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Post by RLDavies on Jul 16, 2024 23:38:09 GMT
Playing a medical video without paying much attention.
"Aspirin should not be given to children with chickenpox, as it may cause racism."
Reye's syndrome.
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Post by jenny on Jul 17, 2024 19:27:04 GMT
Ha ha!
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Post by RLDavies on Jul 17, 2024 19:58:31 GMT
Honestly, listen to this (without paying much attention). Should be cued up to the right time.
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Post by jenny on Jul 18, 2024 11:28:05 GMT
Yes I can see how that might have happened if you weren't paying close attention.
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Post by amanda on Jul 19, 2024 6:42:04 GMT
Listening to the news, but not looking at the tv screen, I hear 'Coffin Road'. But knowing the suburb/area, I think it is likely to be Cotham Rd, it's just how it was said.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 20, 2024 9:20:51 GMT
Radio Times description of Titanic film plot. Leonardo Di Caprio falls in love with a character named Rose Dewit Bukater not Bukakke.
Thar would have been a very different film.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 20, 2024 12:05:29 GMT
The word "bukkake" means "to splash" and there was a lot of splashing in the film, just not that kind of splashing.
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Post by barbados on Jul 24, 2024 8:57:05 GMT
I’m dropping in and out of the qi boards, and not suggesting I have a food driven mindset, but it takes every ounce of reading ability to not see Brock’s begging post for someone to look after the round Britain quiz as a request for someone to host a Christmas Barbecue
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Post by jenny on Jul 24, 2024 23:35:28 GMT
It was quite a fun quiz, but unless I remember to tune into Radio 4 on my computer I'm unlikely to come across it, and I'm not motivated enough to make a point of it.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 25, 2024 10:34:14 GMT
I just caught sight of my own sig and wondered why the hell I'd written something about Amanda Plummer.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 12, 2024 7:12:27 GMT
I really need my first coffee.
I read "Woman of the Day apostrophe"
It actually said "Woman of the Day astrophysicist,"
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Post by jenny on Aug 12, 2024 18:33:49 GMT
I'd rather be an astrophysicist than an apostrophe. Reminds me of the poem "I'd rather be a woman than an earwig":
I Had Rather Be A Woman
I had rather be a woman
Than an earwig
But there’s not much in it sometimes.
We both crawl out of bed
But there the likeness ends.
Earwigs don’t have to
Feed their children,
Feed the cat,
Feed the rabbits,
Feed the dishwasher.
They don’t need
Clean sheets,
Clean clothes,
Clean carpets,
A clean bill of health.
They just rummage about
In chrysanthemums.
No one expects them
To have their
Teetotal, vegetarian
Mothers-in-law
To stay for Christmas,
Or to feel a secret thrill
At the thought of extending the kitchen.
Earwigs can snap their pincers at life
And scurry about being quite irresponsible.
They enjoy an undeserved reputation
Which frightens the boldest child.
Next time I feel hysterical
I’ll bite a hole in dahlia.
Daphne Schiller
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Post by jenny on Aug 12, 2024 18:38:17 GMT
And BigMartin gave me a lovely Youlgreave just now when he wrote on another thread: Earlier, there was a sparrow enjoying the fat balls and the dog (a little Yorkie) was up on the table on her hind legs with her front legs against one of the posts of the pergola barking at it like mad.
Of course my brain stopped at the bracket and I read it as there was a sparrow enjoying the fat balls of the dog and thought 'Eww!'
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 15, 2024 17:15:50 GMT
The dog is definitely a she!
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Post by amanda on Aug 18, 2024 22:42:15 GMT
Morning tv program, a presenter is at the Aussie Logies ceremony (after the event - 'twas last night) but admiring the six foot tall 'trophy' prize.
She then said (or I thought she did) Jet to the lag, meaning jetlagged.
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 24, 2024 2:10:48 GMT
Financial headline: "Time has come for rate cuts"
I had to read that several times before I could read anything other than "cute rats".
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Post by amanda on Aug 24, 2024 11:05:11 GMT
Watching a tv show on Malta and the harbour etc. I think I hear 'grandfather' but think it was more like 'grand harbour'.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 24, 2024 21:15:55 GMT
Long, long roadworks all up the motorway. Although no road workers was visible, the sign assured fuming motorists that 'We're also working in nightshirts'. Ah, no - 'working nightshifts'.
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Post by jenny on Aug 25, 2024 15:42:27 GMT
In certain historical periods nightshifts could also have been nightshirts, and now every time I see that on a sign I will think about men in nightshirts doing the work.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 25, 2024 19:50:42 GMT
In certain historical periods nightshifts could also have been nightshirts, and now every time I see that on a sign I will think about men in nightshirts doing the work. You and your filthy mind! Hiviz nightshirts, i hope |
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Post by Bondee on Aug 31, 2024 12:32:02 GMT
Walking to a friend's earlier, I saw a banner for the local gym strung across a fence on the main road...
...not, as my tired brain told me...
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Post by amanda on Sept 6, 2024 7:21:49 GMT
'Melbourne is in for a sprinkling', I think it is, makes sense with the current wet weather. But the news item was about cleaning up graffiti in the city, so it was 'Spring clean'.
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Post by Dix on Sept 8, 2024 19:18:52 GMT
This does not say "free taser session" (ouch!)
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 9, 2024 9:23:20 GMT
LOL!
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 13, 2024 10:13:18 GMT
Friends have flown to Brandenberg airport in Berlin, not Battenberg. I don't think an airport built of marzipan-coated cake would last well.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 13, 2024 15:34:01 GMT
When leaving the car park of the T*scos in Llandrindod Wells, one passes a sign saying;
Hwyl fawr
Goodbye
What it does NOT say, is "Goodbye Forever", which seemed a little over dramatic...
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Post by suze on Sept 13, 2024 16:25:26 GMT
Friends have flown to Brandenberg airport in Berlin, not Battenberg. I don't think an airport built of marzipan-coated cake would last well.
That sort of cake was invented in 1884 to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to the late Prince Philip's grandfather. The yellow and pink squares that we know today were invented by Messrs Lyons, while earlier Battenberg cakes were more elaborate.
The noble family after whom the cake is named changed their surname to Mountbatten in 1917 because of anti-German sentiment during WWI. It has never been made public, but this change of name was probably an order from George V.
Why did not the cake change its name at the same time?
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 13, 2024 17:12:46 GMT
It's a castle not a mountain, so it's Brandenburg.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 15, 2024 22:22:22 GMT
Despite what I thought was written on their window, the place around the corner from Blackfriars Priory in Gloucester doesn't sell "vicious bottled and draught beers" - it's "various"!
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Post by amanda on Sept 16, 2024 7:17:05 GMT
Just seen a FB article about warning people to keep dogs secure from the postman/ parcel delivery and apparently the author's surname was Maule.
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