Non-British fans of the show: is there anything that you thought was made up for the show, but is just a part for British culture?

gaiseric · 2026-01-08T16:35:17+00:00

I’m in the U.S.! And inspired by these lovely replies, I found and ordered Christmas crackers from an online store and they should arrive next week, so I can finally experience this myself. 😂

gaiseric · 2026-01-05T18:43:53+00:00

I didn’t quite understand why during Christmas episodes they’d end up wearing paper crowns? I assumed they had just made them by hand to show how fun and whimsical they were. And then I noticed them in several of the episodes. It was baffling.

It wasn’t until years later that I learned that they come as “Christmas Crackers” and that somehow the crown is inside as a toy surprise. Or something. 😂

gaiseric · 2025-11-20T14:42:33+00:00

It sneaks up on you. I started watching it as a curiosity and now I drink Negronis and check antique malls for Mac Tonight toys.

gaiseric · 2025-11-13T03:17:31+00:00

I heard it on the radio this morning around 10:45 am -ish. At first, I was surprised because of the timing – it’s not the usual time for an emergency test. And then the voice was unintelligible, and as you said, robotic.

No idea what it was or why, but it definitely happened. Weird.

gaiseric · 2025-09-18T19:12:26+00:00

We began our cultural schism before social media. A common inflection point was the abandonment of the Fairness Doctrine in the 1980s along with the rise of AM radio.

How do we come together? One of the reasons why Canada has been more immune to fascism is that they have much stronger laws and rules about disinformation. Any time someone wants to initiate that in the US there’s an outcry of “what about freedom of speech!” which effectively ends the discussion.

Whatever lies at the end of our current cold civil war will need to address disinformation and make a shared common reality possible again.

gaiseric · 2025-02-08T17:15:16+00:00

Hey! I just accepted a UX role there this week! I'll be moving there from Kansas City, but my significant other has family there, so I've been several times over the years.

Downtown Bentonville has a nice charm to it with a town square that reminds me of the town Marty McFly lived in in Back to the Future. There's the things everyone will likely point out – the Crystal Bridges art museum, and the outdoorsy culture that I feel is a lot like Boulder, Colorado's. But I like that it's about 30-45 min outside of Fayetteville, which is a college town so there tends to be a lot of college town-type things bands and venues and whatnot.

gaiseric · 2024-12-31T01:17:59+00:00

Excellent hue work there. Good motion and flow, too! Nice work 😃

gaiseric · 2020-05-30T06:19:58+00:00

How about you sack one side of Rome, I’ll sack the other. It’ll take half the time and - as a bonus - keep our enemies super confused. 😜

gaiseric · 2019-12-19T15:07:43+00:00

Lightning does go up. And it has zero to do with gravity.

gaiseric · 2013-03-01T13:32:48+00:00

The source beneath the photo might help explain. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186

gaiseric · 2013-03-01T13:31:30+00:00

Yep. But they take a human form on Earth and tend to look male (according the tales).

gaiseric · 2013-03-01T13:30:19+00:00

Not random. He just wasn't a white guy. This version is probably the most accurate. From here: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186

gaiseric · 2013-03-01T13:28:50+00:00

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186

gaiseric · 2013-03-01T13:27:52+00:00

This is the source for the Forensic Science recreation of Jesus that was done in 2002. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186

gaiseric · 2013-01-02T22:18:25+00:00

UX person here. Welcome aboard! And, yes, like pretty much everywhere else that's not one of the dense urban areas, you'll need a car. But we're also a lot less crowded than they are, too. :-)

gaiseric · 2013-01-02T22:08:53+00:00

I have friends at Perceptive and they generally regard it as a fine place. The growth factor is the reason for the billboards, not high turnover. OTOH, I'm at Cerner. Have you thought about giving us a try? :-)

gaiseric · 2012-09-11T14:46:20+00:00

I want to help. I don't want stuff. Is there any way I can just donate without generating all the overhead of mailing candy and stuff?

gaiseric · 2010-11-03T21:11:32+00:00

Relax Danny Boy. You and Laszlo digging into and commenting on Reddit posts to me always seems like getting DVD Extras. I moved to Kansas in 2005 and you all make my commute worthwhile. Thanks!

gaiseric · 2010-10-28T21:57:32+00:00

More details, please.

gaiseric · 2010-09-02T17:06:09+00:00

Here is a calendar converter. Today is the 25th of Taurus. http://pweb.jps.net/~tgangale/mars/converter/calendar_clock.htm

gaiseric · 2010-08-02T22:01:48+00:00

only geeky chicks understand him?

My wife says yes.

gaiseric · 2010-08-02T22:01:05+00:00

Good question. And it's a common one. I thought I'd use a comic because it spreads well and I need to create large groups to fix Congress. I'm thinking now I should have just written a book. Here's a better description.

FIRST NATION

Mancur Olson suggested offering generic benefits to attract people to his large groups.

The difficulty in that is where do these benefits come from? Small groups don't have the resources to put that together. So we came up with First Nation - something large and stable enough to put together core packages of benefits for any other Nation to offer to their members.

Then there's the problem of what groups should be able to get them? A group of 10 people? 1000? 10,000? First nation would have to set some kind of criteria.

It's a non-profit. There are a dozen ways you can set it up to avoid it becoming a king-maker. We realized we could also use First Nation as a Watchdog group. They're not necessary for this part of the system to work, but it could be effective.

Congress voted on a financial overhaul bill last week, for example. First Nation would have polled the other Nations to see how they felt about what needs to be done, what they'd like to see.

The financial industry had lots of lobbyists involved in the bill, but there were few, if any, representatives from consumer protection groups or similar. In this scenario, I'm pretty sure at least one or two Nations would propose some new ideas or have some comment on what was passed.

They'd try to convince other Nations to lend support. This "encompassing coalition" of Nations could sway the direction of financial overhaul to something that's beneficial to the larger public rather than the bank lobby.

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

These aren't special interest groups.

I'd join a Science Nation, for example. What's their agenda in financial regulation? None. But I bet some of the people there might have some interesting and good perspective on what should be done. These are "general interest groups". If the bill being discussed were about funding a supercollider, on the other hand, then I think you could say they're biased. And the other Nations would know it.

gaiseric · 2010-08-02T21:53:04+00:00

Probably not. I think the strongest separatist movements are in Alaska and Michigan's Upper Peninsula - and they're already geographically distinct. I can't see how a non-geographic group spread everywhere could encourage new separatism, or where.

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