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Well, damned if that’s not the most Goth As Fuck thing I’ve ever seen. This is one of the Highly Commended images from this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a group of fruit bats flying around some sort of monument, taken by Sitaram Raul in what the caption calls complete darkness. So, um, fuck yeah. Makes me wonder how he knew when to fire the camera off, though I suppose he would’ve been listening for movement. However he did it, what an amazing picture anyway.

I imagine there’s a surprising number of those in that specific place. First thing I’d do is check sure there’s no holes on the premises that look like they’ve been dug from below…

How badly do I need an answer to that question? Not badly enough, I suspect…

I thought this last one couldn’t possibly be real, but a quick Google search demonstrated otherwise. Alas, there was no actual source that I could see (I would LOVE to know who coined this astounding phrase), but I did find a book review from 2008 so that at least predated brother Adam’s citation. I wonder about some of the idioms and slang he posts, except when they’re obviously jocular ones, but it appears he’s not the originator here… Still, if we can’t quite determine where it did come from, we need to find contexts for reintroducing “give one’s arse a salad” into conversation…

Yeah, nah, get fucked with that:

Australians’ proud reputation as a pack of cunning linguists has taken a hit from a study finding they come only third in the swearing stakes online.
The research found Australians were more restrained – online, at least – than potty-mouthed Poms and vulgar Americans.
“What the feck?” as the Irish would say – “feck” being their preferred profanity relative to other countries’ use of the word, according to the research.
For the British it’s “cunt”, and for the US it’s “asshole”. For Australians, disappointingly, it’s “crap”.
“We were super surprised by that,” says Dr Martin Schweinberger, from the University of Queensland’s school of languages and cultures.
“We expected it to be ‘fuck’ or something.” […]
But there is a heartening twist to the tale that shows Australians are not here to fuck spiders.
One is that the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE) dataset the researchers used did not include blogs for Australia – and blogs are typically more sweary than general online content. But it did include them for other countries.
“If we had blog data for Australia it might have pushed us to second place,” Schweinberger says.

Fairly sure if this blog had been counted I could’ve taken us to the top. Still, now Australia has something to aspire to…

Just “mostly”?