Cameron the Apostate

Good stuff Dr B. I found this link on the Jackson Crawford Discord server earlier - if you get in there quick it might still be visible www.instagram.com/stories/retr...

Who is the far-flung fan?

...I just followed a major culprit. I was tempted to pay an urchin tuppence to take them a note with my club crest on suggesting they might be an ungentlemanly scoundrel too

...honesty is ultimately a much more respectful approach. You can still be polite while saying that no /2

Of late my life has been afflicted by several of those annoying types who say they're going to do something, then...don't. Life's stand-uppers. It shows a fundamental disrespect for other people's time and energy. I know it can be hard to say no at times, but /1

There are healing charms in both Old English and Old High German that both postdate conversion in those regions and mention the Germanic gods, but off the top of my head I don't know of any specifically in Old Norse. I'll see if I can uncover any

*saying it's closing

I gave your article on this topic a 🔌 over on *the other site

@dannybate.bsky.social Yesterday I learned that the Old Norse term for French, the language, was 'valska': an immediately recognisable root if ever there was one !

Edward depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Edward the Confessor, holding court in Oxford, agreed to Northumbrian rebels’ demands to outlaw Earl Tostig #OTD in 1065. The king sent Harold Godwineson, earl of Wessex, to inform the northerners, who were camped in Northampton. #medievalsky

...facility. I had been considering leaving the first permanently....but now I've received an email it's closing so I now have no choice 😢 I wanted to make the decision to go myself, when I was ready, dang it

A frustrating thing in life: how often decisions you've been pondering are suddenly made for you by external forces. Example: I've been using, inter alia, a particular office space in my town since not long after covid. Lately it's been going downhill though, and I'd started using a better /1

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says? NYCNAFOFELLA (Joined Nov '24) How has he shown himself to be unfit? Conor Smith By failing to return €3,300 paid to him in error by a former tenant, going as far as to ignore solicitor's letters NYCNAFOFELLA 3,300 Euros? What the fuck are you talking about? banjogall.bsky.social Think.

NYCNAFOFELLA. Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion? You filthy motherfucking Russian troll. banjogall.bsky.social You seem upset. Who's Gavin Newsom? We're discussing Jim Gavin. NYCNAFOFELLA Looks like this fight against international Putin loving fascists is going international. And who the fuck is Jim Gavin? banjogall.bsky.social Jim Gavin was a nominee in the Irish presidential race, until he pulled out at the weekend due to a scandal whereby he owed a former tenant €3,300. Not sure what Putin and fascists have to do with this.

NYCNAFOFELLA Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

Incredible, incredible stuff. Literally hang this in the actual Louvre.

Turn your PhD thesis into a book for lay readers ;)

Hey Bluesky: any friendly neighbourhood Latinists out there know of a source for the 1980s-era paperback editions of this legendary-but-long-out-of-print Latin textbook?

Hey Bluesky: any friendly neighbourhood Latinists out there know of a source for the 1980s-era paperback editions of this legendary-but-long-out-of-print Latin textbook?

Sophie dog looking appealing

Yes #sophiefromromania, I am eating a biscuit

Alex Jones @RealAlexJones X.com WORLD WAR 4 HAS BEGUN! cc 3:04

Will I be able to follow the plot of World War 4 if I haven’t seen 3 yet?

The edition with the steering wheel splash screen was the first browser I ever used

Well thought of writers like JG Ballard and Roald Dahl wrote brilliant short stories

Before studying Old English I did some Latin at school. It was curiously exciting to realise one day that Latin 'quid' was, thanks to the famed Grimm's Law sound shift, a very clear cognate of 'hwæt'

Good on ya Dr B. I'm sure you and your book will get along famously. (I started reading yesterday lunchtime)

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

Beware of Chinese tattoos if you don't speak Chinese

A distinctive feature of Northern British English: the use of 'love' /lʊv/ as an informal, friendly way to address strangers of the opposite sex. Shopkeepers use it to address customers - "alright love? /əraɪt lʊv/ A variant you will also sometimes hear is 'pet'

Stamford Bridge is less than 40 miles from where I sit

Why are around 98 per cent of the delivery firm and taxi drivers in my area gentlemen of Middle Eastern origin? 🤔

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

Tssk, time the pales learned not to put the ladies on a pedestal. Nothing good can come of it ;)