As an added bonus, the complainer’s ground-level open-air compost heap attracted a wide variety of interesting wildlife to the neighbourhood. Neither raccoons nor South American coati are native to Norway, but they somehow still managed to show up in our garden, headed for the compost.

Growing up, I lived next door to a house in that colour for 15 years with absolutely no issues. The ever-complaining neighbour on the opposite side, however, caused all manner of extra stress and work.

When would that time be? They decided to destroy the ring at the council in Rivendell, and Sauron and Saruman knew pretty well where the hobbits were at that point. And whether or not the Nazgûl themselves could get back from Rivendell in time, Sauron already had flocks of Black Wings in Mordor.

Even from a quite agriculture-friendly view, those kinds of statements are infuriating. That farm is 100 times larger than the average Norwegian farm – that’s a sprawling industrial complex.

Alder og kulturell kapital er definitivt viktig. Erfaringen min etter et tiår på gjenvinningsstasjon er at det ikke finnes en kraft i verden som kan få de noe yngre, mindre kulturelle rikingene, som jevnlig bytter ut og kjøper nytt, til å gi til loppemarked eller ombruk. De kaster *alt*.

This is especially important when the lazy brother has a lot of sons with a different last name than you through a matrilineal marriage he entered for alliance reasons when he was 3 years old and fifth in line to the throne.

A lot of GPT use could have been avoided if it hadn’t become so difficult to find decent templates for formal and standardised letters/emails for some bizarre reason.

Det som alltid treffer meg, er hvor blind de er for hvor mye mer foraktet «lavverdimenn» var, fra både menn og kvinner, før feminismen hjalp med å bryte ned en del av veggene i de gamle kjønnsrollene. Samfunnets krav til å være Mann var skyhøyt over det de nå mener at kvinner urettmessig krever.

From the outside, it looks like where a lot of other European countries had their nation-building projects, the work that could have been spent creating a separate English nationalism was spent trying to create a broader imperial British identity instead.

During the civil war era of 12th century Norway, which was a pretty dark age, some key players were Jarl Erling the Slanted, King Inge the Hunchback and King Magnus the Blind (who was also one-legged) – the results of injuries they suffered during their lives. They were still battlefield commanders.