As mentioned last week, I have been what they call "binge watching" the British show Midsomer Murders.
I had no idea what I was getting into. 105 episodes, each 90 minutes long. I think I missed February entirely.
This show is filled with local English colloquialisms. I had to pause it each time to look up the odd word or phrase. Sheesh, they spout colloquialisms left and right. "Pop a clog" "do a bunk" "oik" "just having a sarnie" "yonks" "kip" "yob". They never stop. So each show may be BILLED as 90 minutes, but pausing it to look these things up to find out what the hell they're saying stretches that 90 minutes by a lot.
They may be our forebears, they may speak our language, but with enough of a twist to confuse the best of us.
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