Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just checking, is it their website or your autocarrot that's interning ashes instead of interring them? 110
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Could be tricky for addresses. "No, it's 7, Two Post Alley, not 72 Post Alley." 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Unless it heads to Fascinating Aida, they're good. 170
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'd guess that from Lancaster's point of view they're both upstart Johnny-come-latelies. "There's a reason the county is named after *me,* you'll know." 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One tea so far, another to come in 3/4 of an hour or so when I get home. 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It probably works like a PCC - 20% of the people do 80% of the falling. 030
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And, quite importantly, you're commenting on it generally as a broad social trend, not having an immediate go at an individual. 020
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think it was here that I picked up calling it "Patisserie Grégoire." But very much tongue in cheek. 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And that there are no valid moral/logical/etc. grounds on which one might choose between the two. 040
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Not the sort that comes with a "would you recommend this website to a friend or relative" survey. 000
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's not that unusual, I think, for someone to push new legislation when all that's actually needed is enforcement of what's already on the books. 150
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think by incompetence rather than malice. Someone T****-adjacent puts AI in charge of missile control and it responds to an incoming hallucination. Or it gets involved with food transport and we all starve while stuff rots in locked warehouses. 031
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So what you're after is a sudocrem substitute? Some sort of pseudocrem? 318712
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I imagine that also explains why the September peak is slightly earlier in the US. 110
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026<checks lyrics> I reckon you can just about get away with it for Our Lady's birthday, at least the chorus and verse 1. 001
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Gunpowder Treason has gained the Glorious Revolution, but the Accession Day is still for James? Fascinating! Are all four under one Royal Warrant? 120
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026One reason for that being a no is that the BCP was last revised well before the office of Prime Minister was invented. 110
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026You may find (as in an 1830 copy I own) that the Accession Day service at the back doesn't even match Morning and Evening Prayer. 120
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I suspect (without wishing to go anywhere near the article) that what the Church of England thinks its mission is and what AP thinks the Church of England's mission should be are two very different things. 030
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Green and gold sounds perfect. A former church of mine had a white with green orphreys, which would also be ideal. 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You should see the size of the blue squirrels! 020
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"But why is there nae stop marked 'bagpipes'?" 020
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I've not really looked at Domesday, but surely woodland - essential for fuel, building, &c - is going to have been carefully recorded as a valuable resource, and entirely distinct from the royal hunting grounds. 100
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026But the actual chart says "covered by woodland" so the change in meaning of "forest" doesn't come into it. 100
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Can't do the soul work cause it doesn't have one. 000
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026From the amount of Romanesque, it must be Smithfield. 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Is Light Duties getting all those bulbs changed? 010
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You know if you allow one it's a slippery slope... 180
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Or, of course, "This person was regularly getting called out for their attitudes/actions by their contemporaries." 030
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don't know - the Phobos "eclipse" pictured might make it easier to work out what's going on because you'll recognise the shape. 000
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026And factory workers, certainly in the one I work at. 040
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Pedants disagree for hours at a time over whether the plural should be Isles-of-Wight. 050
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I occasionally do similar with warm water for rapid softening - I think it was a Mary Berry tip - and yes, it comes out a bit odd. Works, though, and because it's basically fat the water mostly runs straight off. 000
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A church I knew reckoned the worst thing they'd done for their clock was fit an electric self winder. As long as someone was going up regularly to wind it, they were making the small adjustments at the same time; once it was left to itself it just drifted wildly. 020
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026If anosmia is the lack of a sense of smell, then geosmin must come out, roughly, as earth-smell-chemical. 100
Chris Upton @turkeyplucker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I've seen that, can't remember where but quite possibly the same place (somewhere around the Wash-ish?) Iirc we concluded it was because of short stretches of central barrier making the road technically dual carriageway, even though still 1 lane each way. 021
