Ready to get knocked up and then knocked about? That’s the Chav-life.

And in their desperation, they turned to a man no one could fully understand.

Thank you.

Ah ok, thanks.

Where I’m from a lock in is a pub illegally serving drinkers after time by locking the doors.

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What does ‘lock in’ mean in this situation?

Yours faithfully,

a confused Brit.

Precisely. 🙂

Whoever owns the fountains owns the money.

If someone throws money into a fountain and then wishes then that in itself is a complete transaction with whichever supernatural entity is being bargained with.

I am assuming that any entity which is powerful enough to grant wishes is also powerful enough to hang onto the money if that should be its wish.

Alternatively it’s a quaint custom that people engage in as a form of custom and the pleasure comes with a link to the tradition.

The periodic clearing out of the fountains is both necessary maintenance and a form of income that pays for said maintenance. No one is really harmed by this.

Forbidden raspberries.

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With all the nonsense that there is in the world why this particular nonsense? Lemme tell ya: friend of mine showed me a graph showing that we had historically low levels of CO₂. Took me a while to catch on but it didn’t have the Holocene individually marked, it was mostly concerning the epochs before mankind arrived. So the argument is totally irrelevant to the discussion of greenhouse gasses. Unless… unless you could convince yourself that there were lost civilisations that existed in distant pre-history. Of course there’s absolutely zero evidence for these… must be a cover-up.

It’s a funny thing, I used to a werewolf but I’m alright noo^oooooow.

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I mean, it’s right there in the name…

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Just have to make our globe working model dense enough to distort space-time and then spin it at a thousand miles an hour. 'Course this will require a working model of the sun to power the working model of the Earth.

This here is a picture of Stephen Luntz (writer of this piece) for comparison.

Capability for mayhem.

Wouldn’t catch me holding on to any animal with that look on its face.

I do use it as a thought terminating statement usually when friends have asked me to help. I ask for them to tell me what has happened and then I suggest a forward plan of action. It is very common for people at this point to feel guilty about having to ask for help and also to go down a spiral of putting all the blame on themselves. Neither of these things are useful as I need their active help and participation in putting the problem right and that’s where their energy needs to be focussed.

So it this point I will very often say to them something like, “Well, it is what it is and we are where we are and there’s no sense in blaming yourself, let’s see what we can do about getting into a better position.”

I did encounter a proper thought terminating cliche in the form of, “I hear what you’re saying…” from bosses in various places. Means “I hear what you’re saying but I couldn’t give less of a shit about it even if I were prepared to put in the slightest effort, which I am not.”

All I see is the goofy face those two chairs and the reflection under the table is making