I’m glad Chris Luxon clarified our achievement stats are abysmal compared to “other first world countries on Earth”. Those woke lefties trying to justify things based on a bell curve that includes other planets.
Panic. Last minute birthday gift idea for a friend wfh always buys me the most thoughtful gifts? (I’m a bad bad friend I know.) It’s now 6pm and I’m meeting her for coffee at 10am. Panic.
@shirvill @christinemal@ravenscimaven Aotearoa New Zealand here but ditto. I learned all about the Tudors and the English Civil War at school. (Not complaining, I loved it and still do.) But we should have been taught our own history. Fortunately that is changing now.
A tourist on our bus, when the bus stopped where she’d indicated she wanted to get off, asked if it was stop x. The driver said no, that’s the next stop. She called out apologies to all the passengers. As one, all of the bus replied “it’s fine, no worries, no problem”. So sweet.
@isaac32767@WhoresofYore My science teacher told us he was no longer allowed to do that after the time he threw the potassium into the water from a distance and a passing seagull saw it and swooped…
@PicturesFoIder I feel like this needs a trigger warning for all of us who have fought and lost battles with home printers before surrendering to the inevitable and just printing anything that needs printing at work instead.
I've voted for Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - https://t.co/e2S9jmzvFz in the @britpodawards Listeners' Choice Award. Vote for your fave: https://t.co/xZtzbpalu0. Best podcast ever.
@resolutemaybe@Tim_Batt I think I say An-tarck-tica but I’ve now overthought it so much that I don’t even know anymore. Going to just call it “that frozen bit down the bottom” from now on.