It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.

I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.

Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?

Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?

Megakaryocytopoiesis is part of the process of forming platelets in the blood. You’re thinking of midichlorians.

Is he as friendly to the meat industry as British Conservative former Prime Minister David Cameron, who allegedly put his knob in a dead pig’s mouth?

My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.

In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.

“I call my creation ‘Prickachu’”

It was a great mystery at the time what was actually being sung there.

Along with yours, we also had:

I’m blue, I believe I’m a dog,
I believe I’m a dog,
I believe I’m a dog.

And

I’m blue, I believe I will die
I believe I will die
I believe I will die.

Outlook (new) New - Final - 2025-04-17 - THIS IS THE ONE_final_b_v2.lnk

I’d not seen that outtake! Thank you, it was hilarious :)

Fun Fact:
In British English, “Trump” means the same as “fart” (and has done for over 100 years):

“(intransitive) British slang to expel intestinal gas through the anus” Collins English Dictionary

“to release gas from the bowels through the bottom”
Cambridge English Dictionary

“slang or colloquial. The act of breaking wind audibly”
Oxford English Dictionary

Wait… dbzer0 is “divide by zero”?

I’ve been reading it as “dibzer nought”

I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I’ll add “Section 28”.

Section 28 - Wiki link

To “protect our children”, she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular “gay bashing”.

Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.

I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net

If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)

How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.

If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.

The Abbot of Wallingford’s flock,
Built a Mechanical Clock,
His ultimate goal,
Was the “winding up” hole,
Which he operated using his small key

There once was an Abbot called Rick,
Who had a mechanical trick,
A timekeeping gear,
Was affixed to his rear,
And the chimes were attached to his nose

Hmm, unless anyone can think of anything that rhymes with “clock” or “Rick”, I can’t really think of a way to make these sound rude.

Hahahaha. That’s brilliant :)

TIL that browsers show a number in the “:D box” if you don’t have enough tabs open.

About 20 years ago, there was an art/tech project for distributing Linux Source code by radio. Probably not very practical in reality, but a lovely concept.

Or caught by a mob and Gadaffied?

“That’s a challenging wank”

Sean Lock on “8 out of 10 Cats” (skip to 3 minutes in)

They’re mixing up their metric and imperial sizes. These are from Forgefix, which are a British company. Many British people aged about 55 and over tend to still use imperial sizes for some things.

So it’s not 6-8mm, but "the size of wall plug for 6-8 gauge screws, which are 3.5mm - 4mm screws in metric.

Strangely, if you buy a multipack of masonry bits, they give you 3, 4, 6, 8, 10mm bits. Some brands of wall plugs tend to use 5.5mm, 6.5mm, 7mm. It is a conspiracy!

Your options are:

1. Use a smaller drill bit and wiggle it, just a little bit
2. Use a larger drill bit and pack it out with a shim/matchstick/chopped off half-a-wallplug
3. Individually buy the masonry bits which correspond to the plugs
4. Buy a different brand of wall plug, which uses 6mm or 8mm bits