542

Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 week ago by NateNate60@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

88 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago

"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.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

searches

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

searches more

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.

[-] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

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

Did you give up kagi?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days 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).

[-] slampisko@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To think we were this close to having Count Grey tea...

(nothing funny about it, just fun to imagine an alternative timeline)

[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Lot of cunts, only one count?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

“Count” is not a valid title in the British peerage.

But it's absolutely one on Sigma IX!

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026

542 points (100.0% liked)

Not The Onion

21965 readers

1251 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world