Hot Honey

I had to explain what "Hot Honey" is, and I think it is an English version of the sweet chilli sauce, which is Thai.

Peanut Brigade

Someone called me "Peanut Brigade". As it turned out, it has a history and specific, it early supporter of Jimmy Carter, which I am way too young to do.

What that person meant was that I goes to free events. When I was younger, they were catered by pizzas, these days they are catered by pastries.  So if anything, I am pizza or pastries brigade.

Scandinavian Mile

A Swede told us about "Swedish Mile", it is 10km... I guess Scandinavian Mile just never caught on, for the better...

Automated Jibberish Responses

An internet card comes with an AI function.  I prefer my message to be short, sweet, to the point.  We clicked on the AI button to see what the LLM would spit out.  Absolute garbage, sick making garbage.

VOX Radio

In VOX, Voice activated transmit, the two way radio will begin transmission without having to press a button, but the first word is often not transmitted correctly, as the first word "wakes" the system up.

In a sense, in real life, "hallo", "the", "and", "yo", all the useless, meaningless words we need to use in a the beginning of the sentence to wake someone's brains up.

I need to remember that to remember to add particles in my writing, and my speaking.

The What Now

I think "the" is even more useless than an Oxford comma... It adds to the word count, I guess.

Oxford Comma

I just explained to someone what an Oxford comma is and why they are important, in law.

Hokke Mackerel

We had a grilled fish lunch at a Japanese restaurant.  It was very nice.  It was called Atka Mackerel, so I asked the boss a naive question, is that British?  Then I was swiftly told that fish came all the way from Japan, they definitely were not the typical British mackerel.  We looked it up, it is also known as Hokke. Shame that we would not have access to a kitchen, we would have to rely on people cooking it for us!

Buckeyes

I just found out, buckeyes are just conkers!

Sunnies - Sunflower Shoots

I got lots of sunflower seeds from my sunflowers last year, but I cannot possibly grow them all into sunflowers.  Then I remember trying sunflower shoots at GarFeast another year, so I planned them for microgreen.  They are going well.

Instant Anglicisation

I know a person that anything she touches, instantly turns English...  Considering she is well travelled, why she has no sympathy towards those cuisine, no idea.

On the other hand, abomination doesn't just happen by Anglicisation or Sinosisation, even Japanisation.  So don't be shock anywhere you go...

Silent Migraine

Migraine aura without headache, also known as silent migraine – where an aura or other migraine symptoms are experienced, without a headache.

My eye was not seeing right, so I went to see an optician, the cheapest and fastest way to get some answers to my symptoms.  I was reassured.

Old English

Dutch is somewhere between English and German, and it is really obvious how the old Germanic and old English is still linger in them, and how new meanings development when they moved to the new world, very strange indeed.

Lithops

I don't really get excited by plants.  We saw a plant show last year and learnt about lithops, pebble plant, so cute! 

So Sarah bought me one for my Birthday.  Let's hope it does well in my conservatory!

Ludicrous

I only started watching Pokémon.  It is absolutely more ludicrous than Dragonballs.

And we watched Detective Chinatown 1900, it was as ludicrous as we expected it to be.

Bloaters

So we learnt about bloaters in Great Yarmouth.  And apparently any smoked herring can be called red herring...

Spade

We went tree planting, we were given a digging spade.  As it turns out, spade does not need to have a spade-shaped head.  Some areas had thick roots, so a pointy head would have been helpful, so we need to be more clever to get a flat headed spade to cut through!

Why isn't all spade ♠️ shape?

Ramen that Isn't II

Just when I think all ramen should be pulled, because it meant pulled noodle.  The English are calling rice noodles ramen?!  Rice noodles are not even "mein", they are "fuin"!

Rosin Resin

You say toMato, I say Tomayto.

You say Rosin, I say resin.

Yale

One of the mythical creatures statues shown in Kew was a Yale: mythical goat type thing.