{"id":4081,"date":"2010-11-10T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2010-11-10T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T23:08:46","slug":"standing-or-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4081","title":{"rendered":"Standing, or brewing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/tea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4084\" title=\"tea\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/tea-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tea-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tea.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regional colloquialisms are the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">thrombocytes<\/span> <a title=\"Wikipedia, therefore it's true\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platelets\" target=\"_blank\">platelets<\/a> of received pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>Or are they?<\/p>\n<p>This thorny question comes because earlier this evening I told Soph that the tea was brewing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Standing&#8217;, she responded.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t have a fight about it.<\/p>\n<p>I just splatted her in the face with a custard pie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Pie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4085\" title=\"Pie\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Pie-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it made me think about words and phrases from around the UK.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in London and the Home Counties, they&#8217;re called &#8216;Estate Agents&#8217;, but elsewhere in the UK they&#8217;re called &#8216;useless parasitic fuckers&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And similarly, people from Cardiff are known locally as &#8216;twats&#8217;, but elsewhere in Wales they&#8217;re called &#8216;twats&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I&#8217;m having a bit of a weird day.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know why?<\/p>\n<p>*clears throat*<\/p>\n<p>Here is the news (fanfare):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been asked to make a video. A performance video. Of a band. <em>And<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I have blagged my way in to writing about the forthcoming &#8216;I&#8217;m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former will probably happen over the next four weekends.<\/p>\n<p>The latter will happen at the esteemed and internationally-renown website: <a title=\"Shouting At Cows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shoutingatco.ws\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shouting At Cows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if either of the people who are permitting me to do these things truly appreciate what they&#8217;re letting themselves in for?<\/p>\n<p>And then I answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Fools!<\/p>\n<p>I also have a little more news to share.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast will be three years old at the start of March, and I am lining up Very Special Guests to come on the birthday show as a treat.<\/p>\n<p>So far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we have a definite &#8216;Yes&#8217; from an international music legend<\/li>\n<li>we have a &#8216;Yes&#8217; from a triple &#8216;A&#8217;, globally-famous music legend<\/li>\n<li>we have a &#8216;Yes&#8217; from an international TV star.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tough thing is going to be keeping it all secret! And I&#8217;m chasing a couple more, just for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional colloquialisms are the thrombocytes platelets of received pronunciation. Or are they? 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