God, you Brits can’t accept even a little bit of sunshine.
Brolly every day.
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For the record, I’m USAn, but I’ve been called out for “Being an Eeyore.”
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A pessimist is never disappointed, but is often pleasantly surprised 
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People think I’m a pessimist. I’m actually a disillusioned romantic.
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“Buzzards got to eat, same as worms.”
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"It looks like it’s held on by two clips—here and here—and this one is broken…
crack
…and now so is that one."
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(discussing shortwave signal propagation) “The ionosphere appears to be inhabited by the spirits of cats.”
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“The display, meanwhile, shows only this underwhelming colon; and nobody wants one of those.”
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Americans don’t associate songs with death - An American
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Yet I feel rather sure I heard this song in The Wire, probably the most significant contribution of Americans to world literature in the 21st century.
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(The Wire is still the best ever. I didn’t expect it to STILL be number one, but it is).
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Agreed. Really need to watch it through again.
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That and West Wing
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Never watched that, really want to but currently I suspect it will make me depressed that we ended up in this reality not that one….
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Yeah it does that. Grown up people doing politics. Who would have thought it??
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Star Trek Next Generation is also a wonderful example of a functioning administration. I grew to appreciate it more during business school when taking org and leadership classes during the day and then watching that crew operate while I ate dinner.
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There’s a scene in Picard season three where the returning cast sit around a conference table and just discuss things.
It’s amazing
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“With a large enough blanket, you can swaddle anything.”
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Here’s a challenge for you all: can you guess where in the UK we are today based on the fact that the people on the next table in the pub are having an in depth discussion about their children’s polo match?
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