What will James Bond do once all the anti crash technology is fitted to transit vans and all new cars? No ramming into farm gateways or smashing cars off the road if the brakes are applied automatically. Such a bind for the spy about town

Horror crouches around every corner

The thing with calling Lake Ontario Lake America is that firstly it reduces useful information (ie Lake America is not close to the Gulf of America) secondly you can’t now call something else Lake America. Why didn’t he call it Lake Trump? Or is that next?

"This record is unprecedented and will likely remain so,"

Before the 1800s, between 40% and 50% of children in Europe died before their 15th birthday.

Trees are so useful for keeping the moisture in the ground (on the whole) obviously there is shade and leaf litter but their roots are obviously at work somehow

you don't jump a chasm in two leaps

This seems most unlikely

Design error of the Starbucks stroopwaffle… too small for the mug top

Found on the printer at work

Total quality

I was in a work meeting and a speaker mentioned Bluesky. That's the first person to mention it at work...

I find it annoying that companies "drop" new products, not "launch" them. In the recent past if you dropped a product that meant you stopped supplying it rather than started. This is why old documents are hard to read even in your native tongue. Some words mean the opposite now.

The computer game Grand Theft Auto is just reskinned Lego City… change my mind

Bash bash bash, am I looking “For you” again?

Can someone be a politician and do the best for their nation and yet be penalised for past actions about other nations? Just turning that over in my mind.

Don’t get enthralled by the psychodrama of an old man over the sea. He’s stuck in the 1980s

Spot the difference… Waitrose or Co-op

When in a hole stop digging, or in the words of the current US president, “everything is going better than ever”

Donald Rumsfeld famously stated, "There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.