An Englishman walks into a Swiss bank. He goes to the teller, puts his face close to the glass, and whispers, “I have 2 million pounds and need to open a secret Swiss bank account.” The teller replies, “Sir, there’s no need to whisper. Poverty is nothing to be ashamed of in Switzerland.”
Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks.
That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.
Very much enjoying the image choice for this story. Also the use of the word popular which our local paper loves; every school, park, suburb and shop mentioned is 'popular'.
I mean, from a freedom of speech point of view, the Assange deal is fine and dandy.
But he still seems like a terrible person in several other respects.
Went to a plant sale at L's college a few weeks back and bought various things including about a dozen French bean plants. As I planted them out, I did think that, despite their climbing tendrils, they didn't look very beany. And then their yellow flowers looked even less beany.
How dads comment on someone leaving the lights on, around the world...
5. It’s like the Blackpool illuminations in ’ere (UK English)
4. Are we living in Bethlehem? (Croatian)
3. We’re not in Versailles (French)
2. Is it Diwali again? (Hindi)
1. Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla? (Serbian)
How dads say “you left the door open” around the world…
5. Did you come with a mariachi band? (Mexican Spanish)
4. Were you born on a trolleybus? (Lithuanian)
3. Are we at the Colosseum? (Italian)
2. Were you born with a yoke up your ass? (Slovak)
1. Did a goat eat the door? (Polish)
Banger of a comedy news story in today’s Times. It gets funnier and funnier with every paragraph until the punchline of “it’s all Apple’s fault that I [a man who visited prostitutes for several years] was divorced by my wife when she found out.”
Now of course, we have all the streaming services and my son still doesn't have a secondary school place for September because THERE IS NO MONEY IN THE SEND SYSTEM. But sure, let's cry about VAT on private school fees. I'm all ears. That's so hard. Poor you.
