In John’s time, the word “fuck” would have been a perfectly acceptable word meaning “to strike” (an archaic name for the kestrel was “windfucker”, from how it flew), with the sexual euphemism only coming in around the 15th century or so (displacing the now disused word “swive”). So John Le Fucker could have been more of a badass nom de guerre than anything else.

57 year old or so.

There are a few Pixelfed repost accounts who won’t like this

Dinner, as the main meal, used to be closer to midday in agrarian times, with the evening meal being a light supper. Only the industrial revolution, with workers spending most of the working day in the workplace, changed this.

If Britain were to return to a pre-Brexit state today, it may look more like what Switzerland has: regulatory alignment and freedom of movement, though outside the increasingly tightly integrated bloc.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer company

Remortgage your house now.

It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again

Though not Welsh, for some reason. Wonder why that is.

“May your chickens grow lips!” — a curse uttered by a medieval peasant in an old video game

“Cat/dog dad/mom” implies that the pet is forever a child, due to their species. rather than a fellow adult equal (species differences notwithstanding) in dignity. I prefer to think of them as chosen family, or possibly the weird housemate.

They say things like this about every generation. Boomer kids had their brains rotted by TV and rock’n’roll. GenX couldn’t do long division because of calculators. Millennials lost the ability to communicate in complete sentences because of mobile phone texting. In the bronze age, writing totally destroyed the youth’s ability to memorise epic poetry. And so on.

They don’t have raccoons or baby alligators in Thailand, it seems

(looks at the patent)

Texas.

Checks out.

Traditionally Islam prohibited the depiction of any living forms (Allah’s copyright or something like that), which is why traditional Islamic art and architecture lean so heavily into geometric patterns.

That’s their lesser-known offshoot, Girl Special Forces

If it’s from the late 1950s, it wouldn’t even have been a knockoff COBOL. Probably assembly language for a machine that used either base 3 or base minus 2. (Before Khrushchev (I think) gave the order to stop inventing their own tech and start cloning American computers, the Soviets had some seriously weird computer architectures.)

They’re two completely different species. The one with the O is North American, and the other is Australian. They only got the same name because people are lazy.

Hey, if it worked for the House of Habsburg, it can work for your oil dynasty as well.

“I have a sportsball team I support, and I like watching TV”