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Woooooo we’re number two!!!!!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

My New Year’s resolution was figuring out how to crack eggs with one hand. Turns out it’s really easy to do it if you don’t mind fucking up the egg

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wrong! The worst title translation ever is "The Travels of Marco Polo", which in Italian is "Il Milione" - roughly, "Stuff My Buddy Emilione (his nickname) Said" while evoking the idea it's about a million places.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I zone out on how well rich people understand class warfare compared to everyone else in mainstream politics. They are acutely conscious that the key to successful parasitism is the devaluation of labor.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with reading well-researched or well-annotated books is they suddenly end 100 pages earlier than you'd been prepared for because of all the notes etc. Just kicks the legs out from under me

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The fun thing about rooibos tea is that no matter how you pronounce it or how your interlocutor pronounces it you both always know when you’re talking about it

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I assume this was already explained at the time but now I think it’s clear “Everything Everywhere All At Once” killed the MCU. It said all that ever needed to be said about multiverses just as the MCU apparently had nowhere left to go besides multiverses.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

If exercises needed marketing campaigns all single-leg squats would need is Belgian public transport. Since I started doing them regularly I’m like Uluru surrounded by tumbling dice on that atrocious metro

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“The Unwomanly Face of War” probably needs to be required reading

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

100% Brussels

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The worst book title translation ever is Chiara Frugoni's "Medioevo sul naso" (leads with eyeglasses!) into "Inventions of the Middle Ages". It's a lovely book and deserves better. We've got "on the nose" as a metaphor for obvious too, we could have done it www.laterza.it/scheda-libro...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you will about what an appalling language German is, but it is really good for describing German weather.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

History books are literally full of empires that just needed to not fuck up. Empires with everything to lose, being sold out to their enemies from within when they would have been impregnable from the outside. It's still jaw-dropping to watch in real time.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

There should be a 30 second limit on car alarms before you can just take a fucking golf club to the thing

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

At our last holiday flat, there was a dog next door we spent a lot of time playing with. Whenever we were there and not playing with him, he’d whine at our door. Whenever we left for an outing he would follow us to the gate.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Say what you will about how the Atkins diet started making everyone smelly and cranky and probably quite a lot less healthy 20 years ago: it also taught me that goat milk ricotta creamed with honey and cacao nibs is a damn good snack

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Hindsight 2020: lots of people thought/think Trump would have got a second term then if not for the historical fluke of the pandemic. But the pandemic happened everywhere without turfing out any other administrations, at least not immediately (*cough UK cough*).

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Which will win?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The glee with which the Trump administration is dumping power structures and relationships previous administrations nursed for decades is something. Exhibit 100 by now: Denmark, always a strong voice for the US in the EU and NATO. The pattern that should worry US people who like being “great”

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

#Running with caffeination after 4 pm. Yes or no? (Though just having had the shot it’s a yes today) I’ve always done morning runs but now logistics constrains me, wondering how this will go

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment