Lost points in the pub quiz last night for saying Garlic is in the Onion family (Amaryllidaceae in EOL/iNaturalist). The wanted answer was "Lily family". Unfortunately taxonomy of many monocots has been in flux for a while, as wikipedia says "the circumscription of Liliaceae is not monophyletic").

#VeryBritishProblems

Don't you just love feeling guilty for being the first person to get on the bus, even if you were standing, alone, at this stop long before anyone else showed up...

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In devastating news my wife has informed me that Tesco's home delivery has substituted our Hobnobs for some sort of wholegrain health cracker, and I feel whoever makes these decision has fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of biscuits. #VeryBritishProblems
I'm working from the office today and there's some absolute maniac in the kitchen who pours the milk into their mug before taking the tea bag out. We are all agog and aghast. #tea #VeryBritishProblems
I didn't bring my umbrella into work because I need to bring home a rucksack full of very heavy and bulky books. The weather has been trolling me all day. It keeps clouding over, looking grey and heavy, then brightening up. What are my chances of not getting soaked today? My nerves are wrecked with the expending of so much emotional energy. #VeryBritishProblems

PSA

If, like some kind of idiot, you accidentally buy sugar free Heinz baked beans and then discover they taste like crap, the following helps greatly.

Knob of butter
Plenty of black pepper
A good squeeze of Heinz ketchup
A splash of Worcestershire sauce

And finally a flourish of grated cheddar.

#VeryBritishProblems #BeansOnToast

A colleague bough *skimmed* milk when it was their turn to buy milk for the #tea kitchen.

Unforgivable.

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Yesterday the children saw a video about #Muppets, how they're made, and animated. They wondered if we have any puppets, and the answer is: Yes.

Not a Muppet, but deep in a box of my old children's toys, we have Edd The Duck. Terrifying.

#EddTheDuck #Parenting #80s #90s #BBC #VeryBritishProblems