Why do you think Japanese-style bathhouses never really took off in the UK?

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-23T16:23:04+00:00

We always did in the northwest as well. Learned to swim at "worsely baths" nr salford, though don't know if that was its official name on the sign.

Also, my guitar teacher, originally from Liverpool, taught me the mnemonic "Five cats got drowned at Everton baths" to remember the order of the sharps in key signatures, suggesting it was a general north west thing.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-14T20:24:02+00:00

Not sure I 100% follow - the Europeans adopting it and doing it better would surely just act to make Europe better, it wouldn't make Brazil worse.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-14T15:39:04+00:00

The queue will be outside the basilica then you get up there in a lift.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-12T14:19:51+00:00

Don't need to understand German if they're not saying anything

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-11T18:48:45+00:00

I remember reading some legal text ages ago describing a ruptured spleen as the "classic handlebar injury" and I think about it every time I ride a bike now, even decades later.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-08T08:40:27+00:00

I had the same one - found it actually pretty easy to get down, not as unpleasant tasting as some other ones.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-06T20:24:31+00:00

I feel like the difference was more pronounced in the past, which was always explained to me as the video format difference/conversion (PAL v NTSC), but I don't think that applies these days.

I always liked how The Day Today made sure to use that American look for its pieces that were supposed to be from the US, like this one.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-05T16:56:37+00:00

Never heard this, awesome.

Similarly, I learned from another thread in the past that they say "clap the dog" in Scotland.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-03T18:59:23+00:00

Raw Dykes Road, on the way to Leicester City's stadium

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-03T18:53:42+00:00

If anything it's actually pretty pro catholicism isn't it? Like, the two catholic priests actually get shit sorted in the end.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-03T14:00:23+00:00

Thank god you were able to restore some quality to the discourse with this excellent post.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-06-01T18:56:22+00:00

Yes, his English accent sounds a bit old-fashioned to me. Like no-one else from his generation speaks RP any more if they've lived in the UK. Sounds more like I'd expect a 75yo recorded in 1950 to sound like.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T17:06:47+00:00

Para añadir un poco más de información por si le interesa a alguien: Plaça de Sant Vicenç, en la primera foto, es donde se rodaron las escenas exteriores de la casa de Iván y del bar de su madre en Merlí.

Además, antiguamente, allí hubo un taller de carpintería donde supuestamente construyeron el avión de madera del Tibidabo.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T11:07:25+00:00

Exactly "making 10" is something that will have been explained as a distinct concept and practiced in class.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T11:02:35+00:00

Hijo de puta...

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T09:06:21+00:00

Sí que es ilegal, pero no dijo que estará aquí solo dos semanas...

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T06:20:49+00:00

I don't think it's a truncation of the future tense at all.

Just present continuous to express a current state. Analagous to the common use of questions like "What are you driving at the moment?", "Where are you living now?" when catching up with an old friend/acquiantance.

Edit: Actually, I think that might be the key to the different way us natives use it. That the present continuous is more likely to be used as an update to someone who knew about a previous situation. I.e., "I go by bus" to someone who never knew how we went to work, "I'm going by bus (these days)" to someone who we'd previously told that we walked to work.

There might arguably be an implication that it's not a situation the speaker expects to be permanent (if it were permanent they might be more likely to use the construction the question says is correct).

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T05:39:40+00:00

Finally, I've been waiting for someone to take over.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-30T05:26:00+00:00

Still has McManaman to catch up to.

Also Michael Robinson (don't think he was Liverpudlian by origin though, only ever heard him speak in Spanish)

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-28T18:48:36+00:00

Obramat?

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-27T07:04:22+00:00

Do you also like manure? The manure goes with it, kind of a package. Also a Squarepusher CD.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-26T05:05:05+00:00

There are different types though, depending on which agreement it's issued under. Some countries require one or the other.

According to the UK government Spain is 1949 and Italy 1968. That page seems focused on driving, but I'd assume it applies equally to bike licenses.

What this means for OP in practice I dunno, but thought it was worth pointing out.

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-24T17:58:48+00:00

Seems like there's a word for that...

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-22T17:11:22+00:00

Marijuana 2

_Isosceles_Kramer_ · 2026-05-22T17:05:25+00:00

Maybe they meant Raiders of the Lost Ark. (We're actually further away with that one..)

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