If you do enough cocaine, you can end up with one nostril. It happened to a British TV celebrity in the 90s.

Some of those times, he probably ingested enough ergot alkaloids to see God.

Public transport with American characteristics

Nowadays, creating fonts is easier than ever, with widely available tools. Creating good fonts that don’t look like hot garbage and don’t make your eyes hurt after reading a paragraph is somewhat harder, though type designers graduate from courses every year. There are lots of small independent foundries selling fonts around the world, and consultancies that will design fonts on commission for brands. If Monotype are going to play the private-equity extortion game, they’ll soon find game companies commissioning fonts they then own outright from designers, or even hiring a few type designers with the usual intake of 3D graphics/texture/animation artists.

With stadium car parks getting so large, perhaps they should build light rail networks spanning them, providing fast, frequent services to shuttle visitors between the stadium and the section where their car is.

“Guys, is it gay to not be able to afford to buy a house?”

Given that Scandinavia is lower than elsewhere in Europe, I’m wondering if that’s an artefact of them looking at absolute numbers rather than opposite-/same-sex friendship ratios, and Scandinavians being the stereotypical depressive introverts

Also, a flight emits more emissions when ascending and descending than at cruising altitude, meaning that short-haul flights emit more per mile than longer ones. And a financial penalty on flying will act best as a deterrent where there are alternatives: one could conceivably replace a flight from Amsterdam to Berlin or Barcelona with a day-long and/or overnight train journey (especially if rail travel was cheaper), though there are few alternatives to flying to New York or Singapore other than not going. (If flights weren’t an option, a trans-Atlantic crossing would take most of a week and a sea journey to East Asia about a month. A train via the Trans-Siberian Railway, were it geopolitically viable, takes a week to go between Moscow and Vladivostok or Beijing.)

H&M once had organic-cotton underwear they described with the brand “conscious”. Presumably they were referring to the customer’s ecological consciousness in buying them, and were oblivious to the philosophical horror they had unleashed.

The typical fedizen’s two wolves are totally yiffing

Based.

Now do aviation fuel, with the revenue going to high-speed rail.

Government blogs and podcast-style data feeds

Perhaps it could be revised by adding two unearthed Europlug round-pin sockets below the broad pins, though within a recess shaped like the thin European plugs to prevent the connection of earthed plugs, and declaring Europlug to be a British standard for unearthed mains, for use with devices not requiring earthing. Not sure if the geometry would work out, though.

It needs an unearthed version without the shutter-opening pin, for things like low-power electronic devices with figure-8 mains sockets, phone chargers and such.

Of course, some BS1363-stan will inevitably show up to argue that as this is a crucial safety feature, unearthed connections should be illegal, much like the Australians who argue that bike helmets should be mandatory in Amsterdam.

And Europe doesn’t have old houses with the same difficulty in wiring?

Ah, Amanda Palmer, Gaiman’s Ghislaine.

In Sweden, Donald Duck is named Kalle and Garfield is named Gustaf, so pretty much everyone gets renamed.

That’s pretty much Liliputing’s shtick. Though they do draw attention to things from different places related to small-form-factor computers, and so make themselves somewhat useful.

We need to turn the entire world into paperclips GPUs

And Vidal Sassoon killed Nazis with his bare hands