chrismear: i really feel like i ought to have a better grounding or sense of human history
chrismear: timescales, at least
davidmear: Yeah
chrismear: 'cause, like
chrismear: here's what i've got at the moment
chrismear: Dinosaurs
chrismear: Cavemen
chrismear: Egyptians
chrismear: Greeks
chrismear: Romans
chrismear: Jesus
chrismear: nobody expects the spanish inquisition?
chrismear: that's, like leapfrogging 1600 years or something
chrismear: no, wait
chrismear: then
chrismear: Blackadder
chrismear: Blackadder II
chrismear: Blackadder III
chrismear: Victorians
chrismear: Blackadder IV
chrismear: NASA
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“The student was… handing out Linux disks… I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful… putting linux (sic) on these machines is holding our kids back.” (0 comments)
Scratchcard game cancelled because it requires punters to understand negative numbers. And they don’t. (0 comments)
Wikipedia taught me a new word today. While I was learning about scampi, it treated me to this delightful sentence:
The word “scampi” is often construed as that style of preparation, not an ingredient, hence the seemingly pleonastic “shrimp scampi” or the seemingly impossible “chicken scampi”.
I would also like an explanation as to why this photograph of the American dish ’scampi’ is captioned thusly:
Since you’re rich and spoiled, it might not seem like the economy has gone into the toilet, so I’d just like to bring that to your attention – The economy has gone into the toilet.