The laws are different in each country. You’re going to have to trawl through their documentation, I’m afraid. It can be incredibly frustrating. I have a Turkish friend who is a qualified doctor who, despite having the right papers, is still waiting for permission to practice after 18 months here, even though the country is desperate for doctors.

Er zijn heel veel ouderen met een piepklein pensioentje die een huis bezitten dat goedkoop was toen ze het kochten maar nu miljoenen waard is. Die kunnen die belasting niet betalen. Ga je die op straat gooien? Huren is te duur.

Yesterday I got a call from someone who thought I was the tax office. Wrong number.

I’m 57 and my smartphone has absolutely frazzled my brain.

They’re not hard at all.

Oh do shut up. I’m a big Harry Potter fan (or at least used to be), and part of a well known group of fans, but at least we all have the decency to be thoroughly pissed off by the woman. If you love Potter so much, how come you missed the message of the books (don’t be a bigot) and the current behaviour of their writer (a bigot)?

PS Dickens was a misogynist and Dahl was a racist and anti-semite. But we can’t criticise them because they’re good authors?

You forgot “and then she went bat shit crazy.” I mean, she was questionable already (and I’m talking about her behaviour and being a terrible judge of character, not the books), but this is a whole nother level of nuts.

The US literally said “you don’t need weapons, we’ll protect you.” They weren’t asked to protect us, they strong armed us. And now we’re lacking arms because of them. Most Americans, including Hesgeth and Vance have never opened a history book.

'T is the season.

Elmo was never diagnosed with autism. He diagnosed himself.

I mean… the poor guy has to look at your hairy pits all through the lecture. Tank tops are underwear or beachwear.

Schools literally prefer to hire foreigners as English teachers because their English is better.

I’ve on the Internet for the same amount of time and it’s gotten MUCH worse.

Big tech realised that touch screen keyboards are cheaper to manufacture (develop) than physical keyboards and persuaded everyone that touch screen keyboards are better. Absolutely not. Screw touch screen keyboards.

I absolutely loathe posts that just say something like “This dog.”

This dog WHAT, bozo.

Non natives can usually spell better than natives. They learn to spell words and then pronounce them instead of the other way around.

Non natives can usually spell better than natives.

That sounds awful. I think tangy sourdough bread is disgusting (which is one of the reasons I hated living in eastern Germany).

I’m assuming there are a lot of people with long covid in government who refuse to admit it. It explains at least some of their behaviour.

Youtube verwijdert tegenwoordig video’s met het woord “abuse”.