I guess you could charge people to get out of Wembley Central? Like you can't leave the station without having your $150 ticket? You'd just wind up with 12,000 Austrians e-biking through west London though.
Trying to think of a stadium I've been to where you could even successfully gate the route to make charging $150 possible. Visiting fans to the Aviva tend to walk while illegally drinking beer in public and chanting.
However, I have recently been targeted with an ad for Mutti passata which at first glance is about 30% the price it is in Irish supermarkets. So I might actually have to start buying Italian products off Instagram.
Because I follow circa 3 Italian food influencers on Instagram (they always think their onion is beautiful, why don't we have beautiful onions?), the platform thinks I might be an Italian expat and is constantly trying to sell me Italian expat products such as panettone, salami and Kinder eggs (?)
Further to be noted in the coming period, given the surplus and the Gulf crisis, that money you spend on infrastructure produces stuff that you continue to have, whereas a diesel price cap is a good way to almost literally set money on fire, with no infrastructure at the end of it.
Also of the entries in Irish, the closer to an actual then-existent Gaeltacht you are, the more likely you are to use seanchló. A fella called Muirċeartaċ Ó Caṫáin from up near Cleggan uses seanchló. Neither De Valera nor Lemass did, though their forms are in Irish.
Vaguely interesting aspect of the census: it's right in the middle of a flare-up in national sentiment, so many people are using not only pre-Caighdeán spellings of their names in Irish but in some cases very creative spellings and translations of surnames that don't have a natural Irish version.
In 1926, yes. Found the lodgers interesting as I imagined it as an empty-nester type situation - but a common form of household in my neighbourhood is youngish married couple with 3 or fewer kids giving up the other room in the two-up two-down to a bachelor brewer (we're in the Guinness environs).
My immediate vicinity is full of multigenerational-but-not-straightforwardly nuclear family households. Aunt (widow, 63), niece (clerk, 31) is one on this terrace, a few adult brothers and sisters in with their married siblings, even an orphaned grandnephew (18, messenger).
Grok is it good when your army has the flu
Back to his natural hair colour
I enjoyed it a lot too, for the subject matter, the view of boomy midcentury US and the fact that, if I am remembering the anecdote correctly, he willed his career into being by noticing orange juice on his commute and convincing the New Yorker to pay him to go to Florida for months to investigate
An excellent piece about the total collapse of Florida oranges. If you've read John McPhee's Oranges you kind of have to read this to see how it turned out (extremely badly).
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Makes searching surprisingly difficult, this. You need natural variants of address, first name, surname but also to account for mistranscription. As far as I can tell it's worse than 1911 (although obviously still objectively great, happy census day)
It's a cool and interesting find! Not the first story out of academia to go from "some more context found" to "EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY"
Having checked, it is the same place that already has a blue plaque describing it as the location of Shakespeare's house (5 St Andrew's Hill)
The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
Extremely excited for this census. Will the widower in his 30s with about eight kids still be living on this terrace? Will the Usher's Quay householder Franchis White and his children Hennery, Christfore and Marry persist with their non-standard spellings?
also there is a Russian conspiracy theory that Pushkin faked his death, travelled to France, and became Dumas
There's a vicious tradeoff narratively between country-based (where starvation and exposure and attack etc are still risks but you probably won't die of milk poisoning if you own a cow) and city-based (where you can buy gas lamps and street food but you might die of milk poisoning)
True of all European paganisms but I feel like it can't hurt to cultivate good relationships with your local rivers, stone outcrops, crows etc anyway just in case.
He's said this a few times now. Talking about it like a 1950s nightclub. Odd.
Yeah I guess papers form a large % of those with press passes for WM and it's from that cohort - who get very competitive between themselves at such times - that the day 2, 3, 4 of these stories come. Plus the BBC wants to run it but doesn't want to get in trouble for bias so it follows them.
Feel like this is a partial consequence of the "ten national newspapers" setup. Once there is something to chase, every news outlet is producing three new facts a day about it until it seems like it's a huge and ever evolving lie. Lies are also bipartisan as news targets.
A rounded rectangle of shiny grey spongy meat in a plastic tray
The shiny grey rounded rectangle from the US Navy meal has some of the worst vibes ever emanated by food. Initially thought it was fish, then maybe some kind of composite vegetable block, but appararently it's "precooked gyros".
ffs I was pestering people day and night to get into this place when it was invite only and I'm still not an elder. Fire up the next clone!
This place has reverted to being a 2000s forum, complete with mass bellowing at admin over code updates, general displeasure at mods and even the lil badge thing people have where it says they are senior users of the website.
Saying stuff in this register is obviously a prerogative of the Papacy but it will never not be weird to hear an American man start a pronouncement with "woe to those..."
The 'many separate internets' theory is not new, but it's interesting to see a case study. Both are hostile to the extent that it would deter someone posting a contrary view because you'd get pelters - so both seem to reflect a consensus, although neither, clearly, do.
Fascinating the different platforms re: the fuel protest stuff. On Twitter it's extremely hostile to the government, people seeing whatever their own cause is in the protest. On Reddit it's incredibly hostile to the protesters, who they want jailed.