NB! · Nature · Humour

How Many Times Must It Be Said: Snails Do Not Carry the Plague!

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

Let us speak of how Peter Jackson introduced into the plot a middle-management orc who kept arguing with Saruman about the realism of the output targets at the orc factory

NB! · Geography · Humour

The Geography of the Smoker and the Geography of the Healthy Man

Old engraving of a man standing on a sphere, pulled by a thread from a woman on the left and by a chain from a man on the right, with a lute, globe and books below.

NB! · Art · Observations · Education · Humour

A 1608 engraving on the choice between study and entertainment

Study or amusements. 1608. A choice for which we have failed to prepare in 400 years

NB! · Humour

A Very Bad Joke

Geography · Heritage · Society · Humour

If You Dreamed of a Paris Without Crowds of Chinese Tourists

Visit the village in the Chelyabinsk Region, founded in 1842 by the Orenburg Cossack Host and named in honour of the Russian army's victory at Paris. Not far from Paris, one may also visit other monuments to the victories of Russian troops in Europe: the villages of Leipzig,

NB! · Observations · Mores · Humour

Good day, and do try not to sin quite as heartily as the ancient Romans

NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour

Keep this little tit-provider and she will bring you an unexpected profit

Keep this little tit-provider and she will bring you an unexpected profit. Or a mouse, it is not certain

Books · Mores · Humour

N. L-sky in 1835 on the awkwardness and woodenness of the English

A strange thing! Upon every Englishman, to whatever circle he may belong, unless he has lived in Europe, and lived there long, there lies a peculiar, distinguishing stamp. The Englishman is awkward, unwieldy, clumsy; there is something dreadfully wooden about him, and in this woodenness, this outward lack of animation,

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Shall We Talk About Reptilians?

A red-haired bearded man in a dark coat looks aside, and beside him is a dark-haired woman in light clothing wearing a pendant necklace.

Monarchies · Society · People · Humour

Quotation about not wishing to trouble a man who has problems with his wife

Trump will not deport Prince Harry:. I don't want to do that. I'll leave him alone. He has enough problems with his wife as it is. She's terrible

People · Humour

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine

Peter Ustinov