mrundkvist

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Given the popularity of cheese burgers, I suggest that #Hamburg 's inhabitants rename their city Käseburg.

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Sabbat's 1987 single "Blood for the Blood God" mentions 10 million orc & goblin feet, that is, only 5 million orcs & goblins. So relax everyone.

#warhammer

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

The #Latin word for nightingale, luscinia, is applied as a species surname to the thrush nightingale common in Linnaeus's native Sweden. Not to the common nightingale that the Romans knew.

#birding

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

My grandparents were born in the 1910s. Cling film must have been completely futuristic to them.

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Junior: "Hear me out here: halberds are the spork of the weapon world."

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

So is Korak, son of Tarzan, much on everybody's minds these days?

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Here's a seriously impressive piece of forgotten #80s #synth pop. Just listen to the dramatic singing, the acoustic slap bass, the menacing #horror movie lyrics!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5becIpVnXLVVIp0sh9AsWX?si=f61da2d6102f43dc

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Castellologists need to watch Miami Vice. It's got Donjonson.

#medieval #castles #archaeology #80s

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

You know why a state cultivates an ideology of respect for war #veterans? To motivate young people to keep enlisting as soldiers. To motivate families to keep sending their kids to possibly be killed or maimed for the state's questionable purposes.

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Duck eggs

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

The Sörmlandsleden #hiking trail is 50 years old! #sweden

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to food Swedish

After 55 hours of no warm or solid food, I find myself thinking increasingly about #kebab. (Had a big molar pulled.)

#food #dentistry

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

My talk at #eurocon2023 is titled "Odinn's, Hrothgar's, Beorn's and Theoden's mead halls were a real thing and often get excavated". Thursday 8 June, 16:00, room VIII-2. Welcome!

#fantasy #tolkien #beowulf #archaeology #vikings #uppsala

meraord, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Vad gör du ikväll?

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to music Swedish

Three-day #rock #festival in #Stockholm coming up, and they have mostly booked acts I have never heard of, or ones that I know that I don't want to hear. With one exception.

I'm surprised to find the Scottish #90s #indie band Travis headlining the festival. They did release an album three years ago, but still?

Then I see it. The headline act is someone named Travis Scott. I've never heard of him. 😆

#music

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

#Movie: Southern Comfort (1981). Military refresher training in the swamps of Louisiana goes catastrophically (and unrealistically) wrong for one squad after they anger some Cajun trappers. Grade: OK.

#1980s

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

"Donald Trump's legal hell just keeps getting worse. too fucking bad for you"

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/donald-trumps-legal-hell-just-keeps

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Shall I compare thee to a Celtiberian?

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to science Swedish

A physicist once told me, "I like mathematicians a lot. Won't hear one bad word about them. I think everyone should own one!"

#physics #maths

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Archaeologists rarely get NSWE wrong. But it is super common for them to write e.g. north-west when the plan shows clearly that they mean north-east.

#archaeology

meraord, 1 year ago to random Swedish

Alltså... en tjej är med på Aktuellt och pratar om att hon hade returnerat 92% av alla kläder hon beställt. Hon verkar inte förstå att hon gjort något fel? Jisses...

Hoppas fler som missbrukar beställningsmöjligheten blockas på modesajterna.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/hon-blockades-av-modejatten-for-sitt-returmissbruk

mrundkvist, 1 year ago to books Swedish

Visited a country manor house turned #hotel. The interior designer used old #books as decorative tchotchkes. Random volumes from encyclopedias everywhere, many of them vandalised with the pages folded up to create a bulky fan. Clearly they had no idea how bookish people would react.