SuperApples

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[–] SuperApples 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Being that they're from the Americas, I doubt Armadillos are marsupial. Probably closer relation to a sloth than a platypus.

[–] SuperApples 10 points 1 month ago

We were in Skopje the day after they changed the name from the placeholder FYROM to North Macedonia. Going to the national museum that the former government (the one that made all the "historical" monuments and buildings) had created, with all the propaganda extolling their right to control 'greater Macedonia' (including Thessaloniki), I think it's naive to view this as a petty naming dispute.

I think 'North Macedonia' was a good compromise, even if it made the Golden Dawn cry (generally I'm for anything that makes them cry, actually). Of course, I know a lot of non-Nazi Greeks that also were against them using the name, but I thought their arguments were generally of a nationalistic nature (Macedonia is Greece!).

[–] SuperApples 28 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Wombat are extremely powerful. They are expert diggers. They have extremely hard butts and if any predators follow down into their holes, the wombat can kick upwards, crushing their pursuer's skull against the roof.

Despite their little legs, they can run in a straight line up to 40km/h. That puddle ain't shit.

If you hit a roo with your car, the roo bounces off. If you hit a wombat with your tire, it can break the axle and put your car out of commission.

Wombats are the tanks of the marsupial world. Don't fuck with a wombat.

[–] SuperApples 2 points 2 months ago

Worked on Top 12 hours, 6 hours in! I crave pickle! Comment on this post too, for balance.

[–] SuperApples 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Worked on Top 12 hours, 6 hours in! I crave pickle! Will comment on other post too, for balance.

[–] SuperApples 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

the sole reason I stay in this cold dreary backwater of a country.

You do know you can get crumpets in any supermarket in sunny Queensland, yeah? You can even get Marmite (but why would you when Vegemite is superior).

[–] SuperApples 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've only spent a couple months in France, but I agree from my experience. I think that foreigners that complain about the French being rude were just expecting special treatment, didn't put in any effort themselves to be friendly, then shocked that the storekeeper/waiter wasn't kissing their ass, even though they didn't even manage to say 'bonjour'.

[–] SuperApples 4 points 3 months ago

"Kerokero" is correct romanization. No problem there.

[–] SuperApples 13 points 3 months ago

We dont know how much power they have, it's illegal to know:

| Due to secrecy laws, it is extremely hard to find documentary evidence of the queen’s exercise of influence. In the United Kingdom, government documents that “relate to” communications with the sovereign or the next two persons in line to the throne, as well as palace officials acting on their behalf, are subject to an absolute exemption from release under freedom of information or by government archives.

  • "relate to" is so broad and it means we have no idea what is going on.

| But The Guardian has managed to expose a chink in this armour of secrecy. In the UK’s National Archives, it discovered documents from 1973 showing the queen’s personal solicitor lobbied public servants to change a proposed law so that it would not allow companies, or the public, to learn of the queen’s shareholdings in Britain. The gambit succeeded, and the draft bill was changed to suit the queen’s wishes. Perhaps these documents escaped the secrecy embargo because they involved communications with a private solicitor, rather than palace officials

https://theconversation.com/the-queens-gambit-new-evidence-shows-how-her-majesty-wields-influence-on-legislation-154818

[–] SuperApples 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • unless you live in Australia. We had to censor Peppa Pig for spreading this pro-spider propaganda. That said, there hasn't been spider or snake deaths in years, due to antivenom. Will still hurt like hell though.
[–] SuperApples 16 points 3 months ago

Geri is my favourite Indonesian crackers, but not so much the chocolate ones...

[–] SuperApples 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

a bit pricey

Look on the map for Bónus supermarkets, I found them to be the best value but with a good range of stuff to try. I thought the rye bread (Rúgbrauð) and skyr were particularly delicious in Iceland.

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