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Virgin Star-Spangled Banner: tune impossible for anyone who isn't a professionally trained singer
Chad Battle Hymn: literally anyone can belt it out
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This story made me think of this video of a juvenile bird struggling to eat because they never had to catch their own food before.
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Oh, Jay does out-of-London reviews all the time. What he very rarely does are out-of-London STINKERS. (I'll never forget that Yorkshire place with flat caps for bread baskets.)
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I moved my futon to the landing in order to get the full effect of the AC. I can't figure out whether the cats are thinking "are you hurt, this is not a human sleeping place" or "as you are now several metres closer to the stairs, WHERE IS BREAKFAST?"
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They are 💯 the baddies
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Are there still endless reruns of older cartoons? I remember watching cartoons with my dad that he'd originally seen in the cinema when he was a boy.
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My cat Sora would love to meet you.
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Any word on the belly rubs?
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Scary isn't it? "Holy shit they can SEE me"
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As someone who occasionally wants a T-shirt that doesn't do the tit garotte, I can see it.
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He's the pretentious parvenu that all Austen heroines are trying to avoid marrying.
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I have seen people proudly boasting that they got one over on the greedy supermarkets by bringing their own bags.
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Guinness has to be allowed to settle halfway through, which takes time. If it's first in the order, the bartender can pour all the other drinks while the Guinness is settling.
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SCRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
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I know, it was the same scene. And it was perfect.
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It's a very deliberate move on their part. "Go on, rough up a grandma while everyone's watching, I DARE you"
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And sunlight is a precious gift that you shouldn't waste.
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There's a great quiz machine scene in the Good Omens book, which I was sorry didn't make it to the show. Although if they're not common these days, that explains it.
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Leopold II might be the worst of the lot, and up against some pretty stiff competition.
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Out of curiosity, because I genuinely don't know: have the Italians ever been made to account for what they did in Abyssinia?
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And the Dutch have been dragged kicking and screaming, but now acknowledge some of it.
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It's the Blue Skies Retirement Home for Superannuated Xennials.
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I put a teabag into a mug before carefully pouring hot coffee onto it.
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You might actually fling yourself headlong into the sea just to make the pain go away.
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One of the bars in my little Dutch town will sometimes hand around mixed plates of little fried snacks. It's dark in there and some of the snacks are much better than others, so there's a certain Russian roulette aspect.
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I am tiny AND large-breasted. It was one hell of a shock when I hit 35 and became invisible.
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Do you still get quiz machines in pubs in the UK? I used to like those.
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I've heard "egg pub" for pubs that serve crisps and pickled eggs and no other food.
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Oof, I felt that one from Technically Amsterdam.
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I'm sure he did, but imagine waking up on a boat with a cider hangover.
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It was a while back.
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Was the son in charge when that London Sam Smiths pub threw out two gay men for kissing? Because I haven't been to one since.
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I want this one to wear on holidays where driving is involved. I have a driving licence; Spouse does not.
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I remember watching some tourists in Prague trying to get chips with their goulash instead of dumplings, and not realising that this combination is strictly forbidden. I think the eventual compromise was that they were permitted a side order of chips.
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Yeah, they didn't mention coffee at all, and these days it's pretty standard in pubs except the real spit and sawdust ones.
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TBH all I would have said about the fruities is "Don't."
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Well, it's better to have momentary awkwardness and they don't get screwed than they do get screwed and you feel like a prize shit in hindsight.
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The Dutch are exactly the same with bar terraces.
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I'm sure they were glad you asked.
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The horror of realising in hindsight that a very nice American doing a customer-facing job should have been tipped and wasn't.
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It mentioned Guinness but missed the thing to remember if you don't want everyone in the bar to hate you: if anyone in your party drinks Guinness, order that first. "Oh, and a Guinness please"—you may as well drop your pants and have a shit on the bar.
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Did he even know it had alcohol? "Cider" often means cloudy apple juice in the US.
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I found out that you're meant to tip chambermaids several trips in, and was in a cold sweat thinking about all the women I'd stiffed. And THEN I find out that you're supposed to leave a little bit every day, rather than wait for checkout because they don't always work the same shift. 😖