I thought a "mod con" was some sort of Artful Dodger scheme before learning the actual meaning.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
probably many counterexamples but there are a lot of UK/Australian shortened phrases that just don't happen in the US
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 14:38 (nine months ago) link
Quite a lot. In the US we don't speak of argy bargy, chrissy prezzies, arvo, brekkie, or ciggies. Throw up / threw up or vomit/vomited/hurled instead of "sick."
And certainly not "mod cons," which can mean wildly varying things. Amenities, maybe.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 14:51 (nine months ago) link
I was the exact opposite, I knew the all mod cons phrase but the pun on mod didn't occur to me until years afterwards
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:01 (nine months ago) link
worst British abbreviation is "spag bol"
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:12 (nine months ago) link
spag bol might have been the one where I realized, oh, this is what you're doing as a culture with all these weird abbreviations
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
Pretty sure nobody outside of the oft-derided metropolitan liberal elites ever said spag bol
― Scene report: Rochester MN (Matt #2), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:15 (nine months ago) link
you remember those heinz beans adverts soundtracked by ladysmith black mambazo in the 90s, like this flavourless industrial gloop made by a german-american company is in fact your intangible cultural heritage which you should be willing to die for!!! - that's the lineage of fucking spag bol.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:18 (nine months ago) link
everything wd have been so difft if the jam had only called their third lp "all spag bol"
― mark s, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:20 (nine months ago) link
Multi xpost Always understood “it’s downhill from here” as things will get worse as you’ve reached the peak. Can see how it could be read the other way though.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:21 (nine months ago) link
I always thought it was the "gets easier" interpretation
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:23 (nine months ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 9:36 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
well, power pop was always sort of a different thing
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:26 (nine months ago) link
you know who definitely calls it "spag bol"? ladbaby. and presumably the people who like ladbaby, not met any so far but they apparently exist.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:27 (nine months ago) link
Spag bol sounds like public schoolboy speak to me.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
It was about 8 years ago when I discovered the og recipe from Bologna doesn't have any herbs or garlic and what is served up as SB in most UK Italian restaurants ain't nothing like it. Problem was nobody in my house liked the authentic stuff I made (with some pretty lousy tesco brand pancetta) and I soon reverted back to doing it wrong.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:31 (nine months ago) link
"it’s downhill from here" confusion similar to that of "a rolling stone gathers no moss". Does that mean you should constantly move on in order to keep things fresh, or that if you do so you'll miss out on the good things in life? Could go either way!
― Scene report: Rochester MN (Matt #2), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:32 (nine months ago) link
I've eaten spag bol in Bologna! It was pretty plain.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:32 (nine months ago) link
still the peasant dishes of Italy are a massive improvement on beans on toast
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:36 (nine months ago) link
Why does no-one ever talk about the peasant dishes of the UK, cookbook industry missing a trick here
― Scene report: Rochester MN (Matt #2), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:38 (nine months ago) link
the jam's iconic third LP "all footy scran"
― mark s, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:39 (nine months ago) link
he did once do a lyric saying be thankful for what you've got cos there are no frozen fish fingers in Zaire
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:49 (nine months ago) link
do they know its findus time at all
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:53 (nine months ago) link
I was quite surprised when I went to live in Italy (25 years ago) that there was no such thing as 'bolognaise/ese'.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:43 (nine months ago) link
When I lived in the UK mostly I heard “spaghetti bo”
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:43 (nine months ago) link
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 9:43 AM
In Bologna they just call it spaghetti.
― nickn, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:47 (nine months ago) link
What do they call bologna? Lunch meat?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:48 (nine months ago) link
I guess not all bologna has a first name.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:54 (nine months ago) link
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/video-jon-stewart-gives-pepper-spray-cop-anthony-bologna-his-own-tv-show
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 17:00 (nine months ago) link
Baloney
― Stevo, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 17:11 (nine months ago) link
Spray Bol
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 17:12 (nine months ago) link
That "mod cons" doesn't mean indoor flush toilet!
― Jaq, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:12 (nine months ago) link
Post of the day.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:14 (nine months ago) link
I always thought spag bol was a Ben Elton thing, I remember him saying it in a routine on that Ch4 Saturday Live thing in the mid 80s
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 23:44 (nine months ago) link
there are pockets of Australia where the abbreviation has degenerated to "spag bog"
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 03:25 (nine months ago) link
Ha I thought it was just me saying spag bog because I like saying dumb things. But yeah I feel like Aussies say Spag Bol a lot and can get away with it more cos its... like, what we do.
What do they call bologna? Lunch meat?By the way why is that pronounced "baloney"? I thought they were 2 different words until reasonably recently.Here, you've got yer mortadella, of course. but theres also devon, luncheon, lunchmeat. Depends where u live. "Fritz", in Adelaide apparently which I have just now learned upon reading the wiki about it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 03:40 (nine months ago) link
it was Spag Bog in our house. Spag Bol will forever sound posh to me.
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 06:40 (nine months ago) link
Spag bol drives me nuts. Also saw something a few months ago where the comments revealed that a high percentage of people thought it was spag bowl and didn't know it was bolognaise.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 09:21 (nine months ago) link
oooh putting on airs saying "spag bol" like he's a real Italian
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 09:24 (nine months ago) link
oh so someone suddenly thinks they are Antonio Carluccio!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:28 (nine months ago) link
one thing I just learned was about the Andrea Doria/Stockholm collision. When the icebreaker went full steam into the starboard side of the AD obv all the passengers in that impact section of the hull didn't make it. Apart a young girl who was actually found dazed and with a broken arm amongst the crumpled wreckage of the Stockholm bow. They were like who is this? she's not on our passenger manifest ... oh!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:37 (nine months ago) link
wikipedia says she was catapulted from her bed onto the other ship -- and also that her dad, a famous radio broadcaster, had already delivered a story on the collision without letting his audience that he was himself still awaiting new of his daughter, at that time missing among the survivors (because she was now on the other ship)
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:47 (nine months ago) link
wasn't her mother killed in the collision? I'm not sure if I misheard that bit. But ships can falter but the airwaves can't!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:55 (nine months ago) link
Trayce, wait till you hear about New Haven pizza being pronounced "ah-beetz," or the various dialect-specific things like mozzarella being pronounced "mots-a-dell."
Language weirds language
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:00 (nine months ago) link
her mother was injured, stepfather and half-sister were killed, fuller story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Morgan
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:04 (nine months ago) link
my first thought was that her dad was a callous mofo, but on the other hand him not making the story all about himself could also be seen quite admirable.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:09 (nine months ago) link
when my uncle was badly injured in a motorcycle crash involving another motorcycle and a car. The other motorcyclist had his 14 yr old son riding pillion and he died. My uncle was in the same ward as him and said he was repeatedly boasting about how fast he was going. Now that's callous.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:21 (nine months ago) link
anyway youtube algorithm is serving up endless maritime disaster vids at the moment, some real nightmare fuel but also addictive.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:26 (nine months ago) link
(xp) Some kind of tortured metaphor in there for the approach to climate change being followed by the two main political parties in the UK.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:27 (nine months ago) link
Ugh
― Poor Little Fool Killer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:28 (nine months ago) link
holy shit
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:36 (nine months ago) link