It's a helluva long way, though. Have you seen it? It's all blue. Nothing at all for miles and miles. (View Post)

'W' is just two VVs joined together. 'J' is an 'i' with a flourish. 'Y' is derived from 'ii' where the second i has been written as a j. It all went to pot after they carved Trajan's Column. And, of … (View Post)

Part of the charm of foreign travel is to escape the Anglosphere for a while. That the English can achieve this simply by driving west for a couple of hours just shows how lucky they are. (View Post)

Perhaps modern societies are so disjointed and diverse that only authoritarian governments can hold them together? And when authoritarianism fails the solution is to ratchet it up some more. Sooner o… (View Post)

Given the way people in the public eye are 'unpersoned' and have their career irrecoverably destroyed, even after paying the legal penalty, it's surprising suicide isn't more common. Not everyone has… (View Post)