Obvious Things You 0nly Just Realised - 2020

[mjwilson]

This is stolen from a recent Adam Buxton podcast, but the word for someone who runs a restaurant is restaurateur, not restauranteur.

[Ptolemy Ptarmigan]

This is stolen from a recent Adam Buxton podcast, but the word for someone who runs a restaurant is restaurateur, not restauranteur.

[touchingcloth]

No Country for Old Men isn't a comedy caper with a couple of Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau types going "oh god, what are we like?! Cuh, my knees." It sounds quite different to that.

[touchingcloth]

Pigeonholes aren't the holes on the outside of dovecotes to let the birds in and out, but the more numerous nesting holes covering the insides which act more like, well, pigeonholes.

[olliebean]

Bird's nest soup isn't a fanciful name for a soup with stuff in it which vaguely resembles birds' nests, but is actually a soup made from literal birds' nests. Of further interest is the fact that the particular birds in question make their nests out of their own saliva, so bon appétit.

[touchingcloth]

Bird's nest soup isn't a fanciful name for a soup with stuff in it which vaguely resembles birds' nests, but is actually a soup made from literal birds' nests. Of further interest is the fact that the particular birds in question make their nests out of their own saliva, so bon appétit.

You'll shit bricks when you hear about thousand-year egg.

[JaDanketies]

You'll shit bricks when you hear about thousand-year egg.

Or Virgin boy egg

[Paul Calf]

A kipper isn't a species of fish.

Neither is 'sardine'. Or 'pilchard'.

[touchingcloth]

Neither is 'sardine'. Or 'pilchard'.

Nor is the guffaw thread this one.

[touchingcloth]

When I think people are talking about tomalley in weird contexts, they're probably actually talking about tamale.

[Sebastian Cobb]

When I think people are talking about tomalley in weird contexts, they're probably actually talking about tamale.

Isn't that the police captain Cypress Hill say they're going to put a 'slug' into?

[touchingcloth]

Isn't that the police captain Cypress Hill say they're going to put a 'slug' into?

I'd imagine so.

[Poobum]

Canal/Channel, same thing, same etymology. You could say it's too obvious. You could certainly say.

[touchingcloth]

Same with anal/annel.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Canal/Channel, same thing, same etymology. You could say it's too obvious. You could certainly say.

I'd never really put this together despite watching quite a bit of stuff from France's StudioCanal/Canal+ I'm a fucking idiot.

[JesusAndYourBush]

When I think people are talking about tomalley in weird contexts, they're probably actually talking about tamale.

On the Bake Off Extra Slice show they introduced someone in the audience called Salmon Dave which seemed a reasonable name for someone on a cooking show... then I realised it was two people...

[olliebean]

On the Bake Off Extra Slice show they introduced someone in the audience called Salmon Dave which seemed a reasonable name for someone on a cooking show... then I realised it was two people...

Well, after all, the show was originally presented by Melon Sue...

[touchingcloth]

On the Bake Off Extra Slice show they introduced someone in the audience called Salmon Dave which seemed a reasonable name for someone on a cooking show... then I realised it was two people...

Was one of them Salmon Dave?

[DrGreggles]

Didn't Salmon Dave do 'Sole Man'?

[touchingcloth]

The sport of "real tennis" which normal tennis derives from is still played in some places, and uses a fucking state of a court design:



Careful, mate. Dedans penthouse, that.

If anyone would like to photoshop that image to change the names of each line and area I would support that.

[kalowski]

Dedans penthouse was my favourite Dungeons and Dragons module.

[SpiderChrist]

The sport of "real tennis"

Does that mean all other tennis is merely imaginary? Heavy.

[touchingcloth]

Does that mean all other tennis is merely imaginary? Heavy.

Yep. You'll shit bricks when you hear about Real Madrid.

[poodlefaker]

The other sort of tennis is relatively new.  It was invented in the late 19th century but only started to get really popular after it was shown  on television, and it was shown on TV largely because it was easy to film - small tv-screen-shaped pitch, easy to zoom in on spectator reactions etc.

[Sebastian Cobb]

tennis is such a cunt's sport. in the bin.

[touchingcloth]

tennis is such a cunt's sport. in the bin.

Real tennis is much more authentic.

[petril]

The sport of "real tennis" which normal tennis derives from is still played in some places, and uses a fucking state of a court design:



Careful, mate. Dedans penthouse, that.

If anyone would like to photoshop that image to change the names of each line and area I would support that.

tennis got it backwards. Lawn Tennis is what you were trying to play; Real Tennis what happens when want to do that but you live in a shithole and have to make accomodations for whatever space you have, plus the diversity of ability, age, and willingness to throw a complete fucking benny about things not going your way

[kalowski]

Real Tennis can definitely fuck right off

There are two basic designs in existence today: jeu quarré, which is an older design, and jeu à dedans. The court at Falkland Palace is a jeu quarré design which unlike jeu à dedans court lacks a tambour and dedans.

There are numerous and widely varying styles of service. These are given descriptive names to distinguish them – examples are "railroad", "bobble", "poop", "piqué", "boomerang", and "giraffe".

For instance, when the ball bounces twice on the floor at the service end, the serving player does not generally lose the point. Instead a "chase" is called where the ball made its second bounce and the server gets the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end; but to win the point being played off, their shot's second bounce must be further from the net (closer to the back wall) than the shot they originally failed to reach.

And we moan about VAR?!

[touchingcloth]

Fifteen men in a Dedans penthouse, yo ho ho that's a lot of cum.

[olliebean]

Quite amusing that one of the most popular sports is based on a game that someone clearly invented as a wind-up.