MurrayL

In no world has Apple ever been the cheaper option

Am British, can confirm: the bonnet is the door you open to access the engine bay. The space for luggage is called the boot, and the door you open to access it is called the boot lid.

Fighting to be king of the scrapheap. The way things are going with ARM adoption, x86 will be a legacy platform for most users in a decade or so.

(Although I suppose enterprise/servers will stick with it for far longer, so what do I know?)

No need to speak for the USA, Rockstar North is British

The additional missing context is that in recent years the poppy has been co-opted by right wing flag-shaggers to the point where people not visibly wearing a poppy become a target for abuse. For anyone in the public eye it’s become literally mandatory if they don’t want to risk their job.

What was supposed to be a way to honour the war dead has been turned into a gross nationalist purity test.

Perhaps of note that the pronunciations of some penny amounts are not intuitive, e.g.

• 2d = tuppence
• 3d = thruppence

In all cases, the ‘pence’ is commonly squished together so it sounds more like ‘pns’ (like in comeuppance).

FYI you can just post the link without shilling for your preferred search engine

People who came to Steam later on probably don’t realise that when it was new it barely fucking worked.

Downloads crawled, games refused to launch because of authentication issues, friends/chat was offline for literally months, etc.

The only reason it became widely adopted was because Valve forced you to use it if you wanted to play the latest CS or, later, HL2. Everyone hated it.

"We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting, and we will mount a full legal defence with our expert group of caseworkers, legal officers and barristers," added IWGB president Alex Marshall. "Employers like Rockstar would do well to understand that private spaces such as trade union Discord servers have protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses do not supersede UK law."

Yeah! Get ‘em!

I feel like the people complaining here have no idea how much work is involved in compiling and maintaining the OED.

This is a full reference of the English language intended for academics and professional contexts, not just a place to check spelling.

Yep, exactly this.

I use OED as my standard reference when writing - I can log in from anywhere with my library card number and get full access without paying a penny.

Yeah, when I was at school in the early 00s we were specifically banned from referencing Wikipedia as a source because it was seen as untrustworthy.