Read the title as “Starbucks will brick…”

I was thinking that there’s a lesson here in not buying things that are non-core to the companies operations

18°, I sometimes push it to 19 if I’m feeling flush.

My parents are in their 80s and rarely go over 15° on their thermostat (unless I’m there complaining!)

My dad’s parents only had one heated room in the house, but that one room was heated like an oven to a really uncomfortable temperature 😆

I love doing this, and bought a picker so that I could do it hands free. Feels satisfying and really community minded.

The detectorists, very gentle comedy but not in a shit way.

Insert blues brothers meme:

We’ve both kinds, we got low code and no code

It’s fine, the code is the documentation

A prawn cocktailian? Here?

Sir, I will have to ask you to step outside.

UK lemmings be piling in to explain how this is the best flavour in the world…

… Which it is

Why the straw though, what’s wrong with lapping it up like a cat?

Now I do

Would you be hopping mad?

Well that was fascinating, thank you

Not, unfortunately

Those are the ones! It’s quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

Amazing, thank you for that. There’s so much that’s fascinating in linguistics!

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

It’s one of the many ways I know that as a species we’re fucked

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn’t sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.

Michael, but he prefers Mikey