I have about 3000 tracks on my player in one folder playing on random. When my mum’s in the car and it’s something she doesn’t know, she’s all ‘turn that down, it’s so loud I can’t think’, but when it’s something she knows, she cranks that shit up and has no problem thinking.

That’s cultural / historical anthropology, in essence. Perhaps ethnohistory would be more fitting if you’re looking at cultural continuity across centuries.

The boss in my place brought in some guy as head of marketing who he picked himself and thinks is the bee’s knees. We have a closed customer base who, once they purchase our products, will buy spares for the next 30 to 40 years. We don’t really need marketing at all.

He does nice graphs and charts (that we don’t need), chats in constant gibberish business-speak, and makes things look fancy. That’s it.

He has recently been moved into an overarching position in control of technical and engineering teams he knows nothing about and can’t manage properly, and the shit will hit the fan real soon.

I can’t wait.

I’m 44, have written 3 books, and read an awful lot. First time coming across furphy.

A box? A fat?

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It’s a full time job for 18+ years, on top of the things already in your life. It isn’t easy, but god damn it’s fulfilling to see them grow. They do get very funny when they hit 3 or so and are grappling with language. They become proper little people.

Slightly related: One thing I’d suggest is opening an email account for them, and any time they say or do something funny or memorable, send an email about it. I love reading through the hilarious things they’ve said across the years that you forget about, and I’ll give them the account when they’re older.

Personal faves are my 3 year old calling a compass a clock of the world and my other one at 4 years old telling my retired boss, who had just told him he’s grown since she last saw him, that she’s also grown, into an old lady. Or saying, when he lost his favourite hat, ‘that hat was a piece of my heart.’

Why does the US have HOAs? I can’t think of other countries that have them, nor why they are really needed. Seems like a chance for power-hungry people to be little Hitlers over minutiae.

An entire generation has not rejected smoking.

Clearly not in your ridiculous example. I don’t think they arrange for women in their 30s to strip for minors.

The tagline on book 5 was superb:

The fifth book in the increasingly incorrectly titled hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy trilogy.

I attack

Maybe all of popular music before 2001? No individual album in particular, just all of them.

Filly Sucker

Everyone knows you need to put 15 more miles behind her.

If I had a pound for every time I’d heard that sentence…