Skua

wars

Fair enough! That’s not a field I’ve got any knowledge of

Tha mi ag ionnsachadh a-nis, ach cha robh sas bith agam an uairsin

“Let’s spend a tonne of money to try to break mutually-assured destruction so we can have a whole new nuclear arms race”

What I should’ve done is tell her that Scotland invented English and they stole it from us. Aberdonians actually still speak the dialect of Shakespeare, who was so successful because he was the first to popularise the language in England. The English spoke French ever since the Norman invasion, after all

I studied in Glasgow and one of my absolute favourite memories of the place is hearing a South Asian looking guy talking on the phone in a language I didn’t understand or recognise… but I could still hear that he had a Glaswegian accent

Ironically, the most unbelievably stereotypically-American tourist thing I’ve ever witnessed was while I was in Germany. We started chatting while renting bikes, and upon learning that I was Scottish she remarked that she was surprised I spoke English

She seemed lovely otherwise

If the metal you listen to is power metal you actually go straight back to the top picture

Isn’t RPS “meant” to be a game rather than a way to decide randomly between two options? There’s an element of skill involved since you can attempt to avoid playing patterns and identify patterns in your opponent’s play in repeated rounds

This is becoming enough of a pattern that I’m expecting that someone is going to come prepared for it soon. Like when he was doing that stupid thing trying to yank people’s arms towards him during handshakes last time, and then Macron just crushed his hand until it looked like he was about to cry

Pretty sure the one time one lived longer than a week it became an early game Dark Souls boss

I don’t know which one HK65 is referring to, but I know a few examples:

• Punjabi, which is left-to-right in India and right-to-left in Pakistan (the Indian one being influenced by older Indian scripts and the Pakistani one by Arabic)
• Kazakh uses the RtL Arabic script in the part of China where there are a lot of Kazakhs and the LtR Cyrillic script in Kazakhstan
• At least some of the kinds of Tamazight (spoken by Amazigh people, mostly in Morocco and Algeria) use Arabic script, but there is a script specifically for Tamazight languages called Tifinagh which goes left to right and there’s also some use of the Latin alphabet for these languages

In no way does anyone that must be dragged out of the house have “golden retriever energy”

But I’m still happy for them

And there are a rare few instances of writing systems that alternate left-to-right and right-to-left on each line

To be fair whichever direction they made it go would be clockwise