Jon Lawton
jlrlawton.bsky.social
Jon Lawton
@jlrlawton.bsky.social
Pretending to be an adult
Boeuf is both a bullock/steer and the meat, whereas vache only refers to female cows. In the UK and US, beef is from young male cows - hence boeuf.

Porc can also refer to a live pig in French. Porc comes from the Latin, Cochon is equivalent to saying oinkoink.
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A very experienced huntsman borrowed him and found himself being carried over the hill and far away, eventually deciding to hop off in a soft patch of brush.
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My ex-wife owned an eventing horse who was the most lovely thing in the world in the stable, but would just about rip your biceps off if it looked like you weren't taming his speed enough.

Honestly no idea how she won so often, my arms were jelly for days after riding him.
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
What he calls the Valley of Death I would call the poverty trap - Iain Duncan Smith in the UK spent years discussing the problems with clawing back benefits before ignoring himself once he became a minister.

Good to see it get a wider audience, I guess.
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Issues with the poverty line are... Not new? It's "this is a subplot in a West Wing episode" old.

youtu.be/q9EehZlw-zk?...
A New Formula for Poverty - The West Wing
YouTube video by Ryan Burge
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Driving a £9.3bn market in search of other methods, what could possibly go wrong?
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I never realised how much it it I drank until I spent two weeks in the US. Replacing my squash consumption with coffee was probably a bad idea, but dear god American coffee is just better.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Oh god, those poor people. Ignorance is bliss.
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
With eARC, it's just way less convenient than a direct HDMI connection.

I don't understand why Soundbars don't come with HDMI pass through except on some of the really expensive models.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It took until some of the news this year before my son stopped being grumpy about never being allowed to play it.
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM