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Tag: shower thoughts

  • ๐ŸŽถ It starts with sausage,
    A hot dog in a bun.
    One simple sausage,
    Put some mustard on one...

    Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious's colours reminiscent of a hot dog?

    Full image of Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.
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    Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.

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    • posted 17 June, 2026
  • If the Romans played bingo, do you think the callers would have used 'bingo lingo'?

    • Legs two
    • Growing up the wall, four
    • Seagull in flight, five
    • Long-nosed dead man, nineteen
    • Pornography, thirty
    • Use your tongue, fifty-nine
    • Smiling in a blindfold, a hundred and one
    Full image of An American-style bingo card with Roman numerals in place of the numbers and 'quadrum gratuitum' in place of the free space. Based on an original photo by Oeil De Vautour / Edwin Torres, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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    An American-style bingo card with Roman numerals in place of the numbers and 'quadrum gratuitum' in place of the free space. Based on an original photo by Oeil De Vautour / Edwin Torres, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 May, 2026
  • Somebody should make a tea cosy but to fit a cafetiere.

    That sounds like a great idea.

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    • posted 19 March, 2026
  • Integration contemplation

    What fragments you?
    What defragments you?
    How are you balancing both?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (522 words)

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    • of this original
    • 1 comment
    • posted 11 February, 2026
  • Animated illustration showing how an eyeball that rotates to face a light source can have that light obstructed by an intermediary obstacle, but when it looks "away" some of the light can hit the pupil as a consequence of its curved shape now appearing "above the horizon" of the obstacle.

    Peripheral Vision

    The other night, I encountered an optical illusion by which I could see a particular partially-obstructed light only when it was in my peripheral vision. This put me in mind of the experience of being only peripherally able to see the internalised quirks of your employer that were once obvious to you, and this lead me to reflect a little on my first six months at Firstup.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (562 words)

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 19 January, 2026
  • I've eaten "doughnut holes", but I've never seen anybody market "bagel holes". Untapped opportunity? ๐Ÿค”

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    • posted 24 July, 2025
  • Shower thought for the morning was: why is cream cheese spread 'Philadelphia' called that? Is it from Philadelphia? (My box isn't, of course: it came from Ireland.)

    Full image of Dan, a white man with blue hair and a goatee, wearing a purple t-shirt, stands in a spacious residential kitchen holding a 'Family Pack'-sized tub of 'Original Philadelphia'.
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    Dan, a white man with blue hair and a goatee, wearing a purple t-shirt, stands in a spacious residential kitchen holding a 'Family Pack'-sized tub of 'Original Philadelphia'.

    Nope, it turns out that it was originally invented in New York in the 19th century and named for Philadelphia because Philadelphia, PA was at that point famous for its dairy industry. Just another bit of parasitic branding leveraging a borrowed association, like the Quaker Oats guy or the Rolls Razor. Now I'm wondering how many other examples I can find!

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 20 May, 2025

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