Eww, no, the flappy entangling menace does not work for me!

Same reason I find the notion of traditional sheet + blanket to be anathema.

The 4A was about the upper limit of what I like - switching to the 6A has been a royal pain in the arse!

A small phone I can get a good grip on - bigger phones feel like a balancing act during use.

You want one even smaller than that?!

Yes…?

I want to be able to hold it in one hand and use it properly, like I could with my iPhone 3GS. If I need a bigger device, which I often do, I grab a laptop. If I want a big screen I use my home theatre. If I want handheld gaming I grab my Steam Deck. My point is, I’m not a luddite who feels that smartphones aren’t useful - I was an early adopter (Shout outs to Symbian Series 60!) but I’m finding the recent generations of devices to be cumbersome. They’re massive in my pocket, I need two hands to use them, they’re much easier for me to fumble and drop, and using them strains the tendons in my little finger as I try to stabilise an ungainly lump.

It frustrates me no end that phones just get bigger and bigger. Having the option is great, no complaints there, but could there be something that suits me too?

You may want to specifically look at phones marketed as being small.

The issue I’ve had there is that their cameras are generally rubbish, unfortunately.

I’ve not checked the sizing but I thought the whole point was that the A variants were smaller? My 6A is already much larger than I’d like. I’m not trying to watch movies on these damn things! 😂

Could the same not be said for the 6A?

Right, so which phone should I buy second hand that has a great camera and doesn’t cost the earth?

I had a 4A, currently I have a 6A, and I was going to get a 7A but apparently that’s a bad idea too. Fuck’s sake.

I’m not really sure how to put this but… duh?

Media portrays a place in a way that isn’t true to the reality of it, amazingly a subset of people are taken in by this trope as old as time. It’s “The Big Rotton Apple”, Paris Syndrome, and stuff like that and I’d assume has been around as long as we’ve had cities.

Why not just make the article “watch the show ‘Too Much’, please”?

Only two out so far. The third is arriving in December.

I felt it was significantly worse than Crystal Skull.

Did we watch the same movie? I marathoned all the films and Dial of Destiny is dire. To be honest, only the first film is truly great. I’d probably rank them 1, 3, 4, 2, 5.

A family with a child murderer as its head is obviously more honourable than the alternative. Morons.

I’m curious what the numbers look like for commercial properties standing empty because they’re investment vehicles for legal financial shenanigans. I’m talking about how many offices we’ve built over the last twenty years when anyone with a lick of sense could see this was a waste of time.

I don’t mean “why aren’t we doing that instead” - the article just gets me wondering about how much space we’ve wasted on worthless concrete garbage that stands perpetually empty.

Advertisers don’t even like the word “sex” now? But it sells!

I wondered what that smell was.

I cannot imagine where all the money has gone. Perhaps if we lower taxes on the very rich a smidge they’ll give some back out of the goodness of their hearts?

You can grab the hash and bang it into a magnet link converter like this one: http://www.romanr.info/magnet.html

Based on the headline: it’s not exactly rocket science.

Betting companies be pretty much as manipulative as possible and not caring about the harm being caused when individuals fall prey to them seems to be the order of the day. Encourage people to build neural pathways that are severely financially detrimental to them and then sit back while the cash rolls in.

Mmm, sounds great and should absolutely be legal. Boak.

Loose is also plenty useful. However neither of those are the word “loosing”.

Loosing is almost never the word anyone is looking for.