Bob

I’ve had the odd dream where I’ve vividly smelt something putrid, but I’d say every dream I have includes sound. I’ve had a couple of dreams where the world ended suddenly and I remember the almighty rushing noise and the sound of my never-ending sigh. I’ve dreamt a good few times about people I know speaking other languages they wouldn’t normally speak, too.

She says dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is racist, and her justification is that the first European settlers in North America saw the locals not sticking to mealtimes and said it was because they were uncivilised. Still a stretch, like, I think.

Odd to hear of old Blighty coming out with a level-headed policy after the last decade or so of wank governance.

Ravioli is definitely a noodle.

A godless folk.

You and he were… buddies, weren’t you?

I can’t imagine discovering my own daughter dead in an oven. I don’t think I’d ever recover.

Every dialect has a word for it. There’s no gap.

These are written by someone who thinks it’s normal that people in games just blurt out something like “patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter” as you approach.

I’ve got a black joker card in my wallet. I was walking to the tram stop with someone once, when I saw this playing card face-down on the floor, so I said “bet you I can guess this card,” I knelt down, and I said “I think it’s a joker.” I was about to turn it over when my friend said “hold on, black or red?” I said black and turned it over, and now it lives in my wallet.

https://jockstrapmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wicked-city

Perhaps a lesson in heeding your elders’ word then.

I’ve recently learnt how to pronounce Irish slender consonants after basically years of wondering how to do it.

I mean, you could look it up yourself if you doubt it so.

You’ll be thrilled to learn, then, that there’s only one adjective in that insult.

But the famous thing about learning to ride a bike is that you don’t forget, even after decades. I’ve just looked it up to double-check and all I got was articles about why you never forget. It’s like saying you’ll forget how to walk up stairs or something.

You don’t know the expression, “it’s like riding a bike”?

There’s a fair number of people who insist that “geek” and “nerd” mean two different, specific things. I think this is the same phenomenon, that people seek nuance where there isn’t because it makes the language seem more interesting or something.

It’s just the transition I don’t like!

I’m white too.

Winter time, not wintertime.