Karl McDonald
@karlusss
Report to him, then, that we must have a battle first; for we have had no breakfast. Irish Times assistant news editor and person with too many arcane interests to be worth following.
Have I ever read an actual NYRB edition? Don't think so. Did I nonetheless check the catalogue and pick what I would bang on about? :
The confidently wrong AI summary box strikes again. Someone could accidentally use the term dindsenchas in modern Irish, breaking the leathan le leathan rule!
One of my hobbies is when I come across a prominent Dutchman I check on Wikipedia to see what his much more dramatic real name is. Author "Cees" Nooteboom here.
Thought it might be time to learn what the first line of the Odyssey is in the original Greek, but thanks to Google I now have a new annoying bit which is asking if people know the first line of the Odyssey in Greek only to say "the first line of the Odyssey" in Google Translate Greek.
How far does this have to go down before he's not a trillionaire any more
Very much doesn't matter. It's football and it can even work either way: your team can be hated because of general history and geopolitics (England, e.g.) or your country can be hated because of on-pitch stuff (ask an Algerian what they think of Austria)
It's good butter but you're not going to convince any true butterheads if you're posting mushroom-flavoured butter as your example, sorry.
Thank you to AI for summarising song lyrics, a very helpful thing to do that is undoubtedly what everyone wants when they google song lyrics
While looking for something else I have come across this Facebook comment in which a Florentine volunteers a poisonous hatred of Pisans for no reason. These places are so close that you could travel the distance between them entirely in the St Louis urban area. Cultural differences.
Found this character in addition to 6,000 bees and also some kind of blue damselfly and so on. Has been a good year for insects: we have a deal where I can biomesh the potatoes if I just don't bother weeding 80% of the garden ever.
Best thing about the other place since the coup is the arrival of autotranslated Japanese tweets into the main feed. There's loads of them and they're in the replies saying things like "beef is delicious huh" and also this:
This is surprisingly densely offensive for a post ostensibly supportive of the Celtic languages!
Watched the Rainmaker last night and I think it's clear to me at this stage that "Deck Shifflet" is the best character name in the history of cinema.
There's a fella on Instagram who goes around the Isle of Man explaining the derivation of various placenames (it's usually Old Norse for 'steep hill' although sometimes it's Gaelic). In one video he appears to be standing in a hole, which in itself is very Gaelic.
Just keep increasing the number of Lib Dems and everything will be alright.
The Kiwi integration of Maōri words and concepts into wider anglo life is really interesting. There are many words for a whānau in Irish, but you're never going to get Aer Lingus welcoming you to Sliocht Aer or Fine Aer or even Clann Aer
The shiny grey rounded rectangle from the US Navy meal has some of the worst vibes ever emanated by food. Initially thought it was fish, then maybe some kind of composite vegetable block, but appararently it's "precooked gyros".
So there's this big glowing orb in the sky that sustains all life on earth and illuminates the solar system...
If you crop off most of Swift's hair, he looks like a contemporary bald fella you might see in the pub imo
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Furious at Google Translate. This man is carrying a pike to a meitheal, a day of cooperative labour which in his case I imagine involves hay-saving. Bringing butter to a meeting, swear to god.
Dublin officially declared a kip in 1775 by its own Lord Mayor, demanding that the residents of the city clean up or he will hit them with the full consequences of the law