Another option is I’m full of shit! I just looked it up, it is Worcester cathedral and was founded in 680. I think what I put in my comment was a childhood memory that I somehow never questioned.

I just use a plastic volvic bottle. They’re usually fine for a couple of weeks. I guess it would depend what’s in your local water supply.

They ultimately lost out to silicon

Fuckin computers taking birds’ jobs.

I dunno how you’d use check digits with a bird, but this seems the obvious way to deal with corruption. Or maybe give the bird more treats.

I can do that with a fart.

When I was a kid I got in the local library and looked at their copies of the maps of our city going back maybe 2000 years. A few things had been there that long, the high street and the cathedral, couple of other places. You could see how the town had grown, and sometimes contracted - it got hit hard a few times by plague, fire, and war. The maps didn’t go back further but the place had been occupied much longer, way before the Romans came.

Nah they have a hot air balloon festival where I live in England where they launch maybe a hundred at once. They’re not uncommon here.

Does he have a tail or am I seeing the armadillo’s dick there?

You want to keep those for a necklace.