Led me to this wonderful list

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names

When I was about 4, I was jumping on the sofa, back and forth from one arm to the other (because the middle was lava, obviously)

Misjudged it and ended up going headfirst off the end into a china cabinet next to it, glass doors and all - I ended up missing the first month of school, 32 stitches and basically half a Glasgow smile to show for it, I’m told it looks very cool

NGL I kinda forgot about rugby, fair point

Europeans: call a game where you kick ball with foot “football”

Americans: call a game where you throw ball with hands “football”

One of these makes more sense to me… :p

Welcome to one of the big unsolved problems in physics

Went to see Randall doing his book promo and being interviewed by Matt Parker (in the UK) recently and this was his exact position on it

The audience were not on his side 😆

Yeah it’s all wood - they’re attached to the top with dowels and glue

D’oh yeah should’ve put that in the post - walnut for most of it, sapele and ash for the accent strip

There’s a furniture makers a short drive away with a container full of their offcuts for cheap, spotted this guy right away 😁

Mountains? More like NOTHINGS

T̸͎͇̠̳͉͎̀̈́̀̽h̶̗̃̔́̈́̋i̴̳̖͖̗̬͙̣͇̊̀̎͂̈́̾̑̃͜͝ͅs̶̛͎͛̅̆̽́͊̎̈́̚ ̸̧̼͕̣͚̩͑̆o̵̞̥̺̳̼̅̓̈͆̕ṇ̵͚̳̓̇̆̆̊̄̚̚ȅ̴̳̰͖̜̝̪͔͈̑̀̀̅̒̄̔̚

Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I’d imagine they’re accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one

I’m a big fan of -ussy as a suffix, especially when it’s wildly unsuitable for the purpose

It’s utterly ruined ales describing themselves as “citrussy”

Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

To use another from the very late 1900s

The years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’

The Dollop

Particularly the 1908 New York Paris Car Race episode

An’t

I kept reading “tessellated”

Scunthorpe

Just never go to Scunthorpe