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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • It’s hard to take your questions like this in unconditional good faith when you also post like this:

    So would be kind enough to indulge me as to asking why you asked this question and what you were expecting from it? And what you’ll do with the resulting knowledge?

    I should say though, I do like and appreciate that you’ve taken to asking questions and creating a space where people discuss, or at least fire off comments into the void.

    I’m also posting down in the reply chain so it’s not as obvious a post. You’ll get the notification, but others will have to read and look a bit more.









  • I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.

    I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.

    10 mins from a corner shop.

    5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.

    10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.

    20 minute walk from a dentist’s.

    20 minute walk from an opticians.

    5 minute walk from a park.

    15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.

    But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.


  • In the UK we have smaller “urban supermarkets” that sell everything you might need at home but there’s not much choice in it, and there’s a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.

    And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.









  • We do love a panel show, they can be great.

    I tend to cleave to comedies more than much else, but if you’re interested in more Black Adder esque things I can recommend the following:

    Red Dwarf - old sci-fi sitcom about losers in space.
    Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace - an old drama in a hospital built on a rift to hell.
    Green Wing - early 2000s comedy set in a hospital.
    Toast of London - sit com following Toast, a pompous actor who feels he is better than the voice over work he earns his income from.
    Fleabag - dramedy show based off of a stand up routine about being a horrible fleabag of a woman.
    We Are Lady Parts - comedy following Amina, who is about to join a Muslim girl punk band.
    Friday Night Dinner - comedy based around a weekly family dinner.
    Black Books - sitcom in a book shop.