new Ricky Gervais on netflix kind of has a funny bitseems unlikely, even with qualifier
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
just listening to a report on recent sexual abuse cases and the marginalisation of the Sami people in N Norway. I honestly didn't realise there were indigenous peoples in Norway.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
I didn't realise they were Finno-Ugric (like Finns, Estonians and Hungarians) rather than Eskimo-Aleut until just now. (Not that this will shock anyone)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
there is sami-language radio!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Such a shame that no one remembers the great Finno-Ugric entertainer Sami Davis Jr.
― yamnesia (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Well, you do get them in Finland after all.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Though I thought they were mostly in Finland, but they are mostly in Norway, though I suppose the topmost part of Scandinavia is in Norway.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
Xp yeah, but most of Scandinavia is not Finland, and the Finns came from a later migration it seems.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
I went through the same kind of culture shock a few years ago: finland
― pplains, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
I mean, on one hand, I feel kinda funny mocking indigenous people.
But on the other hand,
https://i.imgur.com/PvOdpWB.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
tbf slightly fair to the non-Sami Norwegians, they have been in Norway since 3000 BC, it's not quite a white settlers/ Native American sorta thing.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/stpZV75.gif
You see, this is what you get with De la Rue - state of the art e-passports.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
Soviet police memo to help determine one's national origin. pic.twitter.com/bAwy6WmF1p— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) May 21, 2016
― calzino, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71upBhWPBFL._SY450_.jpg
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
i like a good ancient culture and their various art things but the last couple of years have thrown up a couple that i knew nothing about
Today it was these things (stone spheres of costa rica):https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=costa+rica+spheres&tbm=isch
Last year it was these things (Sanxingdui masks):https://www.google.com/search?q=Sanxingdui&tbm=isch
― koogs, Saturday, 24 March 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
That crazy old Coors Light ad where the guy is practically delirious about "twins" was based on an old country song about little baby ducks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH2mgOnM-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk64JluO4CI
― how's life, Sunday, 25 March 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
Oh, god. I know (and love) the Tom T. Hall song but have thankfully never been subjected to that nightmarish perversion of his song before now.
― Toilet Paper Tube Bracelets -- Super Hero Themed? (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Evelyn Waugh is male
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
same :-0
― burzum buddies (brownie), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
Fun fact: his first wife was called Evelyn, so there was in fact a female Evelyn Waugh
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
http://www.edinburghspotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evelynreview.jpg
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
Only way I've kept that one straight is because I used to work with a guy named Mar10n Waugh.
His wife's name was Janey.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
More like Evelyn Wau, amirite.
(I did in fact know about old Evelyn. Do a Google image search for George Eliot if you're interested in further literary surprises.)
― to eat a little "snack", to have an snack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
When I saw live musical performances on TV, I knew the music was often pre-recorded and that the artists were just lip-singing.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
you know that's "lip-syncing", right? :P
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I realised that the name of the band who did Funkytown was a pun on the above
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
Well, you don’t say.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 05:03 (six years ago) link
According to Wikipedia, friends took to calling the Waughs he-Evelyn and she-Evelyn. Hevelyn and Shevelyn would surely have been better?
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
make the edit alba DO IT
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
That it's pronounced Ever-Lin, Not Eeeeev-Lin
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
Stop spoiling my nicknames.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:43 (six years ago) link
Where are you getting that from, anyway? All the things I can immediately find on the internet say that with him it was Eve-Lin not Ever-Lin.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
(not very authoritative sources, I admit)
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
these folks seem to agree it's EVE-lin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061qw73
Evil Genius with Russell KaneWriting Brideshead Revisited? Genius. Naming his son Auberon? Evil. And it gets worse... Russell weighs it all up with Jolyon Rubinstein, Ellie White and Sadie Harrison.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
Ihave always pronounced it Ehvuhlin in my mind but now I'm wondering if I've ever heard that name spoken aloud. Wouldn't have guessed at the evil or ever pronunciations. I still think that Alba's joke would work though.
― how's life, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link
Is ever not pronounced Ehvuh, then?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
I think I've vacillated between Eve-lin and Eever-lin. Never done Ever or Ehvuh (are these two meant to be different? I guess Eh can be pronounced like the letter A)
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
Eve-lin is what I've heard most. Ehvuh-lin I end up clipping down in classic British style to Evlin, which could give rise to 'Vluh' as an imo excellent short name. VLUH
― ogmor, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
... like his son, Ron Waugh, little Ronnie Waugh. Always pronounced it as Eve-lin, fwiw.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:12 (six years ago) link
ever-lyn = the femme fatale with the deadtooth from twin peaks
― scotti pruitti (wins), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
I always assumed it was Ever-Lin as that's how Bill Deedes pronounced it, and I guess he should know of anyone.
Shevverlin is still great tho
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
The old duffers here pronounce it eeeev-lin though, so let's just assume waugh deliberately pronounced it both ways to screw with people, which sounds plausible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUahGZzaNU
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
woff
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
I often look back on my callow youth, and when I do a smile flits across my now mature but pitted face. I hardly recognize the naïve boy I once was. To think that I once believed that Evelyn Waugh was a woman! Of course now, with a couple of ‘O’ levels under my belt, I am far more sophisticated and I know that Evelyn Waugh, should he be alive today, would be very, indeed, dead proud of his daughter, Auberon; because of course Evelyn is the father of Auberon and not, as I once thought, the mother.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1443448085i/16361932.png
― to eat a little "snack", to have an snack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Where's sic when you really need a factcheck
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
I briefly considered Auberon/ Oberon for my son's name! I had to ditch it bc I kept thinking of that Oberyn Martell scene on GoT.
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
actually I also had Evelyn as a potential girls' name... huh
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Joan Bakewell says it Eve-lin and that's good enough for me: https://youtu.be/UvtjUt0GzKg
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
omg @ how she says "waugh" - it is a monument to an entire way of being
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link