“Halt or I’ll remove some stones from the sole of your boot and then open a tin of beans!”

Switzerland has a tiny standing army, all males between certain ages are potential conscripts and therefore have weapons at home. But no fucking ammo. US gun nuts love to cite Switzerland but they don’t realize that this is what a “Well regulated militia” actually looks like, rather than carrying a loaded assault…

nice one, centurion

The alphabet that these kids are being taught in the school there:

This world would be a far better place if gorillas, chimps, bonobos and orangutans were the only great apes. 

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear that Chomsky is being a contrarian arse about something. 

VERY. Good. Gorilla. 

I think I need to hire a cleaning company, because there seemed to be an enormous concentration of dust in this room when I watched that video. 

With a (conservative) estimate of 125, 000 Poles living here in Ireland, I’m kind of following them, because they are also crazy Catholics who know how to drink and are therefore fun to be around. But damn, if that wasn’t a fun goal.

“British accent”?

Having lived in England for several World Cups/Euros, my only regret is that I won’t be there in person to drink their tears as their hideous press and horrible fanbase talk them into delusions of grandeur only to have it all end in stupid and/or heartbreaking fashion. Fuck En-ger-lund.

Look at some of the asses he’s shared various televised shoutfests with (let alone what he sees when he looks in the mirror). The only way this could be more accurate is if he said he loved “suppurating boils” s/t David Simon

They were a truly terrifying weapon during WWI. There’s a ton of anecdotal evidence about Londoners being so entranced by these gigantic silver shapes in the sky that they stayed outside during Zeppelin bombing raids just to look at them. And, of course, there was almost no defence against them until very late in the…

It’s probably a myth, but the received wisdom at my university is that they have double the number of invigilators at Law exams because they’re elite-level at cheating.

I’d hazard a guess that the prat who did this is from the UK. McCann reference and use of the word “nonce” for instance

Actual medieval stocks were frequently a death sentence: passers by could do literally anything to the person so held, not excluding rape, insertion of foreign objects into anus, lighting of small fires, castration... and that’s just around the back. People would be beaten to a pulp, have teeth pulled out, eyes…

tru, dat, but Winnipeg is doing OK, and so are a couple of the Southern/Western expansions. And it’s a whole new NHL in the post-cap era..

Memo to potential QC NHL team: Advise all security staff to detain Patrick Roy if he attempts to enter the front office

These are excellent and accurate opinions and I completely agree with all of them.

QC’s biggest issue is always going to be the almost entirely Francophone nature of the city. I remember one of the Stastnys complaining that his children had to learn French and of course that will allegedly make it very difficult to attract free agents there... but hell’s bells. It would be a madhouse each and every…