Most Germans will deny it, if only because they cannot pronounce the voiceless dental fricative (/θ/, one of the two “th” sounds), but they actually live in a theocracy, making it currently only the third western country together with the Vatican and the US to do so. There are more than a few obvious signs pointing toContinue reading “Silent theocracy”
Tag Archives: Easter
BCD 09.04.2023 (Easter Sunday edition)
If, unlike me, you’ve ever wondered what day Easter Sunday will fall on in some given year, you could look at a calendar. Or you could ask Google. Or you could quickly work it out for yourself using this simple calculation for our bonehead calculation of the day (BCD): (The following figure is the sameContinue reading “BCD 09.04.2023 (Easter Sunday edition)”
Good Friday Disagreements
With lots of spare time this weekend because Easter means that everything here in Not-Bielefeld is either closed or illegal (including, of course, public viewing of the morally questionable 1974 Japanese anime production of Heidi, Girl of the Alps), my thoughts wandered back to the question of why Jesus seems to die on a differentContinue reading “Good Friday Disagreements”
The Blog About Fog 