matt168.bsky.social
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My immediate thought was they should have said they spied a fly fly.
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The use of “her vet” tickled me, imagining the cat had some choice in which professional was engaged to ensure her wellbeing.
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Unquestionably the most enjoyable book I’ve read in many years.
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If it was a pedantic pendant it would be being gifted on a date with no sentimental relevance. The shame would be a millstone around its neck forevermore.
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Nobody ever seems to manipulate him into doing anything that a half-decent human being would do, so he can’t be being tricked by the dictators. He only wants to impress them and considers everyone else to be suckers.
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Okay. That was a waste of everyone’s time, in the deed and in telling us about it.
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I am cancelling my sub and buying a dictionary. Or finding a way to disable autocorrect.
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A pendant’s nightmare. Surely you can’t say birthday if it’s not a year. A half birthday from January would be in July, not June. Still, something to look forward to next month, assuming their doubts about the weekly format don’t come to pass after all. I would miss them though, innumeracy and all.
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I salute your pitiful powers of observation.
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And encourage our children to run after a van instead of standing to attention when the anthem plays? If that isn’t the very definition of a hate crime then Britain truly is broken beyond repair.
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Was there even a third party to indicate the need for a more representative system to the Victorians? I can’t remember enough of my A level lessons (a statement that is as true now as it was when I walked into the exam hall).
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I nearly invented a cheese and mincemeat sandwich a couple of years ago. Very similar sized jar to the pickle. I’m not convinced it wouldn’t have been tasty.
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Three young boys in the 80s - Jason and Lee are accounted for so the writer must surely be Wayne or Kevin. Maybe an Ian.
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Very much the same for me. I thought I was reading a different book, but hopefully I am just a different person 35 years on.
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Your history with Nintendo felt very Jon Osterman indeed - I assume that was deliberate. It made my day, anyway.
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What job needs that much writing? Even way back when my work required lots of written papers, hand-drafted letters and suchlike I rarely noticed ink levels in a pen reduce and I reckon I’ve only ever used one biro up completely.
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I had thought that the idea of the character always farting into a tissue in the first episode of the second series of The Cockfields was the product of a uniquely strange imagination until now.
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They need someone ringing a bell each time it happens.
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It doesn’t sound like either side of that conversation was communicating particularly well. There is every chance you were far from blameless in that and I’d hazard a guess that you typically consider that it’s always the other person that’s wrong.
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How long did it take you to figure out the way to pay with your card too?
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That sounds a little like you sat in the chair and spun around a few times. Or maybe that’s just what I’d do.
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Not sure I could squeeze out an entire shoefull of rue, even if I tried saving it up for a couple of weeks.
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The most audacious opinion I’ve ever seen. Chapeau.
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If this had been submitted to Fesshole there’s a fair chance it would have continued saying “…unlike my actual mum”.
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Most users would likely be just fine with the ancient MS Works, even ones that ought to know better.
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Surely paying is insane, rather than charging?
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I am guessing that at least three of those examples would not score well in an English exam. Poor vocabulary, lack of clarity, not very imaginative. Oh, I just had a flashback to my GCSE years.
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Call of Duff Knee
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If I had one and could use it 5% of the time, I might not feel like that was the worst use of money as long as I didn’t have to keep it on the street.
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Go in and tell them you’d like a second hand somputer.
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I find it most interesting when they do bits about the daily lives of people living and working under the Empire. The hints of this immense bureaucracy in a system that only stands for around 25 years. Probably a bit far-fetched really, space magic aside.
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Seriously? I guess it explains what the chaps using their phone while stood at a urinal are doing. 95% chance they don’t wash their hands either.
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They would only try to spell it as Dayv.
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I would have said that about fifteen years ago but they have been covering the basics well enough for ages now.
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Super Popebotector
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The problem is really that everyone else is taking so long to get there.
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Clean particle overflows, if you must.
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My kids would despair if they knew how much I laughed at that (and likely will for the duration of the conclave).
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It can only be A. Either of the other answers would make them massive, attention seeking hypocrites that even a child of three would see through…
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If he did, half of the US audience would have needed subtitles more for him than they would have for the Klingons.
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Her management should have pushed for a much larger microphone really.
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"It's all ruined now."
Surely 27 years old was a typo?