"Listin, his name is Listin. His sister? Listelle. What? His parents? Sigh. Listanathon and Listhana. His dog? Rufus, now can we move along, please?"
I’d stand on street corners telling everyone who passed by that one day people would be putting pineapple on pizzas.
State schools.
Shoes on. I didn’t splash out on these handmade hobnail boots just to leave them at the door.
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Then learn to write more transparently.
I’d rather if there was a more clear-cut “this is a controversial issue - please don’t talk about it”
Ah yes, sweep it under the carpet and hope it all just goes away. Such a mature way of dealing with a difficult subject.
Velcro them to the walls!
Flip side of the question: I don't want to see multiverse/alternate universe/alternate timelines. At best they cheapen the stakes, at worst they remove them entirely. Oh noes, Wolverine has died but no matter we have a gazillion spare Wolverines, we'll just use one of them. Oh noes, Earth #2471893 might be destroyed but no matter there's an infinite number of other Earths. Etc.
"better"
Compile time was Usenet time.
Remember the Windows 95 copying files animation?
A colleague and I were sitting waiting for a shit-ton (UK Imperial, not metric) of files for the project we were working on to be copied to a backup folder when our (pretty computer-clueless) boss wandered up behind us and said (with no irony at all - he was called Wolfgang): "Playing a game on company time?"
But then we all also wrote scripts which printed meaningless computer gibberish to the screen so we could take a bit of time out and relax - and if he ever showed up we'd be allL "It's compiling" or "It's recalibrating the main drive" or "It's defragging the video ROM".
More likely the 'journalist' just grabbed a stock image (it even credits Getty Images) of paragliders.