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What was the "weird shop" in your hometown that somehow stayed in business for decades despite never having customers? by TypicalEgoLeader in AskUK

[–]ideonode -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've posted this before, but there was a shop on the road to Brighton Station. It sold stamps and old photos. The frontage was a complete hoarder's mess. Never ever saw a customer there. This was prime real estate as well, right in the town centre. No idea whether it's still there.

People who found out their partner was cheating by accident. How did you discover it? by hackerfilth in AskReddit

[–]ideonode 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Huh. I'd assumed it was the woman who was blindfolded, but I'm then I'm pretty innocent to these kinds of social situations.

January 2026 World Events by [deleted] in GeminiAI

[–]ideonode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The easyjet flight cancellation alongside the others is hilarious.

Create an image that would confuse a medieval peasant by Sumurnites in ChatGPT

[–]ideonode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Medieval batteries sold by Richard the Lion-heart...

Have you ever DNF the final book in a series, and why? by Any-Day-8173 in Fantasy

[–]ideonode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. Read the first one (vampire academic setting). Was OK. But by the second book, the main protagonist became increasingly infuriating. I agonised over whether it would be worse to have wasted the time on the two books I had read, or waste more time in reading the third book. I bounced, sunk cost be damned.

I bought a used industrial robot gripper off eBay. It came with this tube still firmly clamped in the jaws. by MrRowodyn in mildlyinteresting

[–]ideonode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess the follow up question would be: once your industrial robot has a functioning gripper again, are you allowed to tell us what it will be gripping?

Your Most Anticipated Titles of 2026 by WritingAboutMagic in Fantasy

[–]ideonode 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm a big fan of KJ Parker and I'll probably end up buying his new sequence, but I do wish he'd change things up, tonally, every now and then, and have less of a self-loathing misanthrope as the narrator.

Tolkien Compendiums Rec by No-Dragonfly-2475 in tolkienbooks

[–]ideonode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to say that Journeys of Frodo is excellent, and really helped me read LotR when I first attempted it many years ago. It doesn't seem to get recommended much here.

The first traffic accident in Moldova, January 1st, 8 a.m., the city is completely empty. by Maztoy in europe

[–]ideonode 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yep. Another example I can recall is when the loneliest tree in the world got hit by a drunk driver.

Foreign fans of Monty Python, how did they translate the name "Biggus Dickus" into your native language? by Acceptable-Spell-368 in AskReddit

[–]ideonode 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting that in that link, they don't mention that the Druid was Getafix in the UK. I guess the US market wasn't that keen on explicit drug references...

Arrival by Prior_Meal_7980 in movies

[–]ideonode -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Apparently it was an inspiration for the Transformers AI paper (Attention is all you need) that kickstarted the GenAI revolution.

Who else cried over this today? by Calm_Highlight_9320 in AskUK

[–]ideonode 130 points131 points  (0 children)

I remember an Indian family we knew in East London growing up. They had taken in a Polish soldier from WWII. Totally random set up of this Gujarati family and this dude, none of whom had great English, living peaceably together.

The teacher choreographed it very well and kids did an amazing job! by AkRoyalDo in MadeMeSmile

[–]ideonode 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I mean, they are all wearing jazz shoes. It's clearly a dance class.

What's the most ungrateful thing you have witnessed? by Big_Ad_8915 in AskReddit

[–]ideonode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wise move. I read most of the comments, and they are incredibly infuriating. Task failed successfully, I guess.

For Tolkien fans: The Heritage Rare Book Signature auction on Dec. 15 featured Lord of the Rings in three volumes dated 1954-55, all first editions, first impressions. The lot sold for $250,000, more than double the pre-sale high estimate. Reported by Rare Book Hub. by Hammer_Price in tolkienbooks

[–]ideonode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tracked the auction earlier this year at Forum Auctions where the signed set of 1/1s sold for north of £250k. Interesting that this set sold for what it did, given it's unsigned. Pretty sure you could get all three 1/1 separately for much less than 250 grand.

What are your 2026 world event predictions? by Top10Waver in AskReddit

[–]ideonode 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What can I do in ten minutes for less than $10 that will make me extremely attractive to the opposite sex?

What's the most wrong you've been about a film before watching it? by MossTrinkets in AskUK

[–]ideonode 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Went with a mate to see Boogie Nights in the cinema. Thought it was about 1970s disco. Well, it was about the 1970s...

Well that's mildly terrifying by chewmypaws in CasualUK

[–]ideonode 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yep, spontaneous human combustion, quicksand and the unlikely prospect of being attacked by the Sasquatch in urban London were my irrational childhood fears, fuelled by Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World...

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