small thin dog

I think I'd be a pedalo because I look like I'd be fun but I'm actually just exhausting and expensive

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

The first ever Gladiator twins, MYALGIA and MYOPIA

Hahahaha!

Ok, spouse and I have had a think and come up with STATIN, STENT, EQUITY RELEASE and MAMIL

Can you face the might of... INHALER

And correctly so!

Two embroidered fly agaric toadstools - they are tiny and hidden on the hem on a t-shirt

Mushroom! Mushroom!

Embroidered badger about to enjoy a lovely frothy pint

Badger badger badger badger

You'd think there had been enough fury at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in recent times

I am trying to work with my spicy brain - weaponising my sympathetic animism so I have to put the scissors back where they go every time because otherwise the goose will be sad

Goose statue with a magnetic beak. This one is holding keys.

At least a dozen - but none for the last year, because we now have one of these guys, who sits on the bathroom windowsill and holds them politely! He also corrals all the hairbands around his neck:

Eel spotted on Jersey street after heavy rain causes flash floods A local resident says it was

Sadly not a historical eel, but I thought you might like to see this little guy on an eely big adventure:

BBC News - Eel spotted on street after heavy rain
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And you do not want to have missed an unintended consequence, the courts get very sarcastic about things like that.

Yes! And now I draft legislation, so it is literally my job!

If you haven't seen Lost In Austen (Brit programme from about 15 years ago) it is exactly this with Pride and Prejudice and it is so much fun.

He is gorgeous!

That is Sprocket from Fraggle Rock and I claim my £5

don't threaten me with a good time

That is exactly the aim!

Imagine the extra fabric like a flying squirrel's, um, flaps between the skiiers' legs...

I do hope so.

A tweet from Northern Sparrow reading: Remembering that time in grad school when my advisor, a great ornithologist, got a random call: drunk guy, bar noises in background: IS THIS THE BIRD PROFESSOR? my advisor: um..yes? drunk guy: DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET? my advisor: ...yes *wild cheering over phone from bar*

That makes me think of this, which brings me great joy:

Disqualified from the human race for shoving.

The whole internet is cheering for Milkshake Duck, the formerly canceled duck who went on a successful redemption tour! *five seconds later* Are you fucking serious.

"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I had to look him up, and I can see it. If they need to go younger maybe Craig Parkinson?

I'm re-reading a lot of the witches and head canon is currently Emma Thompson as Esme. On the original 90s reading I had Maggie Smith, Liz Smith and Emma Chambers as Esme, Gytha and Magrat and I'm still sad that none of them are still with us

Ooh, I always see Christopher Ecclestone as Vimes.