It's a sad sign of the decline of the UK that the most dangerous and appalling men in the world at present (Trump, Putin, Murdoch, Musk, Netanyahu, etc.) are all foreigners. Time was when at least half of them would have been British.
From the picture to the tetrapak weapon to the seagull in a sports bag to the denial of mental health issues, this BBC report about a Belfast woman in court for attacking people after she caught a baby seagull is just exquisite.
In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.
( ... I want it soooo bad )
Someone near us is selling a job lot of Thomas the Tank Engine train set bits with hundreds of parts and there is nothing anyone can say or do that will convince me this was all ever originally bought for anyone other than the father...
I could never verify the story but ~20yrs ago I was told about a south coast university that welcomed someone claiming to be a visiting professor. It was only when a cleaner complained about him walking round naked they investigated and discovered he was actually homeless and had blagged his way in.
Picard programming tip: A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.