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Mark Whybird
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mastodon 4.7.2My general interests: #Puns, #SciFi, computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like #trees and #dogs (well, all animals really.)
While I appreciate shared interests, I deeply love the very fact that many other people are NOT like me; diversity is not merely to be tolerated, but CELEBRATED as a goal in its own right.
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“Paint me like one of your French poodles.”
#dogsOfMastodon #Titanic
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A Brief History of Spare Time
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For Whom Taco Bell Tolls
Happy Nights
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@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @PinkNigel@toot.community @fesshole@mastodon.social When you think about it, the fact that language acquisition works at all is astounding - but it can be amusing when it doesn’t.
20-ish years ago my daughter sometimes did and sometimes did not want me to cut the crusts off the sandwiches that I would make daily for her to eat at school, so of course I would ask (a) what kind she wanted, and (b) if she wanted the crusts cut off.
There was a build up over a couple of weeks at one point of something awry though… I’d ask in the morning “do you want the crust off?”, and she would say no, so I wouldn’t. Then, in the afternoon she would ask why I didn’t cut them off.
Of course, at first I just thought I had maybe misheard. And then I took careful note and thought she had perhaps misremembered? Toward the end, I was saying “so let’s be clear: do you or don’t you want the crust off?”, and she would say clearly “No! I definitely DON’T want the crust off”, with witnesses… and still she would complain that I hadn’t cut them off!!!
Then it hit me one night. The next morning I asked her: “what do you call this outside part of the bread?”
“The crustoff!” she confidently replied.
#Dune’s Arrakis is a whole fast food planet…
Because of all the sand which is there.
Stand behind and frighten a horse (with no name).
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@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @Lana@beige.party Also: imagine it not run by a corrupt organisation!
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@proedie@mastodon.green @dgar@aus.social @oheso@ieji.de You’ll laugh at this Dgar: one time back in the pre-internet times, we were living in Townsville. My dad ordered something from a small Sydney based company that was advertised as including delivery to us in Qld.
All this was handled over some days by leaving messages on answering machines: The seller balked at the shipping cost, but he thought he had a solution: he was going to be flying up to Brisbane the following week; maybe we could just pop down to Brisbane and meet him! He’d be happy to give, say a $20 discount… No? What about $40?
He just couldn’t understand why dad wasn’t taking this generous deal (80s money, remember!) He thought dad was exaggerating when he pointed out the seller was closer to Brisbane than us.
The last message we left simply suggested he look up the 3 places in a map. Suddenly he agreed to honour he original deal of shipping it.
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@oheso@ieji.de @proedie@mastodon.green @dgar@aus.social Australian here*: I can report that it did take me a moment to make the “sh” into a “s” too, but having now ‘got it’ I’m having trouble imagining how any other accent I know would make it any more of a stretch than it is for Dgar and I?
- (indeed, by Australian standards we are practically neighbours, living within about the same 1/5th of the same state as each other, merely around 4 hours’ drive apart.)
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@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza @astro_jcm@mastodon.online As an Australian, I had to look twice at this particular comic :)
Waiting for GoDough
Lord of the Fries
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social That Nanoraptor; always making these funny unbelievable jokes…. HOLY SHIT SHE’S ACTUALLY CORRECT!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)
Lord of the Wings
#NoEffort , as there really is a place called that around here.
Ba(tma|ski)n & Rob(b)?in(s)?
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@corbden@defcon.social @cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io @Star12Mt@masto.nyc @TheEddieShow@beige.party Famously, also strawberries: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0gd2cdr
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@awoodruff@mapstodon.space @Frenchtoastpeasant@mastodon.social @User47@vmst.io @mlanger@mastodon.world @infobeautiful@vis.social Ah, of course it’s the human-made line half way across the island making a logical mess of things as always. Thank you; I understand now. Again: superb work. (I love your flow contour stuff too!)
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@Frenchtoastpeasant@mastodon.social @User47@vmst.io @mlanger@mastodon.world @infobeautiful@vis.social I love the idea that there are places half a world away from me here in Australia where you could stand, possibly even on land, and point in a certain direction and correctly say “Australia is across the ocean that way”, and then turn about 90° and also correctly say “Australia is across the ocean that way”.
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@Frenchtoastpeasant@mastodon.social @User47@vmst.io @mlanger@mastodon.world @infobeautiful@vis.social I think it’s just a pair of projections that were chosen that don’t cover two halves of the earth. There should either be a third one or else some different projection.
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@kauer@aus.social @trib@aus.social The fact that the faq says it nearly all works offline once you have loaded the site once is encouraging.
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@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @PinkNigel@toot.community @fesshole@mastodon.social About the saying, whatever its origin: similarly, “The past is a foreign country”; and we are all immigrants to the present. Any given culture even in the exact same place is different to what it was 50 or 20 or even 10 years ago. This is why (us) older people can seem out of touch: we literally grew up in a different culture.
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@PinkNigel@toot.community @guyjantic@infosec.exchange @fesshole@mastodon.social Yep - Beeb newsreader is what came to mind! Thanks :)
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@mjj@mstdn.dk @anon_opin@mastodon.social I’m confused though, in both your and OP’s cases: did they actually stop your old completely paid for version from working somehow? Could you not have continued using your older version indefinitely, just as you can use a couch forever if you are willing to allow it to get shabby enough?
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@Frenchtoastpeasant@mastodon.social @User47@vmst.io @mlanger@mastodon.world @infobeautiful@vis.social Hello @awoodruff@mapstodon.space - I very much enjoyed your “beyond the sea” maps, both static and interactive, from about 10 years ago (!).
I wonder if you can help me understand what’s going on with the coast of PNG near Port Moresby not seeming to have a “view” of Australia in the static map?
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@Frenchtoastpeasant@mastodon.social @User47@vmst.io @mlanger@mastodon.world @infobeautiful@vis.social Here are some more informative answers to “what is across the ocean from here”: https://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/
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@Frenchtoastpeasant@mastodon.social @User47@vmst.io @mlanger@mastodon.world @infobeautiful@vis.social It is, of course, opinionated on which country you are crossing the ocean FROM - eg is Columbia across the ocean from Panama, or is Panama across the ocean from Columbia? The answer is of course “both”; the chart chooses one semi-arbitrarily to put in the relevant bit of ocean.
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@redshiftdrift@social.sciences.re Thanks; it is helpful but I still say it’s a stretch 🌚
(Also, we have a complicated history with rabbits.)
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@redshiftdrift@social.sciences.re @Jaffa@social.linux.pizza @astro_jcm@mastodon.online The moon orientation is probably part of the cause of me never having been able to make out “the man in the moon” - but then, I also can’t make it out in images of it flipped to northern hemisphere orientation.
The bunny in the moon (southern hemisphere orientation), however, is obvious :)
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@redshiftdrift@social.sciences.re @Jaffa@social.linux.pizza @astro_jcm@mastodon.online Just looked on Wikipedia - seems like a massive stretch calling those patterns a face, even with options diagrammed right in front of me!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon
Something about Pater PARKER
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Cross-country skiving
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@PinkNigel@toot.community @guyjantic@infosec.exchange @fesshole@mastodon.social Oh, googled it - “Received Pronunciation”; the supposedly neutral “Queen’s English”. Crikey!
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I wondered *for some reason* if this was photoshopped, but it’s a long con if so: the video linked does indeed have those things listed, and it was uploaded 8 years ago by a YouTube user who just seems to be a bit of an Arnie movies fan.
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@mjj@mstdn.dk @anon_opin@mastodon.social It would make an interesting legal case study, actually. Consumer has purchased software. Auto updates are on. Company switches to subscription model, and an auto-update happens that makes that the only option going forward. (Maybe downgrading back to the previous, non-subscription version is not feasible for whatever reason.)
Sure seems like the company owes the consumer something there!
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@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @PinkNigel@toot.community @fesshole@mastodon.social While nowhere is as varied on a per-distance basis with accents as the UK, perhaps, all-y’all in the USA definitely have strong regional accents!