@HermanZeGerman@btharris93 I genuinely feel the UK has, uniquely amongst the big sporting events, not had a World Cup in part because FIFA is unique in how shamelessly corrupt it is. Thats not to say the likes of the IOC are not, amd that the UK is unwilling to play that game. But FIFA is another level
@lionel_trolling No lectures from a country that has spray on ceese, eggs that cant stay outside the fridge because they wash them in chemicals, chocolate containing the same chemical compounds as vomit, bread so sweet its legally cake in the UK & milk with more steroids than an average gym
@simongerman600 So, wait, despite being told how linguistically monocentric we are, the British are actually better than the Italians and more importantly the French? Woo...
@planfromspace@vascobrum1989 Its now arguably an internal administrative border, nothing more. He's no more King of England or Scotland that he is King of Tasmania or Ontario
@dazi180turtle@planfromspace@IrkedDinosaur Well, im talking about in the US or the wider English speaking world.
I can well imagine in Sweden, they woukd assume you mean the King of Sweden when you say that
@vascobrum1989@kroketrendang4 Only because the domestic title wasnt Imperial and Disraeli wanted to be able to compete with the newly created German Emperor.
@planfromspace@IrkedDinosaur No disrespect to the Danish king, but when people say "The King' its generally well known they are talking about the one who is King of Britain and 14 other countries.
@planfromspace@vascobrum1989 OK well nor is King of England. But he is "The British King", and is not "The English King", so it makes absolute sense to call him that
@wallaceme I read the Aeneid in Latin and it genuinely took me 3 months. This seems to be the correct balance between "im so clever" and "im a very slow reader"
@annaroseridgway@DanielJHannan MPs can say what they like, that's the whole point of parliamentary privilege. The choice not to say something is just that, a choice
@riogirl9909@pewpewpizdec So he wrote something people might have heard about. That doesnt mean people have any idea who he is. Most people aren't so obsessed about a given TV show that they know who wrote it.