I have never felt more like a Red Dwarf character than when ….

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

So these last few weeks I’ve started doing some morning HIIT and Strength workouts to try and lose some of the fat I put on throughout lockdown and the pandemic as a whole …

I don’t think I’ve ever felt more like a Red Dwarf character than when I’ve been doing some of the tougher (for me) workouts.  It really makes me sympathise with Rimmer in Me2, having an instructor bully you to do that tiny bit more than your body wants to.  And mine is a video so I’m getting angry with someone who isn’t even there … much like Rimmer in that case really I suppose.  Although he also isn’t there.  I am, I think, very much real.  Which Descartes would point out is the only true evidence of existence.

[Warbodog]

I wasn’t sure whether it was life imitating Red Dwarf or jokes you don’t/didn’t get, but I just remembered that I occasionally chilled my pillow in the family fridge on warm nights, inspired by Lister in Duct Soup (I think?)

I just took it as a smart life hack and didn’t realise it was probably a joke about that being a bit of an unhygienic thing to do to your fellow fridge users, or yourself.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’ve done this too! There is surely a market for a cold water bottle, or pillow insert, for the hot summer months.

[Dave]

I’ve done the shaving foam/deodorant switch thing, although thankfully only the bit where I try and spray my face with deodorant rather than the disgusting shaving-foam-under-the-T-shirt bit.

Oh, and also once I lost me pea.

[Flap Jack]

I have occasionally sniffed books.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I have occasionally sniffed books.

You pervert

[Rudolph]

I have before chilled trainers in the freezer, and it was surprisingly refreshing on a hot summer day.

[International Debris]

I’ve always wanted to chill a pillow like that. One day, when I have a large, clean fridge without any food in it.

[Warbodog]

The gazpacho soup conversation reminded me of the time in year six when I failed to pronounce the unfamiliar foreign place name Buenos Aires correctly and the whole class (seemingly) laughed at me. Maybe I missed a lesson or you were supposed to know it from football or general knowledge or something. I could have been a cartographer by now.

[clem]

[Flap Jack]

The gazpacho soup conversation reminded me of the time in year six when I failed to pronounce the unfamiliar foreign place name Buenos Aires correctly and the whole class (seemingly) laughed at me. Maybe I missed a lesson or you were supposed to know it from football or general knowledge or something. I could have been a cartographer by now.

Sorry that happened, Warbodog. Nobody should have to go through a Rimmer-like experience.

I bet Todhunter was taught to say “Buenos Aires” before he could say “mummy”. I bet he takes weekly trips to Buenos Aires just to walk around a bit. The prick.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’m pretty sure it was Starship Troopers that taught me how to pronounce Buenos Aires, and I was far too young to be watching it at the time, so I knew from a youngish age (maybe like, 11/12? – so not much older than Warbo in year 6) how to say it.

[GlenTokyo]

When I was in school, Harry Potter had just come out and we read it as a class. Got to my bit, did I buggery know how to pronounce Hermione, I’d never even heard the name. Went with Hermy Own, embarrassment.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

“Hermione, it’s a name I made up. Two Es actually!!”

[Dave]

I used to pronounce it HermyOwn too when the books first came out. Not a name I’d come across before.

[Rudolph]

I pronounced it Her Me Own.

Obviously, this was a common enough occurence, as JK Rowling ended up putting in a whole section in The Goblet of Fire where Hermione teaches another character how to pronounce her name, and even sounds it out phonetically for them.

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