Several people now have tagged me in the Mini arrow-lookin'-tail light thing.
You're correct that it bothers me but you're incorrect if you think the arrow part has much to do with it.
It's bothersome to me only because it's a combined brake and turn indicator!
I am surprised at folks who think the resemblance to an arrow pointing the wrong way is actually confusing: I find it extremely unlikely that people even parse the presence of the arrow over which side of the vehicle is flashing.
Yeah, the UK indicator section uses the 'English' bit of the flag, so you get a vertical line with a horizonal line pointing outwards, either side of the car. I also live near the BMW dealer, but occasionally seen some different styles, so maybe they're aftermarket fitted?
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has resigned as leader of the Democratic Unionist party after being charged with historical sexual offences, throwing Northern Ireland politics into turmoil.
(Note for foreigners: the DUP are a right-wing Loyalist protestant party, so think of them as Northern Ireland's equivalent of the US Republican party.)
@cstross
It feels less like throwing and more like keeping Northern Ireland politics in turmoil, they've only been back in Stormont for a short time after a few years off.
Thanks Hugo. I was taught Tragedy of the Commons, but without any background to it. It now seems obvious to many people in the UK, especially Scotland, that various enclosures laws and other ways of taking common land have not benefited the people or the land itself.
Earlier this month, Ed Pierson was supposed to fly from Seattle to New Jersey on Alaska Airlines. He boarded his flight, but then he had an urgent discussion with the flight attendant, explaining that as a former senior Boeing engineer, he'd specifically requested that flight because the aircraft wasn't a 737 Max:
Official video - 12+ people on stage all with different instruments.
School: Just 2 lads, wobbly borrowed piano and a penny whistle. Magnificent.
I now have a pitch meeting for an NPR style Tiny Desk Concert series but in different schools, using any instruments they have on site, and a penny whistle.
/ Merlin wakes up in a forest clearing. An empty White Castle bag in one hand, a paintbrush in the other. He stands up, his torn shirt flapping in a light breeze. A deer sees him a runs away. After a short walk up a hill, he sees the city, many miles away.
Secret weird things that took me way too long to realize.
The song lyrics “Our house, in the middle of our street.” mean it’s equidistant from the corners. It’s not a humorous song where cars have to drive around it.
The show was called “Welcome Back Kotter” because he was now a teacher at the same school where he used to be a student and not just that summer break was over.
@lauren
A some point, the great consolidation will happen, where each streaming service will be gobbled up by another, and you have to buy a whole expensive package of channels and add-ons. Looks sideways at MAX.
The UK went straight from terrestrial to satellite, and I was excited as the time to be able to get access to a few channels like Discovery, but then I saw the price, as it was bundled into an add-on package with 10+ channels I didn't want, and I still had to pay for the standard package that I also didn't want. Worse, my top 3 channels were over 3 different add-ons.
@hotdogsladies
Mann's latest piece aggressively illustrates the tensions and confusion present in todays fractured 21st Century, where societal norms have all but broken down.
I'm fine with the soft, whirring spaceship sounds that some EVs emit as a safety feature to alert people that they're moving. The new Dodge Charger EV comes with a deafening 126 dB roar, which is just plain obnoxious.
