England’s second goal came on a corner kick. Set pieces like that are quite dangerous, especially when you’ve got players who can head the ball well. It happened late in the game, yes, but it was only the 7th corner England got in the game. Maybe if they’d won more corners or actually scored on a million near misses…

Something to note here - German Limonade is carbonated. Try using carbonated fruit sodas in these Radler (or Alsterwasser) recipes. Otherwise the still juice can make the final beverage feel a bit undercarbonated.

What counts as a native language? I still think Spanish would win due to the sheer depth of players but not all of Spain’s national team would be eligible. Gerard Piqué, Sergio Busquets, and Jordi Alba were all born in Catalonia and may be native Catalan speakers. Valencian players may also be native Catalan speakers…

She should have just trusted the process.

Germany’s newspaper with the highest circulation is called Süddeutsche Zeitung. It’s mispelled throughout the article.

Washington fan here:

Robert Lowth in the late 18th Century is the one who decided that double negatives were illogical and bad grammar. They’ve historically been fine to use in English. Shakespeare sure loved them!

That name was usually turned into O’Foley or Foley. Irish surnames in the Irish language are usually quite distinct from their anglicizations.

Ran the Berlin Marathon with a buddy a few years back. At the finish-line, he needed calories stat (being diabetic) but all they had was water and beer. None of the whichever-ade that had lined the course every three kilometers. Just beer. Had to run into a nearby Spar or Aldi to grab non-carbonated calories...

ladda just means “to load” in Swedish. Very imaginative name.

Making Hebrew puns is anti Semitic?

I rolled my eyes when I saw that. If he’d skated to “Dayenu” it would have been enough...

It’s actually die Eismaschine! In the context of the sentence “die Eismaschine” is in the dative so it becomes “der Eismaschine”. But on its own it’s “die”. As in, die Bart die.

This is a rule I did know but I didn’t know there was any remedy to the problem! Last year my friend planned a whole Christmas trip to Germany to see family, discovered the 3 month thing a week out, and ended up canceling. Glad to know there is a way to still get over!

Was in Eyre Sq when Galway won in September. The first time in some 39 years. Great energy and the whole county (aside from the lucky few in Croke Park) came into the city after. We were up till 4 celebrating.

Late to the party but where is the Trabi?

*Who Has Sex A Lot not whom. Donald Trump is not the object of anyone’s sex-having.

Don’t mean to be a pedant but Landesknechte should be capitalized as it’s a German noun. It looks like a polar bear in the desert with that little “l”.

“Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and American Indian Religious Freedom Act.”

Bob Ley stopped by my job once. He was quite unassuming and laid back. Most people didn’t know who he was and he was content to keep it that way. He’s always seemed like a really stand-up guy and this just furthers that perception.