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My best efforts from the script, but it ultimately goes to show that you're right:

• Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
• That's enough music for now, lads. Looks like there's dirty work afoot.
• Well, this is the main hall. We're going to have all this knocked through, and made into one big living room.

Seems to have been a real thing, from circa 2004. The pins have become collectors items, and people are even selling replicas.

The "ring"/"wing" pun seems in especially poor taste.

Here's an archive of Wikipedia's cited source for the story.

I kind of feel like a US ship is a bit biased towards ships named after the country/continent's own namesake, but it is impressive. It was launched in 1931, but it's modelled after ships of the line from the late 1700s.

A KFC "Mega Jug" was 64 U.S. fluid ounces (1893ml), which, if they're using the standard syrup dilution, is about 213g of sugar. Ignoring concerns about what else is in drinks like this, general guidance (e.g. the UK National Health Service, the Harvard School of Public Health) recommend well under 40g of free sugar per day as a maximum.

Some old bollards and mooring posts, mostly in London, are old cannons, just to be pedantic! You can find them if you know what to look for, but London alone has 60,000+ streets and it's not like no new bollards have been installed since the Napoleonic wars.

Here's an image from Living London History's Facebook page for the curious:

Yeah, that's the case for Go Map on iOS too. It's improved significantly over time, and it's quite powerful, but the interface is still finicky and not always in line with the platform's design language, and it's not super helpful in guiding the user to the most common tags. Props to the developer though!

That's great news! I'm not really one for gamification, but the interface on Android looks really nice, and removing the need to have interface knowledge of OSM KVPs for things like roof shape, track smoothness, etc is a big bonus.

Today's lucky 10,000.

In a general "booze" sense, apparently? With the more specific nihonshu (日本酒) being used specifically for Japanese rice wine.

Hah, I figured the second sentence was as parodically on-the-nose as I could manage without a satire indicator.

Hah, I guess my sarcasm got missed on this comment! The premise that fish can't feel pain because we don't know for a certainty that they can is blatantly just mental gymnastics to justify the continued practice of a cruel hobby.

What mobile OS? I think StreetComplete is a popular editor for Android; I've never found an excellent app for iOS but I use Go Map and Every Door to achieve a fair result.