Animal sawdust

JG Kohl, in Petersburg’s markets at the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria: The anatomical dissections of a Russian butcher are extremely simple. Bones and meat having been all rendered equally hard by the frost, it would be difficult to attempt to separate the several joints. The animals are, accordingly, sawn up into a…
Dog meat soup at Kaesong Folk Hotel, Korea.

Badger

French: to swipe a badge over a reader to access space or information. This digital harassment furnishes a nice spurious retrospective etymology for the British badger, to molest. Don’t bugger badgers or badger buggers.

The Tory Scumbank

How to fund Jeremy Corbyn’s “people’s QE” without killing off the Bank of England and destroying the British economy.

Parece que nos gobiernan enfermos mentales

Dixit Eladio del Prado. Pros/cons? Is it PinC to note that Albert and Inés look like every parent’s dream kiddos (bussing her family up from Jerez was a masterstroke, & not just in terms of the voters who recall that journey), while Mariano and the rest really fail that test?

Super-beggar

– Give me some money to buy some food. – No. – I’ve got terminal cancer. – You had it three years ago. – It’s got worse.

She’s got me by the balls

Castration is still legitimate justification for the cancellation of a marriage in Iran. But is there any restriction on DIY? “Khomeini concludes that a man may have intercourse with a girl under nine years old and divorce her without restriction,” so it would seem most unfair if that exit route were precluded. Danton having a…