For a modernising party, Ciutadans have got off to a terrible start in their dealings with the new media, including some quite startling and prolonged incompetence in dealing with the guys at Nihil Obstat and Barcepundit. Now it seems that Ernesto Hernández Busto has been told by those on high to turn off Ciutadans en…
Just had a chat with an associate of “Tío Lele”, responsible for a protection, ahem, scheme in Poble Nou and other parts. It is said that everyone’s favourite uncle is a bit disturbed about the apparent lack of progress on his website, which it had been understood would be appearing on OkieDokie.com.
Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: For they say the king of Portugal cannot sit at his meat, but the giants and the ettins will come and snatch it from him. (Beaumont and Fletcher, The knight of the burning pestle (1613)) I think that means that an ettin/eten/etayn is not, or is not…
Here, via WonkaPistas. If we forget Oaxaca and a couple of other disfunctional states, then in Mexico we find a much greater interest in providing value for money for parents and children than in Spain, where it is widely accepted that individual rights should be subordinated to those of invented collectives. You don’t have to…
Modern law generally accepts the principal of individual responsibility, particularly for serious crimes. Warée in Curiosités judiciaires (1859), cited on this excellent and highly entertaining French criminal law site, gives an example of how not to proceed: In a Spanish village a tailor was sentenced to be hung. The inhabitants went and found the judge…
In Argentina. In Kilburn (thanks Dave). (First mention in Corde is in Ventura de Peña y Valle, Tratado general de carnes (1832). That marrano means pig as well as a renegade converted Jew is probably explicable in non-cannibal terms, although with these Frankish types you never know.)
WonkaPistas has done the numbers. S/he also kicks around the notion of a direct relationship between a fall in the PSC vote and a rise in that of ICV or IpC or whatever the commies call themselves.
Old man in coffee bar: “All this stuff from Ciutadans about encouraging bilingualism is a load of bollocks. I speak five languages, yeah, honest: Spanish, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Argentinian and Mexican.” (This uses the same basic material as the one about the prostitute advertising her knowledge of modern languages: Cuban, Greek, French etc)