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Ah ben tout à coup tout le monde veut débattre avec Mélenchon... Honnêtement j'ai un peu de mal à comprendre la logique, parce que j'ai pas l'impression qu'Attal ou Bardella soient de meilleurs orateurs. Est-ce que c'est pour sortir l'épouvantail Mélenchon (qui a, globalement, réussi à fermer sa gueule, ce que je peux pas dire de tout le monde, en particulier au PS) et faire peur à ceux qui votent PS mais trouvent que quand même, LFI va trop loin, c'est les extrêmes, toussa toussa ? Est-ce qu'ils espèrent pouvoir profiter de l'hostilité marquée des journalistes envers Mélenchon (qui, pour être honnête, le leur rend bien) ?

Bon perso je vais pas regarder de débats parce que ça m'insupporte et je vais voter Front Populaire de toute façon, mais je m'interroge.

John: Arthur it’s absolutely necessary you’re naked for the next part … Uhm because… danger.

Yes.

Danger…

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I am happy to inform the public that there is a dataset of hair salons with puns in their name. It's all in French, but I can only applaud the effort and I hope that one day, similar work will be done for coffee shops, if only to simplify the work of authors wanting to check whether or not something is taken.

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Coordonnées des enseignes de Coiffure comportant des jeux de mots cocasses dans leur appellation - data.gouv.fr

Ce jeu de données contient, au format geoJSON, les…

Names include such gems as Faudra Tiff Hair, United Hair Lines, Lucif'hair, No Peigne No Gain, and my personal favorite, Queer Chevelu.

We're all having a very normal election time.

Franchouillarderie might be useful to the American scientists who are planning on fleeing to France ...

If you were to talk about Concorde, would you do it on an episode of Britainology or Well There's Your Problem?

Britainology? Britainology?! Not unless it was a 50-50 shared episode with, like, Franchouillarderie, the French equivalent of Britainology

fellow goth transmacs do you ever read monstrous regiment, 31st novel in the discworld series by the late sir terry pratchett, and become consumed by thoughts of renaming yourself "maladict" every waking moment since putting the book down

Jean-Marie Le Pen est mort 💖

A recent cartoon for New Scientist

While I generally agree, I am going to go against type and share one thing that did always bug me about the Discworld: a lot of the ordinary protagonists turn out to be scions of important families. Vimes is first introduced as an alcoholic cop, but by Feet of Clay he's the descendant of the man who led the revolution against monarchy and killed the last king. Angua is an "ordinary" werewolf in Men at Arms but the daughter of one of the three most important families in Uberwald by The Fifth Elephant. Even the Weatherwax family is several times referred to as one with a lot of innate power (I am excluding Carrot from this because the fact that he is The One True King was always the joke).

It doesn't mean that there aren't characters who are, in fact, common folks. Or that these changes aren't very interesting directions for the characters. But it's definitely a pattern.

I think that the real reason that Terry Pratchett is my favourite fantasy writer is that he’s the only one who really centres working people in his stories. I mean, Game of Thrones is almost entirely about the antics of rival aristocrats; Harry Potter is heir to two family fortunes and the subject of a prophecy and goes to an elite boarding school; even the Hobbits (save Sam) in The Lord of the Rings are minor gentry. Meanwhile, who are the main protagonists in Discworld? A recovering-alcoholic cop; an old peasant woman who lives in a cottage; a conman who was forced to take over the post-office. Pratchett writes entire novels about classes of people that other writers treat as background characters. He’s not condescending in his depictions; he’s willing to show enlisted soldiers as people, rather than arrow-fodder; and he’s aware that even ‘simple peasants’ know detailed information about things that wizards and knights can’t be arsed to care about; that everything about the world takes a hell of a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes and that most people never see, And he makes sure that you know this, too.