BenNo ones teleported me to a Waffle House in ages 😔
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉@TheBreadmonkey I used to teleport home after every drunken night out. I'd also always be missing roughly the amount of money a taxi would have cost.
It remains a mystery.
@TheBreadmonkey It certainly does raise questions about just how cost-effective teleportation really is as a mode of transport - especially given the additional risks, such as accidentally waking up in a ditch. Or worse, on a train to Milton Keynes.
No-one goes to Milton Keynes deliberately.
FEAR US FOR WE HAVE HARNESSED THE POWER OF A NEUTRON STAR TO CREATE A BEAM SO POWERFUL IT WILL LIFT YOU THROUGH THE FORCE OF YOUR PLANETS GRAVITY FROM WHERE YOU SLEEP ACROSS THE LAND AND TO YOUR HUMANS HOUSE OF WAFFLES OR POSSIBLY MILTON KEYNES
Andrew Deacon@TheBreadmonkey @ApostateEnglishman Is there a Waffle House in Milton Keynes…the horror
@aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey Milton Keynes is an infinitely recurring grid structure from which there is no escape, because no matter which direction you head in you'll always end up back in the same place.
There are people who landed in Milton Keynes decades ago, and are still wandering the liminal space of identical red-brick houses to this day.
Ravensrod 🫖 🍰@ApostateEnglishman @aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey
Think it must have been designed by the same person who did the pedestrian underpasses at Birminghams bullring. I spent 6 months wandering through them one afternoon.
Think it must have been designed by the same person who did the pedestrian underpasses at Birminghams bullring. I spent 6 months wandering through them one afternoon.
Sparkling Cherry 🍾@ravensrod @ApostateEnglishman @aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey I went there once while on a quick trip. I haven't been seen since.
@ravensrod Milton Keynes sounds like one of the lands of the Fair Folk, where a human spends one night which is 100 years in the mundane world.
@aadeacon More like the other way around. You spend 100 years trying to escape, and when you are finaly rescued only one night has passed in the real world.
internetsdairy@aadeacon @ravensrod It does have more fae potential than many think... The main street, Midsummer Boulevard, is designed so the sun rises in line with it at the solstice. It's the brainchild of sixties hippies
David Cohen@aadeacon @ravensrod There is not much ‘fair’ in Milton Keynes.
surdfish@ApostateEnglishman @aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey
Managed to misread this as some reference to a school of economic thought. I have no desire to be disabused, I just enjoyed the writhing sensation in my skull for a few seconds.
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™@GroupNebula563 @aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey Kinda! Did you hear that Kane Parsons finally got round to making that long-rumoured movie version of his series?
It's out this month! 👇🏼
Baron Vonskinnback@ApostateEnglishman @aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey I accidentally drove into Milton Keynes once, it took me nearly 5 years to tunnel back out under the M1 and make my escape through Newport Pagnell, never again...
Heather@ApostateEnglishman @aadeacon @TheBreadmonkey I have to go there for work now and again and that description is exactly how it feels trying to leave.
Virginicus@ApostateEnglishman Thank you. I have encountered references to Milton Keynes in books and pop music, but have never quite figured it out.