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I’ve never interacted with one. Who can afford to buy a new car?

• Real estate agents
• President of the United States
• Politicians in general
• Used car sales-persons

It’s a long way away and I can’t do anything to affect it. I watch the nightly news, sometimes I read news media during the day.

So many, maybe Appetite by Prefab Sprout.

Now we sail the high seas.

I just can’t take the accent seriously, plus it’s so grating

That’s how the rest of the world feels about (North) American accents, btw.

• The Curiosity Show
• Thunderbirds

there are a few articles on hackaday. that’s all I’ve got

Pink Floyd.

Some of their music is nice to listen to. Some of it is catchy. Most of it is just boring.

Anj ?

In Australia, it’s common to shorten names, then add:

• “-o” suffix to names ending with a consonant sound. Thus, David>Dave>Davo, Steven>Steve>Stevo, John>Johnno, Dominique>Dom>Dommo
• “-az” or “-azza” to names ending with, or containing, an “ar” syllable. Gary>Gaz or Gazza, Sharon>Shaz or Shazza, Barry>Bazza
• ”-ie” (“ee” sound) to names ending with a vowel sound (but sometimes with consonant sound too). Stuart>Stew>Stewie, Frank>Frankie, Don>Donnie

I was much happier before I woke up.

Our cat walks around and yells most of the night. Some nights (not many) he will sleep in the bed with us. He sleeps most of the day.

Your mom’s.

I always pronounced “only” as “on-lie”. I heard other people say “only” and couldn’t understand what they meant.

I’ve been thinking for hours how to describe it.

It’sa sort of echoing scraping noise. A sheet of plywood lying on the ground, being kicked down the road. Only it’s quite faint, I can only hear it when the room is quiet or when I’m trying to get to sleep.

I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side or up and down.

Vegemite. That first heady whiff of yeast and salt when you open a new jar.

I got my (uncommon but not rare) surname and country code, similar to for example smith.uk, so I can have an email address like (but not exactly) john@smith.uk. That’s good enough for me.

I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.