boem@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoThe riverbank booksellers of Paris refuse to move for the 2024 Summer Olympicsenglish.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down13cross-posted to: fiction@literature.cafe
arrow-up1272arrow-down1external-linkThe riverbank booksellers of Paris refuse to move for the 2024 Summer Olympicsenglish.elpais.comboem@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: fiction@literature.cafe
minus-squaremacrocephalic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down2·1 year agoFuck the Olympics. This stinks of a way to sterilise the city of anything that isn’t new, shiny, plasticky, shit. Let them stay.
minus-squarewolfcatreader@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39·1 year agoIt’s appalling to learn that they’re even thinking of taking such measures against antiquity, tradition and history. Absurb!
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minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40arrow-down2·1 year agoIt always starts this way. Fuck the Olympics.
minus-squareSilkenTofu@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoIf by only a fraction you mean over half then I suppose you’re technically not incorrect…
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoHell, 3/2 is a fraction. I know the saying is implying it is a small fraction, but I really hate the saying because it is so vague. Like pennies on the dollar, it could mean 200 pennies and be technically correct!
Fuck the Olympics. This stinks of a way to sterilise the city of anything that isn’t new, shiny, plasticky, shit. Let them stay.
It’s appalling to learn that they’re even thinking of taking such measures against antiquity, tradition and history. Absurb!
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It always starts this way.
Fuck the Olympics.
If by only a fraction you mean over half then I suppose you’re technically not incorrect…
Hell, 3/2 is a fraction.
I know the saying is implying it is a small fraction, but I really hate the saying because it is so vague. Like pennies on the dollar, it could mean 200 pennies and be technically correct!