If we were to attend a special occasion (weddings, christenings, birthdays etc), and it was a few days ‘till bath night, my mother would strip us kids off, stand us in the kitchen sink, and sluice us off that way.
Funny, it was just normal at the time.
LOL…in southern California, suburbs have suburbs. There’s no ‘rural’ to speak of, and darn little ‘urb.’ A “rural” area generally consists of a first handful of houses that were built individually before the first subdivision, and people continue to call it rural until significant numbers of them are going a week without driving “into town.” That happens when at least one suburban strip mall gets built, at which point they have most everything that the nearby “town” has. Then they grow towards each other and when they meet they argue over which one is “the suburb” while anyone looking from the outside would say “both.”
I don’t have an exact number because I was off sailing the seas when it happened, but this valley had two ‘cities’ and I’m guessing well over a hundred thousand people before it had a three story building. Other than aircraft manufacturing hangers, which don’t really count because no matter how tall they are they are mostly just big shells. There’s 600,000 now and I could still count three story plus buildings on my fingers.
Me: “Give me a random english surname!”
AI: “smith”
Ah yes. I forgot you’re really bad at randomness. Sorry. 
Guess I’ll dig out my stars without numbers PDF and a D100…
You should ask a @Polyphemus , they come preloaded with 1000s of random british surnames I would imagine.
Oooh. Let’s go with Bampfylde. I love the old English spelling.
My last name had an old English spelling but the family changed it about 100 years ago. Bummer. Or maybe the census man just didn’t like it and Americanized it…who knows
They changed their last name to Bummer? 
Sheral Bummer has a certain uniqueness to it.
Lol. Well it does start with B.
Shit you really are called Mrs. Buckett arent you? 
Yes. It used to to be Boket. But that census man said, “That is NOT how you spell bucket’“
I’m a bit anxious that the U. S. has decided to launch Artemis II on April Fools Day. 
I assume you’ve all seen the new generative ai enhancements that are coming with DLSS 5? A lot of memes doing the rounds as a result of their recent tech demo. We even got a NMS flavoured take on the situation
Edit: i meant to post it in the glitches/funny pics thread but this still works
My fave guy is back with more fave funny and another epic that continues to escalate
