This week’s Private Eye cover has Rishi singing to the tune of It’s coming home, “We’re coming third! We’re coming third!”
April 2020 - wasn’t this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government’s only hope?
These were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds and instructions to buy whatever is available.
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From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.
Someone asked on re**it who were the prodigy. I said that they played the song you hear in the matrix when neo first meets trinity. They said that they weren’t alive when the matrix was released. We are old.
For reference, Stonehenge is currently about 100 metres above what the UK considers to be mean sea level.
That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all “introductory offers” with asterisks.
Once several different instances have downloaded the same video, they could share information on which segments are the same?
Ads would change for each download based on all the factors used in the automated ad auctions.
Had a “pay as you go” contract since 1997 (not with T) - they told everyone that you need a new SIM for a network upgrade which required deactivating the original SIM. New SIM didn’t work in normal (Nokia 1110) phones. Then they sent SMS saying that they weren’t going to honour the original PAYG phone contracts.
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RimWorld - see the YouTube comments for people telling stories of what each song reminds them of.
Shoutout to ‘simple’ music that works well in a game - Project Highrise [procedural], Shapez, or Outbound for example.
Notjustbikes had a whole episode on how nice it is to decide each day what you want to eat, and just buy it on the way home.
In English is this why we say fifteen instead of tentyfive?
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