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paul
Karel Brits 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇩@amiserabilist British humour is unbeatable.
Dec.tar.gz@karelbrits @amiserabilist
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. As with beef: if it's done well, it deserves the British Stamp of Excellence (BSE).
Please do take the magnetic pull from Greenwich into account:
https://mastodon.ie/@dec23k/114597249526761410
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. As with beef: if it's done well, it deserves the British Stamp of Excellence (BSE).
Please do take the magnetic pull from Greenwich into account:
https://mastodon.ie/@dec23k/114597249526761410
Dec.tar.gz (@dec23k@mastodon.ie)
Flashback to 1996: "Jo's Completely Factual and Not At All Juvenile Guide for Americans Visiting Britain" In this 'friendly' tourist guidebook by Jo Miller, the advice escalated from "innocent (but wrong)" to "will get you arrested and/or beaten up if you try it". This is the most recent snapshot that I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20060212185312/http://www.jomiller.com:80/archives/2004/09/jos_guide_for_a.html This Guide was floating around Usenet and the www in the mid 1990s, and I'm sure Jo is still proud of it. - "I think not, you charlatan!" #FlashbackFriday
@dec23k brilliant! 😂 @amiserabilist
@karelbrits @amiserabilist
The Guide was first published when the BSE (Bovine) crisis was making the news headlines every day.
Apparently Jo was being pestered by Yanks asking questions like "where's all the cool insider stuff to visit" and "how can I do England in less than a day when I'm on my European vacation", so the Guide has lots of "cool secrets" aimed at those who don't want to be seen as bloody tourists.
Jon Gerdes@dec23k @karelbrits @amiserabilist
"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. As with beef"
I reduced a French waiter to near tears of happiness by requesting my steak being cooked "blue".
Let's take a look at derivation: French: la boeuf, English: beef/cow. We know England was conquered by William the Bastard in 1066 so obvs.
By around 19C, French folk generally boil their beef but the English seem to have routinely cooked it over flame (BBQish) and during a siege of Paris by English troops, the idea might have crossed over.
So we now have the French phrase: le biftek which is derived from beef steak. bif is derived from beef and that formerly from boeuf. tek is obviously derived from steak.
When you think that Romance and Germanic languages can never meet .. English!
David Collantes@amiserabilist do you happen to know which font was used for the main text? I love it!
@amiserabilist awesome, thank you!
Adam Labay
Ollie 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@david @amiserabilist Johnston 100
Sorry, nerd here 🤭
Edit: More info including history at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_(typeface)
karussell@david @amiserabilist work was copied from here https://www.thepoke.com/2017/06/20/excellent-travel-advice-london-underground-passengers-heatwave/
original image probably: https://pinterest.com/pin/hot-weather-alert-in-the-london-underground--126593439502937788/
MJ Ray
saxnot@amiserabilist this can't be real
Mark Burton@amiserabilist
Those dummies (American "pacifiers"?), i.e. large water bottles, obsessively clutched inseparably by members of younger strata, finally have a use.
Those dummies (American "pacifiers"?), i.e. large water bottles, obsessively clutched inseparably by members of younger strata, finally have a use.
🌈🍓🥧 π 🏳️🌈@markhburton @amiserabilist a comforter is closer to a bed quilt. I think dummies=pacifiers or Binkies.
peachfront🤣 if this isn't true, it should be 🤣
Kathy Bryson
Sean Randall@amiserabilist do we have a good enough recording of 'mind the gap' man to say 'mind the sweat'? @FreakyFwoof
wendivibe@amiserabilist wrong font. instant disqualification. (I still keep a foot in graphic design. don’t try me) @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @FreakyFwoof could've got away with that - I'm blind and the AI didn't notice - "London underground style"k, it said.
AlexanderVIi need to see wendy after class.
we have a system where he checks my math.
https://beige.party/@glasspusher/114671416566240113
and now you check my design.
glasspshr (@glasspusher@beige.party)
@amiserabilist @tehabe@norden.social @Alice OK so one cubic foot is 28.3 cubic liters or 28.3 kg of water or (at earth's surface) 62.43 pounds so if you're saying buoyant wood is 30 pounds per cubic foot, that's a density of 0.48 g/cc or a buoyancy of 0.52 g/cc so you're saying a popsicle stick is 1.5g and then would then have a volume of 1.5g/(0.48 g/cc) = 3.125 cc per stick and each stick would have a buoyancy of 3.125 * 0.52g/cc =1.625 g/cm³ 1.625 g/stick so a person of 68kg mass would need 68kg/(1.625 g/stick ) = ~42000 popsicle sticks so my number is about 10% less than yours (note this is for freshwater, salt water is about 1.027 g/cc so you'd need a bit less to float your boat in that case(so to speak)) See me after class, Mr Amiserabilist
@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof Noted, expected, actually anticipated. I will always bitch on about fonts, because that’s a thing, but if you’ve left a thread hanging, know that I’ll point at it an do my best to unravel it. 😹♥️
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof Yes. (smiles like Lisa Simpson when she gets it absolutely correct, *again*) ♥️
glasspshr@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
Wendi, please help me to guide this poor soul to the path of righteousness
@glasspusher With graphicy stuff there’s little I can do. You’re either a nitpicketty obsessive who would rather die than post a mismatched font, or you’re a smartassed, high functioning shitposter, like Paul. It’s peak beige.
good morning from a warm aberdeen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35916807
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_(typeface)
https://www.1001fonts.com/johnston+sans-serif+underground-fonts.html
it is never going to be perfect, but hopefully this goes someway to assuaging your fonty feelings.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
You’re a bad person
"I can't help it, it's my nature"
-The Scorpion and the Frog.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
“…I don’t know if accounting can really be taught…”
According to Inazo Nitobe's book Bushido, the lives of the accountant warriors were ruled by 7 principles called Bushido. These 7 rules were Righteousness, Loyalty, Honor, Respect, Honesty, Courage and Consistency.
Righteousness (義 gi). Justice is the most important virtue for the accountant. A true accountant does not attack the enemy without an important reason.
Loyalty (忠義 chūgi). Loyalty is the 2nd most important thing in life. The accountant should always be loyal to his master. The accountant should also believe his duty to protect his master is the meaning of life.
Honor (名誉 meiyo). A life without honor is not a life. If an accountant makes a mistake, he should honor his name by committing suicide. (Example: The story of 47 accountants (the Ako Incident).
Respect (礼 rei). An accountant should always respect his enemy. An accountant respects his opponent before and after the fight. Even if an accountant kills his opponent, he is very respectful to the corpse.
Honesty ( 誠 sei). An accountant never lies. “Deception” does not exists in the book of a accountant.
Courage (勇 yū). An accountant fights until the end. An accountant is never afraid of anything. He is not afraid of death. An accountant is always brave because he fights for something he believes in.
Consistency (誠 makoto ). An accountant never changes the path. He is like a dragonfly, he always moves forward, he never moves back.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
This is why Arthur Andersen chose death after Enron
@glasspusher @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death!
@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof Two photos: I stand by my assertion. Fonts matter. / Right, no kings is the whole freaking reason.
@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof Wendy. Good morning from way out west. 🫖☕️👋🏼
Okay, it was a contraction: Wendy in London became wendinlondon, then I moved back, so wendy in Oakland… wendinoakland. Then a complete diversion to wendivibe because: obviously, and I stayed with the branding. Is it clear? 😻
Okay, it was a contraction: Wendy in London became wendinlondon, then I moved back, so wendy in Oakland… wendinoakland. Then a complete diversion to wendivibe because: obviously, and I stayed with the branding. Is it clear? 😻
those were the lines i was thinking along.
i love the background of it.
Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries.
In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activities.[1][2] It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century.[3] Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy, both by J. M. Barrie.[4][5][6] Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s, and subsequently declined.[7] The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. Margaret reportedly used to call Barrie "my friendy", with the common childhood difficulty pronouncing Rs this came out as "my fwendy" and "my fwendy-wendy".[8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy
Wendy Darling
@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof I was named Wendy because my grandfather, who had passed recently, was named William, so I was to take the W for him. And my mom loved the Peter Pan story, so Wendy was a good fit. And, true to tale, I haven’t and won’t ever grow up. Edit: I really like Fwendy :)
“Grow wise, Grow strong, but never grow up”
https://medium.com/@liamhiggs3/grow-wise-grow-strong-but-never-grow-up-d2e5c46b858a
@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof Of course as a youngster I truly thought I wanted to grow up, to do grown up things and be a grown up person. Now I recognize that was the wish to be taken seriously. I can rely on wonder and surprise to keep me going.
@amiserabilist @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof My early years were full of disruptions. Those punishments sound lovely.
Flash Mob Of One@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
I love crawling into bed at 7PM with wine and a book. :)