I appear to have run out of sense. I managed to get into an Internet Argument. About Christianity and abortion. With someone I have promised myself not to argue with, and an anonymous and apparently hardline Christian. And got so agitated about it that I didn't get any work done, and gave up in disgust and left my book and my mobile phone at work ( Read more... )

For cartesiandaemon who blogged about it and redaloud whose curiosity was piqued:

( worksafe Amsterdam public art )

There aren't very many false friends in Swedish. Or at least, few that aren't transparent with a knowledge of Scots and German. But most English speakers take a while to get past the initial shock of seeing SLUT written everywhere in large letters. In fact, it simply means end (and is pronounced to rhyme with shoot, not with shut).

( examples, some of which are naughty )

( you will not be surprised to learn that sex is mentioned under the cut )

I am back in Sweden. doseybat is here, and we have been trying new and interesting food. Baby kiwis! Giant hairy lychees! Also some exciting pink and healthy stuff which Wikipedia hasn't heard of and Google has barely heard of. After some effort, we traced its origin to Korea via Belgium, meaning that most of the available information is in Dutch (that is ( Read more... )

So, you know that old joke about How do hedgehogs make love? Well, ( cut for (somewhat im-)mature content )

Today I lost my Punvezna'f Tnzr virginity. Lots of other exciting things happened too which I will write about later.

So when I found my Amélie icon, catwithclaws pointed me to a whole collection of alternatives. I hated nearly all of them, except one by sevenages. So the question is, should I change over to this one ( Read more... )

This is based on an idea I got from jpallan. It's a bit like one of those memes where the poster gives everyone compliments, only in reverse: you get to pick your own compliment! Radios, not ticky boxes, cos I'm mean like that ( Read more... )

So I started my journal exactly two years ago today. Since then ( excessively nerdy stats )