I remember changing between schemes on the N64. Like GoldenEye I would play with the stick with my left thumb for back, forwards and turning and the c buttons with my right thumb for looking up and down and strafing. Yet when playing turok or quake 2 I was perfectly happy with left thumb/stick for looking around and right thumb/c buttons for movement. Then dual sticks arrived and reversed it!

Matrix is a possibility but its sometimes a bit of a hard sell to people.

I really didn’t appreciate it until I had to come to the US for a week for work in NC (in Nov during election week!). Its utterly relentless. Watching TV from my hotel room was utterly exhausting. So much blatant propaganda and lies shown with alarming frequency.

I still use my iPod mini plugged into a music centre of the same vintage. I don’t update it though, its lovely having my 2004-5 music capsule.

We had a copy of indy 500 on our 3.1 PC that barely ran and made oh such lovely noises via the PC speaker but to play you had to answer trivia questions that were in the manual.

Nah, we love those creamy liqueurs. We were never a big alcohol household, i dont think i ever saw them drink anything neat.

Also uk but it was baileys and a mince pie as neither of my parents liked sherry

Intolerable

Probably half life 2

Ashens. Released a video the other day about microwavable burgers that I couldn’t immediately tell whether it was brand new or 10 years old.

I used to live with a system more like that. There was a food waste bin, a glass recycling caddy thing and some other stuff. I’d love to know if the more complicated categorisations results in more or fewer people recycling and sorting things correctly vs the all in one bin approach. Not having a provided wheelie bin is utterly wild to me though.

My council (in the UK the rules vary between coincils) just has two bins. We have a black lidded wheelie bin for general household rubbish that is collected every week and a red lidded bin for most recycleables (glass, plastic, paper cardboard) collected every two weeks but it has restrictions on things like plastic film. If you are found to break the rules (open lids, wrong items in bin) they may refuse collection and leave a note saying why it won’t be collected. For example the black lidded general waste bin stipulates that all your rubbish must be inside refuse sacks, if you just have loose rubbish they won’t collect it.

You just make sure the bin is accessible/near the road on collection day and it gets picked up. Bins get lifted and tipped into the bin lorry then they put the bins back.

You can also leave a plastic bag on the floor next to the bin for disposal of ‘small electricals’ (chargers, dead electronics etc.).

Bins are provided by the council and collection is paid by your council tax. Both bins are 140 litres but you can ask for a 240l if you have a bigger family producing more waste.

You can pay an extra charge (I think about £80 per year) for a ‘green bin’ and associated collection which is for disposal of plant waste (i.e. if you have a decent sized garden and maintain it).

And finally if you have too much rubbish or items that can’t be easily disposed of (oil, large electronic items, diy waste) you can fill your car and take it to the local ‘tip’ (normally named something like waste management centres etc.) where you can get rid of it all.

Fair enough, more of a misuse as the word has kind evolved away from its original meaning.

Its not mistranslated, its caffe latte but the caffe part is cut off for brevity when ordering at a coffee shop.

I used to be a phlebotomist and have worked in pathology my whole working life and never heard that one.

Coffee

Surely the latter has to be the tortie

Cars are more scared of you than you are of them

Paracetamol also causes left handed-ness

Dandelion and Burdock, the Fentiman’s one is particularly good.