Les bourgeois – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Basque prefers shitting blood to speaking Spanish

Better hurry up with that Darwin Award.

Do Welsh expats incline to rain-drenched hills?

Nature vs nurture in the Italian Jones tribe.

Peró vs péro

A passing elf just told me that final syllable accentuation was common in early modern northern Spanish, but a couple of verse corpus searches haven’t turned up corroborative scansion. Anyone know any more before I waste the rest of my life on this ;-) ?

¿Cómo se llama una sandwichería para los verdaderamente desesperados?

Hamburgencias, says the most frustrated and unloved naming consultant on the planet.

The virgin of Rocallaura is back

Here. But is it the real one?

Ear, ear

How to get drugs without a prescription on match days.

Cameron to use whales to stop the violence?

Bonus: a rather old cetation/transportacean joke.

Separating egg yolks from whites

Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih KaplanoÄŸlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.

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Spanish unemployment actually < 15%?

The most obvious explanation as to why there’s been no rioting.

Rubalcaba and the German electoral system

Josu discusses what the PSOE candidate might have meant and the possible consequences. Key para: De hecho, sii trasladáramos a España el sistema alemán “entero”, con reparto nacional, umbral del 5%, y con sus excepciones, resultaría que suponiendo unos resultados como los de 2008 (supuesto imaginario, porque la gente vota distinto con reglas distintas) ni…