Sisyphistic rugby commentator: “If at first you don’t succeed, try the same thing again.”
“I recall talking to one of my colleagues who mentioned that one of the wearying things about his work was that when he talked about what he did at parties, he could count on someone saying that they hated his entire field. He was a mathematician.”
–P.Z. Myers
Only in Ireland are waiting staff so Dull that ordering a nontuple expresso doesn’t raise an eyebrow. It’s so *unsatsisfying*. Though some can be pretty hot – I add this qualification after being in a shop somewhere near UGC where all the staff were Quite Hot.
And: æ is called “ash” by those in the know, by the by.