I was hoping for a gnome wonderland but it’s just a campsite with garden gnomes :(

You could get a fun park in on the same day though.

Don’t be too hard on yourself, mate.

It was awful. They ditched the Japanese team, who seemed to be the ones that made the original so good. The first series was great, it’s still my favourite show. I was so excited to get series 2, but I never even finished it. Not even interested in getting series 3. It had none of the charm of the original. They chose adult voice actors for the kids and you can tell, whereas the original made a point of having kids voice the kids. I was surprised Chalopin had anything to do with it, because it felt like they’d handed the project over completely to someone else.

My nephews and niece loved the original, it still holds up. I say this as a mega MCoG fangirl, if you were fond of the original, keep your memories of it and stick to rewatching that. The sequel is completely lacking in what made the original so special. Just my opinion.

Assuming they’re just regular schrader valves, you don’t need a special tool. You can even just use a pencil or ballpoint if you just want to let out the air. It’s less risky for you than taking out the valve.

I read on another thread the reason is the companies leasing the rolling stock are charging ridiculously high amounts, so the operators are running on tight margins.

For peak, I get it. But the off peak trains I was on were nowhere near capacity. So lower fares may have encouraged more people to use the train than the coach, which takes longer but is significantly cheaper.

Let’s hope nationalisation brings ticket prices down. I was happy to see the South Western is the first to be taken back.

Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqg73znzzeo

The government cannot guarantee train tickets will get cheaper under renationalisation, as South Western Railway (SWR) was brought into public ownership on Sunday.

Oh well.

He’d just use stabilisers, and call them some silly name like freedom supports or some other such nonsense. See? It has four wheels! Like a car, the best car, no one has a car like this. My doctor says I have a great sense of balance, the biggest balance, nice bank balance, nice bike balance.

It cost me about £60 for one return rail ticket last week 😭 that’s not including the tube fare to get to the station.

Don’t forget another obvious symptom: always whining about how they’re the victim.

I was in Dorset yesterday and the difference between drivers there and here in London is big. Here they’re happy to risk anyone’s life to shave a few seconds off their journey. In Bournemouth, they were stopping at green lights to let us cross, even when there were no other cars behind them. I was keeping an eye out for cyclists too and the drivers were giving them room and stopping to let them turn, etc.

Dang. Well I’m going to continue to put spaces, because it looks nicer. If people can spell “all right” as “alright”, then I can put spaces around my em dashes!

Edit: https://proofed.co.uk/writing-tips/en-dashes-and-em-dashes-in-us-and-uk-english/

Why should you stop? I prefer to use em dashes (when I’m on my PC. I used to know the alt code for it). I’m not going to stop using them. By the way, I put spaces around my em dashes, but I notice you (and ChatGPT) don’t. Now I have to look up which is correct.

Yeah and it’s an em dash, not the regular hyphen on the keyboard (as you’ve used). ChatGPT does like a good em dash. Also is it true that trump can’t actually read? That time starmer gave him the letter from king Charles, he looked at it blankly before giving it back and asking starmer to read it. That really gave me “I can’t read” vibes.

I seem to remember Musk’s defence on the paedo thing being that in South Africa, it’s not meant to be taken literally and it’s just a generic insult.

Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase “pedo guy” was common in South Africa, where he grew up.

So if a bunch of South Africans started calling Musk paedo-guy on Twitter and elsewhere, it’s just bants and not defamation, right?

She’s the US version of Nadine Dorries.

Michael Spicer - The Room Next Door: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yInoZ8uIAao

He’d find you on the couch.

Don’t watch it alone, it’s actually mentally exhausting. I managed two alone, no more. Watch it with at least one other person so you can snark it as you watch. Fateful Findings was probably the worst. If you’re not brave enough to face them alone, Kurtis Conner and Space Ice have snarks of the full films.

Also his films do get taken off YouTube for copyright. Internet archive has the full collection though.

USers.

I can access catbox from the UK, no VPN. But videos hosted on it often won’t show up on Connect(although they did until recently), so I have to view them via browser. I can see your images just fine.

Budgies!