There’s no copyright date on this one. If it’s the normal 80’s/early 90’s I wonder how many readers would have known what a futon was

If you use youtube on a mobile app rather than a browser, it doesn’t have an address bar

I don’t know, but I want to make sure @DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz sees this, as I think they would be interested, and may have some suggestions.

Most pictures lack snow. Out of all the pictures in the world, most of them lack snow.

Nope. It asked which appears warmer. Warmth is about subjective feelings of comfort - it’s not a direct synonym for temperature. No-one describes getting burned as being lovely and warm.

Most pictures lack snow. You’d expect the interior of a room to lack snow. Lack of snow alone does not communicate anything unless it’s in a context where you’d normally expect there to be snow.

If I was a visual designer, and I was tasked with providing a picture to represent warmth, I might choose, I don’t know; hands in mittens clutching steaming mugs of cocoa, a cat snoozing in front of a roaring fire, or what else? Welcoming light shining from the windows of a house in a snowy landscape! If I submitted a nondescript photo off of a real estate listing, and said “look bro! No snow”, I’d be looking for a new job.

Only number 3 conveys the concept of warmth to me. A wintry scene contrasted with orange tinged light visible through house windows is a classic trope to evoke warmth and cosiness. The interiors are undoubtedly a physically higher temperature at the location of the photographer, but that is not being communicated visually by the picture.

What “of one type” means, I have no clue.

What type of dice has a mix of pips and numerals?

I would bring a sandwich for Gavrilo Princip.

Aha! You have discovered the non-rhotic accent. Most, but not all Brits (along with Aussies and some rural Americans) do not usually sound out r’s unless they’re followed by a vowel. In my northern England accent, giraffe and scarf have different a sounds, but also scarf has no audible r. I’d guess Julia Donaldson speaks more Southern or RP so giraffe would rhyme with scarf would rhyme with half.

I wanted to say something about the influence of West Indian immigrants on Bristol culture, but I don’t know enough about it to be confident of not putting my foot in my mouth. It’s an interesting place, for sure.

in British

😒 Watch it Dutchie, or we’ll start sending more drunk stag weekenders

(I put in an edit to make clear that I am, in fact, British)

Mulberry bush fits in place of cobbler’s bench if you say it like mulb’ry. I’ll bet it’s a variation on the variation.

🤔??

• there is a song called here we go round the mulberry bush
• in a different song, a weasel goes pop
• neither song has a monkey

Did Larsson get his songs mixed up? Did he learn different versions from me? Is this from the nursery song cinematic universe and the monkey is from a third song? What’s going on here?

If you check back on this thread, I’ve posted audio of how I say it. I think it’s ‘cross’ that’s really different - US doesn’t really have that short o sound but has an ‘aw’ instead. If I say ‘criss craws applesauce’ then the intended rhyme makes itself clear.

I have posted an audio clip up there ↑ in this very thread!

All those examples are the same sounds to me. With how English spelling is, there are ‘au’ words I say differently (I say “because” like “b’cuzz”), but I can’t think of any that would rhyme with cross

BEHOLD FOR I (a brit) HAVE RECORDED AUDIO!

this is why the phrase “criss cross applesauce” does not rhyme in British English. cross rhymes with boss, sauce rhymes with horse. Criss cross applesauce. (sorry for quality - I didn’t realize my phone mic was such garbage)

I (Brit) didn’t even recognise it as intended as a rhyme until I read this comment section

Those are homophones. If I told you about the source of the Nile I could be talking about something Egyptians put on their chips.

It doesn’t work in my accent either, but think about how some people write ‘lawl’ as a phonetic of ‘lol’