Lophostemon

The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.

Maybe they had poisoned inseams?

Ok. I stand corrected.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/realty#%3A%7E%3Atext=1660s%2C+%22real+estate%2C+real%2Csee+real+%28adj.%29).

The root of the word ‘real’ is effectively ‘royal’. In previous times a king or queen would be the one granting or withdrawing ownership of lands. It’s trickled down from that, basically.

Surprisingly accurate.

I was described to someone, right in front of me, as “…the sort of person who educates people involuntarily.”