We don’t seem to have blamed the freemasons for anything for a while.

I’m sure it must be their turn again. How do you start shifting blame groups?

There’s a sort of white rectangular bag behind him. To the right of it is a large penile object on a string. I suspect this is it.

I liked Gnome back when Ubuntu was brown.

Haha. I love an appalling Amazon photoshop job :)

Also this is separately hilarious (or perhaps terrifying):

Excellent answer.

I suspected the same, but metrically.

Technically true.

How thin would your floors and ceilings need to be for this to be real?

Kent Wanker.

That’s some lovely dirt and rust on there. Great job!

It’s on my to-do list when I have a bit of time :)

He genuinely did some quality stuff in the 1980s and 1990s. Populous (1989) and Powermonger (1990) were genre-defining, and in their era, were amongst the best games available on the Atari ST/Amiga.

He seemed to have a run of innovative classics - Theme Park and Dungeon Keeper were quality…

…and then at some point he just started promising things he couldn’t deliver. Black and White still turned out pretty good, despite the broken promises…

… then in the last handful of years, he’s worked hard to destroy his previous reputation by churning out overhyped shit.

I was meaning the NHS in the UK. I’d not heard the phrase “single-payer healthcare” before and sort of assumed it was some form of “health insurance” thing, but one significantly less insane than the American system.

I tried looking at the Wikipaedia page for it, but now it’s even less clear - it says “The term was coined in the 1990s to characterize the differences between the Canadian healthcare system with those such as the United Kingdom’s NHS”, suggesting it very much means “not the NHS” - though it also mentions UK healthcare elsewhere on the page???

Anyway, the essence of the point is the same - the way the American system works is insane and barbaric, and there are better, proven to work, options available which are currently used in other countries :)

Or a National Health Service?

Lovely idea, and I’m glad to see a “real forum”.

It depends on where you live, but generally you leave stuff out the front if you want to get rid of it (fridges, freezers, ovens, mattresses, sofas etc) - either officially, by arranging a “bulky goods” collection from the council, or waiting for someone who wants/needs it to take it. Large appliances generally get picked up by “rag and bone” men who weigh the metal in for scrap.

Remember that a large chunk of urban population don’t drive at all, and the majority that do drive small vehicles for short journeys - so not many people can take stuff like that to a recycling centre themselves.

I think you’re overestimating the amount of nice, sunny days available in British weather :)

We had a pregnant semi-stray cat come into our house to give birth. A few days later, I’d left a drawer open and found she’d moved herself and the kittens in.

All babies shit themselves, and evidence suggests I was once a baby - but since I have moved on, if I were to shake hands with a shitty-handed person, I would wash my hands afterwards.

Good call. For a treat, you can then take your part-cooked potato to your local library, then wedge the potato behind a radiator for half an hour to crisp up the edges a little :)

You have to cook the potatoes or they’re poisonous, and buying and running a hob or an oven is comparatively pretty expensive in the UK. I get your point though, if you’re a bit wealthier, of course you’d be looking at potatoes or other foods - and it can get really ingredient cheap if you buy a sack of potatoes and mostly just eat potatoes :)