November 2024

I had been intending to make an end of the idiocies and eccentricities of television subtitles with Part 3, but given the bumpy nature of the week’s events (and isn’t that a phrase you could use at any time?) I think it’s time to share with you more subtitle fun.  Especially when ‘bumpy nature’ is

  When I need to visit London, I go by train from Welwyn North.  It’s a very good service, with only a handful of stops before reaching King’s Cross in about 25 minutes, and while I’m settling myself into my surprisingly comfortable seat (ergonomists and osteopaths may well have been consulted) the automated announcer ‘welcomes’

‘Thou shouldst not have been old before thou wert wise.’  With this admonishment, Shakespeare’s Fool reminds Lear that he has failed in one of life’s supreme goals, namely that with age we should acquire wisdom.  It’s a test which the President-elect of the Untied States seems signally to have failed.  Furthermore, it’s said that he