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I usually hear it described as "Dutch sounds like an extremely drunk German trying to speak English," which feels right, but knowing English and school German I still can't make heads or tails of spokem Dutch.

Written Dutch is much easier to learn than German however, with less oddball pluralization, only two grammatical genders, and none of this noun declension nonsense.

An Unicorn wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 2:52 am I usually hear it described as "Dutch sounds like an extremely drunk German trying to speak English,"

Ha, I like that.

"Plug-in solar panels are coming to a shop near you" - BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3y6398nwo

A good thing, sure, but could they damage the profits of the energy companies and their shareholders?!? :'( :'( :'(

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Is Labour left-wing or right-wing?

Left: 64% (+6)
Centre: 7% (-3)
Right: 5% (-7)

Via @YouGov, 22-24 Aug (+/- vs 15 Jun)
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"

These same recipients probably think marine le pen's left wing

[Guardian]
"OpenAI's George Osborne says"

Just fuck off, love.

Late news breaking...

Is it just me who thinks Queen Victoria in this photo looks like she could have the abdomen and legs of a spider?

She's actually 77% bumblebee

so much for zack polanski i guess

poor the greens, and everyone involved

also i often wonder what radlord thinks of Netanyahu these days, considering how much he mentioned him 20 years ago

I like the way that the greens only coming second with five times the vote of the tories/lib dems is now a sackable offence for some reason

The football managerification of politics

"If you're not first, you're last"

a wise man once said

Govt - STORE FOODS AND WATERS! EVERYTHING IS FINE!

Don’t panic

Also: panic!

I bought a big bag of rice

I have 10 tins of potatoes forming a triangular shape against the wall.