Just tap your foot,
Don’t move your butt,
Plain Chachalaca
Where you don’t move a lot.

In English, “biro” is the generic name for what is known elsewhere as a “ball-point” or “ball pen”. There may of course still be a “Biro” company somewhere, separate to that.

[Edit] I mean English as in “language spoken in England” - I’m sure some of the other “Englishes” use a different word.

I think actual Bic-from-the-Bic-Company biros tend to be pretty good (especially the orange ones with black lids).

For a truly scratchy experience, you need a cheap, unbranded biro.

It’s not a solid source, but I showed the 1984 Nuclear War film Threads (wiki link) to this box of kittens, to gather their opinions on whether our possible imminent nuclear war would be good or bad for them.

Comment has a typo in it; it sholud be typo not typoo ☝️🤓

To be fair, I probably say things like “one ninety six” or “one nine six” when referring to measurements.

i.e. how far is it between those two? “2… fifty four… point… 3”. I guess there’s a sort of silent “metres” “centimetres” etc in there.

That pretty much makes sense - and the American manner makes sense, it’s just so similar to what I’m familiar with, but slightly different, so looks really wrong to my brain.

I’ve just realised Americans don’t say the “and” in numbers.

So instead of “a hundred and ninety six”, they remove the “and”, and they’ve just been walking around saying things like “a hundred ninety six” for years.

… and when it asks what language, it doesn’t differentiate between English and American Englishes, for example, and you have to scroll down quite a long way to get shown Feddit.uk.

Sometimes you just want to know everyone’s on the same page when you talk about biscuits, pants and fannies.

There’s a short summary in this article:
IFL Science: Pavlov’s Dog Experiment Was Much More Disturbing Than You Think

I’m not certain on the accuracy of everything it’s saying, but other sources at least seem to agree he was originally studying digestion, and cut holes in the dogs’ throats so the food would fall out when they ate.

Also used to make Mummy Brown Paint (wikipedia link)

Okay, this pretty much helps, but now I don’t know what a VMA or an SNL is.

I’m going to go with “Viking Marauder Awards”, a yearly event where people re-enact the sacking of the Lindesfarne Monastery etc, via the medium of song and dance (and pyrotechnics).

and “Sitting Near Larry”, a weekly TV programme where a bloke called Larry sits down somewhere, and then semi-famous people come and sit near him and perform things. Larry has never heard of any of them, so gives them well-meaning but slightly patronising advice. Larry is just off-screen in the image shown above.

Yeah, it’s Federated with loads of cool places that are real, but you don’t know them, they go to a different school.

From where I lived, just the lager and cider together was snakebite, and with blackcurrant it was a “snakebite and black” - but I think there was a lot of regional variety (in the UK, at least).

I have heard lager/cider/blackcurrant called a snakebite before though (I remember it causing a disagreement in the pub) - but I’ve also heard it called a “diesel” (which elsewhere was something mixed with guinness). I’m pretty sure you sometimes got different things in different pubs in the same town.

I suppose pre-internet, we were just relying on the drunk people ordering things to decide what they wanted to call stuff (“what was that purple mixed drink called that made me throw up on my own shoes?”).

Mix rice up with tomato sauce, melt a bit of mozzarella cheese in, some slices of pepperoni in it, sprinkle in some basil and oregano… check behind you that nobody can see you commit culinary crimes… delicious.

To (controversially) go one step further, all unsweetened carbohydrate bases are interchangeable.

You can put pasta topping on a pizza, you can put pizza topping on rice, you can put toastie fillings on a potato waffle and it always ends up nice.

Pubs in the UK used to (or still do?) have blackcurrant and lime cordial for this.

“Lager and Lime”, “Lager and Blackcurrant” and “Cider and Blackcurrant” were pretty common 20-30 years ago. A shot of cordial (concentrated juice), then filled up with lager beer.

There was also orange cordial behind the bar, but nobody ever drank “Lager and orange”. I believe it was some form of crime.

“Hmm…”, said the sword, quizzically. “The scriptures on those are a little vague in the translation the Blacksmith had”.

The sword paused for a moment to think, its metal shifting subtly in a manner which could vaguely be described as coy.

“Maybe…”, stuttered the sword, “you could show me what that means”.

“Hahaha!”, said the sword. “I will twist your mind until you’re wearing mixed fabrics, having pre-marital sex, and using the Lord’s name in vain!”, it cackled.

“I’ll even make you skip church on the sabbath!”.

… “étoile de mer”, which would roughly translate as “star of the sea” or “sea star” - the same as the Spanish “estrella de mar”, Portuguese “estrela do mar” or Romanian “stea de mare”.