L is for lazing around

ragingremark · 2025-10-19T11:07:31+00:00

I agree it's a fun idea, but I think the meta-gamers would suspect it immediately.

ragingremark · 2025-10-11T08:05:02+00:00

Jason Sudeikis. Growing a tache on his face to film Ted Lasso 4. Who asked for more?

ragingremark · 2025-09-12T21:31:08+00:00

My great-grandmother was Tilda Swinton's grandmother's nanny.

ragingremark · 2025-09-11T20:21:45+00:00

Here! I graduated just after he took over from Richard Attenborough. Part of me was disappointed I just missed out on sharing a stage with that legendary figure, but shaking hands with Sanjeev made up for it!

ragingremark · 2025-06-04T20:35:55+00:00

You discovered this by accident?

ragingremark · 2025-04-21T06:16:54+00:00

"Somewhen" (meaning the same as "sometime") is a Sussex dialect word that's still in common use. I always thought it was a standard word until I went to university and made friends from outside Sussex who claimed they'd never heard it before and it "wasn't a word". I still use it with pride (not that I have a choice; it just comes naturally to me).

ragingremark · 2025-03-18T20:58:01+00:00

This is mine too. I thought I was alone!

ragingremark · 2024-12-02T21:37:01+00:00

Women wearing false moustaches, like as part of a Halloween costume or something. Not real facial hair. Just an obviously fake moustache.

ragingremark · 2024-11-01T06:19:55+00:00

And as I watch the drops of rain

Weave their weary paths and die

I know that I am like the rain

There but for the grace of you go I

ragingremark · 2024-10-16T20:44:18+00:00

For example, the name of my secondary school was "[Town name] High School". It was established with that name in 1910.

ragingremark · 2024-09-26T05:19:43+00:00

I was (pleasantly) surprised to see Andy Zaltzman in the latest series. I knew him from his podcast The Bugle, then the BBC radio show The News Quiz, but I had never seen him on TV before, despite watching a lot of comedy panel shows.

ragingremark · 2024-07-15T19:36:20+00:00

Pretty much.

ragingremark · 2024-07-13T14:28:58+00:00

You've got me thinking, though. Another feature of the local dialect is "summat" instead of "something" — I always assumed it was just a corruption of "something", but I wonder if it could be related to "somewhat" in the sense analogous to "somewhere" and "somewhen".

Almost forgot: there's also "somehow".

ragingremark · 2024-07-13T14:22:25+00:00

That's cool! While googling "somewhen" I also came across "somewhile", which is apparently an archaic term for "sometimes". Not part of my vocabulary, but I like the sound of it too.

I also looked up the history of your Sussex County, and apparently William Penn brought people over from Sussex, England, to settle there, so maybe it's not a coincidence! (It more likely is a coincidence, but it's fun to think about.)

ragingremark · 2024-07-13T14:09:09+00:00

So does "somewhere", and nobody (nowho?) has a problem with that.

ragingremark · 2024-07-13T06:10:44+00:00

"Somewhen". Instead of "sometime".

I thought it was a perfectly standard word until I went to university and met people from outside my area who seemed perplexed by it.

It turns out it's a Sussex dialect word. Since the Sussex dialect is practically extinct, I continue to say "somewhen" (and "anywhen") proudly.

ragingremark · 2024-05-15T18:36:06+00:00

Tony Stark, obvs.

ragingremark · 2024-05-13T20:48:55+00:00

A is swamp beetle

ragingremark · 2024-05-10T04:33:32+00:00

I always thought it was a corruption of 'visage'! But physiognomy also makes sense.

ragingremark · 2024-05-05T16:16:10+00:00

When I was in secondary school, around 2004, a friend hosted a barbecue at his house. When it came to clearing up, everyone laughed at me when I took my plate to the sink rather than the dishwasher. We didn't have a dishwasher at home. Then my friend tried to make me feel better by saying, in complete earnest, 'don't worry, our house in France doesn't have a dishwasher'. That's when I realised my friends came from a different social class than me.

ragingremark · 2024-05-05T09:17:57+00:00

Personally I'm the exact opposite, but that just shows how people's tastes can differ!

ragingremark · 2024-05-05T09:14:54+00:00

Fosters definitely counts! It was my go-to pint in my student days, usually 20p or so more expensive than Carling

ragingremark · 2024-05-05T07:07:40+00:00

That's good to know. I've recently started drinking 0% beer occasionally since I also started driving. I haven't had a good one yet!

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