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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. 

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

@vriska
> mainly I sell swords BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY SOME GWENT

dialogue dreamt up by the utterly deranged

@yogthos@mastodon.social no the state apparatus does that

@vriska @11112011 so is he, assuming "tongue in cheek" is Portuguese for whisky

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@skells @wolf480pl
Would you rather fight an army decked out in full clown attire, and lose, or would you rather BE an army decked out in full clown attired, and win?

if Britain was a person he would spend most of his life stumbling blindly from room to room struggling to get his jumper on while late

no one is as surprised as us that we are still here and for that we are very grateful

@wolf480pl @cjd if it's any consolation the thought process for Anglos are the same for 1-4 except we win at the end

"why do we sell bitcoin, Master Wayne?"

@yogthos@mastodon.social China solves this, right?

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school is really good at teaching you to dread things you could probably enjoy learning if you were genuinely curious about them

> there's nothing new in the market
> VAULTS FILLED WITH GOLD HAVE BEEN A STAPLE OF ECONOMIC LIFE SINCE THE UNIVERSE GAVE BIRTH TO THE STARS

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Finished a jar of Aldi instant coffee today.

It's a glass jar with a plastic lid, which should last decades. So naturally I'm going to give it to some lads who'll crush it into tiny pieces, melt it down in a big oven and pour it into a mould to make a whole new jar.

That makes WAY more sense than just putting more coffee in the jar.

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theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-th

"Full stop right here. Any public policy measure – from vaccine passports to discrimination – cannot be justified under the science, even if one’s conscience is OK with apartheid."

The #1 reason why they're pushing so hard to get everyone to get vaxxed is probably to make data like this go away by getting rid of the control group.

@YorkshireTea @roboneko it's wild that they stopped doing 100k...

I can find these on the ONS site?

if I get some time I might see what I can pull together

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The naked Emperor. 🤡

UKHSA released vaccine related data this week which had the numbers for the 'boosted' population.

Great success?

@YorkshireTea could you get these numbers per 1000? this would wash out the difference in relative numbers of vaccinated Vs unvaccinated etc.

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