Playing Sonic 1, Super Monaco GP and Alexx Kidd In Miracle World at my friend’s hours after school. Probably my introduction to computer games in general.

Then getting my own Mk II for Christmas, probably 1991. The best Christmas ever!

And getting addicted to Road Rash. I bought that game having never played it and hoping it would be good, as things often were back then. Turned out to be a truly superb conversion, probably prefer it to the mega drive version.

A rare rational outcome for one of these trials

I was so confused as a child in the UK when after hearing about “jaywalking” being a crime for years I finally found out it meant “crossing the street”

I wrote that it was people who sneeze “super loudly” that seem to be doing it for attention, not just anyone who makes any vocalisation at all.

Some people feel the need to turn every sneeze up to 11. Saying like a cartoon character is a good way of putting it.

In the UK it’s shepherd’s delight / warning.

That’s an interesting little US/UK difference I never knew before today.

You’re totally normal and in fact it’s the people who are, consciously or unconsciously, choosing to vocalise the “ah-choo!” that are the weird ones, at least in my book.

It actually really bugs me when people sneeze super loudly, I swear some people just do it for attention.

I’ll bite.

It might have been different a few decades ago, but in the UK these days fries are still fries. Nobody would ever ask for a Big Mac and chips. Chips are specifically much fatter ‘chipped’ potatoes. And potato chips are crisps.

So if we’re talking objectively… Fries are just the same US and UK. But US potato chips aren’t actually ‘chipped’, they’re very thinly sliced. And ‘crisps’ are indeed very crisp.

So I’d actually say the UK descriptions are more objectively correct.

Something about how her face is drawn in these comics really bugs me.

I didn’t buy an aeropress for years as I had a coffee machine and was like, surely that’s better.

But finally got one, and my god. The simplicity. The ease of cleaning. The nice coffee.

It’s basically my sole way of making coffee now, despite more pricey alternatives at my disposal.

The headline here made it sound to me like they were claiming people with tattoos were the ones making poor judgments.

I was like, that’s a pretty ballsy claim to be making.