There isn’t much in the way of wildlife that guns will really help with. Apart from crocodiles, nothing here is going to try to eat you. And if a crocodile is in a position to have a go, it’s too late to use a gun.

Tolkien would be spinning in his grave at the thought of this. It’s against everything he believed in.

When people mispronounce the names (as they usually do) I don’t correct them, out of respect for the Professor.

Aw, really? That shop was great.

The Reject Shop won’t be a loss.

And the best Australians are Kiwis!

The rule of three is a common rhetorical device.

And multiple dashes is a common way for a human to type an em dash. I’ve been writing like that since the early nineties.

I don’t sound like an LLM. LLMs sound like me.

What do you base that on?

Not saying you’re wrong, but I can’t see that you’re right.

But hiring a ghost writer is the only way they could get a deal with Ayn Rand.

You mean the Mussolini approach?

No, no, no, not the Dart, not the Dart. They always think it’s the Dart!

Oops, a decimal error there.

One percent of eight billion is eighty million, not eight hundred million.

My team is constantly on the road and don’t live at their computers.

I doubt any of our guys actually realise you can set your status on Teams, and no one would think to look at it.

If only you had access to a piece of communications software with which you could ask your coworkers if they’re in the office or not, and when they’re likely to be.

Maybe MS could make one of those that worked.