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A blog about language, chocolate and occasionally politics.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

What's on George's bookshelf?

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Having previously had fun with Mensa menus , I used the same methodology on the list of book titles to be found in my office. My research pr...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Dominic Raab: "I deeply regret taking skooma"

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Following yesterday’s explosive revelations, Conservative leadership hopeful Dominic Raab has expressed deep regret at his occasional skooma...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

Ritter Sport Summer 2019

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Interestingly, these are now called “Bunte Vielfalt” (colourful diversity) rather than “Sommergenuss”. Moving away from the seasonal pattern...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

What's for lunch at the University of Konstanz?

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A fun post for my 34th birthday. Inspired by aiweirdness.com , I trained a text-generating neural network, textgenrnn , on a dataset of mea...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Remain tactical voting in NW: vote Green or Lib Dem

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The tl;dr version of this post is: If you want to vote Lib Dem, do that. If you want to vote Green, do that. If you want to vote Change ...
Saturday, February 09, 2019

A special place in hell for who?

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European Council president Donald Tusk has been getting a lot of stick from Brexiteers recently for this comment: I've been wondering...
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Sunday, February 03, 2019

Ritter Sport Spring 2019

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"Spring"? Well, these varieties were on the shelves on 1st February, so I guess so. The snow outside must just be an illusion. W...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Books read 2018

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My main resolution for 2018 was to read more books, as this is something that had lapsed a bit in previous years. And I certainly kept to th...
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Monday, December 03, 2018

Ritter Sport Winter 2018

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Again with the recycling of varieties. Two of this year's three are exactly the same as last year's Winter-Kreationen (see this post...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Which History of the English Language textbook should I use?

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Back in early 2017 I asked a group of estimable colleagues (aka my Facebook friends) to give me their opinions on which of the many, many H...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Ritter Sport Summer 2018

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The selection of Ritter Sport this summer is pretty uninspired, though it's not that they taste bad. Two of the three have been sampled ...
Sunday, April 08, 2018

Arons saga svarts (The Saga of Aaron Swartz)

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I've been taking a MOOC in Medieval Icelandic Sagas, and one of the final assessments involved creating your own saga introduction. I th...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Ritter Sport Spring 2018

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Sampling these was extremely challenging, as I am currently on a diet that allows strictly no chocolate. I hope you all appreciate how I...
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Monday, October 02, 2017

Winter-Kreationen 2017

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Rejoice, for winter is upon us! Or, at least, Ritter Sport's Winter-Kreationen are upon us, and it didn't take me long to get hold o...
Sunday, September 03, 2017

Fame and fortune: the Cambridge effect

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One thing that you often hear when at Cambridge, usually said by people not at Cambridge, is that you're going to university with people...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

Lactose-free, gluten-free milk chocolate

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A quick and easy Ritter rating: Vollmilch Laktosefrei: 9/10 The reason this one is easy is that it literally tastes exactly the same as it...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Why I'm voting Pirate in Manchester Central

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I'll be voting for the Pirate Party in the upcoming general election. Here's why. Lack of digital literacy among the major parti...
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