Is that the US smdh or the UK smdh
― my hand is finally unglued from my face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Look honestly you should just be grateful we even know who this Partridge guy is in the first place.
― my hand is finally unglued from my face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
He was great on that TV show as David Cassidy's little brother.
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
i was shockingly old when i learned alan partridge was david cassidy's little brother
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
A-HAAAA!
― We don't like hearing stories of a melted thermos. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
No, that's the Nordic guys who live in the cartoon.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
3rd Bass!
― We don't like hearing stories of a melted thermos. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
This is a good one, an Italian guy I'm working with was telling me 'wow' is a Scottish word and, I'm like, "Aye, right!" But...
https://www.etymonline.com/word/wow
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
... from the 1500s!
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Wow!
― nickn, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
OED's citations are exquisite
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vi. Prol. 19 Out on thir wanderand spiritis, wow! thow cryis.a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 178 Ane winklot fell and hir taill vp wow quod malkin hyd ȝow.1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 74 Wow! that's braw news.1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 220 And wow! he has an unco slight O' cauk and keel.1815 Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 173 Wow, woman, the Bertrams of Ellangowan are the auld Dingawaies lang syne.a1840 J. Baillie Fy, let us a' in Poems 16 But wow! he looks dowie and cow'd.1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 36 As below the brig we turn—Oh, Wow! the deavin' din there!
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Woah
― We don't like hearing stories of a melted thermos. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Oh, Wow! the deavin' din there!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/popturf/original_1345832123walking_here2.jpg
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
LOL
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
fuck me, had no idea wow was a scotticism
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
whence came 'big wowsers'?
― kinder, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
Rabbie Burns iirc
― We don't like hearing stories of a melted thermos. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
Or perhaps Rabbie Nesbit, always confuse the two
― We don't like hearing stories of a melted thermos. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
From 1356 and even previous practice, holy roman emperors elected by participating/assigned states.i cant believe how little i learned or remember of the 30 years war. gotta think part of this is cause im yank tho
― Hunt3r, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
“Paris is Burning” was perhaps a play on words- there was a 60’s WWII documentary film named “Is Paris Burning?”
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
Chrysalis Records was named after founders Chris Wright and Terry Ellis. Chris-Ellis.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
I am starting to grasp from fb that elf on a shelf is not just a kind of ornament.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
No, it's more akin to a virulent plague that a terrorist unleashed upon a planet out of sheer spite for its inhabitants and which those infected have chosen to embrace with a smile because, hey, they're already dead anyway.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
(My less hyperbolic take is that it's a new Christmas Tradition®. Like if you had to pay a licensing fee every time you referenced Santa.)
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
I don't generally tend to believe in conspiracy theories but I can only imagine that the elf on the shelf thing is intentionally designed to normalize the surveillance state in which the kids of today will live as adults
― silverfish, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
they should build nanny cams into them - two birds, one stone. or something.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
If you really want to open all three eyes and glimpse evil, there's this thread: Bah Humbug - The Elf on the Shelf
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
It took effing Masterchef to make me realise last week we name all pasta (one pasto?) by the plural.
One strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.
Just like a gnocco, a macarono, a farfallo, a fusillo, a linguino, a fucking raviolo.
I had no idea.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
nb the singular of farfalle is farfalla
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
What is the singular of 'spaghetti-o'
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
lolstuck one feather in his hat and called it macarono
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Yes! :D I had no idea. Prob because I don't usually dine at Michelin-star restaurants, but they were cooking up a starter called a "raviolo". It was, indeed, one raviolo.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
i also had no idea
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Am hoping the raviolo was at least twice the normal size
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Michelin ratings, I was shockingly old when I was disabused of the notion that Michelin in this context must assuredly refer some refined gentleman gourmand whose familiar surname is simply a coincidence but no it actually does refer to the company whose mascot is a cartoon dude made out of tires.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Raviolo have been messing me up my entire life. I never knew this.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
And don't get me started on panini...
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
paninis
― wmlynch, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
I always thought raviolo was some hybrid of diavolo meaning the raviolo was bigger and filled with yolk because of some italian superstition that I made up in my head.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
― koogs, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:27 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It wasn't ;_;
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
> mascot is a cartoon dude made out of tires.
cartoon dude has a name (and a restaurant named after him) :
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/restaurants/bibendum
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
I tell people about this restaurant with the michelin man stained glass and no one ever believes me.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
These days, my default assumption is that if it's almost parodically absurd it's probably also true.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
I passed on it my way to work every day for 4 months. The first however many times it came up in conversation, I always doubted myself that it was a dream I had.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
https://static.businessinsider.com/image/52a8abf36da8116a1f21f3d5-750.jpg
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
why would somebody that's MADE OUT OF TIRES ride a bike
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
That entire building is a delight.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
it's by the museums iirc, south ken tube station. have never been inside.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah S Kensington tube stop, walking towards Draycott.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
i have just realised that the michelin man is not the same as the stay puft marshmallow man
now i mean of course i *knew* this. im sayin i have only just realised it.
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link