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I think this will be an unpopular opinion (so be it), but I have a real love-hate relationship with posts like this.

The history is fun and fascinating and I’m glad to learn something new and interesting, but the wojak macros add nothing at all for me. They only remind me of the heavily prejudiced and hateful shit that was churned out by 4chan for more than a decade as the internet’s meme machine.

In the UK, double-decker was the standard form of motor bus since their introduction in the late 1800s. Before being manufactured as purpose-built ICE vehicles, they came in all shapes and sizes (PDF warning), but they mostly standardised on double-deckers because of the extra carrying capacity.

This bus was launched in around 1940, and surprisingly they almost chose to demolish the gate to permit standard double-decker buses instead.

Don’t forget WWII, WWII, and WWII.

I would find immeasurably greater pleasure in the use of my member to arrest the rapid closure of the door of a driverless carriage.

…if we’re going with loquaciousness as the defining characteristic of Victorian english.

Regency-era Austria or 4chan’s /pol/ board?

(In either case, no.)

Hydrogen peroxide 1:4 in water will kill the larvae in the soil.

Probably worth mentioning the concentration of the H2O2! 3%, I guess?

It’s a brand of little dry nuggets containing Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI). You infuse the water with it; the larvae ingest it, stop eating, and starve.

You have to be persistent for several weeks, though, and ideally also kill the adults – sticky paper gnat traps work well for this.