A wonderfully succinct explanation of why I decided - whilst still at university - that academia was not the path for me…

Why? A material change was made to the item after the point of import. This would be like taxing a timber importer as though they were importing furniture.

I think you meant 100 billion (actually, about 2/3 of that all in), but your point still stands that the project has been neither smooth nor cheap…

Carmageddon is a game that I loved at the time, and am very hesitant to revisit… I suspect it hasn’t aged well!

I wouldn’t consider this particularly lightweight - it’s a bit of a battery monster, even with the moving background turned off

Bandcamp link here - one of my all-time favourite VG soundtracks. Never heard anything like it before or since!

“Critically panned” means to receive a poor critical response. I tried looking for the etymology, but couldn’t find anything convincing… It seems to have started as something to do with panning for gold (i.e. using a literal pan to sift through dirt looking for gold flakes), but I can’t see where that shifted from “looking for small bits of good in mostly dirt” to “this straight up sucks”.

I use FedEx for work, and our account has heavily discounted rates for Priority services - not for Economy. That’s what I assumed was happening here, until I saw that you were dealing with them as John Q Public.

My partner and I have a joint account that is used to pay for any shared expenditure (boring stuff like housing and groceries, as well as fun stuff like dinners out together and holidays). This account is funded unevenly, and that split is reviewed any time either of our incomes change - but it’s always funded to the point that it covers our joint expenses each month. If required, it is topped up at the same split. Anything we are left with personally can be spent or saved at the individuals absolute discretion.

Friends through eternity, loyalty, honesty

We’ll stay together through thick or thin

Tension builds, and never really resolves - it’s a frustrating listen

I doubt that the incinerator was big enough, and that’s what the “icky specifics” covers…

There are plenty of shows “about” subjects that you really don’t need to have any interest in to enjoy, because the show is actually about the characters. Like Succession, is any knowledge about or passion for corporate takeovers necessary? In Ted Lasso, the sport is there to motivate the characters, and is only very occasionally on screen.

And as I noticed recently, can pull recipes from behind a paywall - looking at you, NYT

One of his character traits was telling dad jokes.

Sorry, I’ve Got No Head - a kids show, but has a lot of familiar faces (if you watch British comedy).

Witchfinder sketch

I’m not blaming her at all - I meant that she’d have a good idea of whether or not the singer is a crowdsurfer, regardless of a venue sign being present or not. It’s either the singer’s fault for launching into the crowd with absolutely no warning, or the rest of the crowd for seeing the singer coming and scattering from around her.

I’d argue that a “no crowdsurfing” sign would, for a punk band, be like a red rag to a bull… Given that she’d attended lots of their shows in the past, I think she’d have had a better gauge of how likely crowdsurfing was, sign or no.

Crowdsurfing only works well if it is clearly telegraphed by the surfer, and willingly accepted by the crowd - think like an enthusiastic trust fall. Given that she’s 5’6, I can’t see how she would have been landed on full force unless there was basically no warning, or the rest of the crowd around her totally bailed (in which case no-one would jump)

You’d use a wet blanket to smother a fire.