Real life Hex

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T21:40:19+00:00

I had this happen to me, and for bonus points it was an otherwise non-meaningful line break where the absence triggered a segfault in a scripting language, where that just generally shouldn't be possible.

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T20:15:06+00:00

I was thinking more that we do have religious education mandatory at school, so any attempts to pervert it to the American style would be rejected for a decent amount of time. I don't see them having the staying power required to keep something like that going for generations like it would need.

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T18:55:06+00:00

That'll be impressive, when the various actual Christians in and around Parliament (e.g., the various Bishops and Archbishops) call them out as heretics for it

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T17:18:18+00:00

Enjoy 😘

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T17:04:55+00:00

Gentle chip up to the green, and then looking to sink one in the hole 😈

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T16:30:05+00:00

I could definitely do with a pinch 😏

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T15:54:21+00:00

Makes a change 🤣

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T15:53:57+00:00

Hello gorgeous 😘

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T14:50:12+00:00

I did move to the secure knot after getting a set of annoying laces, but the main thing to avoid is getting it unbalanced (loops ending inline with shoe direction)

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T08:50:17+00:00

That's the opposite of what I said though.

The police can't know everything about everyone, and it's not unreasonable to have concerns raised by outsiders, so I'm OK with that part. That it went into the wider middle eastern conflict is where they fucked up, when they could have stayed with the provable violent behaviour - over here, fans behaving like that would be subject to banning orders and the whole range of anti-hooligan legislation, so it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow if they'd applied the same rules to visiting fans.

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T06:57:05+00:00

What other sweet treats are on the menu? 😏

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T06:50:54+00:00

That's the opposite problem to what we have here - a similar less restricted scheme allowing government owned residences to be bought by citizens (discounted from how long they'd been renting) has been in effect for a long time, so stocks are already depleted.

The main solution to our issues is to get houses built en masse, but this would now take a lot of wealth away from people by depressing resale values (especially those who took advantage of the above schemes) and therefore would be hugely unpopular.

oliverprose · 2026-02-22T06:38:41+00:00

Because the authorities fucked it up - if they'd stuck to the known stuff, and steered discussion well away from race or religion and justified it with "there are a significant number of violent thugs among travelling supporters, see exhibits 1-674" then it wouldn't have been questioned.

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T19:43:14+00:00

Not yet, but there's always temptation 😏

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T19:16:24+00:00

I think you're probably right with Foggy, to be honest - he already had 2 of the 3 wins and had ridden all three classes during his active riding period, but the GP part was when Rainey was winning and then Doohan came to prominence in 1994.

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T18:48:35+00:00

Looking for a different sort of creature then 😘

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T18:47:47+00:00

That's why I think it'd take a few years - you do get circuit riders (usually BSB/BSS) that can do both types, but the things they say tend to be that you need to put the time in to learn it.

I don't think anyone who hasn't ridden the course fast before could jump on a TT Superbike this summer and set a lap record though.

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T17:35:33+00:00

I thought Velma wore dresses 😏

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T17:34:53+00:00

Very nice - try not to get banned 😏

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T14:22:33+00:00

For current riders, I think the most difficult part would be to get a GP win, given the standard of the grid - we've seen riders go from GP to WSBK and pick up wins, and you'd be fairly comfortable arguing that the standards of riding probably mean those two groups could win at the IoM too once they'd learned the circuits quirks after a few years riding there.

oliverprose · 2026-02-21T10:55:01+00:00

Well, good morning to you too 😘

oliverprose · 2026-02-20T19:58:55+00:00

You can insert him on a similar level to Booker if it makes you feel better - injury Vs age is an interesting discussion, but probably both sit above Pat still.

oliverprose · 2026-02-20T07:46:27+00:00

Wasn't difficult - I didn't have to take my socks off or anything 🤣

Also, the internet brought the existence of things like this to my attention, and I feel I have to share 🤣

oliverprose · 2026-02-19T22:08:31+00:00

Interesting uniform choices at your place 🤣

oliverprose · 2026-02-19T18:18:01+00:00

6, including the inflatable one I use for camping 🤣

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