Also the way Italians say "okay" is…unsettling if you're not familiar with it. Oka-aï
Nate Bethea
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Who out here getting old
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@jkass99.bsky.social was like "how the fuck did you not tell me you speak Italian?" and all I could say was "I don't, I'm just sorta making it up as I go along and somehow it's working"
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It was prosciutto, pepperoni, sliced hard boiled eggs, and mustard, but despite being a bit odd (white sandwich bread with the crusts cut off, all the fillings in the very center, cut into triangles) it was phenomenal
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Please enjoy your weird Venetian sandwich, signore
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i do not speak Italian but I do speak French and Spanish and have lived in a country with trilingual food products long enough to be able to ask a kiosk vendor for "due Monsteri bianchi, per favore." and it worked, so
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John Woodcock quit the Labour party and didn't seek re-election as an MP because he wanted to dodge an investigation into his sexual harassment of a staffer. Boris Johnson then gave him a peerage for campaigning for the Tories in 2019 and now he's telling the BBC what to do. Cool, very cool.
My god they’re actually going to do it inews.co.uk/news/bbc-und...
BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action
Former anti-extremism tsar Lord Walney warns the corporation and book publisher Faber & Faber that they may have to 'break ties' with the Irish author
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If I'm sick with something that makes me cough I wear a mask when I'm out in public, but I don't think it's possible to reinstate it on a mass scale without government intervention. and at this point there isn't a single government willing to expend energy and political capital on that
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I sometimes wonder if I've also gone crazy to the same degree about something else, but without realizing it. People from home follow me expecting nice tidy sober observations and I keep posting "club too bucolic right now"
Fascinating
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We lost the original voice actor for German Homer in 2015... maybe he was the glue holding the universe together...
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Yeah it was less crowded than eg Edinburgh fringe but as time went on I could see it becoming worse because it cooled off. Thankfully not like standing room only in San Marco crowded, which I've heard is common enough
