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When I started this company, I had only two things - a dream, and six million pounds

In the UK you can’t even buy that many at once 😆 without a prescription at least - paracetamol and ibuprofen are usually 16 per pack and they don’t let you buy more than one of each

All hail the God Who Hates You Unconditionally 👌

In that picture? It’s a bee, contemplating leaping from the edge and ending it all after reading that article

“Jean-Luc, what have you done?”

We all have a bean hall in our houses, building regs say you have to

A man did this in London in 1810, but with everything - chimney sweeps, piano deliveries, priests, lawyers, coal carts, doctors, undertakers, the archbishop of Canterbury…

It brought the whole area to a standstill and the guy won a guinea in a bet and ran away to the countryside

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax

His coming was foretold on the ancient tablet

Just awful, 10/10

Laughs in 3-cylinders

A fire? At a sea parks?

Huge if true

Nah I’ve got something similar - not exactly like this but the glass tube with heat exchanging mesh and space underneath for a burner is pretty distinctive - then searched “Stirling engine heart arrow” and tons of these came up

It’s a mini Stirling hot air engine, never seen one that shape before but here’s a video of one working

https://youtu.be/t1dT6kTxojc

Road distances are in miles, speed in mph, heights in feet & inches, anything else is a hot mess generally trending towards metric the younger you are (or if you’re in STEM)

ETA: there was a dumb plan a couple years ago to “reintroduce” imperial measurements after Brexit, mainly aimed at food shops, ignoring the fact that the EU never prevented anyone using them, and then the govt quietly dropped it in December lawl

Bhhaaa the French

Garridge

Anybody else seeing Eric Idle?