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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.
It was, “I, fucking, love broccoli.”
I had a running joke with this lad in school where he’d say “your sister’s fit” and I’d punch him in the arm. No idea why we did it or how it stayed so friendly. Just remembered it for the first time in maybe 20 years. Thanks!
5·3 days agoIceland’s in the Schengen area so there’s a lot of flights coming where they don’t even ask for your passport. That’s how it was done when I was there in 2019 or so, anyway.
Scousers’ opinion of people from Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens: yeah, sound, bit odd but whatever. Scousers’ opinion of people from the Wirral: plazzy Scousers, the dark side, woollybacks… It must be something to do with rivers.
It’s not really clear that he’s against abortion though eh. He just looks like an ill-informed passerby.
1·3 days agoAh, same with E/OS, I’m just seeing now. Never thought to test that!
28·6 days agoThere’s a bloke on Youtube who actually purveys good news on a regular basis if anyone’s interested: https://www.youtube.com/@itsSamBentley
I don’t think competent comic writers need to do the panel-where-nothing-happens trick to make the joke jokier.
Yeah I remember an anecdote about two Americans on a beach referring to a black British man as something like “African American British” but it was even so long ago that I’ve forgot what they said exactly.
6·9 days agoApparently the car headbutting thing happened in 2018 too: https://www.businessinsider.nl/elon-musk-reportedly-head-butted-car-at-teslas-factory-2018-8?international=true&r=US
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”?
Beware he who thous the thou.
It’s happened to me a few times over the years, but if anything it’s an opportunity to think up a nickname. Sometimes they stick and all.