September 2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Bin can cover -> puede cubrir

Over at Language Log.

French teacher in Madrid doesn’t know any French

I’m a bit unclear as to why there is so much fuss about the tale of Nadia Saffouri–efforts to reduce costs by optimising teaching resource usage are leading to similar situations right across the country, and restrictions on entry to the profession engineered by teaching unions and regionalist nationalists meant that incompetent teachers were already…

An old Dutch A&E joke

And the abbot who thinks little of his neighbour the emperor’s worldly ambitions.

Almería’s LGTB collective to their Polish and Italian counterparts: Let’s integrate us!

No sooner has one bankrupt tribe finished subsidising with someone else’s money a visit by the billionaire Vicar of Christ when an opposing but equally impecunious clan pops up to proxy-finance solidarity tourism by the Spawn of Satan, no less, who might also have been able to pay for it themselves. But the really bad…

Invest your life-savings with Fucked Translation before Ben ‘n’ Merv render them worthless!

Google ads are not what they were never really going to be, and donations have been such a success that until this morning’s happy contribution a victim of comprehensive digitectomy could have counted the euros raised on the fingers of both stumps. But now the game has changed: the Bank of England has indicated that…

Month: September 2011

Bin can cover -> puede cubrir

French teacher in Madrid doesn’t know any French

An old Dutch A&E joke

Almería’s LGTB collective to their Polish and Italian counterparts: Let’s integrate us!

Invest your life-savings with Fucked Translation before Ben ‘n’ Merv render them worthless!

Why are the Germans sweating to provide new loans to Spain?

Lithos by Xavier Cugat at Brok

Seen but not heard

Basque prefers shitting blood to speaking Spanish

The end of the puente aéreo Albacete-Barcelona