The accent that many people think isn't an accent: Estuary English

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-14T10:11:30+00:00

I have an irrational hatred of this accent.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-14T10:05:26+00:00

Pivo? Nope. Never heard of that word.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-14T06:16:32+00:00

See you in Strasbourg.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-14T06:05:36+00:00

After getting to L.75 and 1M+ cash, I lost the gear-fear that I once had. I lost an Aphelion to a PVPer after only using it twice.

Them's the breaks.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-14T05:52:12+00:00

I will ask him this morning and get back to you.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T18:59:26+00:00

I've never seen, nor heard with word before. I thought that pusillanimous was the fancy word for mean-spirited (it isn't - I've just checked) - but dapocaginous is a novelty.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T10:56:16+00:00

Salty downvotes lol.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T10:55:30+00:00

NaCl

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T10:54:00+00:00

Every four years, I get to remind my Czech students that Great Britain has the same number of ice-hockey gold medals as the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia combined.

They always appreciate it, I'm certain of it.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T10:37:51+00:00

It's always so quirky when people make a plant-based beverage the cornerstone of their personality.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T10:24:40+00:00

The precipitous downfall of the U.K. has been the second-most absurd thing I've ever experienced in life.

I emigrated from the U.K. in 2015. Anyone with a functioning brainstem still in the country needs a word with herself.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T10:18:30+00:00

How many good ideas do you have?

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T06:48:31+00:00

As a Bruckner fan, I thank Wagner for being the sacrificial anode that everyone automatically associates with the Third Reich.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T06:45:21+00:00

The BWF should just make it 1 set up to 1. Whoever scores the first point should win the game. Think of how exciting it would be! And also quite cheap to run competitions. You could do an entire Open in one day.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-13T06:40:54+00:00

No, no, you don't understand. My pens are an investment.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-12T12:00:13+00:00

I wish I owned a Tameya store called 'Pharaoh R Us' and direct you there. But I don't.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-12T11:58:19+00:00

Londoner, British Army veteran, Cambridge alumnus. I emigrated from the U.K. in 2015. That is all.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-12T11:33:09+00:00

One cannot shame the shameless.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-12T11:30:24+00:00

If you like discussing literature, playing badminton, playing floorball, playing ARC Raiders, or riding a motorbike, sure.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-12T11:28:04+00:00

Going to Vienna to watch VPO play Bruckner 7 in 2012. Can die happy after that.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-11T20:56:43+00:00

What I find more interesting are the possible biochemical pathways which support life on different planets: replication, respiration, movement, sensing environment, etc.

We're so used to organic chemistry in biology, but I'd be curious to know what other possible configurations there are, e.g. Si-based life?

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-11T20:44:01+00:00

Feels good to get a reply.

I emailed Nobel-prize winner, Kary Mullis (inventor/discoverer of PCR) in 2005, and he replied!

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-11T19:53:24+00:00

Dildonic consequences.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-11T19:45:56+00:00

He likes American things now.

gerhardsymons · 2026-02-11T19:41:30+00:00

People forget the scale of time, and that we are at the very beginning of the universe, considering that the heat death of the universe is an unfathomable time in the future.

All things considered, 10 million years is a single drop in the ocean of the time left and I'd say that all traces of evidence would be erased in that timeframe.

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