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Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires (www.cnn.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 77 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Nor can he wear a bin on his face.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (5 children)

"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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

searches

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

searches more

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.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Did you give up kagi?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago

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).

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Lot of cunts, only one count?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

One! One count binface! Ah ah ahhh! -- another count.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

But it's absolutely one on Sigma IX!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Hmmm... it seems there might be something off about this system of "nobility".