How I tried to vote PP and ended up electing a freaking dentist
Blueout in the election of the beards.
Month: November 2011
Filipinos vs filipinos
Lexical roots of the eurozone crisis
Any Nyanja speakers out there?
Help me with Elube, please.
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¿Cómo distinguir a los súbditos de Felipe II en general de los naturales de las islas? Quiero explicarle a alguien que saldrá hablando como un filipino de la primera categoría.
PIIGS > stable > stability pacts. (If voters consistently elect free-spending hucksters who promise they’ve found a cure for boom & bust etc etc, then isn’t moaning about a democratic deficit as the bailiffs move in ever so slightly pathetic? They had their democracy, but they traded it in for pizza and the X Factor.)
I suppose that the use of “their” followed by “you” at the beginning of these parking fine instructions can be explained either as fucked translation or as an attempt to encourage a neighbourliness unusual in these parts, but I think the glorious use of “him” at word sixteen crowned by the subsequent “he/she” degenderisation clearly…
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians