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Thank you, Mr. Jones.
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I had ‘Me and Mrs Jones’ played when we walked in for our wedding reception.
I know it’s a song about someone having an affair, which isn’t that apt for a wedding really, but the main line was too good not to use.
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I’ve heard about people having “Reasons” played at their wedding and that’s about a one-night stand.
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I think inappropriate songs are petty common at weddings. I’ve seen Careless Whisper as a first dance a lot of times and that’s about regret at cheating on someone.
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See also: Every Breath You Take.
A perfectly lovely song for when you marry your stalker.
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I think inappropriate songs are petty common at weddings. I’ve seen Careless Whisper as a first dance a lot of times and that’s about regret at cheating on someone.
My uncle left the dance floor when “Billie Jean” came on at my cousin’s wedding. Inappropriate song for more than one reason! (Although I still love it and can’t knock my cousin for putting it on the playlist.)
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Always considered this a sort of response to “Me and Mrs. Jones”:
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Torn between Black Panther and Magneto
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Amazon Prime Day is June 21st (starting at 3AM EDT) and 22nd in many countries around the globe, just not Canada and India (due to Covid concerns).
Will they make it up to us at a later date? Of course. But some things are in conjunction with the companies, and DC, Marvel, and Image don’t really do anything special outside the U.S. and the UK in the first place.
Bastards! Ah well.Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 will be taking place in the U.S., the U.K., the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Spain, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, Netherlands, Mexico, Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China, Brazil, Belgium, Austria, and Australia.
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I have no idea what Amazon Prime Day is. Is it like Bandcamp Friday?
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I have no idea what Amazon Prime Day is. Is it like Bandcamp Friday?
I have no idea what Bandcamp Friday is. Is it like Amazon Prime Day?
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Makes sense since it’s the only way they can feel as they have no souls.
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I will never eat seared tuna again.
Try Dutch herring! I think there is a shop in NYC, Russ and Daughters that sells it. (Though I can’t vouch for the quality)
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I had imprints of mine taken quite regularly as a youngster when I was fitted for braces etc. and I’ve had quite a few X-rays in recent years too.
Basically, don’t murder me because my dental records are well up to date.
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Basically, don’t murder me because my dental records are well up to date.
Aw.
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I was reading the news today about a woman murdered and identified by her dental records, which isn’t an unusual thing to read or see in TV dramas. It got me thinking though, who has your dental records? When did they take them? I mean I went to the dentist to have some treatment a few months back but I don’t recall anyone taking a record or any kind of imprint or x-ray of my teeth. I can’t recall that back when I was in the UK either. Is it taken secretly? Are my dentists remiss?
It is a headache. First, there is no state or national or even citywide registry of dental records. The police need a PTB on the dead person which simply means “presumed to be.” There might be just a few missing people who could be the unknown person, and then the medical examiner has to contact the family of the missing person and get the name of their dentist if they had one at any point in their life or dentists if they had many. Then they try to get the most recent records and it’s like fingerprinting looking for enough points of similarity to make a match.
In cases where they have no clue, often it will be years later that they’ve gone through a bunch of dental records before they find a match. A lot of that depends on if there was a record of a missing person in another case whose dental records failed to be matched to other bodies. The whole process is time consuming and, honestly, most of the time, the police are already pretty sure who the dead person is and the dental records comparison is simply forensic so that they have solid proof to present in court that this body is the person they argue it is.
It’s not like there are all these unidentified dead bodies showing up out of the blue. Most dead people are identified informally by police almost right away, but like detectives say, “what you know and what you can prove in court are not at all the same thing.”
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I get an x-ray taken of my teeth every couple of years. So it’s good to know that if I get slaughtered and end up an unrecognizable mess, I will quickly be identified by my dental records.
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Basically, don’t murder me because my dental records are well up to date.
Or I could just pull all your teeth out after I kill you.
You’ll have to get to me before Christian does!
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It’s not like there are all these unidentified dead bodies showing up out of the blue.
You’re clearly not watching the right TV shows.
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While it is none of our business as it is her money, many said she should go easy on the charity donation amounts, but she isn’t stupid… It is all a tax write-off!
Is there much point for her in a tax write-off though? I mean if it’s a divorce settlement then it’s a lump sum and she doesn’t receive regular income.
In all honesty if I had $37bn I’d do the same, not because I’m the most virtuous man on Earth but what are you going to spend it on? I think it was Steve that shared the graphic the other day but it is hard to fathom how much money that is, you could live a life of unspeakable luxury and hedonism and still have $35bn left. It’s like Brewster’s Millions, you literally couldn’t spend it on stuff.
It’s why these multi-billionaires are clearly psychopaths. For a start they keep working, what’s the point in that? Sit in your mansion and paint or something, why answer emails?
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Fwiw, the last episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians aired last night.
It was the series finale…
No more!
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No comment… for now.
Could you let us know when we can expect a comment from you, Al? I’d like to make a note in my diary.
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Someone asked about why billionaires like Bezos don’t do more and here is a fitting answer:
https://www.boredpanda.com/jeff-bezos-batman-tweet-honest-business/
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The British accent thing is an interesting one because there is so much regional variation (even within England let alone Wales and Scotland), especially in vowel sounds. So for a lot of those examples, they sound very different depending on which part of the country you go to.
I’m sure this is true of other countries too, but there really is no such thing as a British accent.
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there really is no such thing as a British accent.
No and the examples there seem mainly to be Cockney/London accents and the ‘glottal stop’ for the letter T, the Bri ish example. I don’t think any of the Brits here would use the glottal stop. My Ts are loud and proud.
The article is a little bit like using a strong Noo Yawk accent and going ‘ so Americans talk like…’.
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The British accent thing is an interesting one because there is so much regional variation (even within England let alone Wales and Scotland), especially in vowel sounds. So for a lot of those examples, they sound very different depending on which part of the country you go to.
I’m sure this is true of other countries too, but there really is no such thing as a British accent.
I think it’s true for most larger countries or regions. Italy for instance has many dialects which are unintelligible to people from other Italian regions.
In the two Holland provinces and Utrecht the big cities all have their own accents. Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Amsterdam all have their own accents, with Amsterdam using a lot of words from Yiddish and Hebrew, but they’re easily intelligible for other Dutch people. The dialects from Eastern parts of the country are quite divergent from standard Dutch, with some technically being another language.
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Yeah, I wonder what the equivalent is for a generic American accent. I guess something fairly broad and nondescript like the one Hugh Laurie does in House or something.
It’s probably General American, which is used by newscasters.
Here’s an article about it:
Why Do Newscasters All Talk the Same? -
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This is a bizarre sentence in The Guardian today in an article about GB News.
The channel is broadcast on television and online across Great Britain, as well as in other parts of the United Kingdom such as Northern Ireland.
Why not just say it is broadcast across the United Kingdom? What other parts of the United Kingdom are there apart from Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
Did the journalist have a word limit they had to reach?
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Presumably it is intended to be a bit arch and they are pointing out the slight silliness and vague jingoism of using the GB News name for a UK channel.
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What other parts of the United Kingdom are there apart from Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
The Isles of Man, Orkney, Skye, Shetland, Wight… should I go on?
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The Isles of Man, Orkney, Skye, Shetland, Wight… should I go on?
The Isle of Man is not part of the UK and the other islands tend to be included as part of GB although technically not the main island.
Saying that I get the point now thanks to Dave that it’s a sarcastic take on the name of the channel.
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For anyone who thought This Time With Alan Partridge was in any way unrealistic:
Madeley has just gone full Partridge again when talking about Shamima Begum #GMB pic.twitter.com/0u36Ve1NyQ
— Scott (@ScottRuth) June 16, 2021
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I’m more pessimistic. It presumably has some generous financial backing to get started with (although from what I’ve heard of the production values, not a huge amount). It can weather losing some advertisers, I think, assuming it manages to create enough scandals that get reported on by other outlets and drive viewers in.
The little clips I’ve seen online make it look appallingly amateurish, and I’m not sure there’s a big enough market in the UK for a commercial news channel, no matter how cheap it is.
People seem to be enjoying trolling it though – “Mike Hunt” was trending briefly on Twitter this morning because they fell for that joke, as well as “Mike Oxlong” within the space of half an hour – so maybe it can survive on just its ability to generate memes.
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I listened to a podcast about it the other day that delved into some of the details.
There are issues, it does have backers but as the production values attest to they are not willing to reach that far into their pockets. They will also face Ofcom regulations in trying to make it a Fox News type channel, they have to genuinely try and offer balance so they can’t just rant away on an anti-woke agenda without allowing woke opinions on too. LBC get around that on the radio by splitting their controversial hosts politically, so you get the likes of James O’Brien along with the right wingers.
They did mention, as has later come to light, that when it comes to the lesser channels on the TV guide no big brand specifically advertises on them. If an ad for Natwest appears on Turbo or Pick or Sky Witness they bought it as a package. The strong reaction to some of the anti-vax stuff though has had advertisers request GB News is removed from that package for them.
They did say that as much as ratings and ads on TV they would be looking for reach, if they can get viral videos and youtube clips from their material that may also be a revenue driver that possibly could sustain them. I can’t see any scenario though where it has the influence of the US cable news channels that I think they truly want to be.
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Their much vaunted local stance outside the ‘metropolitan elite’ has taken a quick setback.
Their roving reporter is quite clearly not in Llandovery but in Birmingham, Britain’s second largest metropolitan area. We can see the area code on the halal shop (for which there is a much lower demand in rural West Wales). They could have managed Cardiff or Swansea at least?
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I’m impressed that they had the guts to go to Birmingham. It’s a no-go area for non-Muslims you know.
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Yeah that looks like Alum Rock, a few miles from me.
Maybe GB News means Glorious Birmingham. Sign me up!
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I’m not sure how it happened but my feed on LinkedIn have been heavily featuring artists. They will post their work on the site. I’ve really been enjoying it. A few of them I have connected with so they show up more in my feed. I’ve see some very cool art. It’s been really fun and a pleasant surprise.
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Actually, to tell the truth, the TikTok algorithm as far as I can tell, gives you more content of what you have been watching.
Here is a little clickbait for those who don’t want to go directly to TikTok. Some have posted it on Youtube…
Warning: Don’t get addicted and please, put and leave BOTH HANDS on the keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=big+bank+tiktok+twerk
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Yet, in recent months, many college students and educators worldwide have used their video time to talk social issues and politics ranging from the history and legacy of colonialism, slavery, segregation, genocide, social issues like feminism, and even little things in pop culture.
Look for tiktok videos that talk about the tiananmen massacre, it will be enlightening.
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Sometimes when I meet someone from another country, I would say a greeting in their language (if I knew it) to help break the ice. I learned that everyone else does it and the person may get very annoyed thinking ‘Not another American trying to impress me again by speaking my own language!”
I’d be hugely surprised if anyone actually thought that. In my experience it’s pretty universally welcomed if someone makes even a small effort to use the local language, even if it’s just ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’.
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I’d be hugely surprised if anyone actually thought that.
Yeah especially in smaller countries it is hugely appreciated. Czechs tend to think nobody foreign speaks any Czech, so dobry den and dekuju is always welcome.
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Sometimes when I meet someone from another country, I would say a greeting in their language (if I knew it) to help break the ice. I learned that everyone else does it and the person may get very annoyed thinking ‘Not another American trying to impress me again by speaking my own language!”
I’d be hugely surprised if anyone actually thought that. In my experience it’s pretty universally welcomed if someone makes even a small effort to use the local language, even if it’s just ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’.
Absolutely. Even if you haven’t mastered a foreign language, making the effort to learn a few basic words and phrases is a courtesy that’s easy to do and means a lot.
The alternative is that people think you think you can arrogantly talk in your own language and not have to bother with theirs, which I think is probably a far more common suspicion.
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True, which is why I said it happens sometimes and with Americans.
I’d be surprised again. Especially from largely monoglot English speaking countries it’s welcomed even more as they tend to assume speaking English loudly and slowly is a universal tongue.
So Americans and Brits that make some effort would be welcomed even more.
The other thing is if you aren’t used to bilingualism people quite frankly find it difficult to adjust to. There’s much amusement here about the perpetual urban myth of English tourists saying ‘they were speaking English until we came into the pub and changed to Welsh’. This must be genuinely believed as it’s repeated endlessly but it really doesn’t happen (also unless they were wearing an England flag as an outfit how would anyone know they were English as they walked in?).
What they may have possibly heard was sprinklings of English words in the conversation or even just be psychologically expecting it but people almost never codeswitch languages because it’s unnatural. The people I know who are fluent and more comfortable in Welsh I never speak to in English, even though we may speak both, that’s the language of our relationship.
I had a remote boss once from Hemel Hempstead near London and he came to visit and my old manager, who I only spoke Welsh to, had a quick few sentences in Welsh with me while passing in the corridor. When I got into the meeting room with my boss he said ‘never do that and speak Welsh in front of me again’. I explained to him firstly that his request was illegal under the law and secondly we weren’t talking about him and wouldn’t do that but the first instinct is always that paranoia.
Here in Malaysia where there are 3 large and different ethnic groups, Malay, Chinese and Indian that’s just accepted. You’ll be in a mixed group with an Indian friend speaking English, they’ll spot someone they know and use Tamil. The rest won’t understand a word but they won’t mind, they aren’t inherently paranoid about it.
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There’s much amusement here about the perpetual urban myth of English tourists saying ‘they were speaking English until we came into the pub and changed to Welsh’. This must be genuinely believed as it’s repeated endlessly but it really doesn’t happen (also unless they were wearing an England flag as an outfit how would anyone know they were English as they walked in?).
Yeah, I used to hear this all the time from adults when I was a kid. I agree it seems like nonsense, and having visited Wales a lot over the years (and gone to a fair few pubs!) I’ve never experienced it myself.
I think it’s like you say, when you’re not used to multiple languages being used I think there’s greater suspicion of someone speaking a language you don’t understand.
I do think it’s gradually changing a bit in England though as it becomes more common for friends and colleagues to speak languages other than English with each other. Not often Welsh in my experience but maybe Urdu, Panjabi or Gujurati.
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I think it’s like you say, when you’re not used to multiple languages being used I think there’s greater suspicion of someone speaking a language you don’t understand. I do think it’s gradually changing a bit in England though as it becomes more common for friends and colleagues to speak languages other than English with each other. Not often Welsh in my experience but maybe Urdu, Panjabi or Gujurati.
Yeah very much so. You see it in the US too with some people hugely angry if they hear Spanish spoken.
Now there’s a valid argument that people should speak the most common language in a country for communication and integration purposes but some can have that tip over into no other language should ever be spoken (like my boss in that instance). It shouldn’t be your concern if some people choose out of preference to speak another language but it’s not uncommon in the UK that people are quite aggressively against it.
London papers will print articles that bilingual road signs in Wales will cause traffic accidents and a few pages on in the travel section suggest driving holidays around Europe.
As you say part of it is just getting used to it, Birmingham having that very large south Asian population means it becomes the norm and you can’t be the centre of the universe of every conversation. Just as if you get on the tube in London on a weekend you’ll hear every language on the planet from tourists, you must have some ego if you imagine that after seeing Big Ben and on the way to the Tower of London they want to talk about some bloke sat on his own in the corner.
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One of my favourite things about visiting London (remember when we were allowed to do that?
) was the sheer amount of languages and accents I heard while walking round the streets. I could hear more in a single afternoon than in a decade of walking round Newcastle. Why would anyone want to eliminate different languages and lose that? It’s like wanting to eliminate all but one flavour of ice cream — Ridiculous. (But if we do, I vote to keep chocolate 
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In TikTok news…😂
I said before about these cute white girls dancing and getting these huge followings, even national TV appearances.
Well…
The choreographers (mostly black and poc)went on a strike of sorts, no longer posting new dance moves. As a result, the TikTok content dried up! The girls with the huge followings couldn’t post anything new and lost followers. Nothing to siphon from!
Stay tuned for more.
I am just there to watch with my bucket of popcorn.
This is going to be good. 😂
https://mashable.com/article/black-tiktok-strike-dance-megan-thee-stallion-thot-shit
