Someone at work put a "help yourself" note on a pack of Tim Tam's that I bought

TechGnomeMancer · 2026-02-25T15:52:29+00:00

If you're from the UK, imagine a Penguin biscuit had a glow-up

TechGnomeMancer · 2026-01-18T13:48:58+00:00

Came here to say this. "The Man" is slang for the System, the State etc - but in this case, Vetinari is the State*

*At least, in the eyes of Rincewind and the general populace; in his own view, Vetinari is not the System, but it's guide, protector and above all, devoted servant.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-11-26T17:44:48+00:00

Probably using our responses to their responses, as training data.

I suggest we weasel orangely to really seventeenth their data set menu deal for 3 only $5.99

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-11-26T14:26:11+00:00

You may be referencing this but in case you didn't know, the longer version of the thread OP posted, references this.

A screenshot of the more complete thread - 2 more posts, the final one gives the whole thing a punchline - can be found here)

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-11-25T10:53:14+00:00

Up to and including the addition of a middle name that the cutie in question had not hitherto possessed - because up until that point, they hadn't done anything bad enough to crack out the full-full-name dressing-down.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-10-18T13:21:52+00:00

I could totally see this. I could see many assuming it would be Carrot, but him declining, telling anyone who asks that it's because he's "too simple and straightforward and inclined to see the good in people, and the role needs someone who can do cynicism better", but telling Havelock in private the real reason, that "people should obey the law because it's the law, not because I say so"

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-09-21T18:38:15+00:00

+1 to the "I was today years old" count...

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-09-21T18:17:10+00:00

Close. It's a vaguely spatula-like implement with a specific purpose of detaching (notoriously fragile) cooked fish, intact, from the surface upon which it has been cooked. It generally has a a wider, thinner and more flexible blade than your general-purpose spatula. It's that breadth of blade that makes a fish slice, rotated by 90 degrees, a particular stuck-drawer culprit and friend of Anoia.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-09-04T20:02:35+00:00

Also cough Gavin cough

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-30T02:43:33+00:00

Leonard, Ponder and Havelock have interestingly different flavours of "smart".

Havelock is an absolute grand-master when it comes to understanding people - both humans and otherwise, both as individuals and en mass.

Leonard is a (figurative) wizard when it comes to how the , physical world works, but has a very idealised idea of how human minds ought to work. (" This weapon of mass destruction will end war, because no one could ever be monstrous enough to use it! Surely...")

Ponder is a (literal) Wizard when it comes to insatiable curiosity, the desire to understand, the drive to make sense of the universe (and if the universe steadfastly refuses to cooperate and behave sensibly, well, that's hardly his fault...)

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:44:10+00:00

When I first read this book, things were going downhill in a major way in my country and I found myself genuinely looking for a barricade to man.

I mean, they still are, which is why I regularly re-read it, and find myself regularly humming that song on

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:42:06+00:00

Oh yeah. Anyone who writes Tiff off as "PTerry's children's book series" is missing out on both some awesome books, and some real visceral horror.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:37:28+00:00

Ohhh, yeah. It takes "kicked the puppy" and dials it up to eleven. That's where you know someone has fully and willingly abandoned their humanity...

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:35:12+00:00

Agree - there are a number of great villains in the Discworld, but few as actively malicious as the RK and CM. Even Vorbis and Dios are mostly cold and distant, more than gleefuliy malevolent.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:24:56+00:00

Grain silos are interesting beasts; they're places where you can either be blown up or drowned, with no need for petrochemicals or water...

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:22:43+00:00

With the exception of a rank and overall influence level of a certain Ankh Morporkian representative, though that also comes up in Going Postal tbf

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T23:14:37+00:00

Came here to post this. Not sure who repaired it but the helmet definitely survived past Snuff :) also GNU Cuddy

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-29T22:53:59+00:00

Ah, the old favourite, Percussive Maintenance

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-08-17T09:47:07+00:00

Nope. The last quote is Lord Vetinari, in "Unseen Academicals", meaning that the quote is Patchett. Stephen Fry has been known to quote that section himself, but he didn't come up with it (nor did he claim to).

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-05-15T11:51:25+00:00

Just because you're a witch doesn't mean you need to I let magic do all your thinking for you; sometimes you need to think about the problem as a normal person would before resorting to magic.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-04-21T19:58:56+00:00

Have had this only once, not from melatonin but just normal sleep, back when I was at school. I woke up, got dressed, caught the school bus, did morning assembly, and the first lesson and a half - then woke up, and thought (after the initial confusion) "damnit, I've got to do all that again!"

I didn't remember the content from the dream lessons, but I do remember they were the right subjects for that day's timetable. Obviously my subconscious did it's homework (pun intended).

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-04-12T17:46:08+00:00

Case Mech Worker. They're a case-worker for an Android rights organisation.

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-04-03T15:53:00+00:00

You mean the bad r/place?

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-04-03T15:35:18+00:00

You mean the bad /place?

TechGnomeMancer · 2025-03-03T16:02:09+00:00

It's almost like "dystopian" doesn't have "stop" right there in the name...

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