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Could work. The guy who currently performs Kermit’s voice is better at singing than talking. (Or that was the case previously. He might have improved since I last consumed Muppet media).

I assume this is like one of those “one lies, the other tells the truth” things and a narcissist would answer “no”. If I saw the QI episode, I’ve long since forgotten what was said about it.

FWIW, my response would be “oh god I hope not”, all the while fretting that I’ve been writing a lot of comments from the first person with lots of "I"s these days, which is a bit self-centred. I don’t have the brain power to rewrite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Another, slightly more cruel one is to find a perfectionist who thinks that perfectionism is an imperfection and ask them if they’re a perfectionist. A therapist accidentally short-circuited my brain with that one.)

“Sugar free” on things that are mostly sugar because the serving size given isn’t great enough to overcome a rounding down to zero.

This is pretty smart for the left guy. He’s usually down at the level of “HTML is a programming language” or “What’s a programming language?”.

That said, the first one of those isn’t mutually exclusive with what he says in the meme.

Relevant stand-up routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJXl1gPW0Fc

Caution: If you lean Trumpwards politically, this isn’t for you.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE

Almost but not quite the same energy: https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

I feel like the demon in the Buttersafe comic was equally and unexpectedly benign and got the guy to his kitchen.

VLC.

But then I’m one of those strange people who doesn’t listen to music much, so maybe I’m missing a trick.

I think the point is when it came to secular things pertaining to Christmas, the church would have said “No”, and the state would have gone along with that, even if most people weren’t religious.

The same happens everywhere, regardless of religion or how prominent it is. If you attempt to do something that the elders of a religion say are offensive to that religion, the state will discourage it, and so people don’t bother in the first place.

In Britain, especially from the 1970s to 2000s, there was always a race to be the #1 charting song at Christmas, and songs with a Christmas theme often won out, even if they were otherwise secular pop songs. This means that over the years, we’ve ended up with probably a hundred of them ranging in quality from terrible to great.

America have followed suit. Or else, they might argue they started it with songs like “White Christmas” and “Silver Bells”.

This is largely down to the more permissive secular and Protestant Christian societies where irreverence is tolerated if not encouraged.

The Catholic and Orthodox churches are less tolerant of those sorts of things, so people in countries with heavy influence from those churches - like yourself - won’t have had anything like it.

The French word is more akin to the English C word, at least etymologically, which makes me wonder how high it ranks in terms of French profanities.

I think most English speakers know where the B word falls with respect to the C word (and say, something like the worst racial slur), but I have no idea where on that scale the French word falls.

Either way, I’ve definitely heard both English translations be called misogynistic, and I think that would qualify those words for “slur” status. I can’t imagine the French word is thought of any differently.

Pros: Little screens on every key!

Cons: Looks awful and costs a fortune!

Get one today!

Let me save you a few characters: %Y-%m-%d can be shortened to %F

For visualisation’s sake I also like to put a space before the %F so that the year and the file size are separated a little more, but that’s more of a taste thing than anything else.

(Caveat: %F’s year is explicitly four digits in some libraries, whereas %Y is always the full year. If you’re planning for your code to last 8000 years you might want to consider that.)

That’s taxable. In Britain at least, we have the VAT system where businesses must include it in their prices. There are two or three tiers with the highest tier of 20% applying to goods and services absolutely not necessary for day-to-day living.

Businesses are supposed to keep records of what they’ve charged and to whom, and they can use that proof to claim all or part of VAT back, so that the tax falls mostly on the consumer.

Businesses that don’t do this generally get in trouble sooner rather than later.

(Now, I’m not going to claim VAT is perfect, nor that the stratification of it is done correctly as it stands, but it’s proof a system like that can and does exist.)

Well, the Celts got distracted by the influx of Germanic tribes and as such had more immediate things to worry about and hate than the Romans, but I figure if the Franks, Saxons, Vikings, et. al. decided to stay home, the modern Britons would still grumble about the Romans occasionally.

I mean, the Germanic invasions started over a millennium ago and dislike of that’s still on a low boil, so I figure two millennia isn’t out of the question.

On the other hand, the Romans did go home. The Saxons, not so much.

Yeah. Right Control should be where Fn is for sure.

And as an ISO keyboard user, I need my right Shift key, so that Control has to be a Shift instead. On ISO, left Shift is small and right is large. For that and other reasons I use the right one way more than the left. And if that’s not possible for deep technical reasons, hard-wire it to the left one bypassing all of the trouble. It wouldn’t be the first time a keyboard did something like that.

… and what do you know, there’s a even little space there with no key where they could put the Fn key omitted by those changes.

Everything else I could deal with. Even the otherwise US layout. It’s been a while since I used one, but occasionally there’s a hiccup and I’ll reach for double quote or at-sign in the opposite places, so that muscle memory is still there, maybe waiting for mangling into typing on something like this.

I think the difference with that English word - and indeed many like it in English - is that it’s wearing a disguise borrowed from another language (Latin, at least in part, in this case). German has fewer pretensions.

But where English does have a word made up of native, undisguised parts, we don’t realise we’re probably thinking about those words the same way Germans do with theirs. That is, we don’t really think about the deconstruction unless we’re explicitly asked to, or something unusual triggers an etymological enlightenment.

Or else we had that enlightenment long ago and it’s no longer exciting, I guess.

I haven’t used Windows in earnest since Win 7. No wonder they want to force people to upgrade to new hardware.

Oof. That must be a single core laptop from 2010 or something, which if true, that sucks.

I have a 13 year old computer around here that had no problems with LMDE6 when last I fired it up. It was relatively high spec when new which takes some of the edge off, but I never had an input lag problem anywhere except maybe badly-written websites.

Just how limited is your computer?