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Top 10 Catalan cities

An example of the complete bollocks with which travel sites think you’ll be satisfied is to be found on Travelcreek, which tells us that:
Gerona is the second largest city in the province of Catalunya after Barcelona and is dissected by the Onyar river.
Leaving aside the fact that Catalonia isn’t a province, Girona hasn’t been on [...]

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Wulong: We plant the rice only. We plant the opium never

Wulong has gone today from being a starving, soaking peasant living in a bamboo hut with his Tosh (1/2) to collecting funds on behalf of Shan secessionists, on which I have no view. It’s too hot.

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German language reforms fail

Satirical mag Titanic has gone one better than publishers Springer & Spiegel, who yesterday deserted the state language reforms of the mid-90s:

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Damn, Firefox is seriously good

Get 0.9 and bin MSIE is the advice of this rank conservative.

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


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