Excellent! I knew it meant farmer but hadn’t realised why

The real Saint George

Martin Luther has joined the chat

On that basis, there is also Sallymandering

Lawrence Oliver Reed of Arabia?

Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years' Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.

Apparently, he doesn't believe germs are real "because he can't see them"

IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT by Kim Choyeop, an international SF bestseller, is finally out in my English translation on April 26! Reprints have already been issued by popular demand! Here is what it’s about!

US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-We-...

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“It’s so complicated to live in a plurality, a democracy of some kind, even if it’s a flawed one, and try to balance out all those needs, and make decisions for yourself. So there’s a desire to keep it simple. And maybe fascism looks simple to them.”

Thanks for the explanation. I thought it was something to do with Scorsese and the pope looking alike

See also: hay and hewn

Similarly, from the point of view of General Relativity, unless you are falling, you are constantly being accelerated upwards

A quotation from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.” Douglas Adams

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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Is it going to be someone from lore rather than law?

Reminds me of Chaucer: “And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.”

That's the difference I expected. But I have a South London / SE English accent and they are homophones for me. But I have only ever known one person called Laurie (this was when I was very young and I thought it was odd that she was called Lorry!)

No cards? They are literally holding a strait.

Interesting. I’m curious as to what your accent is. I guess they are not homophones in (some) Scottish accents. Not sure what else

The triumph of democracy is not that you can elect an angel, it is that you can kick out an SOB. Because, if you can kick out an SOB, the next one knows you can kick him out too.

“If you attack Persia an empire will fall”

I'm sure you can choose what type of Jesus you want — the company is called Just Like Me, after all. ("No, blond. Blonder. That's it. And clear blue eyes. Now make him a bit more buff. And perhaps we can lose the shirt...")

Southern Europe is several different things.

Obama's team took two years to conclude the agreement with Iran.Of course, that was with accomplished diplomats who understood Iran and technicalities, not a bunch of property developers and orange-appeasers.

Future proofing

Fact Sheet: The Iran Deal, Then and Now - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Updated June 2025 What is the Iran Deal or “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA)? On July 14, 2015, the United States and its international negotiating partners reached an agreement with Iran o...

From 2015-18 an international deal saw Iran’s progress towards nuclear weapons halted. Trump tore up the deal & Irans’s nuclear capacity accelerated rapidly. Having lost a war Trump is now trying to resurrect a deal he broke & clear a strait that was open.

armscontrolcenter.org/the-iran-dea...

Despite Trump saying that Iran’s 10 point plan was a good basis for negotiation (he obviously hadn’t read it)

There’s a reason they call it the London Orbital Motorway

I love the fact that Dumpster is/was a trademarked product name based on the company name (Dempster) and “dump”