Quote of the week!

[RockDoctor]

<sobs>

There's an un-dented bit of wall next to me, for beating the head against. It's granite, not brick, but it'll do the job better. Unless slow oblivion is your desire.

[Getafix]

<sobs>

There's an un-dented bit of wall next to me, for beating the head against. It's granite, not brick, but it'll do the job better. Unless slow oblivion is your desire.

It is so much refreshing and fills me with optimism to see that there is always someone in this community to lend a helping hand to a fellow Commander in despair!

[RockDoctor]

It is so much refreshing and fills me with optimism to see that there is always someone in this community to lend a helping hand to a fellow Commander in despair!

(Comedian) Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do X
(Straight Man, playing a Doctor) Then don't do X! Next!

Sorry. I spent too long at uni with medical students who found it hard when they killed first patients on the wards. Most of them got past it.

[Disembodied]

kakistocracy
NOUN
1. Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
1.1 A state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.

Origin
Early 19th century: from Greek kakistos ‘worst’ + -cracy.

[Cody]

That just about sums it up! Such a fine word deserves music!

[Disembodied]

Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it would taste vaguely of raspberries.

[Disembodied]

Never forget that we, as a species, made our glorious debut onto the galactic stage by sending unsolicited nudes, a mix tape, and directions back to our place.

[Disembodied]

I was at HMP Pentonville last week. They've now got patrol dogs who are barking, which helps deter drones.

[RockDoctor]

I was at HMP Pentonville last week. They've now got patrol dogs who are barking, which helps deter drones.

Come on, name the guilty one!
OK, I googled it. It wasn't any old idiot, but it was the Secretary of Justice at the time. Step up to the stocks, Liz Truss, and take the rotten tomato of ridicule and the limp lettuce of laughter. Clearly an idiot of the highest order.

[Disembodied]

Come on, name the guilty one!
OK, I googled it. It wasn't any old idiot, but it was the Secretary of Justice at the time. Step up to the stocks, Liz Truss, and take the rotten tomato of ridicule and the limp lettuce of laughter. Clearly an idiot of the highest order.

Yes, it just makes you brim with confidence that this really is a government who could totally use technology to solve the Irish border.

[Cody]

Re FRBs...

"It just seems completely inconceivable that there could be that many different alien civilisations all deciding to produce the same kind of signal in the same way - that just seems highly improbable."

Hmm... what was it Pratchett said about million-to-one chances?

[spud42]

Please elucidate?

[another_commander]

I think it was something about the 1% chance having a probability of 99% to occur or similar?

[RockDoctor]

Please elucidate?

One of the DiscWorld novels had a recurring theme that million-to-one chances happen all the time, by the force of Narrative Plausibility, so if you can adjust your odds from, say, 99 : 1 to 1,000,000 : 1, then success will naturally follow.
On the Disc, this seems perfectly plausible.

It was a "Guards" thread novel, but I forget which one.

[Disembodied]

The Duke's a hazard