“Well, you thee,” he lisped, “for yearth I thought that ethicth wath an Englith county.” Bad Muslim, fucking cool Muslim: vote Ahmed Aboutaleb (via). Rotterdam, probably the ugliest city in Western Europe, but in terms of linguistic expression second to none.
Keep it short and snappy. “Allah is great and you’re all going to die” = fail. Don’t show your full hand. You’re going to beat your women? Fine! but “It’s only a small stick” = fail.
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A verisimilar vignette, from the English sketch and the German/Dutch echt, Yiddish עכט, “real”: El juez de la Audiencia Nacional Javier Gómez Bermúdez ha imputado por un posible delito de humillación a las víctimas del terrorismo al guionista y director de ‘Tuerka News’, Facu Díaz, y le ha citado para el próximo día 15 en…
“If any good grain is taken out by this trunk…”, with some other great photos of the Hook Norton brewery and of Shepherd Neame (I always think of it as Shepherd’s Neame; why?) in Faversham, over at Martyn Cornell’s beer blog.
I’m not a big fan of Presbyterians (anagram check), but to their credit it’s more than 300 years since the Kirk had Thomas Aikenhead killed for speaking out of turn. What we need from the “moderate” Imam of Drancy is not condescending “tolerance” and “pardon” for all of our sodomites and Jewboys and funnymen, but…
Google Street View won’t let me cross the border from Holland to Germany, and I’ve lost their phone number. Help! Aka: whatever happened to all those old border posts?
