Seeadler

I believe that a while ago there was a glut of fantasy novels on the market about the Holy Grail, which became known to publishers as "Cup and Sorcery".

...Greebo?

Even in that particular Tom Clancy fantasy one of the American generals says "no way we do this without the British."

Unironically true if you substitute "politicians" for "kids".

Genuinely bemused by the extent to which the Russian commentariat loathes the UK.

The UK, having had citizens recently killed in their own country by Russians using nerve agents, has a more comprehensible perspective.

No, of course not.

"Please stop that dismal racket, sir, before I cause it to stop myself."

I once sold glue to a woman who proudly announced it was for Britain's Got Talent.
"Is that one of those government youth training schemes?" I asked, sweetly.

I once told a belligerent customer, a grown man, that I would put him over my knee and there would be Tears Before Bedtime if he didn't behave.

The UK has school uniforms but no school shootings, whereas in the USA the opposite is true.

This is genuinely and literally the position of the Spanish Inquisition.

The RAF could use Kristi Noem's jet?

It's nothing personal. There are some things that can be discussed, and some things that can't, and your request for confirmation unfortunately fell into the latter category.

Never has a baby seal been more thoroughly clubbed.

No, I won't discuss the details of the UK's nuclear posture.

It is perhaps worth noting that the British strategic nuclear deterrent, unlike its American equivalent, has a command and control system that is not designed to facilitate a first strike option. Its entire operational and deployment pathway assumes retaliatory, not initial, use.

I don't know why Labour is so anti-Trans given that so many of its politicians are cheerfully transitioning from traditional left-wing policies to virulently right-wing ones. "How dare you make yourself unrecognisable from your beginnings in order to be who you truly want to be" seems hypocritical.

I can only hope that this was in the service of applying leverage to assure the German manufacture of Patriot missiles with which to equip Ukraine.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

this has reminded me of possibly the best book review I've ever seen, an anonymous marxist amazon review of the 1971 children's book "The Elephant and the Bad Baby"

No wonder Trump wants to sue the BBC into oblivion.

Potato pierogi are called "ruskie" in Polish, and there's an Communist-era joke about the waiter coming out and asking "who ordered the ruskie?" and getting the reply "no-one, but they came anyway".

My face is on the cover of a Stephen King novel.

Usually it happens when a foreign author (i.e., someone contextually divorced) cites something wildly biased as being more generally representative – like, for example, a Korean academic citing the Heritage Foundation to argue that "this is the general American perception of the Korean War."

(I have never had an author, in those circumstances, fail to delete their original source and replace it with a substitute. Obviously, I'm just one editor, but it's a 100% consistent pattern *for me*.)

Below-Average White Band

I hadn't considered that distinction! I'll have to think about that.

I can say "this source is unreliable, for the following reasons, and is therefore likely not to meet the journal's quality criteria for inclusion. Is there another source you can use to support your argument that avoids those difficulties?"

When someone insists on repeatedly bending over and showing you their whole ass, it would seem improper *not* to kick it.

This is the post that caused him to block. One in which I actually to the time to educate him on the reasons for my anonymity: bsky.app/profile/seea...