I swim and run. I now swim about 2 times a week, 3 when I can, and run 3 times a week. I used to swim 5-6 times a week, but I reduced it in order to make room for running.

Beyond the general horror of this and everything else, I have to ask what the hell he had in mind when he had this picture taken? “I want my constituency to be absolutely certain that I am not only incompetent but also an axe-murderer?”

We’re done for today, bye!

Just stop.

Basically, you can swap “cat” for “child” in the above scenario and it will be pretty accurate.

A+

Stars for inviting James Franco, he’s sure to hear your call and come.

Careful now

Somehow I feel like this article could have been on Lifehacker, contentwise.

Chicken salad.

duh

yikes

And right after that Murder She Wrote!

We’re so lucky to have politicians of such high calibre.

Shady?

Excellent kinja.

Could be.

I still like him.

Yeah, I know, although it seems to be like data in that you get variation that shows more or less awareness of the original structure. Of course, there are plenty of definite articles in loanwords that speakers aren’t aware of, like in algebra and so on.

So while language use is flexible and so on, and everyone can do what they see fit, the phrase hoi polloi doesn’t need a definite article before it, because hoi means ‘the.’