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More than a bar

Posted: June 30th 2009 18:32. Last modified: June 30th 2009 18:50

Advertising on the cheap, and the joys of squatting.

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Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois

Link sink for 28/05/2009

Posted: May 28th 2009 09:39. Last modified: May 28th 2009 09:44

Drinking, driving, cursing.

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Categories: Ball-playing, Drink, Languages, Les bourgeois, Vehicles

Congolese children singing the anthem of Athletic

Posted: May 13th 2009 21:30. Last modified: May 13th 2009 21:33

Some corner of a foreign football pitch that is for ever Bilbao, and I hope they got fed afterwards:

The original strikes me as thoroughly Teutonic:

Let’s not kid ourselves any longer: everything interesting, from nachos to nationalism, was invented by the Germans. Fortunately they tend to be generous about using the proceeds to mitigate the resulting [...]

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Categories: Ball-playing, Les bourgeois, Music

Marathon day

Posted: March 2nd 2009 00:01. Last modified: March 2nd 2009 00:03

Three racing results just in.

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Categories: Ball-playing, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Spectacles

Mugger mugged (2)

Posted: October 21st 2006 09:02. Last modified: June 14th 2009 17:58

There’s a piece on Barcelona pickpockets by Laura Nicolás over at Avui (MT English here–don’t worry, they’re not actually stealing postmen). I don’t often use the metro, but my impression is that the police are considerably over-exaggerating their success, and that the problem is actually increasing.
Metro Line 5 isn’t hugely popular with thieves, but the [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, The law court, Vehicles

El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?

Posted: January 2nd 2005 16:04. Last modified: May 21st 2009 21:48

There is no statistical evidence for claims that the Franco government worked for Real Madrid and against Barça.

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Categories: Ball-playing, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

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  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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