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Woit's response: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15647 …

The Continental Soccer Association is coming to Springfield! It's all here - fast-kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet!

In Yorkshire a short pint will result in "Could you fit a whiskey in there?", "yes of course", "THEN FILL IT WITH BEER"

Salers (if you can find it)

WITCH WILL CONTINUE If he had another brain it would be lonely

"Look, you've already implemented OS-level age control, you really shouldn't object to adding this government-mandated binary which checks that it's working as intended, it doesn&#…

The AM/GM inequality is why the world switched from (what in the UK is called) the Retail Price Index (AM) to the Consumer Price Index (GM).

Woah, skeuomorphism writ large!

"Slopocalypse", I'll be using that ...

A "drink" here is 14g alcohol, in the UK a "unit" is 8g, and that's a half-pint of beer or a small wine. So the paper's "drink" is a badly poured pint of beer …

Film studies thesis?

Hedge-porn, I remember hedge-porn ...

Oh dear, blaming the advisors already?

People do similar things installing an app locking their phones so they don't spend all day on them, then "oh just this once", ...

Matter of taste: the second Viennese school, Bartok & Shostakovitch is pretty much the only classical I can tolerate, the "mimsy" stuff leaves me cold. Horses for courses.

Johannes Gutenberg would like to disagree.

pip install skinny

You could ssh in to the "dirty" machine ... just sayin'

Python and Make are doomed.

Vitamin C deficiency.

Dachshunds are big (err, I mean popular) in the comfy parts of East London, in particular there's a recent craze for those with a kind of cow-like mottling, gorgeous looking things (but expensive…

Just started but rather amusing: I particularly like the pickles, stand well back!

The plural of matrix is matrices.

There must limits to stupidity, mustn't there?