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For decades I thought it was charming/weird that in UK cop shows they call their (female) boss "Mom". Now even though I know that it's "Ma'am", my brain has calcified and I will forever think of British cops as having some kind of arrested development issue.
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Tad Naff posted:For decades I thought it was charming/weird that in UK cop shows they call their (female) boss "Mom". 
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Sep 20, 2021 03:04
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Tad Naff posted:For decades I thought it was charming/weird that in UK cop shows they call their (female) boss "Mom". This was apparently an issue for American viewers of the Bodyguard TV series, where they thought the relationship was incestuous.
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Sep 20, 2021 06:44
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If it's Britain that much is assured
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Sep 21, 2021 03:26
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Failed Imagineer posted:"Tell me you're a white Gen Xer without telling me" "Rammstein still holds up."
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Sep 21, 2021 04:06
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Finnish - unlike English - has a word for malaria. (Horkka in case anyone gives a poo poo. I knew of horkka but never made the obvious connection.)
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Sep 21, 2021 07:36
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The English word for malaria is malaria, in case you were wondering.
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Sep 21, 2021 08:13
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Preposterous.
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Sep 21, 2021 08:14
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I didn't realize that Rock and Roll McDonald's was real.
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Sep 21, 2021 08:20
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Finnish - unlike English - has a word for malaria. (Horkka in case anyone gives a poo poo. I knew of horkka but never made the obvious connection.) American English uses the word "hork" fairly often.
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Sep 21, 2021 08:30
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rodbeard posted:I didn't realize that Rock and Roll McDonald's was real. The one in Chicago? God, I haven't thought of that place in ages. When I was a kid, that place was magical.
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Sep 21, 2021 09:29
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Hirayuki posted:This was complicated for me by the phrase "Queen Mum." Clearly it can't be "Queen Ma'am," right? So all the servants and everything were definitely saying "mum." You sure they’re not talking about the Queen Mother? Which is the widowed mother of the current monarch. Unless the widow is in the line of succession she doesn’t get to be the Queen anymore.
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Sep 21, 2021 10:22
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rodbeard posted:I didn't realize that Rock and Roll McDonald's was real. Sadly it’s now like, ultra-modern/pseudo-futuristic McDonalds.
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Sep 21, 2021 13:08
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The Hammersmith Apollo is not the Apollo Theatre, which is not the Apollo Theater. 
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Sep 21, 2021 13:13
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My family has taken road trips for years growing up. On almost every trip, I'd inevitably see someone with a flat tire having to change it. Also being on a road trip, they've got all their luggage out of the car to the side of the road. I, as a child, assumed they were doing it to unload weight from the car to jack it up. I have never questioned this and even recently have seen the same thing. I am 38 god drat years old and I just realized they take the luggage out to get to the jack and spare tire. I am also 38 years old and never had a flat while on a road trip, obviously.
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Sep 21, 2021 15:33
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Vulgar posted:You sure they’re not talking about the Queen Mother? Which is the widowed mother of the current monarch. Unless the widow is in the line of succession she doesn’t get to be the Queen anymore. eta: This was a LONG time ago. Like, second or third grade. I think it was Danger Mouse that started it.
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Sep 21, 2021 16:55
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Ma’am is a shibboleth. Pronouncing it ‘marm’ marks you as clueless to anyone on the far right hand side of the class bell curve, in the UK anyway.
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Sep 21, 2021 17:12
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Ma'am, this is a Wendy's drive through.
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Sep 22, 2021 12:35
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Torquemada posted:Ma’am is a shibboleth. Pronouncing it ‘marm’ marks you as clueless to anyone on the far right hand side of the class bell curve, in the UK anyway. You're not my real ma'am
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Sep 22, 2021 12:40
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It’s mam as in ham when addressing the queen mother the second time you meet her, the first time it’s your majesty. Mam in Newcastle, and parts of the north, is your mother Mum in the south and if you are posh is your mother
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Sep 22, 2021 12:46
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Who is it that has listened to Simon and Garfunkel since he was a kid but only now, as a 37 year old man, just figured out that the "canticle" in Scarborough Faire/Canticle referred to a parallel story Garfunkel was singing about a general "ordering his soldiers to kill" for a cause they've "long ago forgotten"? <---- This moron!
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Sep 22, 2021 16:57
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learnincurve posted:It’s mam as in ham when addressing the queen mother the second time you meet her, the first time it’s your majesty. The Queen Mother is properly addressed with "loving hell I thought you were dead".
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Sep 22, 2021 18:11
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The Dead One (Not Thatcher)
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Sep 22, 2021 18:15
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I wonder if all the gin embalmed her. My favourite story about her (the queen mother) is that she was secretly pro-gay rights, and let it be known to the Household Cavalry that it was well known gay men couldn’t grow moustaches *wink wink* so the guard became a haven for gay men who identified themselves to each other with glorious moustaches.
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Sep 22, 2021 23:12
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The Queen mother weed herself and played Donkey Konga all day.
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Sep 23, 2021 00:59
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learnincurve posted:I wonder if all the gin embalmed her. According to Chumbawamba, yes! https://youtu.be/4XmNNb63TVo
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Sep 23, 2021 03:23
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Who is it that has listened to Simon and Garfunkel since he was a kid but only now, as a 37 year old man, just figured out that the "canticle" in Scarborough Faire/Canticle referred to a parallel story Garfunkel was singing about a general "ordering his soldiers to kill" for a cause they've "long ago forgotten"? I mean, for me it's all the drug references.
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Sep 23, 2021 03:31
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RoboRodent posted:I mean, for me it's all the drug references. Drug references? I guess I'm a moron again because I've never noticed any.
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Sep 23, 2021 04:34
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Parsley, k2. Sage, clearly salvia, Rosemary? More like rose Mary Jane - it’s weed. Thyme? Heroin.
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Sep 23, 2021 06:48
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The Queen mother weed herself and played Donkey Konga all day. Can't say my retirement plans are any different
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Sep 23, 2021 09:13
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I can't believe I just figured out that AC/DC is really loving good. Exactly my kind of music. I mean, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S69xWkV4uM came out seven years before I was born. Wtf? What took me so long?
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Sep 23, 2021 11:37
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Marvel happened, suddenly you couldn’t get away from back in black and shoot to kill which aren’t their best work by a long shot, just the most popular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKlO0hM-zMw
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Sep 23, 2021 13:43
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Hyperlynx posted:Wtf? What took me so long? Happy birthday! You're now officially middleaged which means your metabolism now sucks, your knees no longer function properly, you have opinions about how to mow the lawn correctly and you develop a sudden interest in dad rock
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Sep 23, 2021 14:14
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Hyperlynx posted:I can't believe I just figured out that AC/DC is really loving good. Exactly my kind of music. I discovered them in college! I was listening to the radio on the way home from class and a song came on that sounded like the opening of Phantom of the Opera, which got my attention, then this suave sounding fellow proceeded to regale me about his big balls. I cracked up laughing and looked up what the song was later. (It's called Big Balls- phone posting so I can't link it easily.) The album that song is on was the first CD I bought- yes I'm old... Anyway yeah they're great! For my graduation present I had my mom bring me to see them in concert. It was a blast!
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Sep 23, 2021 16:04
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learnincurve posted:I wonder if all the gin embalmed her. drat, this sounds way better and also more brave than openly supporting gay rights. every country should have a ruling class made up of those born with a divine mandate!
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Sep 23, 2021 16:31
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learnincurve posted:Marvel happened Always wondered why it didn't do anything for Black Sabbath's Never Say Die.  Ah, that's right. Because it's Never Say Die.
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Sep 23, 2021 16:42
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Yeah, everything ACDC did with Bon Scott was loving great. There's some great some with Brian Johnson too but the Scott stuff is unimpeachable. Gotta love Bon Scott, the man's last name is a first name and his first name is not a name. Brilliant stuff. Just a wonderfully ugly little gnome of a man.
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Sep 23, 2021 16:50
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Hyperlynx posted:I can't believe I just figured out that AC/DC is really loving good. Exactly my kind of music. Bon Scott AC/DC being the superior AC/DC is far from being a controversial opinion. Brian Johnson has been their singer for far, far longer (40 years to Bon's 5 or so) and most of their big hits, including Back in Black, were from the Brian era, but the Bon songs are just more fun. (Back in Black, the album, was written when Bon was still alive, but he died of alcohol poisoning before he could record it.) I mean, the music's also sleazy and misogynistic and male-gazey and they're very much a product of their time and place, 70s blue-collar Australia, but they're still fuckin fun. I dunno, I'm no music critic, it's like Bon has this joy to his sleaziness that's absent from Brian's voice. And maybe it's also cause the band was fresher back then, and if they were a little more serious with their new singer after their old one drank himself to death, well, who can blame em Also I like Malcolm's guitar parts better'n Angus, fight me Source: some years ago I decided that I liked Bon Scott Acdc and bought most of their studio albums On CD Cause I'm old
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Sep 23, 2021 16:58
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learnincurve posted:Marvel happened, suddenly you couldn’t get away from back in black and shoot to kill which aren’t their best work by a long shot, just the most popular. Maybe we just ran in different circles, but AC/DC seemed to have a flatline of generic "classic rock" popularity for the past 3 decades. I always remember Back in Black being a thing. By the time Marvel got to it, it was almost kind of a punchline. Like a slightly more modern version of using "Bad to the Bone" when a guy puts on sunglasses.
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Phy posted:(Back in Black, the album, was written when Bon was still alive, but he died of alcohol poisoning before he could record it.) I'm not sure this is entirely true, at least the lyrics. I think they were incomplete at best, and it's really hard to imagine Bon singing some of those songs. As much as "she told me told me to come but I was already there" feels like him I think it was more trying to mimic his style.
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