I've seen "flannel" used on social media in a similar vein to "snowflake".
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Well, no, it wouldn't - being both dimmer and brighter.Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostComment
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I'll often finding myself calling the kids plant pots. Without the "fucking" I'd hasten to add.Originally posted by Third rate Leszno View Post
Our 7 year old, cross with us for asking her to tidy her room recently, stung us with the insults, "Mummy, you're a saucepan and Daddy, you're a piece of Sellotape!" If this was Take a Break I reckon I'd earn a fiver for that.Comment
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I read this earlier then shortly afterwards saw a post on Facebook in which someone was expressing hilarity at discovering a new term, 'microwave', apparently short for microwave meal and used on dating sites to describe someone who is ready in three minutes but looks nothing like the photo.Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View PostComment
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When they visited Oaxaca on 'Race Across The World' the other week, I pronounced it correctly when the caption came up and my wife asked where I'd learned how to do so.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
I had to admit that I had no idea having never visited there and not speaking a word of Spanish.
Now I realise it was from this bloody thread..Last edited by Ray de Galles; 10-04-2020, 11:00.Comment
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I assumed it was an indigenous name (or, with the 'x', Basque rather than Spanish) but, upon checking, found this interesting which says something about the entertainment during lockdown.
The name of the state comes from the name of its capital city, Oaxaca. This name comes from the Nahuatl word "Huaxyacac",[14] which refers to a tree called a "guaje" (Leucaena leucocephala) found around the capital city. The name was originally applied to the Valley of Oaxaca by Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs and passed on to the Spanish during the conquest of the Oaxaca region. The modern state was created in 1824, and the state seal was designed by Alfredo Canseco Feraud and approved by the government of Eduardo Vasconcelos.[15]Nahuatl word "Huaxyacac" [waːʃ.ˈja.kak] was transliterated as "Oaxaca" using Medieval Spanish orthography, in which the x represented the voiceless postalveolar fricative ([ʃ], the equivalent of English sh in "shop"), making "Oaxaca" pronounced as [waˈʃaka]. However, during the sixteenth century the voiceless fricative sound evolved into a voiceless velar fricative ([x], like the ch in Scottish "loch"), and Oaxaca began to be pronounced [waˈxaka]. In present-day Spanish, Oaxaca is pronounced [waˈxaka] or [waˈhaka], the latter pronunciation used mostly in dialects of southern Mexico, the Caribbean, much of Central America, some places in South America, and the Canary Islands and western Andalusia in Spain where [x] has become a voiceless glottal fricative ([h]).[16]
The restaurant chain of course spells it "Wahaca" (which may have been what ursus was reacting to but I am buggered if I am searching through the whole of the thread to find the post he is referring to. I know it's Easter but I have some things to do). I fully expect the food to be the most disappointing of disappointing Mexican food.Last edited by Bored Of Education; 10-04-2020, 10:32.Comment
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We've discussed Wahaca restaurants on other threads and the general consensus was they were alright.Comment
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Juchitan, Oaxaca, has a third gender - the Muxes - with a clothing tradition supposedly handed down from the Zapotec
https://theculturetrip.com/north-ame...-third-gender/Comment
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a great read (the thread not the book).
reminded me i took my first ever date to a Berni Inn.
Also used to work in a Schooner in Southampton. The resident band on Friday nights were The Swinging Blue Jeans.
My mate and me had to do the cooking one night as the chefs didn't turn up. No one complained.Comment
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By the way, this thread is still here...Comment
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I feel I've missed something.Comment
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Strange I was only thinking about this today. My favourite ever thread.Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostComment
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It was thought to be missing on the Zoomathon thread. Which, ironically, I can't find...Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View PostComment
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$3 signed.Comment
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Had a bit of a shock there when I went back to the first couple of pages to remind myself of the early part of this thread and saw a few unsavoury comments in support of the bold Mel from "Guest" (presume meaning now deleted) accounts that had my Location/Favourite Team details underneath! Some glitch in the board I guess, and I presume everyone sees their own details under those accounts? I know I post some nonsense on here but I definitely wasn't responsible for those!Comment
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Yeah don't worry Jobi, that's the default setting on the board. We all discover it and feel horrified at some point.Comment
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You think that guest was bad? I first encountered that particular quirk of the board when my prefs were attached to R*d L*ddle.Originally posted by Jobi1 View PostComment
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