One thing I can tell you with confidence about the Netherlands is that people there almost invariably overestimate their proficiency in English, so adverts and public announcements and the like in English often have embarrassing mistakes, so I’d put money down that they’re not going to hire a native speaker or perhaps even a chartered translator to check the translations.
They might’ve got the tattoo before South Sudan split from Sudan.
Many of us aren’t American. The assumption that we are remains an annoyance on this website.
That’s the solution I’ve landed on for using Youtube, since Invidious and Piped always cack the bed for me. I’ve deleted my old Google account and started a new one with a fake email address, too.
Well, I don’t agree that making an offensive joke is necessarily being an arsehole, but I suppose you are right in principle.
Now he’s Sitting Straight, I suppose. Sorry, that’s in awful taste.
I wondered the same!
According to this, that seems to be the exception to the rule: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparison_of_pyramids_SMIL.svg
They managed to build a pyramid that can fall over.
At least it wouldn’t fall over.
God, finally someone else is saying it. I feel like a stick in the mud whenever this comes up.
Can you give an example? Because I’ve just looked at Luxembourg, Nepal, and Aruba, and they’re all littered with named buildings and landmarks. Pyongyang even has a fair bit filled in.
Skoda
They’re Czech. The name even has a little thing on the S, officially.
It means “mixed breed” in Portuguese and Spanish. You’d most often hear the word in South America, where it means some particular mixture of heritage as far as I remember.
“Dad’s awfully noisy in the toilet these days!” “It’s his new bidet! He says it cleans his arse to the bone!” “To the bone, you say?”
I think you can find a middle ground between “I assume they’d come and politely discuss it” and “I think constantly whether my every single minor action can offend someone”.
You still occasionally see people talk about their weight in stone, but many just use kilos now, anecdotally.
In my experience, if you’re looking to lose a bit of flab for the summer, you’d say you want to lose six pound to half a stone (which is 7lb) or whatever, but if you go the gym regularly and keep an extremely keen eye on your weight, or if you like to think you do, you use kilos. As a rule, you’d use imperial for eyeballing or for measuring things with a bit of play, but you’d use metric if you need precision.
Well I felt the profit motive went without saying but I think you’re right.