Comments on: London, the 1.5k-word summary http://thetarpit.org/2025/london-the-15k-word-summary "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:58:57 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: AI and the tech serf « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2025/london-the-15k-word-summary#comment-6606 AI and the tech serf « The Tar Pit Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:54:25 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=561#comment-6606 [...] I'm fairly sure Derrida has a name for this, only... what can I do, I'm a peasant! [...] [...] I'm fairly sure Derrida has a name for this, only... what can I do, I'm a peasant! [...]

]]> By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2025/london-the-15k-word-summary#comment-6297 spyked Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:08:54 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=561#comment-6297 > The UK is toast, toast! Eh, aren't we all? We are doomed, we are doomed / It can safely be assumed / We are doo wah diddy dum diddy doo. > The UK is toast, toast!

Eh, aren't we all? We are doomed, we are doomed / It can safely be assumed / We are doo wah diddy dum diddy doo.

]]> By: Cel Mihanie http://thetarpit.org/2025/london-the-15k-word-summary#comment-6281 Cel Mihanie Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:26:09 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=561#comment-6281 Yes, there is a lot of beauty in London, much more of it than there is in Bucharest. In my two years living there, I visited most of the main sights, collected lots of souvenirs and pictures, attended shows, wandered the parks, even enjoyed that quaint British touch to the infrastructure and consumer goods they have. Ate industrial amounts of British breakfast (their only allegedly-national food that's palatable), so much so that at the end of my stay, Garfunkels' gave me a thank you card, which actually managed to stir up some activity in my emotional simulation processor. Much to see, yes. Two weeks is criminally insufficient. It makes sense, after all. The Brits had centuries to produce (and steal) interesting work, while we were huddling in huts getting pwnz0red by the Tatars. The Brits are falling from a lot higher up; they started off with a lot more hitpoints, as it were. But make no mistake, their fate is still sealed. The UK is toast, toast! I hope you are able to visit again and experience more of the good stuff while it is still there. The best we can do for it is preserve the memory and experience of what was once a great thing. Yes, there is a lot of beauty in London, much more of it than there is in Bucharest. In my two years living there, I visited most of the main sights, collected lots of souvenirs and pictures, attended shows, wandered the parks, even enjoyed that quaint British touch to the infrastructure and consumer goods they have. Ate industrial amounts of British breakfast (their only allegedly-national food that's palatable), so much so that at the end of my stay, Garfunkels' gave me a thank you card, which actually managed to stir up some activity in my emotional simulation processor.

Much to see, yes. Two weeks is criminally insufficient.

It makes sense, after all. The Brits had centuries to produce (and steal) interesting work, while we were huddling in huts getting pwnz0red by the Tatars. The Brits are falling from a lot higher up; they started off with a lot more hitpoints, as it were. But make no mistake, their fate is still sealed. The UK is toast, toast! I hope you are able to visit again and experience more of the good stuff while it is still there. The best we can do for it is preserve the memory and experience of what was once a great thing.

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