• tal@lemmy.today
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    It’s Count Binface. For now. I don’t think that a peer can serve in the House of Commons, so I think that he might just have to give up his title and serve as Binface if elected.

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      “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.

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

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        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.

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

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

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

          Did you give up kagi?

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            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).

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

        But “viscount” is? What the hell kind of scam are they running over there?