got Gritter Thunberg

duct tape a multirotor to your roomba

roomba can now go up stairs

From Mark Kermode's review of Cats (2019): "the biggest problem with the film is that it shouldn't exist..."

so let me get this straight, the white house is saying that hilary clinton purposely lost the 2016 presidential election with the help of russian hackers so that in three years trump would make a call to ukraine to try to dig up dirt on joe biden's son because biden was going to announce a bid for president and then rudy giuliani would go on TV and admit to everything just so the democrats could impeach trump

that... that appears to be what they're saying so...

put a gonk on it

Should anyone else want to put a gonk on it, here's an image with a transparent background

disappointed to learn "bus bars" are a power distribution thing and not combination mass transit/drinking establishments