Freakin' volcano shuts down air traffic in Northern Europe

[wei yau]

Glad your mom's getting out, sorry for her loss.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I'm sorry, ES and ES's mama.

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by Cynical-Chick

^ Srsly. Spirit Air wants to start charging for carryon baggage, and Ryanair is removing lavatories and charging to use the remaining loos. Fuck the airlines. Sideways.

Old and busted. New and improved: non-reclining seats so they can wedge a few more people in them, courtesy of Spirit Air.

Still waiting for the manufacturers' response.

It could be worse.

[Pinecone]

"Ramsey, an associate professor in Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, collected images taken by NASA's Earth-orbiting Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer (ASTER) instrument showing that although the volcano's infamous ash plume is receding, its internal temperature is rising."

So far nothing seems to be worrisome from it's big sister volcano... yet.

[JoeP]

So, after the volcano eruption

aside: who can still remember its name?

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I did! If we ignore accented letters. I thought Eyjafjälläjokull but it's Eyjafjallajökull.

aside 2: who ever worked out how to pronounce it?

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Not me. Today I learned that Icelandic 'll' sounds like 'tl'. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ll_%283%29.oga

in 2010, Iceland launched a massive tourism campaign.

And now in 2016, American tourists in Iceland will outnumber Iceland's population!

I'm sure you are all becoming adept at questioning headlines. Of course this doesn't mean all at once. But on the other hand, why do Americans only care about American tourists? (rhetorical question) There have been 1.6 million foreign visitors to Iceland already this year at least 4 different visitors for each citizen.

[Watser?]

My brother and sister-in-law were two of them. One Dutchie, one American/Dutchie.

[Watser?]

I have met one Icelander once, she was part of a Danish group of unofficial observers in the West Bank. We were a Dutch group with one Belgian, so we didn't think that was odd. She said she was very famous in Iceland now, all the papers had written about her. The papers in my hometown had too, with about as many inhabitants as Reykjavik (and half as many as Iceland), but still not the same...

Moral of the story: it's easy to be famous in Iceland (this could also serve as a proverb).

[S.Vashti]

Eyjafjallajökull= Eye jaf jat la joe kull ?

[JoeP]

Eye-af-yatla-yoe-kutl might be more accurate.

[S.Vashti]

Ah, no soft j, and I missed the terminal ll. That would be hard to keep in mind.

[JoeP]

It's a foreign language.

[Watser?]

It very much is, yet when I was watching an Icelandic detective show I recognized a word that was the same in Icelandic as in our regional Dutch dialect.

brómber - Wiktionary

[JoeP]

Of course. Icelandic (probably the closest to Old Norse of the Nordic languages) is a Germanic language. As is Dutch, although I know this is anathema to some Dutch. And Afrikaans.

braam - Wiktionary

Of course (2), there is a Nordic language that isn't Germanic.

karhunvatukka - Wiktionary

[Watser?]

Yeah, I can recognize words in all the Germanic languages (and can read/understand most Afrikaans), but nothing whatsoever in Finnish.

[JoeP]

I'll bet you can recognise at least one.

sauna – Wikisanakirja

[Watser?]

[S.Vashti]

Originally Posted by JoeP

It's a foreign language.

Si.