I gave you an antipodean upvote, buddy!

Counterpoint: If people from Europe love the metric system so much, why are their musicians using eighth notes instead of tenth notes?

If somebody’s on a no Fox News policy, here’s another link. Of note, the is one retains the byline from the journalist for the commercial news service who actually wrote the story. Fox News’ “journalist” still cites the original story, but changed almost nothing. They did a classic “change it enough that the teacher doesn’t get mad” edit.

And also, of course best wishes to Ruby and family. :-)

In the realm of 90s Canadian quirky-core folk rock, Crash Test Dummies… Well, I’m cheating a bit. Their debut album is indeed right up my alley, and even today there’s not a miss on it. Alternately funny and maudlin and nerdy, it was jauntily, unabashedly country-adjacent folk. One track even helped with the early chipping away at the walls of prejudice I was raised with as a southern-fried Mormon. I remain very fond of the album, though I only listen to it once or twice a year.

The reason I say I’m cheating is because I really did like God Shuffled His Feet as well, even Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, but “quirky” was broadening into self-parody and even teenage me could hear it on several tracks. A Worm’s Life was… okay, I guess, sort of, but forgettable even for a fan, and nothing the band or Brad Roberts or any of he other members did afterwards really recaptured anything like that magic for me.

Probably not a ton of people representing for a meme-voiced 1.5-hit wonder from the early 90s, but I’ll stand and be counted, LOL.

I’m saying he’s lying.

EK Water Blocks, for those who don’t know and haven’t clicked. They make cooling systems for gaming PCs.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ekwb-reportedly-plagued-with-financial-disarray

Technically, I never said whose Plan A…

For Ireland at least, it seems you’re not wrong.

I don’t know who the co-packer is, but Whataburger-branded spicy ketchup is evidence that there is still good in Texas.

Q-Tips. Every alternative I’ve ever tried fucks it up somehow. too much cotton that it comes off, not enough and it’s scratchy, cardboard sticks that dissolve the second a single drop gets on them, or plastic ones that don’t hold onto the cotton (which is, as discussed, almost certainly already inadequate), and the weight and balance are always off too. Now, I ain’t trying to impact my earwax here (which is very annoying BTW), but nobody only cleans the outside with the Q-Tip.

Now that said, potatoes only is probably not a great “Plan A.”

Jeez, it sure be great if the UK could leverage large numbers of people in Europe willing and able to work and to relocate and pay taxes. Seems like it would be a good idea to have as few barriers to that as possible. If a country did have such a relationship with its neighbors to, I’d even go so far as to say it would be quite stupid to dismantle it.

Probably a jumbled up recollection of the pirated plays people would scribble down to sell to printers or to competing theatre companies.

The First Folio and other “good” sources were probably not directly from Shakespeare’s drafts either, but from revised working scripts that the King’s Men had around. Still a vast jump from there to “weren’t written down until later.”

In general, there’s a lot of needless mystery and “bardolatry” surrounding Shakespeare, when in fact he was reasonably well documented for a commoner, has had every single scrap of evidence for his life and career scoured over a dozen times, had works of uneven quality, and most of what’s unique about him jibes perfectly well with a half-educated prodigy coming in from the country and working in a milieu that was kind of edgy and open to experimentation.

There is, of course, a Canadian alt-country novelty song about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6nod0cmbc

Good songwriters can do some good stuff when they are writing what they know. Bad singwriters can crawl up their own assholes, though. Some good Americana Alt-Country ones:

Mercury in Retrograde - Sturgill Simpson takes on the realities of “success”. Really the whole Sound and Fury album, though; the whole thing is just him raging at the labels and expectations people put on him as “the next Waylon Jennings.”

Bible on the Dash: Life for work-a-day touring musicians. Corb Lund and Hayes Carll actually come up with something useful about a hotel Bible.

Robert Earl Keen:

My Home Ain’t in the Hall of Fame. Checking out of the Nashville rat race.

What I Really Mean: Wistful realities of road life for someone at a different life phase than the one above.

The Road Goes On & On: a vicious diss track at Toby Keith’s expense. REK is like the chill Democrat New-Balance Suburban Dad of brilliant Americana singer-songwriters, so he probably wouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but I will. Fuck Toby Keith.

Eww… I also assume it would sort of melt and tear as you got up, and get in your fingernails if you tried to get rid of it… Everything about this is disgusting…

Upvotes all around!

That weird creamy pleather background gives me the heebie jeebies. I mean, also the insanity, but I may hate that background more.

I think all the other comments have some validity. In particular, the most famous or readily available (and certainly the most readily available for free) translations often were done by a “classy Englishman from the 1800s.” In the case of Latin and Greek, sometimes it was the 1700s.

Another point not yet raised is that the languages will simply convey different things in a single word or phrase, and if you want to maintain that meaning, sometimes tone will take a backseat to linguistic data. Good translations will provide context for what the tone and intended audience would be, as far as we can tell, and also for the translator’s methodologies and biases.

This introduction to a modern translation of Cicero gives, I think, a fairly decent rundown of the difficulties inherent in this process. See page 7; it is a Google Books link, fair warning.

It’s deeper than that. The conspiracy posits that the fraudulent US government holds a certain amount in trust for each sovereign person that they “bought” and that with the right paperwork you can access that money as the natural executor of a trust set up with a similar name to yours but in ALL CAPS because conspiracy, and definitely not because typewriters and dot matrix printers.

Same.