Skua

“I’m definitely not a cop”

Never mind getting the Union Jack the right way up, at least some of those dumb fucks managed to paint the Danish flag on a roundabout because they forgot what the English one looks like

It’s essentially a model parliament, but one that gets contact with the actual government. Under-18s fight for election and hold debates in the same manner as the House of Commons

No, I have absolutely no idea how this makes it “woke” beyond that some people just use the word to mean “thing I don’t like”

Didn’t they start handing blue checks to high-profile people that didn’t ask for them? Some time soon after they immediately became a marker of accounts run by warped knobheads

It’s the day of Stonewall, so there are loads of pride marches, but also it was the last day of the first battle of Seoul in 1950 so the soul was slightly too early

Dvorak during the week to prepare for responsibilities, Beethoven at the weekend to celebrate freedom

I’m a cafetiere fan, but I’ve got a moka pot and a V60 as well because sometimes you just want something else. Getting a nice double-walled pot for ~£20 and some good coffee to put in it is some of the best value for money I’ve gotten. I don’t spend big on anything or go for any fancy gear. There definitely is space to treat it as a hobby/artform and go into all the tiny details if you want, but you don’t need to do all that to get great results

They are popular enough here in the UK, certainly, but I suppose we already had a fairly sweet tooth for our tea. Coffee that isn’t a sugary milkshake does remain the default if someone just says “coffee” though

I absolutely do 1 and 2. 4, maybe on rare occasions? 3, though, can fuck off. Slapping my pockets a bit is just redirecting “forgot which way east was” to “forgot my wallet”; I was a dumbass either way

There is a legitimate chance that I really did forget my wallet though

Hah, that’s entirely fair

Seen Been, because I see him on the TV and he often no longer is

Is it not more likely to be from bàn (pale, fair-haired) than bean? I don’t know much about Irish, but certainly Scottish Gaelic speakers like to use hair colours as sort-of-surnames. Rob Roy is a good example, the Roy part being from ruadh (red, redheaded)

It’s a nice coincidence that Shawnbawn is blond himself, of course

I suppose it could depend on the region? We’ve got a very dense patchwork of dialects and they’ll naturally bleed into one another a fair bit

I think Ireland does. I occasionally hear it here in the UK, though it typically means harvestmen here

I think the story you’re referring to is that NYT itself owns a house in what used to be a Palestinian neighbourhood in West Jerusalem. It’s possible that there’s something about one of the owners, but I do not know about that

The house in question is in Qatamon, which was on the Israeli-controlled side of the 1949 Green Line. It was majority-Palestinian, but most of the residents fled during the war. Israel allowed Jews who had fled from the other side of the Green Line to settle it. In 1984, the NYT bought the house for the use of its Jerusalem bureau chief. It got some attention a while back when the NYT journalist living there read the writings of a Palestinian woman who had grown up there, realised she was talking about the same house (or more specifically, the house that his house was built as an upper floor extension of), and invited her to visit

“Occasional”?

Draught beer (at least in the UK). The board game chequers/checkers uses draughts too. I think the military calling people up would be a draft, but it would more commonly be referred to as conscription

Hey now, it’s a German dialect with French Romantic seasonings! Much clearer, of course

Even worse: dialects of English that use draught don’t use it for every sense of the word. A breeze getting into a room is a draught, but your first effort at writing something is still a draft