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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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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 53 points 21 hours 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.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

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

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

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 6 points 13 hours ago

Lot of cunts, only one count?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

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

But it's absolutely one on Sigma IX!

[–] tal@lemmy.today 35 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

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