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Strategic bulb dimming considered as new response to global idiocy.
If you can't beat them, join them.
But first we have to identify and evaluate the global idiots.
If you don't understand the scope of the problem, and don't know the requirements, how do you propose to address it?
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You don't need me, or the multiplicity of available weather agencies, to tell you how hot it is.
But.
Hell's teeth, it's hot enough to melt steel.
My brain is frazzled.
And I have the adult equivalent of nappy rash under my armpits.
You probably didn't need to know that.
Sorry.
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Things, here and there, apparently useless. Mislaid and without owner. Everybody has them somewhere, and probably bins them when they turn up and the use is unknown.
This bit was left by the gas service person, but is now effectively ownerless. I think it was part of the rugged laptop that was part of the gas service kit, obviously this bit wasn't as rugged as the rest.
I won't chuck it out yet, not until I've scrubbed this weird, anthropomorphic like attachment I've developed to it.*
* Starts OCD chant - must chuck it out, must chuck it out, must chuck it out...
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You have to wear the correct attire if you don't want to be seen by the enemy. So today the shorts were camouflage, to prevent the brambles spotting that they were about to be given short shrift.
They didn't return fire, they didn't sound any alert, they didn't run away. This proves that it worked.*
It is that simple.**
* Arguments like this are false, don't fall for it.
** Anyone can talk bollocks, but you are responsible for testing the validity, your country is at risk if you don't.
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Perhaps this bunny would look less grumpy if I'd not trapped its left ear behind its head.
The bunny, a big Star Trek fan, has taken to wearing my old pyjama top in commemoration of the original series.
Bunny is a big fan and can name all the characters, having watched from the start on British TV, and the episodes too.
As it's the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek bunny has clearly lived long and prospered, given that lifespan.
Over those 50 years bunny hasn't required the efforts of a doctor, a bricklayer, a mechanic, or, oddly enough, an escalator.
Due to the anniversary bunny has decided to spring arthritically out of its burrow to watch the back catalogue of TV shows.
I might join bunny in this endeavour - if I caaaaan.*
* Bunny may also want to watch the films.
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My feet hurt.
Perhaps I've been walking too much.
Truman Capote's view of this is that it "is not walking at all - it's stepping."
That's enough tortured references.*
* Here are some reviews of the novel - I didn't get on with it at all, surprised it has such a high rating.
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Took a trip to the moronosphere* to check out the anti/pro EU arguments.
Oh my. These do go on and on, and in circular fashion, for some time.
And there's a common theme.
The 'Brexiters' in these particular places sure liked their insults.** They liked them so much that they favoured them over rational argument by some considerable distance. Insults interspersed with negative terminology and school playground level nick-naming of people, concepts and things. I expect if they were pulled up on it they would call it 'banter'.***
If a 'Remainer' inadvertently returned the favour and made the mistake of suggesting something in the slightest and most vague unsavoury way, using the most oblique, indirect and not even deliberate language, then oh boy, that's when the righteous indignation kicked in and the 'Brexiter' got out their triple extender ladder to mount their very high horse.
A ratio of something along the lines of 100 direct insults to 1 vague suggestion that an argument is idiotic - leave:remain.****
Sort of amusing.*****
I expect there are places where the ratio would not be so wide.
The chart on the left was my heart rate while reading the comments - just reading, no commenting, why on earth would I want to do that.
* Online forums, below the line comments, etc, I don't really think these people are morons, that's just for cheap comic effect, as will hopefully become apparent.
** I fully appreciate that these Brexiters are of a distinct and particular type and in no way representative of Brexiters that may be found elsewhere, and likewise the Remainers.
*** 'Just a bit of banter, just a joke, no harm done' - the insidious undermining by the feeble minded when they can't string an actual argument together (that's a joke, we can all stoop to it).
**** These figures are not accurate or in any way representative.
***** Do I mean amusing?
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