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Rest assured that they’ve already had that idea a dozen times already, and if they thought they could make it stick, they would have done so by now.

Mental health problems by any chance? He may need more help than family can provide if you want him to get back on his feet (and out the door).

It would be a good sign if he seems like he wants to get his own place again, even if he’s not able to make steps towards it.

Source: I’d probably be in the same boat if the laws and property upkeep rules were stricter here. Even so, I’d be wanting to get out of family accommodation ASAP. My family are good people, but I can’t spend long periods with them. There might be a hint or two in that somewhere.

(But whatever you do, please don’t fail to be kind.)

Pegasus be like: Problem?

Most of the old buildings (usually churches / cathedrals) here have been built upon and changed over the centuries so what you see above ground is still old, but it’s not - at least comparatively - ancient.

I’m in England. I may or may not be in a town that has something like that, but even the places that don’t have something are within a couple of hours’ drive of somewhere that does.

I will say that where I am is listed in the Domesday book, but that isn’t saying much to be fair.

Peroxide and then hypochlorite bleach. Not at the same time. There are products that contain them if you can’t get them neat. In fact I recommend those.

Try the peroxide first. Dilute as necessary. Wipe or spray on. Leave it on for a while to loosen anything and everything it can. After a while fill with hot (60-80C) water, but beware of thermal shock. Leave to stand until warm, not hot. Try to clean the glasses as best you can. This may be all you need.

If not, try the bleach. Same steps, but make sure you’re in a well ventilated area. I’ve found that while it stinks up the place, the mould just peels right off and into the hot bleach solution.

If the glasses smell of bleach afterwards, fill with warm water and leave for a day or two. Repeat as necessary. The bleach will dissipate eventually.

How about, I don’t know, not yanking the cord (or setting things up so the cord is yanked automatically) and pursuing the payment later?

But then that could mean that someone might - even temporarily - get something for nothing, and they can’t be seen to promote anything even remotely similar to that.

Perhaps this tiny company are so close to the knife edge that they can’t afford to allow it to happen. Must have constant revenue stream or else close up sho… wait, Micro-who?

How it became the most prominent conspiracy theory is wild to me.

Every word in “Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” is a single syllable. Very easy to rattle around in an empty head. I mean, heck, it’s still rattling around in mine…

I just imagined a horrible alternative universe where it’s illegal for brand names to become corrupted regardless of whatever else happens to data. Eventually humanity would start communicating only in brand names to ensure messages get through. *shudder*

There are devices that literally shake the bed to wake up a sleeper. Most often used by deaf or hard-of-hearing people for whom audio alarms are non-starters, but it could work for you if you’re actually sleeping through and not snoozing. There are a few that work on smells as well.

Or any of the churches that have kept Christmas where the Julian calendar had it, which is generally some time in January.

“Hurt me, daddy.”

“OK, now you’ve made it weird.”

“Aw yeah, that’s the stuff.”

HG: “What’s that? You’re going to put me in a nice warm cell and be required to give me three hots and a cot?”

PO: .oO(Next step. Outlaw human rights.)

Why do you think you wanted to run ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068?

I finally got the right search term for it to turn up again.

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

I about gave myself an aneurysm deliberately and pedantically (and dare I say, facetiously) trying to parse this as written (lack of punctuation) rather than as intended.

Any such pain is well deserved, of course, but still.

Best guess, something owns or has some oversight of an entire group of human (or at least sentient) control tests (or control testers) that are identified by the letter ‘a’.

There is no conclusive evidence that its b control test people are better than its a control test people.

That’ll be a problem for that one system that’s at right angles to the plane of the galaxy, but I suppose it could work otherwise.

I can also envisage situations where systems that are close to being at right angles to the galactic plane have the different star-planet lines cross the galactic polar line at opposite sides of the star due to slight variances in relative orbital plane. None of our planets are exactly aligned that way, for example.

Perhaps that’s not a concern though.

Not all planets pass directly between their star and the centre of the galaxy. The plane of our own solar system isn’t lined up with the plane of the galaxy, for example. If the Sun were attached to Sagittarius A* by a thin cotton thread, I’m pretty sure none of the planets would hit it.

We’d perhaps have to define it as the centre of the planet crossing the unique plane that both passes through the star and the centre of the galaxy and is perpendicular to the planet’s orbit relative to the star. And for some planets in some systems that would still be hard to calculate on account of an extremely oblique crossing angle.

And even then there might be severe problems with that for systems closer to the galactic core that are stable, but otherwise weirdly affected by nearby gravitational effects.

Also, what about planets that are far enough out to orbit two stars? Do we switch to barycentres and which do we use?

And what about moon dwellers or binary planetary systems? Pluto and Charon orbit a point that is outside both. There are further complications there.

WHY IN GODS NAME ARE YOU LEAF-BLOWING AT 8AM ON A SATURDAY

These people are usually the sorts who rise at 5am regardless of day and have become bored after 3 hours awake. If they think about it at all, they believe that everyone who is not yet up by 8am is a fool who ought to be out of bed, thus that is the perfect time to make noise.

As to why they rise at 5am, take your pick from: i) Old and unable to sleep for long periods - Will be asleep again in an armchair by 11am once they’ve gone back inside; ii) Military bearing or wannabe - Probably has reveille.wav for an alarm; iii) Abject a-hole who gets a kick out of it. Honourable mention: iv) someone with no choice under direction from one of the above.

If there was ever a time to replace this Drake format with the Geordi LaForge alternative, this was it.

Aa ay luv mi sum daownvoats fer tryin tu help with spellinz

May ay sujest that we all comprumize on “braik” insted? :p