Poh-tayh-toe:
Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria, various African nations, and Guinea. They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.
Category: scotland
Rearranging Europe:
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
The heck with tradition:
If you’re going to a Scottish Rent-A-Kilt place, you have to swear to wear underwear with it. “Though Scots like to prance/About in their kilts wearing nae pants/Fir the next punter make it fair/Dinnae firgit to wear a pair.” and this gem: During the First World War, some Sergeant Majors reportedly used mirrors tied to [...]
Well, that’s no fun:
Uniformed officers burst into Lulu Matheson’s house in the village of Shieldaig, Wester Ross, kept her son Gus in his bedroom for two hours, handcuffed her grandson Stephen, and turned the house upside down. The high-profile afternoon raid involved three squad cars, seven officers and sniffer dogs. They told the family they were looking for [...]
Question for observers of the British political scene:
Is there a real difference you can see between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair as Prime Minister? Just got done watching The Deal (which was very good) and was wondering…
OK, I’m handing out presents to all you good little niblicks:
For all of you yarn harlots out there. You know who you are, and I hope you got a skein in your stocking. For anyone who worked retail, and especially big-box electronic stores; the story of how Circuit City managed to put its own eye out in the race to out-cheap on the staffing costs. [...]