Weshesh, one of the groups Ramesses III said he defeated when the Sea Peoples attacked Egypt. As far as I know, though, they’re one of the groups that we have basically no other mentions or evidence of, so we have no idea who they were
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21·4 months agoSoon he’s gonna go grab the sword from the Motherland Calls and take to the frontlines himself
Painting by Jennifer Dunn
3·5 months agoShe’s a Star by James. The only part I could remember was the “star” part of the chorus, which is not exactly an easy lyric to decipher when you hear it on a supermarket radio. Eventually I found it by buying a James CD and running into that track by chance
we clearly haven’t brexited hard enough yet
To add to this, we apparently always knew. The famous blue image is more or less the correct hue, but the saturation has been absolutely blown out like a clickbait youtube thumbnail in order to show faint features more clearly. Somewhere along the line we stopped mentioning that that had been done. Irwin and co just just re-calculated it to get the most accurate version yet, because we’ve got a lot more data to work with now than we did back when Voyager 2 did its fly-by
Isn’t it generally used to mean the opposite of that? “Despite what I just said, I hold or will present the following apparently contrary position,” more or less. Like if you spent a couple of paragraphs talking about the excellent cinematography of a film and then followed it with “That said, I didn’t actually enjoy it. I found the protagonist insufferable.”
Both the flat ones and the long ones have been around for over 200 years, it would honestly be weirder if regional differences in the names had never developed. After all, why would someone in York, UK and someone in Boston, USA in the 1820s know or care what the other called their fried slices of potato? “Chips” is a pretty reasonable name for both of them, so maybe the flat ones got popular in America first but the long ones got popular in Britan first, so then each had to find another name for the other sort. I’m guessing here, but I don’t think it’s in any way strange that it happened, however it did happen.
British English using “fries” for thinner chips (chips in the British sense) actually is because of American influence, though. In the same way that Americans call their long fried potato “French fries” because they are fried in the French way, Brits call those thinner ones “fries” because they’re fried the American way. You wouldn’t usually say “American fries” here because “fries” by itself alreadyy means that, but if you did people would immediately understand that you mean the thinner sort that you get at McDonald’s, not the thicker sort you get at a fish & chip shop.
Absolutely nobody is checking the god damn patents for the name of either variety of chip
That said, in British English, chips and fries are different things. McDonald’s don’t sell chips. Those are the thick-cut ones. Fries are the skinny ones.
I will give you a heads up that if you buy vinegar powder (acetic acid, basically) in an attempt to make your own, be very careful. I made salt & vinegar popcorn once, but the seasoning was too loose on the surface of the popcorn and if i breathed in at all while eating I got a hefty dose of burning lungs
Not quite candy but I think it’s close enough to count here: Co-op’s own brand salt & vinegar kettle crisps. They’re so vinegary it hurts. It’s wonderful.
To a degree, but recent years have definitely shown the flaws of the EU model as it currently is. I do have some faith that the EU can and will reform itself to overcome those problems, as it is still a very young entity in the grand scheme of things and is generally quite effective legislatively. Things like Brexit and Hungary’s obstructionism show that it is currently far too easy for governments within the EU to scapegoat it for local problems, and the Syrian migrant crisis really tested the unity of it.
You seen their estates? They’re the half corporation
Handwrite the URL of this post and put it through their letterbox
To be fair to OP, it’s “I don’t like this specific kind of humour”. Which is a pretty normal thing to feel. There are a lot of comedy TV shows I don’t find funny or find downright unpleasant, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like humour in general. Much as this overly-serious comment suggests otherwise.
You might be interested in mixed member proportional voting. It’s not exactly what you described, but similar in philosophy. It has FPTP elections and then a second round of regional electors which compensate for the disproportionality of of the first round. It doesn’t achieve perfect proportionality and is potentially open to abuse by some methods involving puppet parties, but it mitigates a lot of the issues with FPTP
Seeing as you referenced the UK Labour Party you might already know this as the system used in the Scottish and Welsh assemblies
I think you may have missed part of OP’s idea here. They specify multiple-member constituencies in which all candidates get elected and their power is proportional to the number of votes they get. The total power of the constituency is conserved, it’s just divided between multiple electors.
It would probably influence people to vote for the perceived winner instead of their choice.
This is an issue with FPTP regardless, unfortunately
Pale, but like… Swedish pale, not clown makeup pale
More tanned. Outlines are a bit fucky on this one and I had to change the building behind him a bit because it was too close to the new skin colour, but I’m not doing an effort job for this
Console commands also let you apply some non-spell effects as enchantments. If you want to have a bit of fun cheating, you can put a max strength fus ro dah on a hammer and pretend to be Thor