IggyTheSmidge

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I suspect that they were trying to reference the 'bright young things' of the 1920s. I doubt anyone at M&S even considered that:

(a) that reference wouldn't be obvious to everyone, or

(b) what it may seem like without the context.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Toads are actually a subspecies of frog, so they're technically correct - even if by accident.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago

England - never been a line. The only thing I've ever had to wait for is for the bod manning the polling station to find my name on the list and hand me a voting slip. In and out in a couple of minutes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It comes from bonehead, iirc - a boneheaded mistake.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I had a hunch that the original image would be Nyarlathotep related, aaaand:

I think someone's been feeding them Call of Cthulhu game module plots. I hope they do Beyond The Mountains of Madness next.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The problem with knowing any amount of history is that any time anything happens you're just like:

'Oh. This again'.

It's somehow both tedious and horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

When your hobby becomes your job!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Parents would find their baby child had been replaced by odd beings who were almost but not quite human.

However strange appearances aside it was their behaviour that marked them out - changelings were said to be either extremely badly behaved - constantly crying and prone to violence, or at the other end of the spectrum strangely docile, often mute and seemingly unable to comprehend anything about the human world they had been left in.

https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_changelings.html

Yep, totally a brand new thing that hasn't appeared throughout human history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Wake up about 15 minutes before I have to be out the door. Just enough time to go to the loo, brush my teeth and chuck some clothes on.

If I give myself more time than I need, I just get sidetracked by something and end up making myself late.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I saw an early screening of that episode at a post-con event at a Star Trek pub in London.

When that scene came on a ripple of 'FFS - really‽' laughter went round the room, just because of how blatant it was.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clearly they used methane.

Crowds of farm labourers during flood season, all lined up just waiting for their turn to fart into the balloon.

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