minion of midas
@minionofmidas.bsky.social
Eintracht und Psephologie und Dummgebabbel
created August 18, 2023
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minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Klang schon im ersten Post durch. 😉 Bin einfach kein großer Fan von diesen Ersatzprodukten und absoluter Verweigerer von Fabrikhuhn, auch wg Tierleid aber nicht nur, von daher passt das schon! (Gib mir Gemüse - alles geil - und gelegentlich ein bisschen Säugetier.)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Das ist gut möglich und keine allzu enthusiastische Werbung für die vegane Variante.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social)
Ist doch nix neues. Zählt das überhaupt noch als Auswärtsspiel?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Though Nine Provinces has a ring to it. Imagine if England were commonly called the Heptarchy without anybody thinking about the meaning at all
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
My dad once told me the same thing when I explained that Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh mean Northern and Central Province respectively
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Alt text vergessen 😡 (kenn den Film nicht sieht aber nett aus, macht mich an Atame denken weil die gibts am Ende auch lustige romantische Dialoge im Auto am Ende)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what happened in Spain and Portugal, where tbf the conversions had been forced (and many who fled would later reconvert), but also sort of what happened with the emergence of modern racial antisemitism.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless the Jewish partner converted, which was the longterm target for the entire Jewish population anyway. (Of course, wherever that happened in significant numbers Christisns hated it and considered the converts to still be Jews 🙄)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
It didn't work as well as Macron needed it to. It worked better than he deserved.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Wir haben Chaïbi nach hinten geholt Gut, Härtetest Bayern / CL steht noch aus, aber bisher war das sehr ordentlich
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Grade über Osula haben wirklich viele geschrieben, überzeugend genug dass man denkt da wird schon irgendwas dran sein. Nur der Preis passte irgendwie so gar nicht. Defo kein Schnäppchenpreis.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Die haben schon auch noch zwei Abgänge eingetütet, auch wenn da die Hauptarbeit sicher nicht heute war
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
All too common situation except for the reversed gender roles, oh and the digital Münchhausen bit of course
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social)
Is that true? Fine. We don't really need another striker, at least not one at that price level. x.com/JacobsBen/st...
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Never to return. Never to return. Right?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
*winkt aus Frankfurt mit Pawollek SGE Trikot*
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
*Osula
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Die üblichen Spekulationsmühlen scheinen sich recht sicher, dass William Osulo (wer? Dänischer Staatsbürger anscheinend) noch aus Newcastle geliehen wird mit sauteurer Option (Kaufpflicht?) Evtl könnte dann Batshuayi auch noch gehen. Und es gab ein Gerücht zu Smola nach Polen.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Be glad it's not Bono I guess
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn't his gf in the party
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Party loyalty is a hell of a drug
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
This is when I randomly find out that Dean is canonically Black - mentioned exactly once - in the American edition of the books thanks to a cut line being reinstated. Just after discussing the whole strange topic of divergent US and UK editions of YA and genre books on here yesterday.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that actually true? Eaten yes, obviously, but made? Hardly.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Das ist ja keine normale Trainerentlassung. Eher geht da das Chaos jetzt erst richtig los.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Und andersrum!
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Oder sogar so pfeifen-im-walde, "macht euch nicht in die Hosen" mäßig. Desorientierend.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
And to be frank the Leverkusen squad, both the successful one of the last two years and the fractious remains of it, needs someone good at it. So yeah that tracks.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
I think you can get around that too (set it so mutuals can reply), but it doesn't stop yr posts being visible to or screenshottable by strangers. I probably wouldn't post a selfie here if I was a young woman.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
You can shut off replies incl quote tweets, but, like, that's it.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
What exactly was wrong (about him specifically), though?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Eine Grillhause, zwei Grillhausen ist doch ein völlig regulärer deutscher Plural
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Ja nee, dafür trink ich rund ums Spiel zuviel. Sollte schon noch Tageslicht da sein. Und ich hab ein Schönwetterrad ohne Schutzbleche.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Also the history of pseudo Indian dishes in British cooking, that later influenced continental European (mostly street food) cooking where they moved even further from Indian antecedents, is almost 300 years old!
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Or as Ghobi Manchurian is "Chinese", if there's any Indians reading this
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Worst since the time his math teacher claimed that 4+2 equalled 6.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Chicken Tikka Masala is as Indian as packaged "nachos" are Mexican.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Prinzipiell KANN ich das auch, hab auch schon, ist aber nichts für jedesmal
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Der einzige Weg von hier ohne zweimal Umsteigen zum Haupteingang ist jetzt mit der 12. Na ja, ist ja noch Fahrradwetter
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Sacking the coach after three matches wd be completely insane. Unprecedented. Nor do I see how the implosion of the team is his fault exactly. Bit of a chickens coming home to roost vibe to that.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Nein. Gibts da schon Tickets für?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Treasonous, almost.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Vedad Ibisević wird statt NLZ Leiter bei der Hertha lieber jemand anderes!? Also Identitätswechsel, um den Nachstellungen von Hertha und BILD zu entgehen? 🤓
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
The Western US settlement pattern, west of where the farms give out, was literally built by the railways. Now a different question is whether they ever were profitable... but neither are the highways and interstates.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Loïs. 🙄 (i realize i'm talking to the mirror.)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Das doch kein Benzinkanister?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Nein danke. Dann gibts gar keine Landespolitik im Landtagswahlkampf mehr.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Bit late for that, gameplan shd be to write a better one
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Ich kenn die Geschichte ja auch nicht, aber er spielt da doch auf irgendwas an das uns wahrscheinlich nichts angeht. Selbst wenn Linder bloß Lindner Main Plaza meint.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Le Linder? Erzähl uns die ganze Geschichte Farès!
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Did they? They had to get loud. Can't have that. They want everything to go acc'd to their wishes without having to spell it out.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely, it's a valid and important point often made with reference to ugly racial stereotype. Though how do we distinguish those singling out Qatar vs those lumping all the Gulf oil states (inc Saudi) together? Deeply hypocritical, but less appealing to simple racists?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
His unfortunate German name Dussel Duck completely incongruous with the Brazilian stories ... which have, however, been released here.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't this guy come to the conclusion that Saruman meant Ruhm (glory) to the SA man?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
What's with the three at the back, huddled around the backpack? Wondering whether to get in line or not?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't quite follow. For the Mixtec bits? For the deaf? Otherwise surely they'd remove the subtitles, not replace them? (I saw this with Italian subtitles lol. In the other Roma. I don't *speak* either language but understood enough that way.)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Gruß zurück Klar können wir das, aber tun wirs auch? Hätte son Gegner lieber ein zwei Runden später
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Pratchett, apparently, being unusually strongly affected. (I couldn't tell, I've read perhaps half a dozen but some of them in German translation and all a long time ago.)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
It still is! It's a custom developped in the olden days when it made somewhat more sense. It's far more extensive with kids', Young Adult or genre fiction, or what's marketed as such; in 'high' literature they'll at most do the humor/humour stuff. It also varies by publisher.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Reprinting is not quite the same thing as finding a US (or UK, this goes both ways) publisher who receives a handtyped manuscript and copyedits it much like any other manuscript they accept. As things still worked when Pratchett started writing (by the time of Discworld there were word processors)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Though the content of the tweet clearly marked them as either midwestern or from the british isles
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Bit of a relic from a bygone era when you couldn't just ship books worldwide, too.
Eintracht Frankfurt (@eintracht.de) reposted
An diesem Tor werden wir uns wohl nie satt sehen… 😍 Heute vor 32 Jahren bat Jay-Jay Okocha zum Tanz! 💫 #SG
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Fact checking this... seems to be true!? Amazing.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social)
The etymology is the reason I know the word. Pretty sure I've come upon it more often in linguistics texts than in the wild, where it feels distinctly dated.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you guys also play Juxtastat? urbanstats.org/quiz.html
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
in 2, somehow. Yeah, it looked Arabic over on the right side of the image and there was the river of course, but still just a lucky guess actually.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Then it's the job of Illinois and national Democrats to help find everybody and their families jobs and homes in the Chicago metro.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Dochdoch, das ist Söder. Bei Lotito sah das viel gesitteter aus, der hat sein tägliches Kilochen Metall im Anzug mit Messer und Gabel und Stoffserviette verzehrt.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Secretly killed his inner Boer or sthg (S Africa uses British spelling)
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Even happened to the ref at the Bremwn vs Leverkusen match when he was supposed to announce the VAR decision over the tannoy
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Solange innerhalb der A10 noch Platz für Wohngebäude ist, ist die A100 nicht breit genug!
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Immer noch nicht Tabellenführer, Dino raus
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Kost halt in den meisten Kneipen nicht weniger 😓
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Ist doch eigtl nur eine 🤓
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Has he resurfaced then? Crying shame.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
All too often. You should not trust anybody who waves a German flag on the occasion. Far more of a tell (and far less common) than various blackredgold accessories. It's a major country thing, not a British thing.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Waving a (national) flag is odd even in a sporting content surely. Wearing it as a cape is ok if its of your country of origin but not yr country of residence
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
He's 82 and not still making movies. Why would he know?
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is why they are getting desperate to hire just anybody in the next few days
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
What's the current brouhaha this time
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a lot less gratuitious female nudity in movies, and also less underage sexuality however presented, than in the later 70s to 90s, but these are the only topics it's true about.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social)
Werder geil übrigens
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
A very dark comedy. Maybe make the two Tshwana racers your protagonists.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
My other issue is that at the 2nd and 3rd zoom level they all look smaller than they really are to me. Until I figured that out I spent minutes trying cities that aren't in the database...
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
I always take exactly four. Except the one time the distinctive shape of Dublin Bay was visible earlier. I still don't know how I failed to recognize Stuttgart before.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Also wie bei 500g Bechern Buttermilch oder Kefir
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Gianni Infantino kann grad keine Termine machen, der muss erst rausfinden ob Trump wirklich tot ist und was aus seiner WM wird ohne Trump
Humpi (@svwscp.bsky.social) reposted
Dieser adäquate spaßige musikalisch überragende Rabauke wird heute 70. AGavm und HeGlüWu lieber Helge
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Always has been meme
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It's the kind of story that enters the popular imagination and details get changed in the retelling. The core story, alcohol with strychnine to get a leading but flagging marathon runner across the finish line, is intact.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Postscript, nachdem auch ein Schwein oinkt. Ich liebe die Seite.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Almost! Brandy, egg whites and strychnine, not an enema and he lived another 48 years. Though he collapsed at the finish line and never ran a marathon again. Also 2 miles out. Strychnine remains on the doping list. It's performance enhancing in sublethal doses. Thomas Hicks, 1904 Olympics.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
A monster that, without leaving a physical trace, fills its interlocutors with so much existential dread that they die. When I read that novel, the monster turned out to be a text*, not a flesh-and-blood abomination. *eg a drug recipe in Perutz' "Master of Judgment Day"
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
*the truck crashes into a tree in the distance, instantly catching fire. The camera pans away*
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Here for the inevitable synthesis of the "this already happened" and "they'll use an LLM" threads
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Anybody waking his corpse in his verdion of the Rose Garden would play his music.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
They could well be long out of prison by now, but yes.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Assuming he's alive.
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
Nichtabstieg des Zweitligadinos in die Dritte ist doch schon sicher für dies Jahr
minion of midas (@minionofmidas.bsky.social) reply parent
nur wenn er schon rundum tätowiert ist, nicht dass wieder sowas passiert wie bei Varela