None more pink
The promise of dowagers has hung over Solver since the very start. Will Lottie ever achieve a head to head with one of these titled widows? Surely it is inevitable.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
The promise of dowagers has hung over Solver since the very start. Will Lottie ever achieve a head to head with one of these titled widows? Surely it is inevitable.
If anyone’s new to what3words, it’s a life-changer.
///new.to.me (this unfortunately doesn’t seem to point to any location, however)
That said, I feel the word-assigning algorithm ought to be called which3words.
Not to be confused with witch3words, ///eye.of.newt and so forth.
Just like to mention that the W3W location //from.lavender.psychosis is in the middle of the South Pacific, in the Easter Island Fracture Zone. //none.more/pink, on the other hand, doesn’t exist.
W3W is a terrible idea done badly.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-words/
Wow. I remember hearing about W3W years ago, but I thought it was just a fun project somebody had done in their spare time. I had no idea it was a company that actually intended it to be a legitimate replacement for lat/long in professional and emergency (!) situations. That’s just ridiculous.
Techbros gotta deliver shareholder value, and if that means trying to monopolise our sense of place, so be it.
It is nevertheless a seductive idea: tried.sweated.kickbacks certainly seems a more accessible reference than 53°57′49″N , 002°01′22″W or SD986519 (UK National Grid) or XX7G+7V Skipton (Google Plus Code). Just don’t try going to tried.sweater.kickbacks instead, that’s in a field in rural Manitoba.
Huh. It seems LESS accessible to me.
I had never heard about it before, and the criticisms seem cogent. Shame on Glorbm for using it!
I’ve been messing with the original Colossal Cave Adventure lately, and have determined that “twisty little passages” is a tree in Germany, near the Swiss border.
You want to watch where you’re stepping ’round here, Glenn. You might fall down a hole. Where would you be if you fell down a hole? WHAT ABOUT THE FOG? Stuck in a hole in the fog? Stuck in a hole in the fog in the middle of the night? WITH AN OWL?
“I ‘eard the ‘owl but what kind of creature was ‘owling?”
Maybe he just joined the SCA.
::loosens collar, tugs sleeve down over bruise on arm Sir Pellandres left there last weekend:
In panel 3, I love how Claire’s present-time dialog intrudes into the flashback itself, but the Dowager is too oblivious to notice.
Loving every minute of this. Panel 2-4 feel especially Lynchian and liminal with the Dowager’s haunting visage, and all-consuming lavender. I’m oddly disoriented by the vast quantity of bon-bons at her disposal.
I remember seeing Lavender Psychosis open for the Chilli Peppers back in ’92. Good stuff. 🤘
Only Barbara Cartland was ever that pink.
Sadly, the temperate microclimate will only be big enough to hold a 1/10 scale monster truck.
Claire has precisely the correct shouldering-the-heavy-backpack expression in panel 1.
Ideally one leg would partially buckle.
The main effect of the flashback is to remind all of us that it is important that Mildew returns.
There’s a Mildred cameo coming up in the next thing Max and I worked on, and she has a whole fun new vehicle of her own that I worked out, which may be made one day.
Mildred didn’t nick the new vehicle, did she?
I resisted typing that for all of six seconds.
I don’t normally wear pink.
And yet, I find myself wishing for a pink T-shirt simply reading “NONE MORE PINK”.
I am actually wearing a pink t-shirt today.
On loan from the Clown Egg Registry…
A *mile*? In BRITAIN/EUROPE?
All our road signs are denominated in miles.
Then I’d know how far I had to go in England.
But I’m not sure what a “longue” is. Seems to be something to lie down upon.
If you mean to imply that Mr. A misspelt it, you are wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaise_longue
Here in NZ we changed over to metric in the 1970s so there are many of us who still think of people’s height in feet and inches, but weight in kgs, pressure in psi, volume in litres, and area in either hectares or acres… thankfully we have no knowledge of rods, poles, perches and chains although I thing furlongs may be still used in some aspects of horse racing?
Simple!
Who do you think invented the mile?
The Romans?
Nah, they spelled it wrong!
Despite the “official” situation, Britain has not been 100% metricized, just like the US is not 100% on imperial units. Not to mention the imperial units that we rebelled against, like stone, much like we rebelled against the dictionary when we took the “u”s out of varios wourds.
Yep. Kilometers are a bit sad. Too short for most things; too long for everything else. And don’t get me started on hectares!
I’m a Brit but I’ve got a couple of old American books. One is a 1971 United States Air Force book called Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and another one from 1963 called Navigation and Guidance in Space. They have a wonderful collection of units. One of the books in various places uses centimeters, feet, miles, nautical miles and kilometers. It’s a wonder they actually reached the moon.
Dowagers is where the money is in “solving”.
Glurm should have figured that out even if he is from New Zea.
A dusty fizzer? Maybe that is actually NZ slang for gold mine.
I hope the older lady is right and her nephew is a future wrestling champion that just want to follow his passion. That’s way too much pink, it can’t be healthy.
Actually, if he’s “in the pink”, he would be in perfect health!
Ohhhhhh….. I learned a new things today.
I’m so tired. I read “about whale’s milk” instead of “about a mile’s walk”. I thought it was the what3words coordinates.