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Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires (www.cnn.com)
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[–] [S] 65 points 4 months ago (8 children)

"Count" is not a valid title in the British peerage. The equivalent rank in the UK is "earl". Though if he wins, I think it'd be a moment of immense cultural significance so he should immediately be elevated to the Lords as a life peer, just to make the title official. He can be Britain's only living count.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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    Hmm. Apparently in said system, the wife of an earl is a countess.

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    Ah.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl

    The Norman-derived equivalent count (from Latin comes) was not introduced following the Norman Conquest of England though countess was and is used for the female title. Geoffrey Hughes writes, "It is a likely speculation that the Norman French title 'Count' was abandoned in England in favour of the Germanic 'Earl' [...] precisely because of the uncomfortable phonetic proximity to cunt".[7]

    I imagine that Count Binface simply doesn't fear such proximity.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm going to take this opportunity to ask a very off topic question:

    Did you give up kagi?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Nope. But I did discover that is based in Serbia, and I felt that I couldn't recommend it based on that (e.g. if there were privacy issues, I'm not sold that the legal regimen would be strong enough for much to happen to the company).

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