He also has a tail

Yeah I would have that view also - possibly common to all primary educated Irish. Maybe if a crustier more PIE language neighbour like Lithuanian or Greek won the global cultural victory these things would not even make sense, but we got the branch-hybrid obsessed with discrete words.

This is agam rather than orm but I have no doubt the many and complex uses of the orm form have also led to misty Facebook memes misrepresenting what it's up to

If a police officer pulls you over and says "An raibh tú ag ól a mhic" and you say "Ah bhí pionta nó dhó agam", you are not conveying the message "One or two pints were at me, in my vicinity, due to the transitory nature of property", you are conveying the message "I had one or two pints".

Languages are not skins for each other, they don't translate directly 1:1 with every single word and syntactical element intact, and you can't be looking for primitive communism in grammatical construction from a language whose great epic is about people arguing over who owns the best cow.

Sexually assaulting a child burglar who is your brother: the Arsenal way

Gradually catching up on Antiques Roadshow's Eric Knowles

Is my job "restoring antique furniture" or is it "news journalism", you wouldn't know from the above.

True but the Germans had a few defeats over a similar period and it hasn't diminished their enthusiasm www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Thank you to the civil servants of the English crown in the 18th and 19th centuries for making me like this

The fake-but-almost-real nature of "MCENNEDY" is driving me nuts also. 1990s Japanese game port coded

Basically, Bitcoin loyalists, you are overestimating how important any of this is to anyone, and if anyone is conspiring against the price it's for brainless algorithmic finance bro micro-reasons. Twilight of the idols.

I'm not a business guy but I have to say the general feeling on Bitcoin is one that almost exactly matches "bemusement", including among people who have had Bitcoin in the past and people who understand it no further than "it's computer money"