There are all sorts of amusing Britishisms that cannot, perhaps, be appreciated without living here as an ex-pat.

Some are horrific, like the ridiculous British version of Trivial Pursuit, in which all questions are Entertainment questions in disguise.

Some are designed to induce embarrassment in the unsuspecting North American, like the use of “pants” to mean “underpants”, rather than “trousers”. Or that “double fisting” does not indicate having a beer in each hand.

But most are harmless. One of these harmless ones is the tendency to refer to women as “birds”. Luckily, birds are also called “birds”, so there is no pants-like embarrassment that might occur when heading out to the park with binoculars. And when I stumbled across the two following images one after another the other day, I thought to myself.

Hmmm …. birds with birds.

So here we are.

Top photo by Mario Zanaria.
Bottom photo apparently from Elle magazine. Found here.

An oft-pondered question might be How does the Universe work? As it turns out, the answer can be found in your breakfast cereal.

(A shipwreck by Jan Smith.)

Does your tummy ever rumble? Then you should know that you’re farting. You’re farting inside yourself.

Finally, you should be aware that your trousers have been lying to you.

One of the most fascinating things I have read on the Internet in a long time is this interview with an anonymous Facebook employee, where they talk largely about privacy, and a little bit about weirdos on Facebook. It’s worth reading.

(Audrey Deluxe performs Burlesque as Boba Fett. Photo by Shannon Cottrell. More here.)

New York. Subway. No pants. That’s just the way they roll.

Book burning might be out of fashion, but thepublicdomain.org argues here that gradual changes to copyright law over the past fifty years are accomplishing the same thing.