First up, I want to say that your point is clear, even without this correction, but…
That’s not how percentages work. To make things neat, let’s assume they’re now selling things at cost (they’re not, they’ll still be making a profit).
A 75% reduction in price like this means that they were previously making 300% profit.
I’m trying so hard not to reply to this nonsense…
I guess they were in a rush to finish before Christmas (we moved in on Christmas Eve). Also, I’ve never actually opened the loft hatch…
On second thought, using that caveat 1000 dead roaches would be better.
A dead person, preferably - although it would be a little surprising for me as I live in a new-build.
I think they’re for performing the vasectomies as alluded to in the second panel. I assumed the turps is for make-shift antiseptic.
Took me a second to puzzle this out…
Just in case any of my fellow Europeans need an extra nudge in the right direction, this is relating to the guy who has been arrested for shooting the healthcare CEO, and nothing to do with people in Italy.
It’s the handwritten bit that I find hardest to believe, though. The guy studied AI at university and was involved in Game Design classes. He was a tech guy. Nobody who’s that intimate with computers would choose to convey their message across three hand-written pages. It just seems really odd.
It was a McDonald’s customer who turned him in. (Edit: the article I read has been updated)
But I can’t help but find the whole thing really suspicious. In his possession they found a gun, silencer, and three-page hand written manifesto.
Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone? That just feels hard to believe.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves”
It’s a real-life trolley problem…
Well, Edward would still peep “hello” at him, at least. But, yeah, Gordon just laughed and said “serves you right” when he passed.
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Thank you! This is always the first thing that pops into my head whenever I read somebody using “females” instead of “women”
Running as a moderate party just continously pushes America politics right.
100% this
In the UK the left-wing party, Labour, very drastically moved themselves to the centre, rebranding as New Labour.
Since then, the Conservatives have increasingly adopted far-right policies and everybody just accepts it as normal.
I read that book about 30 years ago! I didn’t remember the eye-scanning gargoyle, but for some reason I still remember the phrase “Ultima Ratio Regum” from the nuclear powered gun.
I love Edith Pritchett’s stuff!
“Oof. Right in the blocks”
“What a load of absolute blocks”
“It’s the dog’s blocks”
Camera zoom into extreme closeup. “oh… blocks”.
Yep, that’s the one.
I think you’re a little off on the “we need to fix this world” guys.
Although zombie films / TV series lean heavily into the action side of things, that’s just because it’s more entertaining than watching people building things, developing tech, doing scientific research.
Remember with COVID 19? Huge numbers of people immediately set out to find a cure, inventing and deploying ways to prevent and monitor the spread, creating pop-in treatment centres, etc.
facepalm
Yep, you’re completely right. I’ll wind my neck back in now…