marcus-zoom.bsky.social
She's either barking at everything or nothing; some days I'm not sure even she knows.
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One month later...
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I love that stuff.
Spray what appears to be the right amount amount into a gap. Watch as it expands and expands and expands to become the Foam Monster.
Forget Dark Energy, the expansion of the universe was caused by the first person to open a can of this.
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My Lovely Horse
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It widens from using AI to assist work to using AI to avoid work.
Some pass off AI generated code as their own. When I ask them to explain how the code works they have no clue.
Some cheat on a *computer ethics* assignment by using AI to generate their arguments. I have run out of irony meters.
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Good on you! Also a huge thank you for standing up to her for the wider benefit. You wouldn't have been the only person she treated that badly, some who didn't feel able to stand up for themselves. Not tolerating behaviour like that helps others.
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The lack of respect some people have for their partners, coupled with severe situational myopia.
Anyone who had to put up with a partner who pulled stunts like this can tell you that long term if you can't change this you could be heading towards a metaphorical pothole in the road.
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Oh good spot. Looks like they chopped it up a bit, and of course, being the Goodies, even managed to make the back-wall monitors look like they were wearing flares.
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OP thinks: "Wait a minute, that wallpaper and sofa seems familiar. Like from ages ago..."
[Camera angle changes to give a first glimpse of familiar faces.]
"I'm gonna hurl. Internet's over for the day."
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That's quite the elaborate set for a two minute skit, was it reused for any other things, Scott On... or otherwise?
The bridge of the Enterprise (well, "Eros") feels like it would have appealed to loads of sketch shows for well over a decade.
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How was it not called Mrs Slocombe?
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Nah, don't believe it.
Years ago my ex inadvertently donated my favourite football shirts into a local charity clothes bin, picked up the wrong pile amongst many.
Worst part is the charity bin was in Newcastle and every shirt was Forest. I shudder to think what the Geordies used them for.
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Same. In my head the second verse of My Way starts like this:
"Regrets, I've had a few
But now I think, the list is endless..."
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Forget the revenge aspect, a garden full of wildflowers sounds lovely.
I can't quite figure out the cross-cultural fascination with level, open spaces of aggressively shorn grass. Is it maybe an evolved preference, like a desire to remove cover where predators and other dangers might hide?
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Is it Lee and Herrings' Extra Final Scene from Thelma and Louise?
@herring1967.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQKh...
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Yes she loves to be the centre of attention. She's the baby of the doggie-cat family and a real livewire. Don't ever want her to change.
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Definitely, I talk and play with her all the time, and the other three. And the cats. Her default is to run outside and spinning round firing off random barks. Doesn't matter who is or isn't there - other dogs, cats, people, crows, squirrels, she's always got plenty to say. Never menacing.
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NTV's Captain Canada wants a word.
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But do you take your big plate to the buffet?
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Karma squared, I'd say.
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Yeah, skived off school to watch this one with my dad. So many snooker Mondays.
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Yet again the East Midlands raises the cultural bar to heights hitherto unimaginable.
Nottingham born, Oakham raised, yeah back in the day I'd have done this.
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I don't read "hastily" so much as "lazily".
Let's face it, successive governments have had an awfully long time to get it right, including taking time to perform the review and revision before it reaches the Lords.
I feel the Lords should be for identifying obscure, not fundamental flaws.
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Jennifer you are wonderful.
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*Everything* is enlivened by Derek Griffiths.
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Agreed.
We need to raise the standard of living planet-wide to the point that people only want to move for social/career reasons. At the same time not hurting everything else that lives here.
Naive optimism? Maybe, but it wasn't that long ago that we were tribe versus tribe. Let's keep improving.
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Close. The clue is on the postcard: "Sheringham".
(Oh Brian, why did you sell him to Spurs in '92?)
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Main voice: awww, put your feet up mum, you deserve it.
Small voice: sounds like plenty a' inbred free-use be happenin' on t' moor.
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I want to take a moment to say: OP, thank you so much for running this account. 👏
A daily roundup that's a healthy mixture of the best and the worst of humanity's relationship the vast majority of life on this planet.
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Seeing a wild animal so ostensibly content is a beautiful thing.
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Some days I struggle to see our species as anything other than a monumentally bad thing.
No matter how beautiful, sentient or otherwise, they are not our "property".
The optimist in me hopes we will eventually evolve into planetary park rangers with a hint of exploration of science and the arts.
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Cruel not brave. You think the father of the bride wanted to book a place that charges £9 a pint?
Feel that soon-to-be married couples have been brainwashed into "Kodak moments", focussed on "perfect" wedding days rather than great marriage years.
My kids will say I'm just wanting to cheap out.
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Dearie me some of these are getting tiresome. Coming soon:
"I told teacher the dog ate my homework. She believed me. We didn't have a dog. Sorry Miss James."
"Worked at a stable shoeing horses. Boss said we should knock it on the head for the day. So I hit the horse with my hammer. Sorry Shergar."
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Morbid curiosity plus my love of The Goodies drew me in.
Yikes!
I hope they were aiming to satirise the prevalent casual racism of the time. Not an unknown idea, see Alf Garnett. But while the viewer was expected to mock Garnett for his bigotry, here I feel the viewer is expected to laugh with it.
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Thank you, this is so good to learn!
And Peterson's work is also early 20th century. With much hindsight it feels like the era, with its rapid mechanical invention and innovation, provided a perfect breeding ground for physical artistic creativity. It wouldn't be surprising to learn there are more.
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😢
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"few years earlier" - apparently. Slate insists this but on checking I can't back that up. Not wanting to make a competition either, far more interesting is how close together they were in time and how until recently both nations had the same class of devices named after completely different people.
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Love it. In the UK these are called Heath Robinson contraptions. He got there a few years earlier than Goldberg, one of those neat parallels in history, suggesting this was an idea whose time had come.
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Radiant.
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Or maybe each one along the line state that they are waiting for the answer to the previous question before they will ask theirs. That achieves the same thing and also maintains the opportunity to ask further questions. If he walks out of the conference at that point he's going to look like a fool.
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Putting a natural monopoly such as electricity supply into the hands of the private sector never makes sense to me.
"But we can have a set of competing suppliers to raise innovation and drive down costs."
No, you get an oligopoly, collusion, cost-cutting without improvement. Every damned time.