Recent Comments

1. 11 months ago on Andy Capp

   Dr Feelgood is an English rock band who had their biggest hits during the 1970s and 1980s. “Milk and Alcohol” was a #9 U.K. hit in 1979. Former guitarist Wilko Johnson played an executioner in Game of Thrones.

2. 12 months ago on Underpants and Overbites

   In Jackie’s Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/p/CegzrovuBTl/

3. over 2 years ago on Bad Machinery

   They are the main characters from the Irish/British TV comedy show Father Ted.

4. over 3 years ago on bacon

   The Walk of Shame – she’s still wearing what she was wearing last night.

5. almost 4 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   Accents, dialects and even languages roll into one another, and the boundaries are blurred. I could recite a standard English text and most anglophones would immediately tell I am Scottish. When speaking with a non-Scot I wouldn’t say “shift the noo, ah’m burstin oan a single fish” but rather “excuse me please, Ah need ti use the facilities.” On starting work for a large financial services organisation you soon learn that not every phone customer was brought up in a West Edinburgh housing project. “Scots” is a recognised language which developed in parallel with English rather than deriving from it, but for ease of communication with Americans, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis and other non-Scots, I strip out the idiom, replace most of the missing consonants and use lightly accented English.

6. almost 4 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   There are dozens of accents in the UK. Some of them, for instance Essex and South London, sound a bit like cockney. Mancunian doesn’t sound remotely similar, and Mancs get offended if you suggest it does. Rhyming slang exists all over Britain – in Scotland we have “corned beef” (“deef” as in hard of hearing), “wash hand basin” (freemason), “single fish” (micturition) and many others, several of them coarse.

7. over 4 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   ‘Hirple’ isn’t an obscure word in Scotland. Although in most Scottish accents it doesn’t rhyme with ‘purple’.

8. over 4 years ago on Bad Machinery

   YLIO TWN is probably a real licence plate for a real police car, knowing this artist. ‘Y’ is for Yorkshire, ‘L’ for the Leeds office of the vehicle licensing authority, and ‘10’ means the car was registered in the first half of 2010. ‘TWN’ is a computer-generated random code.

9. almost 5 years ago on JumpStart

   Karaoke is Japanese for “avoid this pub”.

10. about 5 years ago on Mutt & Jeff

    A baronet can pass the title “Sir” to his oldest son.