We live so fast I can't even finish this sent...

Call me an idiot* but I have no idea what you are talking about, why you're saying it or indeed what's going on any more. Oh, and welcome to the Year 51-85-139. Do you know what I'm talking about? No? Then you know exactly what I'm talking about. Worried that my weekly outbursts of cynicism here might simply betray a …

[J. Cook]

Re: It's been around long enough to have a name.

YES.

Better summed up as "I WILL CRUSH, AND DESTROY, AND-

oooooo.... SHINEEEE..."

*runs off to take ADD meds*

[Baudwalk]

>>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

Surely better than missing the bowl.

[Dr Scrum Master]

Re: >>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

I've seen the fly in the urinal to help gentlemen's aim a few times.

Unfortunately, one was actually a ladybird.

What kind of sicko wants to pee on a ladybird?

[Khaptain]

Re: >>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

I'm sure that there are videos of birds being pee'd on my varios people, they might not merit the title of "ladies" though.

[Loyal Commenter]

Re: >>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

Was it perhaps the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird?

[the Jim bloke]

Re: >>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

are the thumbs up from people supporting your point - or nominating themselves ?

[Ogi]

Re: >>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

> are the thumbs up from people supporting your point - or nominating themselves ?

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: >>>However, I think you might be missing the point<<<

> Unfortunately, one was actually a ladybird.

The original used a bee - because the Latin for bee is "apis".

[Andytug]

All just distraction whilst the real money is made elsewhere

Hey! Look at the shiny thing/the idiot in charge/the morons on TV! Don't think!

[bofh1961]

Nothing is meaningless

Although the meaning of many things in the modern world, especially online, is a simple one of; "Notice me!" That's it. No meaning at all beyond the intent of diverting the attention of others. Politicians, memes, ransomware - it's all the same shit.

[Dr_N]

Danger! Hill, Bobbing: No-Fun.

The bottom panal of the sign is a warning to British expats & tourists?

Sadly at least 1-a -year dies around here. Especially near the port.

[Patched Out]

Pantone Classic Blue

Thank you for providing a color patch for Pantone Classic Blue and telling me this is what it looks like. Unfortunately since my monitor has not been calibrated or certified to properly present the color space required, I can only imagine what Pantone Classic Blue actually looks like.

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: Pantone Classic Blue

I can imagine it, but I can't seem to care.

[Alistair Dabbs]

Re: Pantone Classic Blue

I can calibrate your display and give you some advice about changing all your office lighting so that you can see what Pantone Classic Blue looks like. Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing I do for a living.

[TRT]

Re: Pantone Classic Blue

Something I used to do for a living was taking a whole pile of Pantone papers and making them look grey.

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: Pantone Classic Blue

Was that a Fade To Grey?

[TRT]

Re: Pantone Classic Blue

No. A sudden transition was required for the effect.

[bombastic bob]

Re: Pantone Classic Blue

It's probably that stupid color that millennials *FEEL* should be the TEXT FOREGROUND on EVERY WEB SITE (with blinding white as the background, so it KILLS YOUR EYES).

(I think at least SOME of the links on this edit page also use that color - but then again the edit font is half the size of the one that shows up in the article and it's ALREADY hard enough to read, like I'm ALREADY being discouraged from commenting through the web page CSS, and color choice and font size are 2 of those factors)

And, WHO is it that picks these things FOR us anyway? Must be a bunch of idiots.

fortunately I've toned down the blue on my monitor, to preserve eyesight for another few years... and I can sort of distinguish the fuzzy/tiny text and hit 'preview' a few times to correct any spelling errors, where 'll' and 'lll' look kinda the same in the edit font...

[TRT]

Is that...

A super intelligent shade of the colour blue?

[Daedalus]

Re: Is that...

Yes, but it's in prism.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Is that...

...singing the prism blues?

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: Is that...

Oh hue kidder.

[herman]

Re: Is that...

Yes, Blue is rather better than A Great Suffusion of Yellow , but both those colors of snow should be avoided.

[Adrian Harvey]

Re: Is that...

Blue snow marks trail edges and corners. Sprayed on to improve visibility on foggy days. To be followed rather than avoided if you don’t want to go over the cliff.

Icon: ski jacket.

[jake]

Re: Is that...

Blue snow marks ancient ice.

Blue snow also marks the newest of ice ... that dumped from an airliner's potty.

Watch out where the huskys go ...

[bombastic bob]

Re: Is that...

Chabornek - what dat?

[Loyal Commenter]

Don't think we didn't notice...

...your tributes to the recently late Mr Innes.

RIP Neil, you are sorely missed.

[big_D]

Cheesy...

Tom Cheesewright's High Frequency Change. The book tries to explain why idiots (ie, anyone who isn't a futurist) perceive modern tech business as being founded on the cult of fleeting unsustainability, and how to go about convincing oneself that it isn't.

Ahh, a book on self-delusion, got it.

[Doctor Syntax]

Do annual changes of colour really rate as high-speed change? Surely it should be several times a second at least.

[TRT]

It changes at Christmas. I had a very nice Pantone instead of a Christmas cake.

[Justin Case]

Tea leaves

We didn't have any cake either, ours was stollen...

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: Tea leaves

Crumbs.

[Steve K]

Re: Tea leaves

I couldn’t buy a Christmas cake this year. It’s a shame as it was my raisin debt.

[Steve K]

Pantone/MIME

A friend told me about the upcoming PANTONE/MIME extensions.

Oh no they didn’t.

[dak]

On a related topic

On a trip to Kitega earlier this year (kitegacc.org, mentioned above) we were given a boat tour from Jinja on Lake Victoria. On this tour we visited a fishing village where the local catch seemed to be millions of tiny white fish, with the previous night's catch all laid out on the ground to dry before processing. The village and the villagers were extremely poor and the people lived in very primitive conditions, with little likelihood of indoor sanitation in their huts.

At the centre of the village was an open area, where stood their two major buildings. One one side was a quite splendid mosque, gifted by the Sultanate of Oman: on the other a sturdy toilet block, gifted by the fishermen of Iceland.

[Will Godfrey]

Re: On a related topic

Come on, don't tease. Which was which?

{ducks and runs for cover}

[Loyal Commenter]

Re: On a related topic

One is a secular state with a high standard of living for all, and 100% powered by renewable energy, the other a theocratic republic with high standards of living for only the very few, and fuelled entirely by oil and gas...

I certainly know which one I'd prefer to live in, even if it is dark there for three months of the year...

[Will Godfrey]

Re: On a related topic

Oh dear. I didn't really think I'd need the /S tag.

Now where's my coat got to this time? Oh well, this will do ->

[Loyal Commenter]

Re: On a related topic

You didn't, I was replying to the OP, not to you...

[Will Godfrey]

Re: On a related topic

Ha!

I'll give you that one, Oh, and have an upvote

[herman]

Re: On a related topic

Which one, the mosque or the toilet?

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: On a related topic

gifted by the Sultanate of Oman

Ah, an exercise in public Omanism.

(Sidebar: Why are people attracted to the use of "gift" as a verb? Does it really convey any useful connotation that "give" lacks, in any realistic context? It's always struck me as false elevation.)

[Hollerithevo]

Re: On a related topic

'Gift' and 'curate' as verbs are my two most despised terms for 2018-2020 and into the future.

[dak]

Re: On a related topic

Yep, mine too. I didn't realise I had done it until after the edit time expired.

But it just shows the pervasive nature of American "English", where it is possible to verb every noun.

[Uncle Slacky]

Re: On a related topic

Verbing weirds language.

[ThatOne]

Re: On a related topic

What's wrong with weirded language?...

[herman]

Re: On a related topic

Verbing of nouns weirds the language.

[Julian Bradfield]

Re: On a related topic

"gift" as a verb is common in Scotland, too. It struck me when I first moved up here, but I've got used to it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: On a related topic

""gift" as a verb is common in Scotland,"

Probably inherited from a Scandinavian language. The words "gift" and "give" seem to be a reasonable case of a language's evolutionary consonant shift.

In English one talks of a father "giving away the bride". In Swedish the root word "gift" leads to two meanings of "marriage" and "poison".

[davenewman]

Bonzo

I liked adding the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band to the end. Vivian Stanshall once spent a weekend on our houseboat in Cambridge (obviously some time before he killed himself).