no, cos the secret ingredient would've been cocaine

I used his shampoo by accident and now he’s watching me closely to see if I’ll start drinking from the toilet.

so a german and a dutch winner in the first two downhill cheese rolling races i'm afraid this is another "but we invented this sport!" moment for the english

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: r**bit mentioned it a few times here that one of the major practical differences between english and hungarian is the former's lack of vocabulary for continuous but colourful swearing and this video demonstrates perfectly what i meant www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROzk...

quite a few non-evertonians on my tl feel let down by the toffees' inability to overcome what was a terrible spurs side and all i could say is oh, you sweet summer children

"well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it"

while this is all true, i think the framing could be better it is not thinking that you mustn't outsource, in fact we do outsource various mental tasks every day: when you write things down, when you use a search engine, heck, when you use a spellchecker there were moral panics about them all but

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my particle chamber painting has arrived and i must say it is even more gorgeous in real life than on screen

having sat on both sides of the table, i can confirm that appraising others is even more terrible than being appraised i tried to do it properly exactly once, it was a lot of effort to go to, only to have all my evaluations downgraded to "meh" by a committee who'd never seen my team's work

same, dwarf fortress, same

this is the kind of research i'm here for www.science.org/content/arti...

quite possibly my own

Good morning

Saw a poster for Kings of Leon concert in Madrid and imagined them getting arrested and tried as pretenders to the Spanish throne.

Euston, we have a problem.

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: dumpling if you crave dumplings in hungary, i've got not one but two words for you: "gombóc" and "derelye" i'll leave it to your kiki-bouba senses to figure out which one is ball-shaped and whch is a flat square with serrated edges

oh hell, so much this

when i went to engineering uni in the last century, it was a matter of pride that over 50% of freshers didn't get to graduate it was also a matter of strategy: as all the faculties were engineering and thus expensive, the idea was that the first few (cheap) years cross-funded the rest

a dk elmúlt éve dióhéjban

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: sometimes it's good to have an obscure language every time i see hantavirus truthers online i'm thankful that these people don't speak hungarian because "hanta" in our language literally means "fib"

they also had a shitload of time to work things out and yeah, they'd probably often get it wrong, it's just we don't get to see the buildings that collapsed

it's very reductionist of you to assume that everyone who went on ronald mcdonald's "let's have a burger" march were into fast food. some of the people attending were probably just there for the exercise.

what i don't really get in this "list of best novels" discourse is how we don't ask the question: best for what? even from my necessarily limited perspective there are at least 3 distinct reasons why i would read a novel

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: turkey although the bird english calls "turkey" is "pulyka" in hungarian (origin unknown, probably original coinage), that doesn't mean we don't have lots of "turkish" things in our language in fact it's probably the most common nationality-based qualifier

numb and number

Ah, the face that launched a thousand shitposts

world first: a post on linkedin that is genuinely worth checking out

bard, cleric, fighter, magic-user, monk, thief p.s.: if you recognise this list, you're officially old p.p.s: or a massive nerd p.p.p.s: which is kind of the same, tbh

you're laughing now but during last night my bin was abducted it returned this morning but it's empty

Short version: yes, buttons are getting worse. Long version: by and large, apps and programs and websites these days are effectively dumb terminals -- when you click a button they do no processing on their own, and instead send the data to a central server, which sends a response back. (1/4)

ahhoz már hozzászoktam, hogy koncerten fű- és sörszag lengi be a teret, de a kolbász az új

ahhoz már hozzászoktam, hogy koncerten fű- és sörszag lengi be a teret, de a kolbász az új

Mini Hungarian language lesson: A wild party is described as an expression that translates as: "Let-my-hair-go"

The first edition of Rutland Weekend Television was broadcast on this day in 1975. Written by Eric Idle and featuring Neil Innes, David Battley, Henry Woolf, Terence Bayler and Gwen Taylor, the series ran for a total of 14 episodes between 1975 and 1976.

slightly increase a band sixty percent man, sixty percent biscuit

if you demolish it, they will come

just seen keir starmer being described as a fighter and lol, he's not even a ranger

not gonna read this so i can only hope that one of them involves spiking his lunch with something that has flavour

i had an issue of scientific american with cool green lasers and people in lab coats on the cover, i'd bring that back

You could wish your mom a "glad mothers' day" in Old Norse (Glaðan mǿðradag-- ᚴᛚᛆᚦᛆᚿ᛫ᛘᚢᚦᛦᛆᛐᛆᚴ in Viking-Age Younger Futhark runes; ofc Heimdallr would have to say "Glaðan níumǿðradag." If you prefer Elder Futhark runes that's an older stage of the language (Glaðanõ: mōðrõ:dagã, ᚷᛚᚨᛞᚨᚾᛟ᛫ᛗᛟᛞᚱᛟᛞᚨᚷᚨ).

he answered to the name of duck man, although he never seemed to understand why, or why he was always surrounded by people who seemed to see ducks where no ducks could be

bleeding and apologising: the only two things you can do profusely

broke: rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic woke: nailing down the deckchairs on the titanic

i've just realised that one of the weirder steps in the process of a government change is the official handover of the admin rights to a bunch of facebook pages

🇭🇺🎶 For the first time in Hungarian history, 'The forest is green / Pădure vergyé', the Hungarian Roma community's anthem — which gained that status after a 1993 civil rights protest — was played in parliament, at Prime Minister Péter Magyar's suggestion. Many MPs were in tears, and so was I.