I don’t know whether it ever took hold in the US, but “till” without an apostrophe is valid in the UK and not only is it not a contraction of “until”, it predates it and is the root of the word.

For context, this isn’t a real page, but it’s riffing on China’s Final Warning.

Read before writing multiple paragraphs of total crazy talk

This is ironic – you’re the one not to have read and understood the comment. Note the last line:

Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.

They were responding to the last bit:

Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.

The gall of knowing let off the worst fart of your life and assuming the resulting smell came from the person opposite farting in response.

For some reason, the repeated misspelling of “Spelunky” as “Speulnky” has really tickled me. I’m genuinely sorry if you’re dyslexic or similar, but “shpoil’n’key” is irrationally funny.

This is so eerily dystopian. It’s Sherwood Village, formerly the Sheridan Center, in Mississuaga, Ontaria, Canada.

Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that’s the purpose of Telegram and if you’re doing any else on it, you’re misusing it.

It was a very funny joke.

They’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app.

This is a play on people’s naivety. It is an encrypted messaging app in as much as regular messages are encrypted between the client and the server. It’s just that this achieves nothing for the user in terms of privacy unless you can both completely trust the provider (you shouldn’t) and be confident that the back-end can’t be compromised (you can’t).

They do also have “secret chats” that are apparently E2E encrypted, but you’d be mad at this point to give them the benefit of the doubt without at least looking at independent security audits of the client.

Were you using it to catfish strangers via DM? If you weren’t, maybe they banned you for misuse of the platform.

came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln

As you’ve said, in both senses it’s related to the sound they make. “Bumble” on its own, in the sense of clumsy, meandering movement, is probably unrelated but I guess it’s plausible that it also had an influence on the mutation of “humbul” to “bumble” even if the latter was primarily about the noise.

Reported it

The Neighbourhood Watch will get it sorted!

(I kid – for the unaware reader, they’re invasive, they threaten native bees, and you can report sightings to the government).

They’re big for sure, but there’s some forced perspective in that photo. They’re typically substantially smaller than your little finger.

Tiꦟ

If you’re using KDE, apparently changing your system application style might help - Breeze, for example, has an option for visible scroll arrows. Link.

In any case, it’s a GTK thing, not a LibreOffice thing.

This strikes me as an odd comment. Did you have a specific reason to expect that 26.2 would include this, such as an enhancement request that you’d logged (or had been following) via their community channels?

<username> is not in the donors file. This incident will be reported.

Also, I’m curious about the UI refinement.

In the release notes you’ve linked, there’s a heading called User Interface. It’s a fair number of small QOL improvements.

There’s a non-obvious freeze function in the Task Manager - for as long as you hold the Ctrl key, it’ll stop updating the list. I have no idea why this functionality is hidden, but I guess Dave Plummer had some unusual ideas about UX.

If you don’t love getting dog shit on your newly washed car, you should have thought of that before living 2-3 counties away from a future Float-a-Poo owner, and you have only yourself to blame.