Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 864112 times)

Basil · « **Reply #4325 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:29:59 pm »

@Kim. Kin yow soinge Broomeye?

Kim · « **Reply #4326 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:32:23 pm »

I knew I'd been here too long when a Canterbury friend observed that I pronounce 'Birmingham' in Broomeye (can't hear it myself). More recently, I've found myself using 'roight' unironically...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4327 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:36:16 pm »

Accents are funny things you often can't hear in yourself but can pass on. I remember a Japanese girl in NZ asking me what currency we use in Britain. When she repeated 'pound' back to me, I could hear a Gloucestershire accent...

Anyways, a thing I've learnt today is the word 'perfusion'. A less interesting but, unfortunately, more directly applicable thing, is the New York 11 (a sugar contract).

Basil · « **Reply #4328 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:37:35 pm »

Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?

Edit. That was aimed at Kim. I didn't realise that Cudz had posted

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4329 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:39:04 pm »

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Quote from: citoyen on 04 June, 2020, 09:22:54 am
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Pete Shelley was inspired to write Ever Fallen In Love by a line in Guys & Dolls.
I heard that too. Now trying to work it into what is officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio.

Bzzzt! Repetition...
https://www.thechain.uk/590-buzzcocks-ever-fallen-in-love-with-someone-you-shouldntve/

(Had to check to be sure, but it would have been a major oversight if they'd never had it yet.)

Must admit that I've not listened to Love Bites in its entirety for some years, but it is an abso-fucking-lutely awesome album. Cranked it up to 11 and pogoed round the kitchen while making dinner.
Blimey. I don't think I've ever listened to the whole album. What have I been doing for the past 77 years?

Youtube has a "1996 remastered" version of Just Lust. It's... wrong...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4330 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:40:17 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 04 June, 2020, 01:37:35 pm

Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?

That might be what other people hear...

Kim · « **Reply #4331 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:45:26 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 04 June, 2020, 01:37:35 pm

Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?

Not yet, though I fear it may only be a matter of time. I've stopped replying to it with "Not bad, how are you?" or similar.

fimm · « **Reply #4332 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:49:46 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 04 June, 2020, 01:45:26 pm

Quote from: Basil on 04 June, 2020, 01:37:35 pm
Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?

Not yet, though I fear it may only be a matter of time. I've stopped replying to it with "Not bad, how are you?" or similar.

Yes, I remember learning that PDQ when I lived in Birmingham...

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #4333 on:** 04 June, 2020, 01:58:15 pm »

With the signing of kids programs most seem very well to do and formal. The lady who did/does rasta mouse (kids are a few years past watching it) was a very cool black lady who had at least as much swagger as any of the characters in rasta mouse.

T42 · « **Reply #4334 on:** 10 June, 2020, 02:26:58 pm »

Glycated haemoglobin is reluctant to release oxygen. Pulse oximeters which measure the percentage of oxygenated haemoglobin in the blood may therefore give an artificially high reading in Type-2 diabetics.

SiD · « **Reply #4335 on:** 10 June, 2020, 05:06:22 pm »

i have learned about a song called Medway Wheelers.

nicknack · « **Reply #4336 on:** 10 June, 2020, 06:17:45 pm »

By Mr Childish I believe?

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #4337 on:** 10 June, 2020, 06:29:11 pm »

I have just discovered the Twitter feed Giant Military Cats

https://twitter.com/giantcat9/status/1270688853687439361?s=19

SiD · « **Reply #4338 on:** 10 June, 2020, 06:35:21 pm »

Quote from: nicknack on 10 June, 2020, 06:17:45 pm

By Mr Childish I believe?

That's correct. "They thought they'd never get there…"

Moleman76 · « **Reply #4339 on:** 11 June, 2020, 09:53:20 am »

The term for a group of (garden, etc.) slugs is a

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. I think I will probably always twinge when I say that word.

Paul · « **Reply #4340 on:** 11 June, 2020, 01:19:25 pm »

Quote from: SiD on 10 June, 2020, 05:06:22 pm

i have learned about a song called Medway Wheelers.

SiD!

How the devil are you?

citoyen · « **Reply #4341 on:** 18 June, 2020, 03:57:01 pm »

My brother-in-law's ancestors owned Blaise Castle until they sold it to Bristol council in the 1920s. They bought it after the previous owner, Thomas Farr, went bankrupt after his ships were blockaded during the American Revolutionary War.

What makes this more interesting is that Farr had made his fortune from sugar plantations and was involved in the slave trade, while the Harfords were prominent abolitionists and close associates of William Wilberforce.

So, if anyone had been entertaining thoughts about chucking Blaise Castle in the Avon, think again! The Harfords were the good guys.

fimm · « **Reply #4342 on:** 19 June, 2020, 02:53:06 pm »

Round the corner from where I live there is an industrial building of some kind, now converted to flats.
Today I have learned that it used to be St Andrews Biscuit Works, and it is where Digestive Biscuits were invented.

Also I learned that chocolate digestives are marked in France under the slogan "C'est Anglais, mais c'est bon!" ("It's English, but it's good")...

citoyen · « **Reply #4343 on:** 19 June, 2020, 03:09:50 pm »

Quote from: fimm on 19 June, 2020, 02:53:06 pm

Also I learned that chocolate digestives are marked in France under the slogan "C'est Anglais, mais c'est bon!" ("It's English, but it's good")...

Brilliant!

pumpkin · « **Reply #4344 on:** 19 June, 2020, 04:21:45 pm »

whereas someone I know whose daughter recently obtained a position in a prestigious German orchestra tells me the joke there is that 'The English don't have music'. Probably works better in some shouty hard German sentence

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4345 on:** 19 June, 2020, 04:46:07 pm »

Quote from: pumpkin on 19 June, 2020, 04:21:45 pm

whereas someone I know whose daughter recently obtained a position in a prestigious German orchestra tells me the joke there is that 'The English don't have music'. Probably works better in some shouty hard German sentence

"but they absolutely love the noise it makes."?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4346 on:** 19 June, 2020, 06:18:07 pm »

Quote from: pumpkin on 19 June, 2020, 04:21:45 pm

whereas someone I know whose daughter recently obtained a position in a prestigious German orchestra tells me the joke there is that 'The English don't have music'. Probably works better in some shouty hard German sentence

This from the nation that invented Wagner? Time to invade.

ElyDave · « **Reply #4347 on:** 21 June, 2020, 10:29:50 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 June, 2020, 01:36:16 pm

Accents are funny things you often can't hear in yourself but can pass on. I remember a Japanese girl in NZ asking me what currency we use in Britain. When she repeated 'pound' back to me, I could hear a Gloucestershire accent...

Anyways, a thing I've learnt today is the word 'perfusion'. A less interesting but, unfortunately, more directly applicable thing, is the New York 11 (a sugar contract).

I have no idea what my accent is after fifteen years trying to avoid getting webbed feet, but if I go back to the west country, there is a definite change over the course of a weekend

andytheflyer · « **Reply #4348 on:** 22 June, 2020, 07:58:22 am »

Quote from: ElyDave on 21 June, 2020, 10:29:50 pm

I have no idea what my accent is after fifteen years trying to avoid getting webbed feet, but if I go back to the west country, there is a definite change over the course of a weekend

Sorry Dave, you have to be born in the Fens to have webbed feet. I should know.... (A Bostonian)

And whilst my accent has softened after 40 years in Cheshire, my farm manager brother's Lincolnshire accent seems to get ever stronger.

ElyDave · « **Reply #4349 on:** 22 June, 2020, 08:03:45 am »

Quote from: andytheflyer on 22 June, 2020, 07:58:22 am

Quote from: ElyDave on 21 June, 2020, 10:29:50 pm
I have no idea what my accent is after fifteen years trying to avoid getting webbed feet, but if I go back to the west country, there is a definite change over the course of a weekend

Sorry Dave, you have to be born in the Fens to have webbed feet. I should know.... (A Bostonian)

And whilst my accent has softened after 40 years in Cheshire, my farm manager brother's Lincolnshire accent seems to get ever stronger.

No need to be sorry, you've confirmed its not contagious.