This is important

There was a platoon of Gurkhas fighting in in the depths of the Burmese jungle who were captured by the Japanese and put into a POW camp. One of them managed not only to escape, but also to break into the office of the Japanese commanding officer and steal a map. He made his way back to Rangoon over the next several days, and reported into HQ. The officer there asked him how he managed to find his way back. The soldier showed him the map that he had stolen and said he had used it to find his way to Rangoon. The map was a ca. 1930 map of London.

Cuthbert sez

LET'S LEARN FINNISH

The Nokia name comes from the ancient soot marten, a small, black-furred predatory animal that lived on the banks of the Nokianvirta river ... Today the City of Nokia's coat of arms bears the likeness of this animal climbing a blue stream.

LOL ايه؟

Lord Tweedsmuir as Dickson McCunn in...

The Certainty

Learn every possible language (well, uh, like, MOST of them)

Because spammers have managed to take over the Google search results and are asking $200 for public domain language courses, I would like to take this opportunity to point out where you can get free language-learning materials developed by the US Foreign Service Institute (i.e. State Department) for their diplomats back in the 1960s:

http://fsi-language-courses.org/

TA-DA. I'm learning Twi! And by "learning" I mean "totally thinking about learning one of these days."

Cameltoe

Sopivasta materiaalista valmistetut, yleensä kireät housut, voivat painua häpyrakoon, jolloin häpyhuulet ja häpyrako erottuvat vaatteen läpi. Ilmiötä kutsutaan cameltoeksi, cameltoe tarkoittaa kamelin varvasta. Kamelin varvas muistuttaa muotoa, jonka häpyrakoon painunut vaate ja esiintyöntyvät häpyhuulet aiheuttavat. Cameltoesta käytetään myös termiä "hilloviiva".

Queer Quota Quintidi

Helping Johnny Remember from ashleigh nankivell on Vimeo.

God is Love: An important message

YOU ARE WRONG!

La loi de Zipf

The following 106 words make up 50% of all French text:

a, à, ai, alors, après, as, au, aussi, aux, avait, avec, bien, ça, ce (c'), cette, comme, dans, de (d'), des, deux, dire, dit, dont, du, elle, en, encore, entre, es, est, et, était, été, faire, fait, fois, homme, ici, il, ils, jamais, je (j'), jour, la (l'), là, le (l'), les, leurs, lui, ma, main, mais, me (m'), même, mes, moi, mon, ne (n'), non, nous, on, ou, où, oui, par, pas, peu, peux, plus, pour, puis, quand, que (qu'), qui, quoi, rien, se (s'), sa, sais, sans, ses, si, son, sous, suis, sur, te (t'), temps, tête, toi, toujours, tous, tout, très, trop, tu, un, une, va, vais, vers, veux, vie, vous, y, yeux.^[1]

JUST FYI.

The Hat

The first occasion on which the Quaker's hat came publicly and officially into trouble was at the Launceston Assizes in the year 1656, before no less a person than Chief-Justice Glynn. "When we were brought into the court," says Fox, "we stood a pretty while with our hats on, and all was quiet, and I was moved to say, 'Peace be amongst you!' 'Why do you not put your hats off?' said the judge to us. We said nothing. 'Put off your hats,' said the judge again. Still we said nothing. Then said the judge, 'The court commands you to put off your hats.'" George Fox, with amazing simplicity, asked for some Scriptural instances of any magistrate commanding prisoners to put off their hats. He next asked to be shown, "either printed or written, any law of England that did command such a thing." Then the judge grew very angry, and said, "I do not carry my law-books on my back." "But," said Fox, "tell me where it is printed in any statute-book, that I may read it." The chief-justice cried out "Prevaricator!" and ordered the Quakers to be taken away. When they were brought before him again, the chief-justice asked Fox whether hats were mentioned at all in the Bible? "Yes," said the Quaker, "in the third of Daniel, where thou mayst read that the children were cast into the fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar's command with their coats, their hose, and their hats on!" Here was a proof that even a heathen king allowed men to wear hats in his presence. "This plain instance stopped him," says Fox. "So he cried again, 'Take them away, gaoler;' accordingly we were taken away, and thrust in among the thieves, where we were kept a great while." After nine weeks' imprisonment "for nothing but about their hats," as the chief-justice told them, they were again brought before him, grimly wearing the offending head-near. "Take off their hats," said the judge to the gaoler. "Which he did," says Fox, "and gave them unto us; and we put them on again. Then the judge began to make a great speech, how he represented the lord protector's person, and that he had made him lord chief justice of England." The Quakers were incorrigible.

Comments policy

So we have spambots crawling around like ants these days. I try to leave ants alone if they're doing something cool, like carrying their fallen comrades back to the nest or dancing in a top hat or scurrying away in terror or something.

NOT COOL

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Ooh, sounds sexy and dangerous! NOT.
Note also the l33t use of BBCode.

COOL

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I PUT IT TO YOU THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT ADVICE

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Aww. Thanks, Anonymous! You too! I have no idea what 95% of that meant; perhaps you are secretly slinging horrible insults at me. I hope so! ♥

オテモヤン said...

オナニー
逆援助
SEX
フェラチオ
ソープ
逆援助
出張ホスト
手コキ
おっぱい
フェラチオ
中出し
セックス
デリヘル
包茎
逆援
性欲

I know even less Chinese Japanese than Russian, but clearly this is some awesome poetry or something. About sex. 5 STARS.

Burnstanding

It's like punching the fucking ocean, hoping for a TKO, well guess what liberals, YOU CAN'T PUNCH THE FUCKING OCEAN!

Ripping off Láadan

As an experiment, I have for the past while (in private conversations with fellow Qadutu...ers... Qadutuans? Qadutoons? CULTISTS) been trying to end my sentences with "evidentials", little particles that indicate how I know what I claim to know. The ones I've been using thus far are almost entirely based on Láadan, 'cept (1) I simplified slightly and (2) per umu's suggestion, I have dropped the actual Láadan words in favour of acronyms for English phrases carrying more or less the same meaning:

/srs
(SRSly)
Known to speaker because perceived by speaker, externally or internally

/ov
(ObViously, or, OV course!)
Known to speaker because self-evident

/tad
(oh sheesh y'all, 'Twas A Dream!)
Perceived by speaker in a dream

/sih
(So I Hear)
Second-hand information

/ii
(I Imagine)
Imagined or invented by speaker, hypothetical

/wk
(Who Knows)
Used to indicate that the speaker states a total lack of knowledge as to the validity of the matter

Theology

The Human Dilemma (2010) Redux

note: you mention your desire to "possess" that which you find beautiful. This doesn't bring you in to conflict with "our dishonest and stupid society", since these are just the type of attitudes that are espoused by our society, that we are supposed to exhibit, because they maintain our subservience to consumer capitalist society. This is the path of life, and it is a false path. Death is eternal, and to accept this is to set yourself free. In the end, we must rid ourselves of all possessions, if we are to truly achieve mental harmony ('cause in the real world, we can just keep accumulating and hoarding all we want, but it'll destroy our souls). This is the Human Dilemma (2010).

SPIDER-MAN

Is he strong? Listen, bud / He's got God inside his blood

Fifteen

The forty laurel leaves under the lake-ice could tell a secret:
Best to keep it close to your heart, right? Don't try to sleep it
off, or turn away from the pain of the Builder's game —
even he remembered once, though now he tries not to show it.
In the moon and the moonlit snow,
the way out hides in plain sight.
Follow it down the hole.