This is such good imagery for the state of… everything.

Fossilworks was shut down around 2022 and now links to the Paleobiology Database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossilworks

Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?

“Hello, I’d like one of those smurfs from up on that shelf, please.”
“Want me to get one down for you?”
“Sure, if I can get a smurf in return?”

He was quoting (allegedly) Bernard of Chartres, thereby standing on his shoulders, interestingly.

Jodie Whitaker’s accent.

*squeee* (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

My husband just reminded me what this actually is. It’s not for people being late for work, it’s for people demanding their money back from DB. And it’s only issued after the train was late for a certain time, an hour at least, iirc - because if they did this for shorter delays, they wouldn’t get around to doing anything but issue delay certificates. (Note that you only get the entire cost back when the train was delayed significantly, for several hours, otherwise it’s a partial refund at best.)

Not because our trains are usually so very reliable though. On the contrary, if DB has actually managed to implement a mechanism like that (I personally haven’t heard of it), that’s because they get so many complaints and people kept demanding some kind of documentation to show their higher-ups to explain why they’re always late.

And potentially not have storage in the bathroom?

I’ve adopted what probably counts vaguely as Estuary English (I suspect I’m more RP than the average Londoner though because that’s what I was taught in school). A stereotypical, badly done Scottish accent is the most fun though.

That’s Japan, unfortunately.

That sounds absolutely plausible and is thus now incorporated as Truth into my memory of the goings-on.

Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.

No matter how well you drive, trains drive freight.

I didn’t know that one and it makes me so happyyy yaaay :D

Abraham to Beebraham: “Okay to borrow your zebra for a sec?”

Haifisch is also correct but less commonly used. Sounds a bit old-timey, my first association is Mackie Messer (Mac the Knife): “Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne”.

No matter how sloshed you may be, Goethe was a poet.

I thought I might make a joke about the Deutsche Bahn but I don’t think it would go over well.

Who’d’ve thunk that not only doing everything your userbase does not want but also actively bullying a large portion of that userbase into leaving wouldn’t create revenue? No, being quirky on main and self-deprecating every once in a while won’t change that.

Edit: this sounds like “bullying people into leaving” and “what the userbase does not want” are two different things. That’s not what I meant. I’m overthinking this. I strongly deny any accusation of ever having pissed on a poor.

I’m assuming it’s the same root, yes. “Folklore” in German means the same thing, although we pronounce it differently. Don’t ask me why we don’t spell it “Volklore” - if I had to guess, I’d say the term is older than the spelling “Volk”, not least because “Lore” on its own doesn’t exist (anymore) in German.