It’s a real shame Australia doesn’t have any empty, sunny places that they could install massive solar farms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantalloc_Aqueducts

Well that was fascinating, thank you

Not, unfortunately

Those are the ones! It’s quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

Amazing, thank you for that. There’s so much that’s fascinating in linguistics!

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

It’s one of the many ways I know that as a species we’re fucked

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn’t sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.

Michael, but he prefers Mikey

Bit disappointed by how few of these I recognise!

It’s like Superman 2 all over again

Maybe this thread will be the start of something! What I liked about this challenge was the starter beak and feet, made it a little easier for those of us who are artistically challenged

Punk duck

Whichever colour is cheaper, that’s the one I’ll get…

How is this not a meme template already?

There is a giant ball there. And evil apes. And the evil apes are dukin’ it out on the ball. You’re one of them. It’s basically all just evil apes dukin’ it out on a giant ball.

I always thought they made them from potatoes

Interesting, thanks! I’d only ever seen it as amusing (UK based so couldn’t buy it anyway), but good to know how it actually stacks up. I wonder if that also means that Nancy herself would have been better to just buy an index tracker and avoid all the negative stories!