Hinged seems like a great candidate for a slang term. Like, that guy’s totally hinged. Logically, I would use it for people that seem to have their head on straight, or things that make sense.
Hinged seems like a great candidate for a slang term. Like, that guy’s totally hinged. Logically, I would use it for people that seem to have their head on straight, or things that make sense.
No point mentioning these ponies, I thought—the poor bastard’ll see them soon enough.
Good luck in France! I’m still hoping we can turn things around, but I certainly won’t judge you for leaving.
Whole lot of priveleged accelerationists ITT. Good thing most of them were probably never going to bother voting anyhow.
That sounds like the kind of fact that they’d have had on an early series of QI, only to retract it in a later series and redistribute points.
Just checked, looks like that story comes from an 11th century Persian epic poem, Shahnameh. It doesn’t seem to be referenced in that article, but is discussed in this one.
Thank you for introducing me to this word! Quite an anarchic rabbit hole.
Fair enough, it’s been years since I saw it. It was the actor on the far left that I didn’t recognize. Looks like Brendan Gleeson.
I haven’t seen The Last Kingdom, but I have to assume this is either a scene from that show or else some kinda Photoshop mash-em-up. I don’t recognize this scene from the LOTR films, and I don’t think the actor on the left was in them (or at any rate, not as one of the Rohirrim).
Not sure which song you’re quoting from, but it’s referencing this Woody Guthrie song. I’m mostly familiar with it via Nanci Griffith’s excellent cover on Other Voices, Other Rooms, and I had forgotten that Woody Guthrie wrote it. Thanks.
One thing I haven’t noticed anyone else mention is that the literacy data being referenced here seems to originate from the PIAAC, an organisation that I wasn’t previously familiar with. I was curious about their methodology, since I also thought the quoted rate was shocking. The thing is, according to this FAQ, they only assess in English. So the number of people who are actually illiterate is inextricable from the number of people who are literate in another language, but haven’t learned English yet.
I wouldn’t say that. But I do think 90% of society probably isn’t worth interacting with through the medium of current social media.