Sometimes people fall from an aircraft and bounce jovially off the ground; sometimes people turn their heads too quickly and tear the fabric keeping their windpipe in place.

I did that a lot as a kid, as well as having to scratch e.g. my left arm if I’d just scratched my right arm. I had to put my first step on a new surface with my left foot and the last with my right, and I had a system of sort of aping something I’d just heard by grinding my teeth, which I still sort of do sometimes but only in my head because my teeth have grown in such a way that I can’t really do it any more.

I remember I used to eat a bag of crisps by holding the bag in my right hand and picking with my left, until one day I decided that was stupid, and rather than just giving up dictating which hand did what, I switched hands.

Have you tried explaining in your native language that you don’t speak that language? They love it.

I went to secondary school at the turn of the millennium and I remember having to go to admin to get my dinner tickets on a Monday, which were worth £1.30, but there was never any shame in it because I don’t think too many kids knew the significance of it; in fact, my mate Danny would always want to buy them off me for £1.50 apiece. This other lad called Liam would sometimes lord it over me because his mum gave him £2 a day for his dinner, but by year 11 he was roundly known as a bit of a prick if I recall correctly, so I was even vindicated in the end.

If you’ve already read a lot of books, you should give If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller a go.

To earn him $1000, of course.

If we ditched the daft names?

That’s not my experience at all, working in restaurants where basically all my colleagues cycle to work, and in fact where I come from, a bike is often seen as a sign that you just can’t afford a car (although simultaneously as a recreational thing like you’ve mentioned).

A friend of mine once said he’d join the army only because he didn’t have anything to live for, but I ended up helping him get a job on the railway and now he’s a train driver, and a good one at that.

I’m saying Fern Gully.

When we prioritize cycling over buses and trains, all we’re doing is supporting upper middle class office workers and work-from-home recreational cyclists.

Eh? How?

Can’t be helped, I suppose.

Sit closer?

I use a computer monitor for my playstation on the rare occasion I switch it on. Very much plug & play.

And the goblin who’d covered up the weight limit sign as the car was on approach said as he was uncovering it: ha! Gorham!

https://genius.com/videos/Eminem-rhyming-with-orange

That’s not rhyme, that’s assonance.

Wiktionary has a lot of audio transcriptions too: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oiseau

And you’ll have fewer apps installed on your phone, which is something I’ve come to value lately.

there was no way to look up what those words meant to the person writing them

https://emojipedia.org/

The ISS seen from New Zealand: