As long as it’s the UK flag, and not the English flag, I’ll give them a pass. Stay clear from anyone in an England flag, drunk or sober, football or naught.

I actually find this cute. Like we’re all out camping and someone wants to make a brew. Adds an element of magic to making a simple tea.

Once upon a time not long ago
when people wore pyjamas and lived life slow…

checks out.

A natural impoverished (by us) enemy just a stones throw away.

My mum has a Tivo-like box that allows her to record things and catch up with them later. She still watches all of her series live, so she can gossip with her friends about it the next day. The most useful feature of that setup is that she can pause the show if someone calls her or she needs the toilet, but she wont miss a show that was scheduled for that day

Neville Chamberlain originally did try appeasement with Hitler, yes, but he did declare war when peace talks broke down. He massively scaled up the armed forces before war broke as a signalled deterrent to Hitler.

Once it became entirely clear that the enemy could not be reasoned with, he stood down, having exhausted all the power he had to stop further escalation.

Churchill, in contrast, was an escalator. Perhaps what the country needed at the time, but so pig-headed that he wanted to keep the war going long after support from home had dried out.

I feel that once the young are out of the watchful judgemental eye of the old (i.e. they pass on), things will change drastically

Eh, young muslims drink in excess far more than the previous generation. They just pretend like they don’t.

How do you skip live ads unless you’ve pre-buffered at least 1hr in advance

IPTV is also pretty great

(I’ve literally never heard that said once, but it qualifies, so I’ll add it)

Look, you cant just go around throwing mind-bending wisdom like that into a random thread.

Exactly this kind of sentiment. Beautiful poem.

The tone of it is the same, but there’s also a sarcastic interpretation of it though, and it can be applied liberally to lots of non-work situations

Sonder

Literally means “special” in German

Very true! At the same time, I feel like you would only say that to something that will happen and not something that is currently happening. Is that right?

Not a word, but there’s a specific phrase uttered when you casually pass by someone working, stop for a chat, and then genuinely wish them well with their work as you leave.

This phrase does not exist in English:

• “Break a leg” is close, but more reserved for some grand performance

Nor does it exist in German:

• “Viel Spass/Glück” (Have fun, Good Luck) is also close, but has an element of sarcasm and/or success through chance.
• (Edit) “Frohes Schaffen” (Happy ‘getting it done’) is pretty spot on.

In Turkish, you just say “Kolay Gelsin”, meaning “May the work come easy so that you finish sooner”.

Its such a useful unjudgemental phrase, easily uttered, that I’ve seen nowhere else. Maybe other languages have it too.

übermorgen

Heck yeah it is. That song in particular is a reference to the A66 motorway that crosses the north, which has one incomplete section that reduces down to a single-lane.

The song is also a reference to the US’s route 66, but with more emphasis on boredom and drudgery than any hellish themes.

Yes he is