An Italian libertarian tells me that she and some friends booked to Burning Man were surprised to land in Solihull. Refugees from London are now rowing up the M6 to Burning Man aka Birmingham, Brighton and then Bath and Bristol having become too expensive, but best British value is still to be found in Boro,…
News from Valencia. Did PP, PSOE, CiU … get together with the CEOE 30 years ago and agree a Spanish standard for corruption which would serve them up their golden eggs without killing the goose? The Deutsches Institut für Normung doesn’t specify anything, but is there an emerging European standard? When do I get my…
The emerging narrative seems to be that the mass sexual assaults in Cologne and other places during the New Year celebrations confronted on the one hand white left-wing institutional racism and sexism (brown men can do no ill, for all Rolf Jäger’s (misreported?) fine words) with on the other hand brown right-wing popular racism and…
Adelante: ‘Ice e-skating,’ said Marta.‘Ice skating,’ said Domingo.‘Ice e-skating.’‘No, no. No e. Ice skating. Try it again.’Marta hesitated.‘Go on!’‘Ice es-kating,’ she said, with deliberation.Domingo smiled. ‘Don’t worry about it. It’s a common problem for Spaniards. Two consonants together causes a difficulty. I have conquered this issue after a long time. But you are unlikely to…
Binge drinking in the UK starts at 14 units, in Spain at 35. Must be the sunshine. Someone commented that he’d prefer an extremely painful fatal liver cancer to rotting away when neither he nor anyone else can remember who he is, but in fairness to the Health Taliban the latter syndrome is already affecting…
Imagine, we vote out and then discover that the EU Cookie Directive continues to affect us. That would be a right fecker and it might be harder to sue the Comission for our collective RSI. Swine.
Heart attack territory, just watching it. The Puente de Castilla-La Mancha, the highest bridge in Spain, is a 74 million euro white elephant that deserves to be better known. But Jesus. More. And unlike the Spanish I didn’t mention testicles or ani.
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