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Comment · 3 years ago
It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can always move on to Koselig, even shorter distance to ‘cozy’
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Comment · 3 years ago
According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena.

From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.

“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”

(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))

From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.

For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”

Comment · 3 years ago
Think of it as an upgrade from no bels to a single bel. The next milestone is weird, ten bels.
Comment · 3 years ago
From the banner it looks like Zhang Lennon plays the lead.
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Comment · 3 years ago
>He beat the nanny, Sandra Rivett, to death with a lead pipe.

One wonders if the Etonians of earlier decades were hit as hard by lead poisoning as by a misplaced sense of impunity.

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