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brittlunamorning02:42
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brittluna\o05:11
zxmpian early start?05:13
brittlunayep05:14
zxmpi<- is not a morning person05:15
brittlunasame /me blames partner05:19
zxmpiat least you get to hear the chirping birds going about their mornings. noisy little sods05:21
brittlunazxmpi: and get to see BBC News05:22
zxmpihaven't had a tv in yonks. i do listen to bbc news podcast once a day though. plus an irish one.05:25
zxmpii kept waiting after the switchover to digital tv when the analog signal was killed for a decent tv and i'm still waiting :-)05:29
brittlunaah here i think its some sattelite thing on the roof but not sure05:30
zxmpiused to be so simple when all you needed on top of the tv was some bunny ears :-)05:34
brittlunahttps://i.imgur.com/S09NSQB.jpeg 10:22
zxmpibunny ears for the 21st century. i don't know i'm reassured or disappointed they still exist at all https://powercity.ie/product/07346510:34
brittlunai rarely watch regular TV at home, mostly watch Twitch or Youtube or listen to webradio or Linux podcasts10:35
zxmpitv is.. obsolete. it used to be everyone tuned in, now it's a shock to find someone was watching same thing as you10:35
brittlunazxmpi: when its not Eurovision or Soccer :p or maybe you call it Fotball10:36
brittlunaFootball*10:36
zxmpinot a sportsball person. now if they made robotwars a regular thing maybe :-)10:37
brittlunazxmpi: heh same here10:37
brittlunaused to watch some Robot Wars on Swedish TV4 back in the days, they even had a Robo War flash game10:37
zxmpialso used to like scrapyard wars and the great egg race. 10:40
brittlunaguessing its not Linus Tech Tips Scrapyard Wars?10:40
zxmpiah the british one was scrapheap challenge. was a while ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap_Challenge10:42
brittlunaah not seen that10:42
brittlunabut well i am Swedish and just ended up here for 3-4 weeks at times10:42
zxmpiyou get to bring the weirdest british shit back to sweden to confuse the flip out of them :-D10:43
brittlunai was confused for a couple of years listening to Ubuntu UK Podcast about having curry and curry being a whole meal and not actual one curry fruit :p10:44
brittlunaand tea can be both a drink and a meal10:45
zxmpitea being a meal is a class thing. or it used to be.10:46
brittlunaah alright10:46
zxmpisame here in ireland. working class had large meal in middle of day for energy for manual labour. then tea after work as getting home meal.10:47
penguin42quite regional as well11:10
zxmpivery much so11:10
penguin42we use Tea/dinner interchangeably here (north Manchester)11:11
zxmpibut no one understands fluent mancunian so no one noticed :-P11:13
penguin42true, it's like a secret code11:38
zxmpii'm just suprised the british didn't use glaswegian code talkers during wwii :-P12:07
brittlunaevenings19:53
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