Interesting Links for 03-06-2022

1. Wouldn't everyone's life be better if they could hear the theme music?

(tags:music movies StarWars funny )

2. Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles

(tags:swearing research academia funny )

3. We've Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years

(tags:viaPatrickHadfield schools guns murder psychology USA )

4. Celebrity culture is the modern morality play

(tags:morality society celebrity )

5. If you're wondering how Britain is doing, the #12 single right now is "Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce"

(tags:monarchy UK music funny )

6. I do not understand why anyone would rely on Google for a chat application

(tags:Google communication epicfail )

7. MBE for Travelling Tabby - very well deserved!

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8. The UK government is having the most ludicrously biased consultation I've ever seen (on Imperial units)

(tags:consultation UK government measurement OhForFucksSake )

Pleased to meet you, I'm dad

It's only recently that I've realised that the reason that there are "dad jokes" with the structure "I'm hungry. - Pleased to meet you Hungry, I'm dad." is not because dads are determined to annoy their children but because children phrase everything as a statement about their, well, state.

I've had long conversations about how Sophia can turn her internal state ("I'm hungry.") into a request ("Dad, can I have something to eat please.") to very little effect. If she feels something then we are informed, and then it's up to us to solve the issue rather than her to formulate some kind of solution and bring *that* to us.

Clearly I'm far too demanding of a four year old, but I do at least understand now why dads resort, after a while, to annoying their children in return, in the vain hope that it might work where discussion has failed.