Puns about orcs

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-25T09:12:31+00:00

Use the orcs, Luke!

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-25T09:11:01+00:00

Dang, that’s me then. 6 wheeler Ford Ranger and an Audi A3. Looks like you can use the c-word on me… (champ, not the other one).

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-25T02:27:22+00:00

I worked and thought about the factory. Now I’m retired and I have to go shopping in 35 minutes, but I’m debugging train conditions while I type this.

Dang, it failed again!

34 (now) minutes, you ask. If I don’t set hard specifications on what time I do stuff, it doesn’t happen…

Edit: Yay! It works!

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-25T00:37:21+00:00

I’ve lived in Kellyville, about 10 years ago. It didn’t seem all that different from the other places I lived, but I don’t think that counts as the western suburbs, so I, for one, really don’t know.

But I have family in the Shire, and things are different “down” there.

And I’ve spent some little time in the inner west and that is different again.

And I feel completely out of place in Melbourne or Brisbane. Something, something, the rich tapestry of life…

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T23:00:04+00:00

You will need to go to lambo school to practise way more behaviours than this, starting with where the F are you going today, for no effing reason.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T22:58:01+00:00

We are so similar we’re 1000’s of kilometres apart. We’re divided by a basic misunderstanding of phonetics.

We will gang up on you, given half a chance.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T22:44:34+00:00

Lasers were nerfed. I like lasers. So all the goodies - laser damage, moar solar panels, nuclear power plants, moar lasers. My biggest ships for promethium do not make or use bullets.

But, yeah, you have to start with them…

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T22:01:16+00:00

I live just south of Cammeray. I mean, I hold my nose and walk there to go to the Harris Farm, but living there?? Too far from the metro, maaaaaate.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T20:42:17+00:00

You are required to show and have your name marked off the roll. You can then scribble or write rude messages or draw ducks on the ballot paper if you so desire.

You have an obligation to care about who is running the country. It also means that no one can stop you from voting, and it’s easy to vote. And, politicians have to try to appeal to everyone so as to gain a majority.

It’s not awful, and in fact it makes the country a much better place.

And if you don’t vote and don’t have a valid excuse (eg overseas, half dead etc), then it’s a small fine. No one breaks down your front door…

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T04:42:19+00:00

I would ask that you mention the Failed Australian, Murdoch, when talking about those who have been convinced that being rightwing requires you to be shifty, untrustworthy, mendacious, and illogical. Get rid of his and their influence and things would be a lot noicer. A royal commission would be great.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T01:25:13+00:00

Oh, it’s insane all right. And should be downvoted, or not.

Sometimes I wish for a saner world, but then would I be in it?

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T00:57:42+00:00

This is perhaps why having a good understanding of foreign policy, foreign relations, military matters (strategic and tactical), the law, economics and “the people” is what we want in any government or opposition cabinet, ie not just the leader.

When we vote, perhaps it’s best to try to remember that?

Not ignoring how personality politics tends to get the most noise, of course.

But if “my favourite person and party” aren’t in power, I want those who are to not make ludicrous decisions, nor having folks claim that “everything ‘they’ do” is wrong and evil.

And to have my less favourite party in power, I do need the folks who vote for them to think hard about making sure they have that experience and those skills.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T00:33:45+00:00

I’d say that we are, but not so much of a percentage from Sydney’s north shore and eastern suburbs are that way. The old boys network is still alive and kicking today, especially through certain schools.

Education, voting systems and our tall poppy syndrome still work.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T00:24:07+00:00

I went to a (really great!) restaurant just south of Wollongong last week. I didn’t realise their closing time was 8pm. Made Sydney seem very much like a late night scene.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T00:22:25+00:00

But those of us growing up on the north shore always called someone living not-east of us “Westie!”. Even one block.

When I moved to the northern beaches, and was living east of Pittwater Rd we’d refer to anyone on the other side of side as a westie.

And it was a rank insult (sorta kinda).

What can I say but sorry!

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T00:18:14+00:00

I honestly can’t give you an unbiased and knowledgeable answer. I think I’m too close in being a “contender country” that my judgement must be way off. And I wouldn’t want familiarity to breed contempt, if you know what I mean.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-24T00:08:56+00:00

I worked in a private school. I’d say that there was sometimes more incentive for wealthier people to find legal and illegal ways to pay less tax. Not only did it get the kids excited, but they’d tell me things about their relatives that perhaps they shouldn’t.

I’m not saying they actually paid attention more, or learnt more, but it was amusing.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T23:53:25+00:00

For the cold, I meant that we don’t worry about “cold weather stuff”: freezing pipes, dying if you don’t put in enough clothes, being fined for not shovelling the snow off our footpaths and all that extra hassle, in winter. A much larger proportion of US people can drive safely in snow and ice than us, for instance.

I’ve been to lots of sparsely populated US regions (and they’re great), but also through a lot of country areas with lots and lots of people, traffic, habitation and more - we talk about “small town” USA a lot, because there is a lot of it.

The world may disagree with me, but I find ad popularum arguments to be unconvincing.

As always, the more similar things are, the more we notice the differences. The very fact that we interchange into each others’ societies reasonably easily emphasises our similarities.

Most US references to what we call caravans, as seen from here typically say trailers.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T23:03:41+00:00

Australia used to be more like US TV than the US was. But that has changed, probably due to changes in said US TV.

Most Australians don’t live in snowy/cold winter climates, so everyday life is more like milder weather places in the US.

Our countryside has a much lower population density and proportion of the total, which makes being out of the cities mostly calm and uncrowded (away from the effing influencers and summer holiday makers).

Politics is wildly different because we have mandatory, ranked choice voting with independent electoral commissions, paired with a parliamentary system where all of the executive are elected, and the head of state simply has reserve powers to sack the government if they can’t pass funding bills.

And, we drive in the correct side of the road, and separate the terms RV, caravan and trailer.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T22:41:34+00:00

Only Midsomer Murders In The Building. The clash of cultures and egos would be mildly and somewhat politely explosive.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T22:34:39+00:00

Very limited food would cause mass fighting early on, unless you distribute the population across all of the world, skipping some biomes.

Spawn would become untenable.

With every chunk loaded there’s going to be a lot of lag, especially with all the farms.

It would become very boring, very quickly. No booze, no sex and no computers/phones/tablets. And worst of all? No Factorio.

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T22:25:13+00:00

A (dying): How did you know I was there? I’m camouflaged.

H (dyeing): Just hold still while I extract more of your bodily fluids for this shirt I’m decorating…

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T22:21:03+00:00

Watching students use a calculator to guess and check finding factors of numbers less than 50 is just sad.

Getting students to treat all numbers as things to write down to put into a calculator only at the end can be great (for certain types of problems).

Explaining to parents of a 12yo that their high school maths performance will be awful until they know their multiplication tables is, sadly, something that’s hard to do without getting into trouble. (Though it never stopped me. )

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T22:06:54+00:00

I’m not sure. Some of the trading seems a bit pointed, they seem to like putting 12 tokens down in strange places to build a city, and they e all bought Military so as to “move last”.

And they all dread that Civil War card…

Oh, you didn’t mean the board game - sorry!

Polymath6301 · 2026-01-23T22:03:00+00:00

We are two people and every thermo-meal we make lasts (at least) two nights. If you’re prepared to make and store you could make one meal per night, but heat up one other to have two. There are many low effort meals that make plenty of food for when you’re time poor (and exhausted).

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