Thank you.

Ah ok, thanks.

Where I’m from a lock in is a pub illegally serving drinkers after time by locking the doors.

👍

What does ‘lock in’ mean in this situation?

Yours faithfully,

a confused Brit.

Precisely. 🙂

Whoever owns the fountains owns the money.

If someone throws money into a fountain and then wishes then that in itself is a complete transaction with whichever supernatural entity is being bargained with.

I am assuming that any entity which is powerful enough to grant wishes is also powerful enough to hang onto the money if that should be its wish.

Alternatively it’s a quaint custom that people engage in as a form of custom and the pleasure comes with a link to the tradition.

The periodic clearing out of the fountains is both necessary maintenance and a form of income that pays for said maintenance. No one is really harmed by this.

Amazing!

Letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)

With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

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Lasagne - I got layers.

You’re very welcome.

There was a TIL post about that which was what prompted me to look up Old Sarum and I saw the picture of it on Wikipedia and here we all are!

That’s a prettier overhead picture!

I see absolute nonsense on a daily basis (we all do) so when I see achievements like this coming from the same species it’s always a jaw dropper.

It was no easy task to capture his winning image and at some points, a technically demanding challenge. After locating the fine vessels near 110 microns in diameter, Qambari established a protocol for labeling different cell types. “Over the past 20 years, our research group has refined the technique of isolated ocular perfusion labeling for fine vessels in the eye,” said Qambari. “While the ophthalmic artery in the rodent model presented a challenge, we were able to overcome it with persistence and patience.”

Even that explanation is beyond me and the image itself is amazing in its literal definition.

Back in the day you would have asked for a flattop.

You could always save a picture to your phone and then ask them to do that. They’ll probably still ask if the length is alright but it’s up to you to instruct them from there.

Probably not, but they’d definitely patent the method.

Also: big, fat, fucking, ego-driven lie.

Cheetara.

Mood music from Robert Calvert’s concept album about the Starfighter.

I’m a pasty, old, white man and even I’ve got a half-full can of ghee in the fridge. I know you don’t have to keep it in the fridge but I’m short of cupboard space.

London, UK. Ghee is an everyday word. So is Bombay Aloo.