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Well, it is pronounced "blow high" (or something pretty close). And to continue the fun facts, English used to have the word "haye" which is related to the Swedish word, but we stopped using it in favour of "shark". Since it sounds like a greeting (as does "high" for that matter) as well as a common feedstock for animals (hay), we'd probably use the alternative "hayefish", with or without the 'e', if we hadn't dropped it altogether.

In retrospect it was probably a mistake to let Russia get away with occupying Crimea back in 2014. The rest of the world opted for the quiet life and hoped it would stop there. Unfortunately it only emboldened certain individuals within Russia to start meddling again, thinking that everyone else had gone soft.

Well we'd certainly let our guard down, no mistake there. Gone soft is an entirely different matter. As they're now finding out.

The other half to this is not to advertise on every post you come across even if it seems relevant. Knowing where and when to do it is a fine art that I'm not going to pretend I have good advice for. Advice, sure. Good, maybe not.

Too much means that people will notice and you might be accused of spamming (or worse, ignored or banned), but knowing how much is too much is the tricky part. It almost certainly varies by place and time as well, so it might be a case of lurking around and getting a feel for things.

So I checked a bit more and pre-Boxxy Catie and the copypasta both appeared online in 2006, so it's probably not a parody of her specifically, just girls like the Boxxy character Catie created. Funny coincidence about the name though.

"We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against what we say we believe to be military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities."

The important unsaid part needs to be in there. Whether an opponent actually puts military installations inside civilian locations or not (generally a bad move), this gives war criminals carte blanche to bomb whatever they feel like.

The original meme has the person's name as "katy", and Boxxy's real name is Catie, so whoever wrote the original might well have been parodying her.

Edit: After a bit more research, there's the tiniest sliver of a chance it might have been based on her pre-Boxxy online activity, because it pre-dates her use of the name, but it's probably nothing to do with her.

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None of Northern Ireland, England, or Scotland are countries

This is false. Every single one of those is a country. They're considered constituent countries of the larger country.

Even Wales remains a country despite the fact that, for certain royal and administrative purposes, it counts as part of England. That's why there's no dragon or other Welsh indication on the Union flag, to the rightful annoyance of the Welsh, when there are English, Irish and Scottish flags blended into it.

Further proof they're all countries - not that this is strictly necessary - is that they each have their own parliaments.

White, rich guy from apartheid South Africa accuses country of tyranny after it locks up a person white supremacists look up to.

Hmm. Hmmmm.

Police police police police. Police police police police police police.

"I'm not touching you I'm not touching you la la la la I'm not touching you"

Something something former one-child policy preventing people from learning how annoying this is as children and so do not realise they are acting childishly as adults.

(NB for China fans: Yes, other countries act childishly too, but China's supposed to be better than that, right? Right?)

Yeah, it needs to be called xxxShinybugOfFIREEEEExxx or something because then it would sound like every other browser but with edginess up to 11 /s

Small cakes baked in greaseproof paper cups are called buns in some parts of the country, but they're about a quarter of the size of the US-style muffin. They're also known as fairy cakes, party buns and possibly a handful of other names to avoid confusion with other baked goods that may also be called buns.

The person who said that many of us here think of the US-style muffin when muffins are mentioned is telling the truth. (Edit: clarification)

Now if you want a local delicacy (I use the term loosely) that has a well-known name and origin within England, with widespread appeal and no doubt large consumption, look no further than Yorkshire puddings. I ate one myself earlier today as part of a meal.

I am reminded of that one guy who retyped an entire credit card agreement with clauses in his favour, formatted it to look like the original, then signed it and sent it back.

But at that point the stories diverge because he got away with quite a lot of "abuse" before they cancelled his card... and were required to pay his cancellation fee.

... or do they, because this Cop29 story seems to suggest that the Saudis have not only done this in the past, but they've been given secret permission to do so.

"Aw. Did you think we were friends? Haha. You're brown. When we said we didn't have a problem with racism, we meant we have lots of it and don't think it's a problem. Even if you were to fully embrace Russian values as well as worship Putin, we'd still despise you. Still though, do you have any weapons you'd like to sell?"

Instagram and Facebook feeds already work a lot like this. They throw in a few random posts between the ones you're actually subscribed to see and after a while you'll realise the random ones are more of the sort you lingered on for longer and there aren't so many of the others.

The problem, for both the viewer and the content server, is that this technique gets stuck in local maxima, that is, after a while it tends to serve exclusively one kind of unsubscribed content and stands little chance of broadening into the viewer's other interests, assuming there are any.

From an outside perspective, this is a good thing in a way because it gets that viewer out of the clutches of the content server for a while once the viewer is sufficiently bored, but it's a bad thing if you're a viewer hungry for content, and especially bad for the content server who is desperate for that viewer to stay, eyes glued to the site, where they will see more of the advertisements that pay for everything.

I never said what he did was right, only why he might have done it.

We like Linux, but not to the point we're aping Steve Ballmer.

(If this is lost on you, search up "Developers developers developers" along with his name.)

Rumour has it that Charles is incredibly angry about the whole thing and Andrew is very much in danger of being cut off completely if he doesn't keep his head down, so while Charles has paid people off, he has not forgiven or forgotten.

There's also that he wasn't king at the time he made those payments and may have been protecting their mother rather than his brother at the time. Andrew, idiot though he is, was the Queen's favourite.

Had the Queen already been dead and Charles been king at the time the news broke, he might well have let Andrew suffer the consequences.

"We could have shut them all down immediately but too many rich people might have lost money, and even though that wouldn't have caused them any appreciable hardship whatsoever, we absolutely had to give them a chance to prepare."