Any long time readers would agree: this week wouldn’t be the 1st time sarcasm was used in the subject line. ; ) And those near to me know that I’ve been joking throughout December that 2021 would feel like a hangover from 2020. But, so far, it feels more like 2020 was a (bad) dream and we haven’t woke up from yet…
Well, after a welcome return to work & the first week of 2021, I decided to spend some time on a Saturday to get through my inbox’s last 2020 leftovers, and to me, shipping this issue feels like a real kick-off to the new year. And with
a bike ride tomorrow, I’m back on track!
I picked my five favorites:
- 🌲Most cities plant only male trees because it’s expensive to clear up the fruit that falls from female trees. Male trees release pollen, and that’s one of the reasons your hay fever is getting worse. [Jessica Price]
- 🇨🇳In China, 🙂 doesn’t mean happy, it means “a despising, mocking, and even obnoxious attitude”. Use these, instead: 😁😄😀. [Echo Huang]
- 🇪🇺 Euro English is an evolving pidgin English used by EU administrators, for example: using ‘Handy’ to mean mobile phone (from German), ‘Non?’ to turn any sentence into a question and unusual plurals like ‘expertises”. [Lindsey Johnstone]
- 🛂For the first time ever, Americans are saying they want more immigration, not less. [Mohamed Younis]
- 🎛️You can learn a lot from Lego control panels. [George Cave]
as always, thank you for reading,
Jon
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