I dunno if I have all the details right but I just heard the most bizarre story on the news on the radio... A 70-year old woman took part in a weird physical therapy which involves being slapped. Know what she did...? She died.
"We need to get in real deep and just keep pounding away" Bless those Hockey commentators, they don't realise what they're saying.
Applies to all sports commentators, really. There was (he passed away in 2015, sadly) a legendary sports commentator in Poland, Bogdan Tomaszewski. He had a handful of slips while commenting over his long career, the most legendary of which was when he was commenting a bicycle race, and said (about equally legendary Polish bicyclist of his era, Ryszard Szurkowski): Szurkowski to cudowne dziecko dwóch pedałów. Which literally translates (and was Mr. Tomaszewski's intention) as Szurkowski is the golden boy of two [bicycle] pedals, i.e. he's a great bicyclist. The elephant in the room being... pedał (pedal) in Polish is a derogatory, slang word for a male homosexual. So it can (and was) read as Szurkowski is the wonderkid of two faggots...
Another snippet from the other night: Commentator 1: "Well just like that we've got Horny on the ice. " Commentator 2: "For clarity, that would be number 72 Patric Hornqvist."
I'm personally impressed when the commentators speaks about people with weird names without a single chuckle.
In Glasgow there's a chippy which offers an al fresco dining experience. That being a small table and chairs out in the street, right next to traffic and just downwind from the regularly overflowing bins. It's not a very nice place to sit and often smells really bad. It's not there all year round, but this weekend it was available in the sweltering 9oC heat.
Wait, it just hit me, "sweltering 9ºC heat", initially it didn't register as that's quite cold for me (my hometown is 25-35C all year long, plus unusual peaks in both directions), i wonder what you'd call what we would consider a really hot day
Glaswegians wouldn't call it anything, they'd just been melted puddles on the floor, unable to talk* *not that anyone would be able to understand their Glaswegian accent anyway.
That...is a pretty nice and easy temperature range. I live in the Middle USA and what you've defined is like only half of our year.
Considering what a chippy is here in America, this sentence takes on quite a different meaning. 90°F? Bah. We had over 40 days of 90°F+ this year. Ain't nothing but a thing. 9°C? A bit cool, actually.
Had a "great" moment at work yesterday. But first, Background. When a product doesn't meet print specifications, but we think it may still be usable, we offer it to the customer as a concession. They'll give the information to their engineering who will decide "it'll work, ship it" or "It won't work, throw it away". Last week I got a product that was thin by up to 25% of nominal thickness. To illustrate, most thickness tolerance is +/- 10%, with -15% in some circumstances. -25% is HUGE. Still, the area was small, so it was offered on concession. Yesterday, I hear back from the customer, and they say "Thickness is a starting measurement only. There is no finished thickness requirement. THERE IS NO DISCREPANCY." I had to read that several times. This wasn't "It'll work, use as is" this was "If there's no finished call-out, there's no requirement." After a bit, I just kind of had to shrug and let it ship. They put those words in writing to us. Still, that's a big f***** yikes from me.
