Shit you just learned (probably from the internet.)

Tough round today?

Well, sort of, it’s my day off so I went round to my mum’s to do her shopping and to listen to her constantly saying how she’d be better off dead.

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Sounds like it’s chandelier time

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Didn’t The Orb do a song about those ? :thinking:

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Love it!

I have a m-i-l like that. Curiously I havent missed her at all over lockdown

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Google “IBM 7094”.

(Pedant mode on)
And Katherine Johnson.
(Pedant mode off)

Yeah yeah. I’ve seen the film. The Ibm was quite late to the party and calling a very clever lady a ‘computer’ is a little unfair (albeit her maths was better than the Ibm to start with)

Wasn’t she actually called a ‘calculator’ ?

Today I have learned that I was overcharged for home insurance between 2005 and 2013 because the backing insurer has sent me a cheque for ÂŁ571 :face_with_monocle:

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I will never look at otters the same way again…I will not be trying hard to verify this ‘fact’ :flushed:

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Nothing compared to Dolphins, who are basically psychopathic murdering rapists and necrophiles (this post should drive some interesting word-search traffic to this site :+1:):

NSFW I guess unless you’re in some kind of marine biology / sex crime unit…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HqBcYqb4Ak

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Bravo sir, I salute your matching pedantry. :grinning:

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Correlation between intelligence and mental ‘sickness’? The more complex the brain, the more likely that ‘unpleasant’ behaviour evolves or occurs.

Or perhaps the rest of the animal kingdom doesn’t feel the need to invent religion so that it can feel bad about its brutality?

I had similar a while back, thought they had made a mistake, so did the honest thing and spent it.

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In response to a 1 min recording of a very slow early Miles Davis number I put up on #instawank

A kindred spirit, no mistaking.

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Get your coat, you’ve pulled :rofl:

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Sempre solare e disponibile …

https://www.coprat.it/it/soci-e-collaboratori/stefania-barilli

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