Yes. But I’m not paid continuously for the work I’ve done in the past, and I’m not paid the actual value of my work.

Should we still be paying Homer for his incredible work on the Iliad, do you think?

I work for a living, so I’m used to my work being exploited as a matter of course.

Nah mate. Information is free the second it leaves its source. Any attempt to curtail it after then is just a cunt’s trick.

I prefer my mechanical stress calculations in millidynes per square kiloparsec thank you very much.

The one you’re too lazy to search?

You’re saying that social media is not the real cause of the youth mental health crisis? Do you propose a different cause? Because I know of a good few, very well-qualified people (of varying ages) that might explicitly disagree with you…

I hear you, and I agree the climate crisis is the number one issue facing us right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t study other areas. What can a cosmologist do to protect the climate except for swap their cosmology textbooks for climate science?

There’s also the fact that they are too explosive to conform to flight safety standards.

Great. Now you’ve cursed me with this too. That’s twice the amount of time I’ll be humming this bitch.

Ok, real talk, this is how bad it is. Once I changed the words to “maybe we’d be better off, if we ate beef stroganoff”. That day I learned to cook stroganoff for the lulz and my girlfriend is now addicted and I have to cook it twice a month.

I’ve had this song stuck in my head on and off for at least a decade.

I wish more people realised this. Well said comrade.

Have a look around

That’s great I love it. I do the opposite, I like to give banal items overly technical names. Chair=orthogonal spinal support unit. Hammer=non-calibrated adjustment appliance, etc.

I’m not usually that guy but this seems to be the thread for it. Initialisms and acronyms are both types of abbreviation, where you pronounce acronyms as a word (NASA) and initialisms as individual letters (FBI).
I’ve had meetings at work over this. I had to draw a flow chart.

That’s happened in french and Italian too then, “une orange” and “un’arancia”. Wild.

You wouldn’t download an car

Upper-class British used to ‘drop the h’ on words with a french root to show off their education. Historic had a silent H but hawk did not, for example.
Side note: H has a silent H, it’s “aitch” not “haitch”.

It sounds like I imagine his internal monologue sounds, given the stuff he actually lets through whatever is left of his pr filter.

Is this real? I can’t find this tweet

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