YouTube link here. So many facial expressions!
This week, Tony proves capable of learning. William can’t count or… adject? We give a free commercial to HBOMax. Then things get weird, and William becomes the action hero we always knew he could be. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
If you had to vote for one preposition to be removed from use in the English language, which one would you choose? –Dave of Id
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Forgot to mention! I finished the audiobook of Rivers of London (aka Midnight Riot). Loved it, zoomed through it. Usually I take a break in between books in a series, but I’ve already downloaded the second one, and can’t wait to start it.
Thanks, Jas! 🙂
You’re welcome! I’m so happy that you liked it!
Loki – I see what y’all are saying about Loki’s characterization, though I don’t fully agree. I thought his idea of where the variant was hiding was pretty clever. Some of the other stuff about his charm and his ability to trick others somewhat depends on how you’re reading the relationship between him and Mobius, and since I like their exchange I read charm into it, and his winning over of Mobius to some degree. But I also think that besides (!) the fact that Loki is a variant of the person we’ve seen in Marvel, there’s the whole blow to his confidence of realizing how powerful the TVA is and then the blow to his general view of himself of seeing his mother’s death and his own
To deal with the technology issues, there’s the possibility of getting a WiFi booster. I’m thinking of getting one as I’ll continue to use Zoom to have meetings in the future. You also don’t have to lose the YouTube if you meet in person. Just have Tony’s camera record the two of you. I personally wouldn’t mind if you just went back to just audio though. I kind of like the whole radio vibe of that vs. watching on YouTube, plus I can listen in my car.
I support getting rid of below. It’s kind of an ugly sounding word, and its nowhere near as interesting as underneath or beneath. It just means to be somewhere near “low” (“by”-“low”) whereas underneath or beneath have that “neath” part related to “nether” and the underworld. Much more Old English.
“A while” and “awhile” – I usually prefer “awhile” because it has the same meaning as the noun phrase “a while” but if you use the noun phrase you have to add another preposition. “I have been living here awhile.” vs. “I have been living here for a while.”
“Beside” has come to mean the same thing as “besides” but I think they originally meant different things. “Beside” means next to. “Come sit beside me.” “Besides” means “in addition to” as in “I have no children besides Pete.” I rarely use “beside” in place of “besides” so it sounds strange to me when someone else does it.
Yeah, I’ve got a 30 wifi extender in my house, and it works great!
Oh, if we do it in person, I totally plan to still record it as a one-person Zoom, with both of us in the shot. Also, you may be interested to know I know of multiple other listeners who only do audio. Don’t worry about the FOMO of our pretty faces… use the format you like best! 😉
I feel like half of the words you wanted to get rid of are the British versions of things. Amongst being one of them and personally the one I prefer over Among.
Well, I mean, when you improve on the original…. 😉