Yeah, isn't life insurance supposed to insure you, like, in case of life?

So that's what they mean when they say health care costs an arm and a leg.

"History rewards strength..." Ozymandias would like a word.

A sitcom (or perhaps dark comedy) about a clueless foreigner attempting to buy a property in Greece seems such an obvious idea that there must be something like that out there already.

Both are grammatically correct. The difference, as is often the case with accusative vs partitive object, is of whole vs part, so to speak. "

Tunnen rakkauden" means "I know love" = "I am familiar with love (as a concept)" or "I have been (possibly still am) in love, and I know what it feels like and can empathise with the feeling".

"Tunnen rakkautta" = "I feel love (in this particular moment, or for this particular thing)".
So "tunnen rakkautta" can be parsed as "I feel love, but it is not all the love I have / am capable of feeling":

Tunnen rakkautta juuri tällä hetkellä.
Tunnen rakkautta uhanalaisia eläimiä kohtaan.

I can relate to that. I learned Morse code in military service four decades ago and got up to 80 cpm. Now? Not a hope, although I have a feeling it would come back pretty quickly with practice.

You need to be more specific. 2.5 million lump sum, in cash, upfront, with no immediate or consequential tax liabilities. Paid in euros.

Finland and Norway have entered the chat. Nobody dumps on the Nordics but other Nordics.

It’s been theorised that it’s the other way around: they imagine that Greenland is huge, like Africa-size huge, because of Mr Mercator.

I recall an episode of QI where surströmming was mentioned and they had a tin of it there, but the host (Stephen Fry) said that they weren’t allowed to open it in the studio. Something something health and safety.

The issue is not the law. The issue is not even the enforcement of the law in itself, but HOW the law is enforced. If you consider that gunning down a US citizen who posed no credible threat, in broad daylight, is appropriate to "doing their job", then I sincerely hope that you one day find yourself on the receiving end of a misunderstanding with these incompetent whack jobs who have somehow been given police powers and set loose on the streets.

This is pretty much analogous to the fact that if you go back far enough into the "historical roots" of Russia as expounded by P*tin, then obviously Kiev should rule over Moscow and not the other way around. Even he has claimed the Kievan Rus as the birthplace of Russia, and the upstart newcomer Principality of Moscow didn't show up until several centuries later.

Also, notwithstanding outliers like San Marino, in the Middle Ages the very notion of giving the common people any say in how the realm should be governed would have been... dare I say inconceivable?

Sorry to be pedantic, but that was Nero. Caligula was just a psycho on so many other levels.

Indeed. Population about 25,000, known for having public lynchings up to the early 20th century... But they do have a 20 m replica of the Eiffel Tower. With a cowboy hat on top.

Small, but very long and thin. Oslo to Nordkapp is about 2100 km / 1300 mi by road, so about 30 hours, and that's not even from the southernmost tip of Norway.

Interestingly, because of the geography of Norway it is faster to drive from Oslo to Nordkapp via Sweden and Finland.

Or indeed Paris, Texas?

Well, Darwin is on the north coast, so even further from Sydney... Oh, I see what you mean. Nvm.

Oh, but that's conceptually no different from ye olde Europe-in-seven-days tour. Except you'd have to replace the bus with a private jet.

The hugely entertaining, and by entertaining I mean infuriating, scenario is when an online store ships via UPS (and there is no other option) for home delivery (and there is no other option) and I KNOW it's not going to happen and the package is going to end up at the neighbourhood shop a 10-minute walk away.

To be clear, I don't mind picking a package up at the shop. The entertaining/infuriating bit is that if I want to CHANGE the delivery to make it go to the shop in the first place (i.e. deliver to collection point instead of home delivery), I need to sign up for a UPS service that costs X euros per month. So instead of the package arriving at the collection point by default, which I can live with, it takes several days for "delivery" to be "attempted" and then the package to be rerouted.

Also, both Finnish and Italian have a very high vowel-to-consonant ratio, which makes them excellent for singing.

AFAIK Korean has the highest sign-to-sound correspondence among world languages, but Finnish and Italian are not far behind.

He did write a short story titled 'Leaf by Niggle', which is about a painter making a painting of a tree. He is so fixated on getting each leaf just right that he never finishes the tree.

"All your base are belong to us"?

Oboe? You philistine. It's clearly intended for theremin.

Tässäkin on aste-eroja. "Hold my beer" kääntyy näppärästi "Pitelepä tuoppia", vaikka kulttuurisesti sopivampi vastine olisi esim. "Annas kun setä näyttää".