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EU energy efficiency regulations.* (* According to Boris Johnson.)

Embracing your online detractors?

Their bacon is bad and they should feel bad.

Who the fuck cooks only 7 pieces of bacon?

Dew eet.

Next level!

Which is better?

Do they have banter in Texas?

Try them on a cookie rack if you like crisp bacon.

Not to be portenteous, but otherwise it will be lost. Oral history dies with its participants, like poor Chu.

Tyll, this is just a random thought, but have you ever thought of writing a piece on the Genesis of the hobby. You are the only person who could do it justice.

Wow that's stark, Tyll.

Inside you can .. you can ... feel the difference.

San Fermin doing the boy-then-girl thing.

Thunderbirds was one of the first TV series I ever followed (we only got the box in South Africa in 1976, as the Apartheid government correctly feared it would corrupt the morals of the populace by opening a window to the rest of the World). I had watch it dubbed into fucking Afrikaans as "Redding Internasionaal" ("International Rescue"). Still loved it. RIP Sylvia.

It was for my wife. So I guess I should have said I haven't bought myself a watch in years. That might have changed today though.

Haven't bought a watch in years now. Which is odd considering I still religiously spend at least a half hour a day checking the grey dealers, forums and Chrono 24 to keep up with what's out there. Might just sell the lot to create some impetus and start from scratch again under the pretense of building a "rational collection."

Happy Birthday!

Andrew Bird & Fiona Apple -- Left Handed Kisses Case/Lang/Veirs -- Atomic Number

Bill Ryder-Jones -- West Kirby County Primary

Shit. RIP Keith.

Happy Birthday!

Free your mind. It can work very well in the right piece.

Totally agree. Can still remember the first time I heard "Semi-Charmed Life" -- was on an airplane on the in-flight entertainment channel and I listened through the whole loop just to catch it over again, something I'd never done before (or have done since).

It shall be known, as the Pussy Whip.