The first code I laboriously copied from a book was a program called Eliza. It was hilarious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
It’s evolved, it seems…
MrsDoyle
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My first UK flat - renovated in the 1980s - had a waste disposal installed. Eventually it clogged, and the plumber who came to fix it said he loved these things because they made him a lot of money. He himself would never have one. It had clogged from the dirt from potato peelings, apparently a very common issue.
He takes it up a few notches on Curb.
I heard on a podcast today that Larry David based the George character on himself. (The podcast is called Good Bad Billionaire, where a couple of people judge various billionaires on their ethics etc. TIL Jerry Seinfeld is a billionaire.)
81·14 days agoMy personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.
3·15 days agoIn the olden days we would use a fax machine for that.
This is correct. I’m old, and when I was a girl every home had soup spoons - along with teaspoons, dessert spoons and tablespoons. They appear to have died out, who knows why*. Some of my friends have heritage sets, I don’t. I eat my soup with a dessert spoon, like an ignorant youth.
** On reflection, maybe it’s a measuring thing? Baking recipes use teaspoons and tablespoons, but never soup spoons.
A BMI calculator will just use height and weight - if you have a lot of muscle bulk you’ll get a higher BMI result even if you’re lean. Conversely, some people are “thin on the outside, fat on the inside”, ie they carry a lot of visceral fat around their organs. So while BMI can be useful, it’s not perfect.
I comfort myself by saying I have something Musk and his ilk never will: ENOUGH.
they can’t move around
Ahem, athlete’s foot is a fungus. And there’s a nail fungus too. They’re walking a mile in your shoes…
Oh, and ringworm? Fungus.
6·2 months agoEdit: Only took me three edits to get there!
Edit: Four, if you count that one.
“You absolute melt” is my favourite. Uttered by a GBBO baker about himself in the latest episode.
I thought my link was Gene Wilder?
Mock Turtle Soup of course. https://youtu.be/FWxFsJUlBbw
In the US. Most countries have 18 as the limit; in most of Europe that’s only a limit on buying alcohol, not drinking it.