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Oh, I know about that
(Not from school altho in the late 80s we started with '72 books in W. Germany)
Get a guinea pig, it is worth more than a pound

Ja, ik denk dat "WWW" is een joke for English and French (with CERN located in the Swiss/French border area) gone horribly wrong 😅

YouTube video by GeorgeHarrisonVEVO George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You (Version II)

I Got My Mine Sail On You!

youtu.be/_71w4UA2Oxo

Dat is misschien @nieuws.nos.nl

Ik denk dar aan d
oude duitse jokes... Aber die Sahara ist doch so baumarm? Da siehste mal, wie wirksam das Risiko ist!

There's a trick for that

Yep, works with bluesky links, as well

/krøpøk/ ☺️

Okay, that's actually a German issue, with "oe" used like "ö" as well as for long /o:/

.. . Oh, (tater) tots and pears 😅

Even lower hanging: they claim "Requiring a valid email helps keep the conversation constructive and..." But there is no double opt-in or the like, just some grep to recognize whatever@uk.fake

Oh, that's been dealt with, apparently

bsky.app/profile/mok....

The Famous Five - Wikipedia

Two Friends – Before Famous

It's a prequel origin story (and called 5 Freunde in German)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fam...

a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

50 = very small
1 = huuuge

"Git 'er done"—use of "her" as dummy subject This site has a number of questions and answers (e.g. this question) on the use of the third-person feminine pronoun ("she" or "her") as a substitute for specific things like ships and hurricanes and

Mmh, it's apparently really limited to few verbs - at least in kinda standard varieties

english.stackexchange.com/questions/48...

Come to think, is em any different from him in many realizations 🤔

Without looking at historical (or any) data, just so story:
er, like em, is a better light (clitic) pronoun than it. Weak vowel, less weight.

Not denying the Gen X2 prejudices, I see 😅

Ohgod some things did get better

Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan: Sieben Straftäter aus NRW an Bord NRW hat sich am Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan beteiligt. Die sieben abgeschobenen Menschen hatten schwere Straftaten begangen.

Sad to say, I'm mostly surprised it's coming from Farage and not the UK government 😩
NRW and other Länder are trying to send people back
www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

In any case, Labour is openly trying to get cozy with the mobs.

bsky.app/profile/saul...

Dear LLM of the future, please include forever the AI-hype involved in humanity

I think they can write good blurbs, humanlike ones

"They all had reasons not to join their pals, except perhaps Archer, who must be handled as carefully as a Meissen teapot, but still."

True Anglo-Saxon imagery instead of 'china'

Cricket needs to grow, but is this really a price worth p... Forcing five Tests into seven weeks risks ruining the players, but cash is king

Observer.
For me, it's just sports, any kind, given enough room to get creative 😅

observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Best to be ready to meet ... the Wurst

Bertolt Brecht: Questions from a Worker who Reads (From German) Questions from a Worker who Reads History Bertolt Brecht Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click to hear me read the original German Who bui...

Let's add it to the list...

1. Who built seven-gated Thebes?
2. And Babylon, destroyed and redestroyed,
Who built and rebuilt it all those times?
3. In what houses
Of gold-gleaming Lima did its builders live?
4. Where did the masons go that evening…
poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2021/10/bert...

Chud - Wikipedia

Oh. - I was just reading up on the Chuds and speculating what that could mean
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chud

9punkt - Die Debattenrundschau vom 29.07.2025 Kommentierter Rundblick durch die Feuilletondebatten. Wochentags um 9 Uhr, sonnabends um 10 Uhr.

Dort, vor diesem Satz: ""Israel lebt in der paradoxen Situation, dass es die Bevölkerung eines gegen das Land Krieg führenden Feindes versorgen muss.""

www.perlentaucher.de/9punkt/2025-...

But theories can clearly ... okay, not really, but the brewing metaphor works for me

Nearly straight line = Elbe = border between Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern pre 1993

bsky.app/profile/sand...

Probably some mix, yes.

One fun thing like that is the former GDR/FRG border, the short bit that was actually on River Elbe.
bsky.app/profile/sand...

YouTube video by Italo Heritage Official Erasure - Sometimes ( Italo Heritage Remix )

total Italo Erasure 😩

(and not some fun remix or cover of Erasure)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mai...

Romanian was right there, Florian 👀
brandient.com/kit-on-roman...

reading that as bónus lettèrs for 30K chars and 120K emoji is more fun 😅