This show is so stupid amazing. Now to be honest, I can't really approve of their methods all of the time, but is it entertaining beyond belief? You betcha.
This is your gateway drug episode:


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 OldEnglish OldNorse
 singularplural singularpluralnominativestānstānas armrarmargenitive
stānesstāna armsarmadative
stānestānum armiarmumaccusativestānstānas armarma
Okay, so what we have here is Old English on the left with the various conjugations of the word "stone", and Old Norse on the right with the word "arm".
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I've been playing Tomb Raider nonstop for the past two days. It is a stupid, wonderful game. It features some lovely improbable story about the megamyth of Arthur, King of the Britons. The highlight of the game so far, in my opinion, has been driving a forklift.
That's right: a forklift.


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I got my medieval dress in the post today. I got halfway through opening the package, stripped to my knickers, and then finished opening the package BECAUSE I AM COOL LIKE THAT ( Read more... )

Books purchased which are necessary for courses ( Read more... )

I fail at being female sometimes. Surely I must, to want these so badly. But I wants them!
( Sooo pretty. )

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This brings to mind the amusing fact that "buggers" is, etymologically speaking, just a term for Bulgarians. I feel like I should write a letter to Ron Weasley.

However, by Saint Loy I know
his moral code is just as low
as that of those on Mount Wimer:
for woman's love he doesn't care

bugger "sodomite," 1555, earlier "heretic" (1340), from M ( Read more... )

"Helaas" is Dutch for "alas". How awesome is that?

Why exactly has English changed so much from O.E. whilst the other Teutonic languages appear not to have changed so much? I mean, that can't all be the Normans, can it? They can't shoulder all that blame. Were our ancestors just lazier than other people or what ( Read more... )