IggyTheSmidge

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

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days 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] 8 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] 1 points 2 months ago

When your hobby becomes your job!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"The mudbloods are stealing our magic!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's Fergus Wilson - frankly, I'd prefer the leech.

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

You joke, but crop milk is a thing:

Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of the crop of parent birds in some species that is regurgitated to young birds. It is found among all pigeons and doves where it is also referred to as pigeon milk. Crop milk is also secreted from the crop of flamingos and the male emperor penguin, suggesting independent evolution of this trait. Unlike in mammals where only females produce milk, crop milk is produced by both males and females in pigeons and flamingos; and in penguins, only by the male. Lactation in birds is controlled by prolactin, which is the same hormone that causes lactation in mammals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago