It was pretty niche, most magazine racks in a corner shop would only carry a few of them.
There was a sort of rule at the time, for people with cd burners in their PCs. You would charge people for the 3-4 CDs which e.g. mandrake came on, but wouldn’t charge them for the time or software itself. So you’d “buy Linux” from your friends friend for a few quid.
Truck bandwidth
I have a handful of friends I’ve lent around a grand to before, one considerably more than that. With a repayment plan set up, which was followed, but I don’t really know or care what it was used for. Avoiding high interest rates on credit cards I assume.
That’s not how it works in the UK. Everyone progresses through school regardless of how you perform.
Citation needed
Left deliberately vague for comedic effect
Not normally my thing, but these places need to turn a profit during the less prime time drinking hours. I wish they had a specific bar for cocktails and another bar for beer though, to get the amateurs out the way.
In the UK I’ve previously heard it called a CRB check, but seems it’s been updated to DBS now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_and_Barring_Service
Why are you translating into American?
Pubs aren’t restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it’s not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they’re persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.
They’re absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they’re feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.
If you’re in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.
We live in a society
In a similar vein, the opening credits to Animals of Farthing Wood will stick with me forever.
Check your pension fund
A teapot, no. A racecar, sure, did it a while back and then basically stopped talking about it.
John Green talks about it often
Look up ant cordyceps, learn how some fungus can move around, and then have trouble sleeping for a few days.
I love the ambiguity of what you’re supposed to throw in the river
I mean Linux magazines in general were pretty niche, not all corner shops had them. I had to go to larger newsagents and decide which one had the most tempting cd on the cover that month.