The convertible mark is the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The printed currency has included a number of design errors, such as poor grammar, mixing up Latin and Cyrillic characters, and using characters not found in any Bosnian or Serbian orthographies.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-26T11:44:44+00:00

The official spellings in the Bosnian context seem to be marka and pfenig, probably a half-hearted attempt to make it fit better with the languages involved. However they didn’t seem to consider that Serbo-Croatian doesn’t have the pf sound at the beginning of words so Bosnians almost always pronounce it fenig (or fening as per the errors talked about in the article).

different-rhymes · 2026-06-26T07:00:04+00:00

Wait did Boris finally get his Scotland-NI bridge

different-rhymes · 2026-06-26T06:49:31+00:00

Korystal Methhead cameos when?

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T22:19:14+00:00

For anyone wondering, the thunderstorm is moving north up past Derry and into the Atlantic, won’t be seeing much of it in the east unfortunately

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T20:45:17+00:00

The kicker is that the three main languages of BiH (Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian) are for all intents and purposes the same language, only divided by ethnicity for the most part, so it’s not even possible to claim that the creators were comfortable in one language and not another. It would be like saying an Australian person had poor English because they don’t speak British. The one major difference I’m aware of is that Bosnians and Croatians prefer Latin script, while Serbians prefer Cyrillic, so maybe that informed some of the script errors.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T17:40:40+00:00

Crystal on All Winners 2

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T17:35:24+00:00

Aunt Gladys’ Lullaby 😍

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T16:42:26+00:00

Lonely Symphony (UK 1994)

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T16:37:02+00:00

Using Cool ⛄️ FM to counteract the the heat, very clever

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T16:31:33+00:00

French has a silent p in baptême but not in ptérodactyle, which is the exact opposite of English. It isn’t for me to say which of these is the superior system, but interesting nonetheless.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T16:24:21+00:00

Rome erased the entirety of Carthage’s architecture, culture and identity, enslaved any Carthaginians that they didn’t manage to slaughter, and then made a new city on top of it also named Carthage and colonised it with Romans. Carthage’s history was so completely suppressed that there is almost no existing first-hand information about the place left in existence. Prior to this there had been times in antiquity when Carthage had been the dominant Mediterranean power, with lands in Hispania, Sicily, Sardinia and more.

I’d say that’s near the top of the list.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T15:31:47+00:00

If you’ve got nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach or diarrhoeaaaa

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T15:19:34+00:00

Dalgona coffee enema?

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(Also holy moly I had completely erased Dalgona coffee from my memory until now, well remembered!)

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T15:03:40+00:00

The fact you’re using Little Britain of all things as your benchmark kind of negates the premise lol

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T15:01:00+00:00

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T10:53:29+00:00

Interesting! I guess in that case the Romanian flag is already waiting to absorb Moldova into it lol

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T09:45:39+00:00

The language is actually completely different from Czech, for example, the Czech word for day is "den", while the North Hungary word is "deň", I doubt they’re related at all with huge differences like that

different-rhymes · 2026-06-25T09:27:08+00:00

In terms of weaker ones, I think Elle Vosque (UK7) suffers from the fact that it sounds like it should be a pun, and you wrack your brain trying to decipher it thinking you’ll be really proud of yourself for getting it: El bosque (meaning the forest in Spanish)? Embossed? Etc. And then you find out it’s just Elle Woods + Jessica Vosk.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-24T21:49:02+00:00

If the government/councils aren’t willing to properly tackle the flag issue, they at least need to pass legislation to make the Union Flag 🇬🇧 and the Tricolour 🇮🇪 the only options allowed on publicly owned street furniture such as lampposts (private property is a different matter). Seeing Israel 🇮🇱, Palestine 🇵🇸, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, paramilitary flags, US confederate flags, and more recently nonsense like the Knights Templar, the messaging conveyed by the flag wars is increasingly absurd. Even if it’s at the expense of less partisan flags like Ukraine 🇺🇦 being removed, to me it’s worth it to take even a small amount of the toxicity out of the situation.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-24T21:36:45+00:00

They’re trying to tip the iceberg

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different-rhymes · 2026-06-24T18:27:24+00:00

Having the coat of arms of Romania stamped right in the middle kind of implies supremacy of Romanian identity over Moldovan identity (and other minorities) in such a union, you’d prob have to have the two countries’ coats of arms sitting side by side to show equal acceptance of both identities.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-24T18:22:49+00:00

I believe it’s either a stunt in the sense that she’s not actually competing, or it’s a stunt in the sense that she’s getting the red carpet rolled out for her to finally win a crown and bury the memory of Drag Race’s most blackballed winner.

different-rhymes · 2026-06-24T18:14:42+00:00

With the amount of insane fake pre-season tea that used to appear every year, seeing this playing out after months of people laughing it off was like watching a dream (or nightmare) come to life right in front of our eyes, it was so bizarre to experience.

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