Sunday, December 25, 2016

Equal Opportunity Celebrator

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Krampusnacht, Bodhi Day, Pancha Ganapati, Saint Nicholas Day, Winter Solstice, Yule, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti


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Happy Every Holiday Day!


Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Tourist Trapped

India Indian tourists take more pictures photos with white people westerners foreigners than of the sights


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Honk if you've ever been more popular than the sights.


Sunday, December 4, 2016

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Hurts Good

In the USA, saunas have hot rocks. In Japan, spas are naked baths. In Sweden, you swim in ice water before saunas. In Russia spas you hit each other with tree branches, called banya

It's called banya and it looks super painful...in a good way.



Sunday, November 6, 2016

Cryptic Sequence

In French writing phone numbers down is the worst

I promise, I'm done making fun of French numbers. Peut-être.

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(No phone number required)


Sunday, October 30, 2016

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Third Three

In Thailand there are three three o'clocks: three in the morning, three in the afternoon and three at night, which is nine pm 9:00pm

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Now available at every three - and all the other numbers, too!

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Potent Repellent

Learning Klingon can be great to confuse people who speak lots of languages like polyglots

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nItebHa' mamI' DaneH'a'?


Sunday, October 2, 2016

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Ubiquitous Shape, Pt. 2

Circular bready foods from around the world: Injera from East Africa, Roti Prata from Singapore, Arepa from Colombia and Venezuela, cong iu bing from Taiwan, Lahmacun from Turkey, Manakish from Lebanon Middle East, Pfannkuchen from Germany


And check out part one here for more planar, oblique doughy edibles.

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If a series of circles doesn't count as great comic art,
then I don't know what does.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Iberian Aid

Portuguese is just Spanish with a Russian accent


Yes it does, and here's why.


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Обригадо!


Sunday, September 4, 2016

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Unreal Words

In English we use words that aren't words, like mmm-hmm and a'ight. But they also do in other languages


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A'ight yo, coo'.


Sunday, August 14, 2016

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Daylightland

In Iceland in the summer, the sun never sets. It's like an alternate twilight dimension. But winter is worse


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Now accepting Icelandic patrons.

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Mental Plug

TFW you're learning a language and you can't remember a word until the next day


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Keep calm and Patreon.


Sunday, July 17, 2016

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Not Not Negative Not

Afrikaans has a weird double negative nie rule

According to Itchy Feet fan, Afrikaans learner and co-author of this comic, Dave MacLeod, in Afrikaans any negative statement ("not" = nie) must at the end of the sentence feature yet another nie...or Afrikaans speakers will think you're not done speaking yet. Not.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Comprehension Bias

Everyone says 'I understand more than I can speak', but that's obvious. Nobody ever says 'I speak more than I understand'

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You know you want to.


Sunday, June 26, 2016

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Beany Baby

I'm having a baby, and it's the size of a bean! Just like the Itchy Feet guy

That's right, soon we're going to be hearing the pitter-patter of itchy feet around the house! :O

We're on the twelfth week now - that ultrasound was done on the eighth week, which was two days before we left for a ten-day trip to Japan and Abu Dhabi! Naturally, I just had to make a passport for the little guy. So that's exactly what I did, out of one of my old German passports (I'm a dual citizen):


Used the early ultrasound as a passport photo:


We even got it stamped:


The Japanese one was just a tourist stamp, but the Emirates one is a real passport stamp! My wife asked the guy and he didn't understand English, so shrugged and stamped the tiny passport ^_^

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Standard Origins

How crazy flags from Friesland, Benin Empire, North Caucasian Emirate, Antarctica, Sicily and Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic most likely were conceived

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