I still have a scar on my thigh from when I was running 9 years ago and a wasp stung me as I ran by at 7mph

I lived in London as a fuck ass poor student in Forest Gate, Ilford (technically Essex) and Stockwell (all fairly shabby areas) over about 8 years before later moving to a nicer area (Clapham).

The only people I saw with weapons were the police.

the list is the helpful part to understanding it.

it would be terrible if, with bar being a list and foo being a member of the list

 if foo in bar: return true

modified the list. So yeah, you want to look at the list not edit the list, it’s a pointer.

well under anesthetic there was no experience of anything so I very much doubt it. My first general anesthetic was “proof” as much as proof can be that it doesn’t even go black, just that the thing that used to be you isn’t aware of anything any more.

don’t worry gentle reader they gave him another one

that’s why they sell unwrinkable shirts

they put a plastic or metal doohickey where the shower head connects to the pipe to limit water flow.

in curious about graphene I just want to put it on a non critical device (which I don’t have) first.

they were probably bringing attention to the fact that most sharks don’t want to attack people at all and rarely do it and hoping for no retaliation

ah now lads come on with ye

I mean you can stamp your feet for percussion in a shanty

I think about this scene so much whenever I’m doing a project

yeah I guess I wanted to be sure there wasn’t some old cliche or chestnut I wasn’t aware of.

like asking an actor “what have you been in that I’ve seen?” or touching a pregnant woman’s belly

“kinda” “loosely”

i was just being wry, not offering a serious translation service

Minor side note “USSR” / “CCCP” kinda just translates to “democratic union, democratic union, democratic union, democratic union”

Soviet is a corruption of sovet meaning democratic assembly.

many states have laws that require you to let people merge. they don’t.

we have a free espresso machine and two free large cafetieres and a coffee shop where you pay on the ground floor. A lot of my colleagues still go to Starbucks across the street.

about 250 years older than that!

1698–1700 [UK] N. Ward London Spy VII: Nor one whore that could have the impudence to ask above Six-pence Wet and Six-pence Dry, for an hour of her Cursed Company.

1832 [UK] Satirist (London) 9 Sept.: [T]he saying has become common, when speaking of what they consider a low girl, ‘Oh! the creature’s wet: she goes to the Piccadilly Saloon’.

1888–94 [UK] ‘Walter’ My Secret Life: Was it not lovely, Charlotte, is not your thing wet?

1920s [US] ‘All Night Long’ in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing: We drank one or two as other folks do, / The night was wet, but she got wetter.

1941 [US] in G. Legman Limerick: Her twat would get wet / And would wiggle and fret, / And her cunt-lips would curl and unfurl.

1949 [US] H. Miller Sexus: She was wet as a goose now.

I’ve never understood why card gamers don’t like proxies. Now everyone can play.