Week 73
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Itâs been warm out.
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Didnât âstaycationâ (and the more obscure âholistayâ) use to mean a holiday (vacation) spent at home? But people are using it to describe any kind of domestic tourism, like staying in a holiday cottage. Why donât we go the whole hog and use âstaycationâ for any holiday that involves staying anywhere?
My previous employer is among the most enthusiastic offenders â I could pretend I left that job in protest about it, but it would be pretence. The only thing worse than this erosion of the meaning of âstaycationâ is people complaining about it.
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I quite like Toblerone ice cream, which is a kind of ice cream bar on a wooden stick. (Donât call it an ice lolly or youâll upset people.) Alas, itâs hard to find in shops â this week, I went to two branches of Iceland, whoâve stocked it in the past, and none was to be found.
I searched Twitter, wondering if other people were having the same trouble, and just found folks whoâd bought the ice cream but were disappointed by it. Someone griped that itâs nothing like Toblerone â one of my favourite things about it, as I donât much like Toblerone â and another that the inefficient triangular shape represents poor value for money.
To be honest, I donât like Toblerone ice cream that much, so ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ. But itâs encouraged me to have another go at making Supermarket Market work.
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Let me be clear: I canât abide motor cars. But I enjoyed watching some of the many videos released this week where Gordon Murray talks about his ludicrous new T.50 supercar. You could watch him talk all day â in fact, really, because thereâs a lot of videos and they go on a bit. Some of the quirky things about Murray are his shirts, his saying âmotor carâ, and his saying âfunkyâ.
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A sore bum has cast a shadow over most of the week, as sore bums are wont to do. I expect there are worse things, somewhere, than a sore bum, but I canât imagine what theyâre like. Well, itâs barely sore at all now, so thatâs good.
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I have no respect for the pathetic nerds who post their week noteses before the week has finished. I spent the last minutes of the week in a thrilling race against time to maintain my Duolingo streak.