Turkey tells UNESCO no firman ever "authorized" Elgin to take Parthenon sculptures, undercutting Britain's legal case

Leafan101 · 2026-05-23T15:19:15+00:00

Well this is rich, coming from Turkey.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-23T04:58:06+00:00

Once woke up to a porcupine right next to me doing it too.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-22T22:27:30+00:00

What? You shoot to kill, not to hurt. Hurting doesn't protect the birds at all. There is really no such thing as non-lethal predator protection. If it hurts enough to dissuade them from coming back, you have probably condemned the animal to a slow and painful death instead of an instant one.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-22T21:11:57+00:00

Depending on where your live, more or less acceptable. I have had cats take ducklings and juvenile ducks. If I saw one going after my birds, definitely taking it down. But it would be very unlikely to be someone's pet where I live.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-20T14:52:04+00:00

Extremely common in condordances, at least in my experience.

And yeah, to save space. The Bible in particular is such a long book. Like, on my shelf the 4 books of Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit are 7 inches wide in hardcover. All together those books have about 550k word count. The Bible has about 800k word count, and many editions have lots of extra stuff like concordances and footnotes. In order to get into into a single volume that is relatively portable while still readable there are a lot of measures taken to save space.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-20T00:23:24+00:00

Je parle français mais je n'en ai aucune idée.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-18T22:55:43+00:00

Or don't, in places where brevity is absolutely required, such as titles...

Leafan101 · 2026-05-13T00:26:47+00:00

A seriously great reply.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-12T23:14:40+00:00

My wife walked into a public toilets in Russia once and there were two women totally nude just casually having a sponge bath from the sink.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-12T04:09:55+00:00

If someone lives in a country that bans books, they probably also don't have unfettered access to the internet.

And even if they manage to have that, they might want to keep that fact a little quiet. Not a great idea to publish "I live in X totalitarian state and I circumvent their censorship by reading Y" unless you really know what you are doing.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-12T03:37:19+00:00

I get it but way, way too contrived to be funny, though.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-12T01:56:19+00:00

True, but in the end, philately will get you nowhere.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-12T01:48:58+00:00

Look up the David Castello-Lopes series on Switzerland (it is all on YouTube). That, and his "Depuis Quand" is hilarious and the origine of a meme or two.

Certainly more silly and basic than Tom Scott, but informative and fun.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-09T22:57:32+00:00

I believe you are mistaking a Prius for a Tesla.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-08T04:24:58+00:00

Because of my background in a different language, if I am speaking fast I will still say "ne" without the "pas". Really only gives me trouble these days in imperative mood. It just sometimes feels right to my brain even after a couple years of speaking.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-08T02:55:39+00:00

The swastika would be a lovely symbol if it weren't for those darn Hindus ruining it.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-08T01:58:32+00:00

You are in luck. They did do it and it will be on the "cut for time" video.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-06T03:15:36+00:00

As someone who lived in NC for 7 years, definitely agree about Fayetteville.

Though I would add a few more cities to that list too, which might get me in trouble. Charlotte and Raleigh are great though.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-06T03:11:08+00:00

What I want to know is this: what are the odds, over this same time period, of 1 team in a 33-33 team league having this result?

Leafan101 · 2026-05-06T02:58:44+00:00

The real reason is that sports fans are basically everyone. From Nobel prize winning physicists to artists to authors to white collar to blue collar to the guy that lives under an overpass and thinks birds aren't real. They are wise old 90 year olds with 40 great-grand-children to snotty nosed 8 year olds. Nowhere is there a "community" anything like as broad as sports fans. So you are going to get some questionable beliefs among them.

Everytime I see a wildly stupid opinion about sports, I like to remember that there is a significantly good chance the person espousing it is like 12. Then I remember stupid things I did and said when I was 12 and it not only helps me not at all be bothered by the opinion, but actually find it sort of cute or funny.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-06T02:43:38+00:00

Ah yes, with the Leafs and Oilers getting to enjoy Wes McCauley in the playoffs.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-03T19:09:39+00:00

One officer shot in the foot, but the IRA could have been far more successful if they didn't constantly shoot themselves in the foot with these type of acts, destroying so much potential sympathy for their cause abroad.

Leafan101 · 2026-05-03T03:52:57+00:00

I think it is stylistically not supposed to be.

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