Bob

Not totally relevant, but there’s a pub in Liverpool called The Shipping Forecast, bit wanky but you know, any port in a storm. Anyway they play the shipping forecast in the toilets, and fuck me if it isn’t nice and soothing when it fills the silence as you wait for the piss to breach the porcelain.

Ah, same with E/OS, I’m just seeing now. Never thought to test that!

There’s a bloke on Youtube who actually purveys good news on a regular basis if anyone’s interested: https://www.youtube.com/@itsSamBentley

It’s sort of a relief that there’s a term for that and that it occurs in more places than just the Netherlands, because I thought I was going insane.

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”?

I used to hang about with this Italian couple, and I remember smoking outside a pub with them years ago when I sort of offhandedly said “it’s like the difference between shit and sheet”, and one said “what’s the difference?” so of course I spent a good ten minutes trying to demonstrate the difference by saying “shit” and “sheet” over and over with them trying to copy me. The bouncer loved it.

That’s true, but I come across a lot of German speakers and I can attest that they seem to find it difficult when speaking English. Or they mix it up a lot anyway. I do it myself fairly often in Dutch with V and F.

That’s intense! You’d expect attempted rape to be thought of as quite a serious crime!

Can’t be helped, I suppose.

Sit closer?

I use a computer monitor for my playstation on the rare occasion I switch it on. Very much plug & play.