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Magnús Pétursson

@gnyrinn

Magnús Pétursson, nota sumsstaðar pennanafnið gnyrinn. Útvarpa hugleiðingum á íslensku og ensku, ekki endilega samtímis. Magnús Pétursson, sometimes using the nom-de-plume gnyrinn. Broadcasting my thoughts in Icelandic and English, not always concurrently

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Wasn't that Lady Jane Grey?

07.03.2026 19:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Advocating for reduction in reliance on imported fossil fuels as a security matter is NOT an unkind thing to do, especially when it is precient. The question is how one packages such advocacy for maximum impact for a given audience, which is an exercise left to the reader.

03.03.2026 15:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's duck tape, not duct tape. This is important for two reasons
1) Pedantry
2) When people see something called duct tape, they think it is safe for air-ducts. This mistaken belief can kill people.

16.01.2026 11:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Þær fréttir voru að berast frá FIFA að ódýrustu miðarnir á úrslitaleik HM muni kosta 4185 USD. Þetta gera 46.50 USD á mínútu, eða 5904 ISK. Bara forvitnisspurning: Hvaða upplifun mundi fólk samþykkja að væri þess virði að eyða 6000 krónum í á mínútu.

13.12.2025 09:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I didn't know Geoff was a member of that Oxford club.

12.12.2025 09:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rommrýni Magga Pjé – Medium Read writing from Rommrýni Magga Pjé on Medium. Hér má finna skrif mín, aðallega rýni á áfengum drykkjum

Ég ákvað að fara að skrifa aftur um áfengi, sjá rommrynimp.medium.com

30.11.2025 12:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could that mean a James Bond adventure that would climax with an infiltration of a villain's lair - featuring a seagull-hat?

11.11.2025 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ég man eftir mörgum haustlægðunum síðustu árin þar sem ég hef hugsað með mér "eins gott að það er ekki orfáum gráðum kaldara. Þá væri ófært í borginni."

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Í dag hugga ég mig við það að ég hafði amk rétt fyrir mér.

28.10.2025 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What do you consider a feature missing from the English language?

04.10.2025 20:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whereas Van Helsing: Dramatic Baritone is one to avoid at all cost.

04.10.2025 04:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Afli og veiðarfæri gerð upptæk

15.09.2025 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Siecle explores France in the century between Napoleon and WW1. I find it fascinating.

22.08.2025 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slightly diminish a band:

Framboð rétt yfir meðalhæð

14.08.2025 08:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The bigger story is "Major makeup manufacturer has brand called 'Urban Decay'". That's the title of a bad book of poetry by an egocentric, burned out Gen-X'er, not a range of chemicals young people are encouraged to smear on their naïve little faces.

09.08.2025 14:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This precise breed of silly is social media's raison d'etre.

08.06.2025 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ég fer það sjaldan inni í óperuheima að þegar ég geri það kemur það mér alltaf smá á óvart hvað þetta er over-the-top listform.

04.04.2025 10:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

alpha(software developers' jargon): An early build; not feature complete, highly unstable and liable to crash at the slightest provocation.

12.03.2025 15:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That must have happened during the hours of darkness, which means that those shells went on a Nightflight to Venus.

07.03.2025 10:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My comedy-nerd brain has been staring at this looking for a Too Many Cooks/Four Candles mashup joke.

25.02.2025 10:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gleðilegan fífladag. Regnmánuðurinn loksins liðinn og í staðinn hafinn - vindmánuður.

19.02.2025 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jæja, þá er maður kominn hingað. Hver er fyndinn hérna?

21.11.2024 23:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0