I once made test users who were all named John Smith in different languages. I learned that basically every name is a variant of John.

Mostly a 4 the past couple weeks

Then I feel bad when the driver is an older person with a kind demeanor

Dumb ass cop is holding the gravity fed paintball gun sideways

Nah, they had it right

Owl is blinking out of sync like she just woke up

Here’s a 20 year old album about it (it’s really cool that my favorite band is called ISIS. It’s neat how they broke up in 2010 but I still can only wear the merch at home)

That’s Protestant heresy!

Czech mate, Carl

3 today but it’s often 7 in these trying times

Pope Innocent V

The Francs were named after the throwing axe they used in battle, Charlemagne ruled half of Europe after Rome fell apart, William the Conqueror changed the English language, the Normans were such renowned warriors that they served as mercenaries in Constantinople, France won the 100 years war, France came out ahead after the 30 years war, Vauban was the greatest siege engineer of all time whose tactics were used for centuries, the French won the American Revolution, Napoleon conquered everything, French tanks and tactics were key in breaking the stalemate on the Western Front during WWI, and I’m sure I’m missing a bunch.

But they were occupied by Nazi Germany so they’re forever cowards

This feels somewhat related: John, Johann, Ivan, Evan, Ian, Sean, Jean, Juan, João, Giovanni, Yannis, Yahya, Jack, Shane, etc are all based on the Hebrew name Yohanan

It bugs me that his head facing the camera in both pics

It’ll get shortened to “lemmy” like “god be with you” became “goodbye”

Working my way gradually down to deep squats has been great for my knees. It doesn’t take much to get there and maintain. I just found times to hold a squat for a bit while watching TV or gardening. Also, the knees over toes guy has some good advice for keeping your joints healthy.

I like to smuggle linguistics monologues into any conversation by hiding them in a regional accent or foreign language Trojan horse.

I was disappointed that it wasn’t some Australian guy living the outback.

They’re also patient and willing to push through a bit of pain for a reward

Weird, I didn’t know people pronounced it dye-cals /s