Even imagining this pronunciation hurts my ears.

We have that too (UK), but here, when used without the “up” part, “bottling it” and “losing your bottle” means getting scared and deciding not to do something.

Essentially, bottle = courage.

Quick question - do Americans use the expression “bottled it” for being scared off?

I’m wondering because in an episode of The Boys, Butcher says the related phrase “I lost my bottle” when he meant “I lost my rag”, and it made it to air, even though it made no sense in the context.

D&D with the classic Heroquest DM screen? Colour me intrigued…

I’m British, and AC/DC are Australian so… I guess you’re right?

Edit (although I do kind of like AC/DC, so IDK)

NHS = National Health Service

It’s what we have in the UK, and essentially means that all your health care is free.

Vasectomy = free. Having a baby in hospital = free. CAT scan = free. Insulin = free.

Admittedly, it’s paid for in taxes, but at a small fraction of the cost of the American way of doing things.

Had mine done through the NHS. Basically two questions, “do you have children already” and “how long since your last child was born?”.

If you haven’t had kids yet, you just need to explain why you want a vasectomy, usually with a specialist. If your last child was born less than two months ago, they want you to wait (apparently a lot of men’s first reaction to the realities of having a baby is to try to ensure it won’t happen again).

Absolutely - if anything, there’s a reluctance to use formal titles in the UK in general.

I used to teach at university - students and staff alike just use first names when addressing each other. When signing emails, we just use our first name, no letters, job title, anything.

It’s even something specifically touched on in our orientation guide for foreign students.

As for newspapers and Prime Ministers specifically, one of the biggest newspapers, The Guardian, has a cartoonist who has always drawn David Cameron with a condom covering his head. There’s absolutely no deference shown to Prime Ministers here.

Welcome to your doom!

Garfield and Jon at hospital. Garfield, his pipe lit.

Is this pipe?

As a Brit, I always assumed the American system worked like that because of freedom or something.

Ayyyyyyy-ch P Sauce.

Look, here’s an example - first verse “Earth has one moon”

https://youtu.be/IC3fRNFIgkQ?feature=shared

I’m English, so “Won” rhymes with “un”. “One” rhymes with “on”.

I’m English (northern), and “one” rhymes with “on”, not “un”.

Honestly, I’ve never noticed any British accents that pronounce it differently than that, but I guess it’s not Impossible.

It took me a little time to get this, then it reminded me of something I never really got from the film That Thing You Do.

Does “1” actually sound like “wun” to American ears? As in with a “u” vowel, not an “o” vowel?

absorbing

adjective

UK  /əbˈzɔː.bɪŋ/ US  /əbˈzɔːr.bɪŋ/

Something that is absorbing is very interesting and keeps your attention:

I read her last novel and found it very absorbing.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/absorbing

Sheer lunacy.

I was watching it for a little while, and it makes me sad that so many people are just spending all their time griefing the pride flags.

Then I realised that it’s actually pretty telling. At the end of each r/place event, Reddit end up with a piece of art that represents the communities.

With all the people who’ve moved out, if r/place 2023 ends up full of angry text and swastikas, that’s going to be more damaging than low engagement. And I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that’s what they end up with.