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Pojke                            Boy                               Lad/ Laddie

Flicka                            Girl                               Las/ Lassie

Ja                                   Yes                               Aye

Jag vet inte                  I don't know                   I dunni ken

Soptunna                       Bin                                Bucket

Spis                              Stove                             Cooker

Barn                              Child                              Bairn

Veta                             Know                               No'

Din                             your/yours                         ye/yer

Va/vad?                       What?                               eyh?

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Luke, ah'm yer da

Intryck

Drottningen vid OS invigningen;

Drottningen när hon träffar Ed Sheeran;

Webbartisten/serietecknaren Andrew Dobsons tolkning av Storbritannien. Ni kan hitta hans verk här.

Some of the worst analogies written by high school students

I don't know what to say, but it's awesome

I'm probably a bad person for laughing at this....

Possibly the best lines of dialogue with Sirius Black and James Potter.

‘Names?’ repeated the long-haired driver. ‘Er – well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce… Bathsheba… Elvendork…’

‘And what’s nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy or a girl,’ said the boy in glasses.

‘Oh, OUR names, did you mean?’ asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage. ‘You should’ve said! This here is James Potter, and I’m Sirius Black!

From JK’s Harry Potter Prequel (2008)

A Maggie Smith/Downton Abbey appreciation post

-What was your last good deed? “Recently, a friend of mine in Chicago was feeling down, so I flew him to London – where I was staying at the time – and he was my red-carpet date for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiere. So I guess that’s a selfish good deed!” -Darren

I dunno if to laugh or cry...

→

Violet: Good heavens! What am I sitting on?
Matthew: A swivel chair.
Violet: Ooh. Another modern brainwave?
Matthew: Invented by Thomas Jefferson.
Violet: Why does every day involve a fight with an American?
Matthew: I’ll fetch a different one.
Violet: No, no, no. I’m a good sailor

-Downton Abbey

Obama after a reporter was asking him questions while he was trying to eat breakfast.

How smart isn't this? I can not understand how it hasn't been invented before. I want one.