One could say the same about Singapore, yet it seems to be here to stay.

If you ever see a dog performing tricks, you know he was a very gay dude in his previous life

Capybaras, hands down.

The UK’s constitutional settlement is a pile of ad hoc arrangements, and thus somewhat of a mess. No pair of constituent nations are in the union on equal terms, in the way that, say, US states or German Länder are.

Wales has historically been regarded as a funny part of England, sort of like Cornwall, whose locals get angry if you don’t pretend that they’re a real pseudo-country without actual sovereignty like Scotland and can put up a fight so you humour them. “England and Wales” is constitutionally one entity with one set of laws and until recently ruled directly from Westminster (there’s now a regional parliament in Wales named the Senedd, though only a few regional matters are devolved to it). Now Wales is nominally regarded as one of the constituent nations of the UK, even if the settlement still often treats it as an appendage of England.

Interestingly enough, Cornwall is now increasingly asserting its nationhood, and you read about people who consider themselves Cornish rather than English, as opposed to Cornishness implying Englishness the way that, say, being from Yorkshire does. The revival of the Cornish language undoubtedly helps.

Don’t love sex too much though or you might become a poor dog or cockroach in your next life.

So glad my TV is a dumb-as-shit model from the early 00s I bought secondhand for about $30

Do the bishops next

Israel: More America than America

This Caligula has a horse for every office of state

Presumably it started as chemistry done badly, and did come up with some discoveries, but as the scientific method got refined and principles were uncovered that didn’t correlate to celestial bodies or folklore, it diverged from the practical and became metaphorical. A bit like Freemasonry starting with stonemasons’ guilds and then gentrifying.

Mojtaba Khameini, the 5 Billion Dollar Man.

This looks like it belongs alongside the piano bars they reportedly had on the upper decks of 747s for a short time after they were introduced.

Werner Herzog would agree.

Presumably by the time the company tax deadline passed, the company would have gone bankrupt, and been replaced by an identical newly-registered company with the old company’s owner’s cousin as managing director, selling the same stock of vapes/American candy/counterfeit labobos without a day’s downtime.

To be conservative, you have to have something to conserve.

Ladies and gentlemen, the smartest man of our time

As always, the alpha got mogged by a figglebottom

That’s not how you draw a Hitler moustache

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I wonder how sales of Canadian flag backpack patches are doing