A few notes on terminology: Great Britain is a geographic term, not a legal one. Great Britain is an island divided between England, Scotland and Wales which all, along with Northern Ireland, form the United Kingdom. The demonym of United Kingdom, confusingly, is “British”. Sometimes “Great Britain” is used to specifically refer to the UK without Northern Ireland, though there are plenty of parts of England, Wales and especially Scotland that are also not on Great Britain.

Anyway, to answer your question: the currency of the entire UK is Pound Sterling, which is the same everywhere: £1 in London is the same as £1 in Edinburgh. Some Banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland have permission from their respective devolved governments to print their own banknotes, but they must be backed by Bank of England notes stored in a vault and, importantly, they are not automatically accepted elsewhere. Some large retailers will accept them, but shops in Northern Ireland, England and Wales are under no legal obligation to accept a Scottish banknote, whereas the Bank of England notes are accepted everywhere.

Also, while the banks that issue notes in Northern Ireland and Scotland are just regular, privately-owned commercial banks, the Bank of England is entirely publicly owned and doesn’t offer much in the way of traditional commercial banking services.

I can’t recall who first said it, but Roger Moore is a pretty good name for a Bond Boy.

Honestly I’m just disappointed we didn’t get a Homestar Runner cartoon.

Sorry if this was already posted, but I didn’t see it:

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

There’s also a short story by Ray Bradbury with the same title that quotes the poem.

Home automation master race checking in. Do it. I had the same issue so I replaced the switch with a relay paired with sensors for motion, humidity and, ahem, volatile organic compounds (eg stink, stenk, stunk and stank). It solved a number of issues.

Given how far Tim Apple’s tongue has snaked up inside Trump’s fat ass this last year I wouldn’t worry too much about the “willingly” bit.

Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three…

BUT HER EMAILS

Yeah, it’s like when firefighters “save” people from burning building and everyone’s like, “well done firefighters, you did a good job” and I’m over here being smart and sensible saying “if firefighters were such heroes, why did the building burn down in the first place?” because I am very smart and sensible.

Pigs can be raised as house pets and enjoy a good blankie more than perhaps any other animal (including humans because we’re just animals too, yeah?) but also remember that pigs are shockingly omnivorous and will eat human flesh if the fancy takes them. I know that’s true of cats but I reckon I could fuck up a cat if I needed to. Pigs, not so sure.

Pretty sure pigs are ©Monsanto now.

We did Work Experience at my school and I managed to get a place at a local radio station. Now, what’s the worst thing a work experience kid could do at a radio station specifically? If you answered “take the entire station off the air” then you’d be right.

On my home feed:

Amazing.

The overnight Bernt das Brot broadcasts on Kika. You’re welcome.

From the UK, I’d probably go for The Day Today, which ran for a single six-episode series back in 1994.

It’s a satirical news programme which manages to be more cutting and accurate than anything that’s been produced since, and along the way includes pastiches of fly-on-the-wall documentaries (doing The Office years before The Office), multi-camera soap operas (The Bureau), the rise of multichannel TV (RokTV) and so much more. A lot of the show’s staff were actually from the BBC’s own news department so timbre is spot-on, and received an incredible level of French polish before broadcast meaning every second of it is crammed with gags, slights and real blink-and-you’ll-miss-it jokes and, aside from the dated styling and real-world reference, the whole thing feels frustratingly prescient thirty years later.

400 milligrams of milligrams/day. Got it. I’ll mix that in with my extra milk per milk.

The Swedish Navy’s ships do have some bonkers designs, like massive barcodes printed on the side. It’s so that when they get back to port they can scan the navy in.

Obviously they’d never be able to track down Shitpeas, because he works exclusively online and the Internet doesn’t have a postcode.

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