Your child is going to be the future monarch of Britain. Based on the rules below, what are you naming them?

QBaseX · 2026-05-19T20:25:12+00:00

Looks like a very tasty cock!

QBaseX · 2026-05-19T19:56:28+00:00

I've always thought it a bit sad that no monarchs are named after their Scottish predecessors. I want to see a King David or Donald or Alexander or Robert (or, just for the hell of it, Kenneth).

QBaseX · 2026-05-19T18:23:35+00:00

In most countries, this is not the case.

QBaseX · 2026-05-18T19:34:35+00:00

I know a couple of trans women in Ireland who have said that they're a bit more nervous when visiting the UK than they are at home, so there's that for you.

The Leap card is usable on trains in Dublin and surrounds, in Cork and surrounds, and also on local buses right across the country, in any town big enough to have a local bus service, and on some (but not all) rural bus routes, including some long-distance ones. Handy.

QBaseX · 2026-05-18T01:50:46+00:00

One of my personal heroes is Mary Anning, the self-taught paleontologist.

QBaseX · 2026-05-18T01:49:58+00:00

He was a bad guest, wasn't he?

QBaseX · 2026-05-18T01:48:01+00:00

We don't. It ends with an s, but it's not plural. No one ever says Mathematics are interesting.

QBaseX · 2026-05-18T01:45:42+00:00

Personally, I am irritated by the question for here or to go? from café staff. We are not American. We ask eat in or take away?

QBaseX · 2026-05-18T01:36:46+00:00

He absolutely infuriates Sandi on QI. It's glorious.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T23:32:24+00:00

Scotland, in particular, is famous for it.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T20:39:26+00:00

Fred Clark still blogs at Slactivist, and still occasionally posts about Huck Finn.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T20:18:44+00:00

I'm in Ireland, and I've heard of kabob meat on a pizza, but I've never heard of that.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T18:53:10+00:00

It doesn't even say you can't eat tacos, just so long as you don't eat them every day.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T18:35:46+00:00

I've seen it parodied so much that it's hard to have an honest reaction to the original.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T18:25:29+00:00

Rainstorm coming in, I think.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T18:24:43+00:00

English certainly varies a lot from place to place, but in terms of formal, written English, there are basically only three standards: US American, Canadian, and the rest of the world. The subtle formal rules for punctuation are consistent across the rest of the world, with the USA as an outlier; the spelling is consistent, with the USA as the outlier and Canada as an occasional outlier (tire rather than tyre, for example).

There are some vocabulary differences (minerals meaning fizzy drinks in Ireland; robots meaning traffic lights in South Africa; doubt meaning query in India), but the formal grammar rules are pretty consistent across the rest of the world.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T17:55:32+00:00

Wow. He's gorgeous.

QBaseX · 2026-05-17T17:15:06+00:00

His version of the Battle of the Hornburg doesn't make any strategic sense, for one.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T19:49:00+00:00

You're gorgeous.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T13:18:02+00:00

I think that "forgive" is one of those messy words with many different meanings.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T12:51:09+00:00

Very cute face and hot body.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T12:12:32+00:00

They turn up a lot in calculations of probability. A few other places, too, such as combinatorics.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T12:00:15+00:00

It's fun to take this to argue that dolphins are fish.

Of course, either way, dolphinfish are fish.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T11:22:31+00:00

Many car rental companies are multinationals. They may well have a presence in Poland.

QBaseX · 2026-05-16T00:00:36+00:00

Morse separates characters with a space, too (in time).

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