Doc Dish

Soul Music follows on from Mort and Reaper Man (a bit) - it’s one of the few (only?) Discworld books to start with a recap! It helps to get some of the references if you know something about popular music from the 50s to the 90s but it’s not essential.

I hear you’re a racist now Father Elon.

I (vaguely) remember reading a quote from Pterry who said that two types of people would come up to him and say how much they loved Small Gods: the religious and the non-religious.

My wife was a “Bikeability” (UK) teacher and this is how they teach people to cycle. Unfortunately there are too many entitled arseholes that can’t bear to not be doing the speed limit 100% of the time. And I say this as a car driver.

In the new interface, clicking the post title opens the subject of the post (e.g. the linked site or image), whereas the old interface takes you to the post. The only way of accessing the post itself is via the comments link, which is quite small on mobile.

In the UK, The Scout Association went fully co-ed in 2007 and Girl Guiding remains a girls-only organisation. Both are doing just fine.

Thanks. I don’t know a great deal about Girl Guiding’s programme in the UK, but I understand that there’s a similar distinction between it and the Scout Association’s programme as there is in the US.

…where we came in.

The Wall ends with the first half of the sentence it started with.

I think this is…

NT (3.x & 4.0) and 2000 were also available as Workstation editions. They were concurrent with Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME (which did get missed on the above)

This is similar to an old joke about former British Prime Minister John Major. His father had been a circus performer, so it was aid that “he’d run away from the circus to become an accountant”.