Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I don't think I would have bought that, it sounds disgusting.

 

Well, I don't buy this stuff either but we have both been quite poorly so had to trial something ready made. The quiche was actually quite ok, and ultraprocessed food is a known cure for most illnesses.

When I was ill as a kid, my Mum always bought a bottle of lemonade, a pack of filled biscuits and a comic book. When my Baby is ill, Gregg's sausage roll, chocolate eclair and a sudoku book work well.

 

I am quite suspicious of the word "reformed" in any list of ingredients.

 

Doesn’t it mean ‘chopped up and put through a mincer before being squished together in a glutinous mass’? Not an inviting prospect .

 

Thank you @shiney , this will look good in my Finnish Language N;;i resume! Finnish language has strict rules of using commas, dividing words between rows and writing things as one word or not. English is much more flexible and forgiving, commas are sort of optional as long as the meaning of the sentence is clear.

My latest recreation at work (I'm with a global company who has various local websites) is to highlight to people that machine translations must be proof read by a native speaker.

A webshop recently gained quite a bit of publicity in Finland when they advertised for a dog chewing toy shaped as a cock (of a poultry meaning) and the translation gave a rather refreshing interpretation in describing the toy as a 47cm big cock using a very colloquial description of a "cock".

 

My moan is film on ready meals. Why does around 95% of it tear into shreds when you lift the corner or not even shift at all? How bloody hard is it to get right?

 

It's not just on ready meals either. When wife buys prepacked meat, she tears at the film, and gets most off. But the tray is recyclable, where the film is not, and I have terrible trouble trying to get the rest off, before cleaning for the recycling bin.
Grr!!

 

@Selleri - my husband conducts, and I sing in, a women's choir here in Ireland (called Satakieli) which sings contemporary folk-based music from Finland, mostly in Finnish. (We know how to pronounce the lyrics, but have to find translations. Google Translate comes up with some interesting suggestions...) (Yes, the choir is a bit "niche"... )

One of my husband's acquaintances in Finland - we go to the Tampere vocal festival every 2 years - is an excellent English speaker, who is employed by a music publisher to produce English translations of the Finnish lyrics. He couldn't understand why his use of the word "fog" instead of "mist", in a poem about a romantic encounter, caused us some amusement. We didn't mean to be rude, but the image of the loving couple trying to find each other in the fog wasn't quite what he intended to convey.