Barcablog (2)
Thanks to Greg at Barcablog for the link. Give him a job somebody (and come on one of my walks as well, you lazy sods)!
Via Al-L, who has dumped the Osama look.
Thanks to Greg at Barcablog for the link. Give him a job somebody (and come on one of my walks as well, you lazy sods)!
Via Al-L, who has dumped the Osama look.
While nationalist politicians continue to exaggerate hugely the number of Catalan speakers (think: lobbying, EU official languages), the new Idescat figures (Idescat is the notoriously unreliable Catalan government stats bureau) on social use suggest that the vast sums spent by the Catalan government over the past couple of decades on persuading and forcing people to [...]
If you search Google for “Flurble gronk bloopit, bnip Frundletrune” it asks - quite fairly in my opinion - whether you meant “Fluble gronk bloopit, bnip Frundletrune“.
Let’s see what kind of ads that generates.
Via Syntactic Saccharose.
“I think the sherry trade could learn a lot from their cousins in Portugal. But of course that’s only if the sherry trade sees any benefit in visitors to their bodegas. I often wonder if they really do.” It’s the old Spanish paradox of shops whose owners seem prepared to go to quite extraordinary lengths to avoid selling you anything, unless that something is guaranteed to malfunction at the first opportunity. Experiences recounted last night of finally persuading a well known department store to relinquish a sewing machine which immediately jammed, the replacement literally falling to pieces whilst being bagged. Why?
A double reflection makes up the man who was born on the thirteenth day of the moon, lost his
throne on the thirteenth day of the moon, and fought the battle of Waterloo on the thirteenth day of the moon:

I wonder if Josephine’s astrological babblings didn’t cause Napoleon’s natural military interest in the moon to be unduly romanticised.