0bvious things you’ve only just realised (2019 edition)

[Gregory Torso]

Wario = wanker Mario.

[samadriel]

I loved the seeming unimaginativeness of "Waluigi", but then I learned that "warui" is Japanese for "bad", which makes it kind of clever.

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See also "Wizbit", who is the evil version of "Badbit".

[zomgmouse]

"Wiener" means "from Vienna" as the German for Vienna is "Wien"

[Cerys]

Although it's pronounced 'veen', which makes the usual pronunciation of 'wiener' oddly unsatisfying.

[zomgmouse]

Still, it fits in satisfyingly with the pattern of Germanic place names and processed meat foods à la hamburger, frankfurter, etc

[Cerys]

Makes sense, what with all the munchen.

[paruses]

Ha, yes I had the same realisation of that. Sounds cooler if you call it spinning.

Also the same. For a long time I also thought that a Cross Trainer was a combination of two pieces of equipment (a bike and a rower maybe?).

[zomgmouse]

account
a count

have a nice day

[NoSleep]

Are all accountants draculas?

[kittens]

acoconut
a coconut

[Ferris]

Acock
A cock

[petril]

Aids

A Iain Duncan Smith

[græskar]

alas
a lass

[a duncandisorderly]

alec & a lass

[Paul Calf]

Jodie Comer isn't Eve.

[petril]

alas
a lass

alias
a lias

sketch shows 1, westerns 0. GIRUY cowpokes

[Cerys]

Bursar

Purser

I am forty-six.

[QDRPHNC]

Last night I took the boy to see Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure at our local fleapit. During the bit where they're dressed as knights and doing a Darth Vader / Luke Skywalker thing, I realized that the movie I was watching had come out only 11 years after the original Star Wars. I had in fact been my boy's age when Bill and Ted was released. Chills down spine.

[poodlefaker]

Mackenzie Crook isn't in This Country; it's a young lad who looks like him. There's another not-very-funny thing set in the country that MC is in, that metal detectors thing. It's a different programme.

[Norton Canes]

Those funny stains I've been finding on the sides of my new t-shirts? Down the sides, over my ribs? Not sweat. It's where I've used roll-on deo before putting the t-shirts on by rolling them up concertina-fashion - the folded material has absorbed a bit of the still-wet deo and when the t-shirt is rolled down, the damp patches are spread out.

[touchingcloth]

Tower Bridge is somehow named for the Tower of London rather than its fuck off big towers.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Those funny stains I've been finding on the sides of my new t-shirts? Down the sides, over my ribs? Not sweat. It's where I've used roll-on deo before putting the t-shirts on by rolling them up concertina-fashion - the folded material has absorbed a bit of the still-wet deo and when the t-shirt is rolled down, the damp patches are spread out.

Why aren't you just putting your arms through the shirt and pulling it over your head like a normal person?

[a duncandisorderly]

Why aren't you just putting your arms through the shirt and pulling it over your head like a normal person?

oh, you had to go there, didn't you?

[St_Eddie]

Those funny stains I've been finding on the sides of my new t-shirts? Down the sides, over my ribs? Not sweat. It's where I've used roll-on deo before putting the t-shirts on by rolling them up concertina-fashion - the folded material has absorbed a bit of the still-wet deo and when the t-shirt is rolled down, the damp patches are spread out.

Well, I'll be damned!  This explains so much!  I always did wonder what those stains were about.  I thought that I might be an Ash from Alien.

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Those funny stains I've been finding on the sides of my new t-shirts? Down the sides, over my ribs? Not sweat. It's where I've used roll-on deo before putting the t-shirts on by rolling them up concertina-fashion - the folded material has absorbed a bit of the still-wet deo and when the t-shirt is rolled down, the damp patches are spread out.

Well in this heat I get white tide marks on my shirts too, and if it's any consolation I don't use deodorant, so it must be my sweat doing it.  Some salt compound, I suspect.

[Cerys]

Unless you've got some dogs from the 'seventies living in your armpits - which frankly would not surprise me.

[NoSleep]

Salty dogs?

[Cerys]

More a reference to white dogshit.  Unless -

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White beards don't create stains do they?