The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

Get the Marine Stewardship Council app on how sustainable fish are or aren't

[Grey Fox]

Canaries? 

Canary Islands.

Apparently, english doesn't pluralize the same words than French & Spanish.

[The Larch]

Canaries? 

Canary Islands.

Apparently, english doesn't pluralize the same words than French & Spanish.

I was wondering if that was what you meant, which was a bit puzzling for me. Where did you get that from? Spain is amongst the top European fish consumers per capita by a fair bit, so it'd be a bit strange if the Canary Islands didn't.

[Grey Fox]

Canaries? 

Canary Islands.

Apparently, english doesn't pluralize the same words than French & Spanish.

I was wondering if that was what you meant, which was a bit puzzling for me. Where did you get that from? Spain is amongst the top European fish consumers per capita by a fair bit, so it'd be a bit strange if the Canary Islands didn't.

TV5 show that visited them couple years back. I don't remember the why but the crew and us spectators were very surprised to find that out.

Now thinking about it, maybe it was the Azores and not the Canary islands.

[The Larch]

Canaries? 

Canary Islands.

Apparently, english doesn't pluralize the same words than French & Spanish.

I was wondering if that was what you meant, which was a bit puzzling for me. Where did you get that from? Spain is amongst the top European fish consumers per capita by a fair bit, so it'd be a bit strange if the Canary Islands didn't.

TV5 show that visited them couple years back. I don't remember the why but the crew and us spectators were very surprised to find that out.

Now thinking about it, maybe it was the Azores and not the Canary islands.

Could have been the Azores, I was actually there a few weeks ago for work and was surprised at the relative lack of fish on offer locally. I was then told more or less how things worked there (local fishermen are mostly small scale, and very weather dependant, so during winter they don't operate that much, and what they catch is mostly destined for the mainland rather than consumed locally) and it made more sense.

[Duque de Bragança]

I was recently in Portugal for a work trip (delated since March 2020) and I swear I had a Nata every single day. 

So did we when we were in Lisbon.

Did you get the real ones from Belém? 

[Grey Fox]

The Darwin notebooks are back.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60980288

[Sheilbh]

I'm really surprised by this - is it a bit of a UK outlier. 9 in 10 Brits listen to the radio every week, and have done since the 90s:


It certainly adds a bit of context around why podcasts are booming.

[Josquius]

It makes sense when you consider how many people drive, how common clock radios are, those who have the radio on at work, etc....

I think the numbers would be a fair bit lower for old school listeners who actively sit down at home and put the radio on.

[Sheilbh]

In an Uber listening to Magic

I wonder if the old school listeners are back because of people WFH though. It's always turn on the radio while you do the washing or cleaning or pottering about the house and now we do that a little more with WFH?

[garbon]

I don't think I've ever listened to the radio in the UK.

Well ever picked to do that vs been exposed in a shop or in a taxi.

[Eddie Teach]

In an Uber listening to Magic

I wonder if the old school listeners are back because of people WFH though. It's always turn on the radio while you do the washing or cleaning or pottering about the house and now we do that a little more with WFH?

Don't many people prefer Spotify and other services tailored to themselves?

[Syt]

The Irish president is visiting Austria. Unfortunately without his adorable dog, but I hope he met Pres. van der Bellen's Juli (you can sometimes taking her for a walk around Hofburg).

https://twitter.com/vanderbellen/status/1511643315770466304?s=20&t=LQjv9J_RPt3YR5LG9-Z7pQ

Also, the Irish presidency may have one of the best verified Twitter handles: @PresidentIRL

[Syt]

Today in "Questionable Vanity Plates":



  

[The Brain]

The plate should be blurred in these pictures.