Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

Bong and a crepe?

That’s like having google make a pizza with everything in my fridge then they complain that I also keep the dog’s food in there.

I’ve only had Sal’s a couple of times and it’s always been oily trash… They’re not getting another chance.

… A sunny disposition?

How amazing computer games look now.

I mean, I’m impressed now, on behalf of ten year old me I suppose.

“42”

“The answer to life the universe and everything is 42!?”

“Yes, I checked it quite thoroughly.”

…

“But what was the actual question?”

Alternatively, garbage in, garbage out.

The launch codes are 00000 anyway, so…

OMG that’s even an absolute scale!

“Somebody shit in my pants.”

It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.

Yeah, doing that alone is incredibly stupid. She’s probably luck not to have been shot.

TIL by implication that “in the wild” is different to “in a sanctuary”.

There’s been takahē on Tiri Tiri Mātangi island for years (since at least the 90’s) but that’s a predator free island sanctuary.

Super news!

“There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.” – Nigel Powers

I too am an etymology geek, I had to look up “aptronym” (I already knew there was a word for it, but couldn’t remember it) but already knew “patronym”. I can occasionally work out the approximate Latin roots of words and take a stab at what to search for.

Regarding names’ positions moving around… that’s just people. People name their children all sorts of stupid things that eventually become normal.

For the home of the brave there sure are a lot of scaredy cats.

…but not the slice of ham/meat/whatever beside it?

distraction 100

I could fuck less.

Yup, incredibly variable.

It also tends to trigger debates about whether pictures of said animals count. Which is a good discussion rather than siblings fighting about how ugly the other one is.

There’ll be elections, just like in North Korea and Russia. Totally legit, proper elections with no fraud at all, honest.