'JUNK' & 'TAT' 'unused things' words | English Addict eXtra - LIVE chat / THURSDAY 8th DEC 2022

Well, that's a good start.

Mr. Steve just told me he wants a poo.

Too late, Steve.

You'll have to hold it in. Here we go.

We are back together once more.

It's a beautiful day, by the way.

Even though it's freezing cold.

Welcome to the warmest room in the house.

It's English addict.

Coming to you live from the birthplace of English, which just happens to be.

Oh, my goodness, it's England.

And here we go again.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello, Mr.

Duncan. Hello.

Beautiful, wonderful viewers from across the globe.

Keep clenching.

Clenching, clench.

VI, clench those buttocks together.

Well, it's very easy to do that, Mr.

Duncan, because it's very cold here.

It's about minus five.

I can't believe it.

This morning I woke up and everywhere was white outside.

For a moment, I thought it had been snowing, but it wasn't.

It was just frost.

It was minus five.

In fact, when I looked at my computer downstairs, it said minus six.

So after all of those lovely days of warm

and mild weather, suddenly we are plunged.

Into. Winter.

And, well, it's right where Palmira is.

That's where Beatrice is. It's very hot.

Hello, Beatrice.

So we've got all this different weather from all over the globe.

We're having to wrap up.

Look, have we've got t shirts on.

I've got a t shirt on on the hair.

As you say, this is the warmest room in the house because Mr.

Duncan is using lots of electricity.

Okay, all the lights.

This is my electricity bill.

Right? Well, I can turn them off, if you will.

I'm only joking, Mrs. Duncan.

And so, yes, we are plunged into darkness.

Look at Mr. Duncan.

I don't know why he takes things that seriously.

Oh, I think I.

Oh, Mr.

Duncan is seven.

Doing seven times. Well, I don't mind being in the dark.

I'm in the dark most of the time anyway.

So let's just be in the dark.

We've got a few new people here today.

Cat A boar is new, so welcome to you.

CARGILE Welcome to have you here.

Also from Poland, Marriott's stroker, are you new as well?

So new people, please let yourself be known to us is interesting.

Mr. Jones, is that better? Mr.

Fine, I don't mind. It's your show, not mine.

I'm just worried about your electricity bills.

I was joking. You know I'm joking, Mr. Duncan.

You take things so seriously.

Sometimes I just think it's a good idea.

But don't worry, Steve, because we have here we have some candles.

Oh, good candles. That's what we want them. Yeah.

So just in case.

You're going to put, have all the new people that are joining. Mr..

I always have candles on standby just in case.

So hold that in your head. Just in case of what?

Yes. Well, just in case.

We we lose our electricity, so.

Well, that hasn't happened for quite a long time, Mr. Duncan.

Here we go.

Right.

Okay, let's light a candle.

And we go.

Here we go, Steve, just to make sure that

they're okay.

So we normally use these.

This is for Jesus.

We normally use. These were Mr.

Steve is feeling a bit excited and he likes me to drip

the hot wax onto the top of his head like this.

Yeah, very good, Mr. turned. Against what we normally do.

But look at that very clear. We're saving electricity.

I put this under your equipment, Mr.

Duncan.

What would happen if I raise this, Campbell underneath your computer?

Well, let's just say this candle would go in the place where the sun does not shine.

I feel like I'm at a pop concert. Really? Well, yeah.

Do you normally take candles to pop concert light?

She sort of lights up, don't you? And

sort of both people hold candles and lights.

Probably not, actually.

Candles, but certainly lights.

How is your how is your poo? Is it coming out yet?

I don't know what you're talking about, Mr. Duncan.

You're obsessed with poo.

I'm not. I'm just.

You said just before we started.

Oh, no, I need a poo, so I'm just concerned.

No, I didn't say that.

You just made it up as usual to try and create some kind of

some kind of dialogue on the livestream.

Well, we have to do that. Or else if you just.

Hold this for Mr. Duncan.

Well, as long as you're here, that's this is it.

Well, if we do that, you see, people can't see us.

Well, they can't see us anyway.

So just to show how prepared we are, can you see how prepared we are today?

Just in case?

Because we have been warned once again that there might be power cuts,

there might be disconnections of our power supply.

So just to make sure we're prepared, we

we have our candles ready.

We have lots of things to talk about today, by the way.

We are talking about storage. Well, not like this.

Holding candles.

We're not going to be doing this for the entire lesson hours.

Steve, can I put the lights back on?

Well, I didn't touch.

Didn't tell you to turn them off in the first place.

I was actually going to do this today, by the way.

Oh, I was going to do this. That's why the candles.

I just wonder, is a bit strange.

So I gave you a little.

You might not believe this, Steve, but I was going to do this. Why?

Because. Well, it's funny.

Okay, right.

Well, joke's over, but the lesson.

It's to blow out your candle and make a wish.

One, two, three.

It didn't come.

You didn't go true.

I wished for a handsome prince.

Well, I'm glad that you've done that now and not after

I've gone for my walk, because I would have been worried.

More for your pain.

Set the house on fire by the time I came back.

This is going to upset.

It's created a lot of stinky smoke.

As if we haven't got enough stinky smoke outside

because idiots around this area

have decided on this very cold winter day

they are going to light fires in their back gardens

to burn off all the leaves that have fallen off the trees.

I mean, how stupid is that?

I mean I mean, it literally enveloped the whole village.

One person has lit a giant fire, burning leaves and rubbish in the garden

and the whole because we're quite up high, we can see the entire village is covered.

That's probably 100 houses in this thick smoke

because one idiot has decided that he wants to burn leaves.

But there you go.

That's what happens. It's not everything over, Steve.

What they should do is put the knees into a nice pile, wait for them to compost down

and then put it on the garden.

But now they have to burn them.

You are turning into a miserable old man now.

You shouldn't be lighting fires in very cold weather

because the air press is down and all the smoke stays there anyway.

Doesn't go up.

Steve Lots of people in this area with lung condition, COPD,

asthma stuck in their houses because of that idiot.

Okay, hope is what I dare you to go round to that person's house and tell them what I would.

Have done if I lived next door.

Thankfully, it didn't actually affect us.

What would you go round?

No, no, no, I wouldn't.

I would do. I was going to put something on the local village

website.

Is it like a blog or is it WhatsApp?

It's Facebook.

Facebook that seems to say who whoever is lighting that fire, I would have done it very kindly.

I wouldn't have used the word idiot.

I said, could the person just like the fire please understand that

there are people living in this village who have lung conditions?

And could you please not burn your leaves

for 3 hours on a cold winter's morning?

Have you seen that people would agree?

Well, yes, if they if they were tuning in

to listen to somebody moaning, I suppose they wouldn't. Yes.

You certainly are.

We were not with you yesterday for those wondering where we were.

We were doing something family related yesterday, and that's all we're saying.

But we are here today with somebody with some extra

with some extra

host guest, please,

with some extra live streams during the month of December.

So that's what we're doing during the month of December.

Extra live streams.

Although after today, maybe not, maybe there won't be any ever again.

Surprised the the smoke alarms haven't gone off in the house.

Mr. Duncan.

But fortunately there are no smoke alarms in here.

Yes, but yeah, this is the place where they should be, to be honest.

There should be smoke alarms.

Yes. All this electrical equipment.

Yes, exchanges.

It could all burst into flames at any moment.

Well, if you leave the door open, then any smoke will drift into the other room

where we do have a smoke detector.

Some good advice, though.

New people that have just joined in first.

First of all, Steve, I just once again,

I'm not sure I'm not sure if I want to be here.

Before we begin, can I say congratulations?

The format of this programme, by the way, that I'm trying to stick

to, can I say well done to Beatrix?

You are first. It's not nice.

Congratulations, Beatrice.

I bet you have a lovely big smile on your face now.

Congratulations, Beatrice.

And it's very hot where the interest is. So,

you know, that's something to celebrate.

We could do with 35 degrees here right now.

Well, it is. It is 35.

Degrees, a jump of 10/10. And Mr.

Duncan, it's 35 degrees in the studio.

That's what it's like presenting with a ferret.

It never stops moving.

Just just I'm going to go and look at my metre be going round like that.

It won't be doing that.

It will be a blur.

They will be there.

Will people still have that?

But we've still got still got an old fashioned electric metre

with that, with a thing that goes round and round and round like this.

They keep trying to.

Yes, they keep trying to.

Oh don't you know Steve to have a new type.

Of smart metre. Don't.

Don't talk about smart metres.

No one, no one cares about this.

How do you know.

You know what they care about.

You know what people want to hear is learning English.

Well that yes, we haven't done that so far after 15 minutes.

But what they want to hear about is

what does Prince Charles think?

Oh, now people don't want to know about that.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

Well, hello. Hello. I'm a little annoyed.

Because one of my.

Sons has decided to make a Netflix and I was going to Netflix

to look for the sequel to Black Panther

and I couldn't find it, but instead I found my son

and he was saying all sorts of dreadful things like

like my mummy was racist and things like that.

Well, all I can say is I hope there is no ink

because I hate bloody ink.

I think it

there.

That's what Prince Charles thinks.

Well, we don't yes. We don't know what he thinks.

He probably wants to strip them of their royal titles.

I mean, we're not sort of

particular royalists.

I'm not I'm not a royalist.

Well, I don't think I think we should keep them.

But I'm not sort of you know, I'm not out there in the streets.

But when we say when we say royalist, what I normally mean is a crazy person

who goes all the way to London to wave flags

and dress up like a giant flag.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I believe that we should keep the royal family, but

I'm not going to go out in the streets and try and meet them as you say, and go to events where they.

Are well thrown at them.

But nevertheless I think the behaviour of a certain

prince and prince Harry,

I have to be careful what I say because you sense.

Is it Harry Windsor, you never hear him

talk about his second name is Harry Windsor.

Although the greatest traitors.

The strange thing is all royal family.

Their real name is not Windsor.

It was changed because it had a German sound,

but they

decided to change it to Windsor because it sounded much, much nicer.

More like an English name or a family name.

So that's what they did.

We are talking about junk rubbish tat,

things that are unwanted.

And I'm not talking about this live stream,

I'm talking about something completely different.

This morning. It was lovely.

It was so nice outside.

Even though it was chilly, we had a harsh frost

on the ground.

Anything interesting?

Mr. Delaney is taking a break from work at the moment.

That's what I'm doing.

And I will start looking for new work in the new year.

Probably only so that I don't have to keep having to come on to these live streams every day.

I going to escape this. No, I'm joking, Mr.

Jones.

I'm willing to take you seriously.

But if you pay me, then maybe I'll stay.

Okay. What were we doing yesterday?

So yesterday we went to.

As many of you know, my mother passed away a few months ago,

two days after the queen, in fact, was the 10th.

Was it the 10th or the 8th of September?

I can't remember. Forgotten already.

It was the. 10th.

The 10th. That's right. It was a Saturday

and the queen died on the eighth, isn't she?

Yes, our queen.

That is Queen Elizabeth.

The second.

And so we've had the funeral and everything.

But my mother was cremated,

so we had what they call an interment

touring where the ashes in

a container are placed into the ground.

We had a little heart shaped plaque made

with some nice words on it, and

we said a few prayers and basically laid my mum to rest.

Sad, sad moment.

It was my sister and her husband.

And then we went for a meal afterwards. Yes.

I suppose.

I suppose it was a way of just just sharing some moments and some time together. So.

So it was a very strange atmosphere.

And the word in turn means to lay to rest.

So maybe a coffin that is lowered into the ground or put into a tomb

or maybe the ashes of someone who is who is who has been cremated.

And then that is put into the ground, into her.

It's a great word, actually. Yes.

Uh, yeah, yeah.

So we did that yesterday and

we can go and visit now whenever we want.

This is a bench nearby in the in the it's not a cemetery.

It's it's at the.

Yes, a cemetery is where you bury bodies.

That's what we normally think of as cemeteries where you bury a body.

So for ashes, it's a crematorium in the crematorium.

Garden of rest. Yes.

And you have a little plot about that big.

And you don't need much space when you when you're only this

this tall, when you just a bottle of of ashes.

It's a nice, peaceful area and nice garden.

Of course, I don't have to worry about that, do I, Steve?

Because I am donating my body to medical science.

They can do whatever they want with it.

Talking of which, there was a very strange television show on Monday

night of a live dissection

of a person, a human being.

So imagine an autopsy being performed on television.

But the strange thing was the person whose body was was doing

the description and the narration of the actual dissection.

So the person themselves had recorded all of those things before they passed away.

Very, very strange. I did not watch it.

I have to be honest with you.

I didn't watch it, but it was a very strange

event, apparently, and it's never been done before.

It's never actually happened before, especially where the person themselves

are describing what is happening, very, very unusual.

So they must have

consulted with

the doctors that were going to do the dissection

as to to get the terminology right.

Presumably that's. It.

They must have just used certain phrases or sentences. Yes.

Well, normally, apparently an autopsy or dissection is done

in a certain way, so they would know exactly what they were going to do.

Right at they start. I don't know.

Where do they start when they're cutting you open?

I don't know, Steve.

I don't really want to know.

Yes, there must be a process involved. Yes.

Uh, but anyway, what do you mean you get.

Well, that's what you want to do with your.

Yes, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't care.

Then I worry about it now because it's not very nice to think about.

But afterwards I don't really care to be honest, because everything's gone.

Everything's all switched off.

So let's hope so.

Yeah.

Isn't this isn't this a nice, happy.

Merry Christmas, everyone?

Well, I just thought

I'd mention about what we were doing yesterday and it's.

Oh, no, that's okay.

That's fine.

Claudia's cooking, of course.

Uh, something because it's hot there as well.

Claudia's cooking something, and then she's going to let it cool down

some carrots and potatoes and then going to add some tuna and mayonnaise later

and some eggs and mix the yolks in with the

with parsley, mayonnaise and mustard.

You're going to make somebody a wonderful wife. Yes.

I mean, those skills are incredibly valuable

in any kind of relationship.

You should be able to woo somebody with your cooking

skills.

Would that work for you, Mr. Duncan?

Will it work for. Me to woo somebody with your cooking. Skills?

No, I don't need to. Beans on tap.

I can.

I can just put some toast in the toaster and have beans on toast every night.

Crunchy nut cornflakes and milk. Yes, perfectly.

All right. Toast.

Well, I just mentioned toast, so.

Yes, more toast.

Pizza, pizza. Pizza, toast.

Yes, baked beans, chips.

Fried eggs.

Yes, sausages. Sausages, big sausages.

You know, I like a big sausage. You do it. You really do.

You have

I've said hello to the new members today because we've got new people, new people watching.

We like to.

We like to we've got Kim Lee Tran as well fellow now.

Hello.

Hello to Vietnam.

A lot of people watch in Vietnam.

It is true.

But we did have some new people.

I mentioned their names. Kajol, Borat.

Um, and some a name I didn't recognise.

Marriott Stroker from Poland.

Mary I think Marriott's so it has definitely been on before.

But certainly channel is new, so welcome.

And are you still here?

Are you still engaged, aged in what we're talking about or are you bored

and have you switched off as an as a new person to the channel?

Please give us a critique.

Oh, well, I've always considered I'm always concerned, Steve, because we get

we get hundreds of new subscribers every week,

but we never get more viewers or more viewers of my videos.

So my live streams, they never increase.

I don't know how that works.

And it's one of those things that always annoys me.

So I get hundreds and hundreds of new people subscribing,

but I don't get any extra viewers

on my live streams or even for my video lessons.

It's very weird.

That Kajol is still here. Well done. We've.

We haven't bored you yet, not made you go to another channel, so.

We will try our. Best.

Yeah, well, I mean, if we get desperate, we can strip, you know, just.

So that would definitely send everyone away.

Yeah, exactly. I think. So.

So today we were joking. Of course.

I'm talking about just keeping things that are now

useless,

having things around you that are now old and

falling to pieces.

Well, things can be restored.

There's lots of television programmes, Mr.

Duncan, are they not?

It's the it's quite a big theme in the UK television programmes

encouraging people to restore old

toys, cars, houses,

lots of channel is involved in restoration.

And some of them are the most boring things ever.

If you think this is boring, you should.

You should see some of our television programmes, restoration,

making things that are old and broken look like new.

But they're so it's so tedious and so slow.

And I can't believe people watch these things.

I really can't thank. You me around.

Would I would much rather watch someone being cut up.

Your ever vigilant moderators aren't doing their job very.

Very good and they do it so silently.

Yes, I do.

But we like to give recognition for the services that they rendered to this channel.

We salute you.

We salute all of the moderators that exist. Yes.

They do. Look

how. That says.

You're right.

Oh, this is a very strange vibe.

Today. You've come you've come down in a really horrible mood.

Horrible mood. I'm not in a horrible mood.

Okay, then. I'm in a very good mood. Mr. Timken.

Well, you were getting so angry about the fire, the people I.

Was just expect, you know, that's just me expressing my.

Nobody's made any comments about that.

No, I'm not surprised.

But just thinking I hope this gets better.

I hope they get get a bit more cheerful.

I'm allowed to express I've got to get my feelings out because if you

if these feelings stay inside, you know what happens, Mr. Duncan?

They fester.

That's a good way for you, Fester.

Not, not Uncle Fester from the Addams Family.

If something festers, it means it.

It sort of gets more intense

and it feelings of feelings fester.

It means they grow and develop silently without anyone seeing a knowing.

And then suddenly out they burst in the most unusual and unexpected way.

Yes, we often use it in medicine for a wound or a cut

that starts to go bad and infected.

It will fester.

It will slowly become more and more inflamed.

I guess it grows in intensity slowly.

You just have feelings that you have that you keep inside.

If you express them, it sort of gets rid of them.

But if you keep them inside feelings of hatred towards somebody, maybe,

and you keep that in mind or any sort of Norway antigen, it festers and becomes.

It grows and grows and grows and then bursts out and expected.

Maybe like a boil festering on your head and your armpit.

Oh, okay.

Yeah. Fester. That's a good word. Fester.

Usually, as Mr.

Duncan said, used to describe a wound

maybe that's become infected.

That sort of gradually gets more and more infected. Mm.

I don't know.

You can use it for feelings

inside you festering away.

It's a negative. Phrase.

It is very negative. Yes. Very, very negative.

Well, I have to carry on now, Steve, because I have half an hour of stuff to talk about.

Right.

Look at you are going to have now.

What are you doing first?

Are you having your poop or your wall?

I'm not having it.

I'm going for a walk, Mr.

Duncan, while I'm out for the walk, I'm going to have a poop.

Oh, yes.

You could have one behind a tree. Exact.

I think that's what I'll do. That's nature's way.

Have you ever done that before?

Have you ever had a poop outside?

Oh, I'm sure I have. I can't remember specifically.

I think probably, yes.

In an emergency situation,

maybe I had a strong carry the night before.

I got some.

You know, some kind of infection in my stomach,

gastroenteritis or something that would do it

and, you know, upset stomach from an infection and you're outside.

And if you don't, then, you know, you're going to have to go home and change your pants.

Yes, I've you had to use sort of vegetation leaves,

you know, because you don't normally go out walking with toilet paper.

Careful of the nettles. You you never you never.

Use those as toilet paper.

You never want to wipe your bum on nettles.

We've all had to do this, haven't we?

Have been caught outside

and desperately in need of going to the toilet?

It's not this, you know.

Normally you can sort of hold it in, couldn't you?

Well, well, I don't know about poops.

Sometimes when a poop wants to come out, it will not hold back.

We and men, of course.

Men quite often if you go around the town late on a Friday night,

you will see men having we wees everywhere

the lamps illegal at the lampposts and at the walls.

The legal in this country. Yeah,

but I've never heard of anybody actually being arrested for it.

But it's yeah.

Anyway, yes, I'm sorry. It is gross.

Alexander it is gross.

Talking about it's only because of Mr. Steve.

He said just before I started, I need a poop.

I didn't.

You're just.

Well, you didn't have to mention it, did you?

I felt like you.

Bring this onto the you know, we've got new people watching me.

I think it's all I think it brings an element of reality.

This is reality, you see, not not like that.

Those stupid documentaries on Netflix

with millionaires moaning about their lives.

Oh, my life is so difficult.

It's.

It's so hard being a millionaire.

Who's this?

You must have seen the photographs.

You know, I've only been paid 100 million for this Netflix documentary.

My life is just so awful. So difficult being being

one of the

wealthiest people from one of the wealthiest families in the world.

It's so difficult. See this? This is so hard.

This culture of airing your dirty linen in.

Public laundry. Or laundry? Yeah.

Linen or laundry in public is something that

the British people would never have done

years ago.

You would normally keep that to yourself.

You can sort it out within the family.

So they have blatantly created this

Netflix documentary with the sole purpose of making money for themselves,

and that is the only reason they've done it, because, you know, they're traitors.

I would say they're traitors to their family and to the UK.

Yeah. And they should be outcasts.

Okay. Well, I think they are.

I mean, going to live in the United States is quite often

a sign that you've been shunned.

Yes. I don't think

there's any way back for them now anyway.

I think that's it. But I suppose they do.

They won't do any damage to the royal family.

No. And I have been thinking that, well.

We might be the only two people who are not going to watch it.

Well, I'm not going to watch it as well.

As what I just said. Yeah.

Did I just. What we.

So we are the only two people who are not going to watch it at all.

I have no interest, I don't have Netflix.

So that's the other reason as well.

Khalid Mohammed is here from Saudi Arabia.

Hello to you.

Lots of people whose names I haven't seen for a while,

but probably that's because I'm not concentrating on the live streams.

Claudia is off because she's going to eat something.

Oh, it's a public day in

Argentina, says Angela's.

But it's so it's wonderful to join because it's a public day.

They've got time off.

Time to watch you, Mr.

Duncan. Right.

I shall go and leave you to not set fire to your studio.

No, I have no intention of doing that.

I might go in, turn the electricity off.

Okay, fine.

That's just the lights.

I don't know why you.

Why are you trying to really? I'm joking. I'm joking.

Yes, our electricity bills are quite low.

Really?

These are all low energy bulbs. I'm only joking, Mr.

Cool. Right.

See you tomorrow. Are we on tomorrow?

We're not here tomorrow. I'm not here tomorrow.

Saturday.

We're not here on Saturday. Okay.

Sunday. Yes, yes.

We're here on Sunday. Sunday.

So Mr.

Steve will be back once more and hopefully by then

he will

be all fresh. And

what's the word?

Satisfied.

Have a good rest of your lesson with Mr.

Duncan. RC Well, soon.

Mr.. Steve is going.

To interview and

we are back.

We are back, everybody.

It's nice to see you here today.

It's nice to see you here on the live chat.

Yes, it is English addict for a Thursday.

It's it seems very strange saying Thursday, by the way.

It feels weird.

It feels ever so unusual doing it.

So lots of people are putting their Christmas lights up.

And I thought it would be a good opportunity to show you something that I recorded

a few years ago when I was actually putting my Christmas

lights up on the front of the house.

I was very busy indeed.

This month is proving to be a busy one for me.

I have been doing all sorts of things today.

I'm on the roof of my house, fixing some festive

lights to the railings above my garage.

Have you noticed how important lights are during festivals and celebrations?

Even the word light can have a significant meaning.

We can see the light.

This means that we have had a revelation.

If a person suddenly changes their mind about something

or they have a great idea, we can say that they have seen the light.

Something that was unclear before can now be seen

vividly and can be understood well.

That person has seen the light.

These are called fairy lights.

They are tiny lights that glow and twinkle.

Fairy lights are often hung on Christmas trees.

They create a magical atmosphere with a gentle glow.

Some fairy flash or blink.

Some are white, while others are multicoloured.

The name Fairy Lights dates back to the late

1800s and became popular after

they were used as a stage prop in the Opera Island theme

written by the composers Gilbert and Sullivan

for the opera, small electric lights

were placed on the actors who were playing fairies.

The name fairy lights stuck and is still used to this very day.

Did you know that

originally candles were used as decorations

that does not sound very safe

to me. You

Christmas is definitely in the air at the moment.

As you can see, the lights are up outside, but I haven't put them up in the house yet.

So you can see behind me there is nothing here in the studio.

We don't have the Christmas tree yet.

Haven't done that even yet.

But over the next few days we are going to do that as well.

Hello to everyone in the live chat today.

We are having to look at things that we we

we have but we don't really need things that we have around

us, things that might be useless or maybe things that we no longer use.

We are talking about unwanted

things, words and phrases

connected to all of those items.

I suppose a word we often use in that particular situation.

We use the word thing.

I like this word.

Things in English relates to almost anything.

So maybe sometimes when you can't remember the name of a certain item,

you might say thing instead of the name of the item.

Things can also be used as a generic term, a general term

for items that have been left in a certain place,

or maybe things that are collected.

Or maybe if you are putting things in a certain place,

those things are placed in a storage area.

Storage is the place where we often put things.

Another word we often use is

stuff.

Stuff.

This once again is a generic term, general term

for things, stuff maybe things you have

or things you own, your stuff,

the things you have, the things

maybe you keep in a certain place.

Some people keep their stuff in a cupboard,

some people keep their stuff

on the floor.

I know sometimes I have a very bad habit

of leaving my clothes on the floor

and well, first of all, it looks

very untidy and also a little dangerous as well,

because you could trip over the stuff

that is lying on the floor, stuff

that we have, stuff that we need

or maybe things that we own as well.

Things that you own are often

referred to as your belongings.

So this once again is a noun that defines

the things that you own, the things that belong to

you are your belongings.

They are your things.

Of course, sometimes things that we own

may no longer be useful.

We might describe those things as junk.

We might say that something is useless or something

that we no longer need or use can be described as junk.

Quite often we will use the word junk

when we are talking about things

that have broken or no longer work properly.

Maybe an old television, or maybe an old computer that no longer works properly.

We can describe it as junk.

Maybe there is a car that you have and you've had it for many years

and now it does not run very well.

You might describe it as a piece of junk,

even if it still runs, even if you still use it.

Sometimes we can use the word junk as well.

Maybe an insult, or maybe in a sarcastic way.

Your car might be old and worn out.

You might describe it as a piece of junk.

So the word junk

can be used in many ways and in many situations.

If you want to be formal, you might say accumulated items.

The things that you have collected,

the things you have bought over the years,

your accumulated items,

the things you have bought, the things that you keep,

the things that you don't want to throw away.

They are all accumulated.

You gather those things.

Clothes, I suppose a lot of people think of clothes.

When we talk about items that we have or we own,

quite often we will mention clothing.

We all have clothes,

some of us have lots of clothes.

Some of us have too much or too many

clothes.

That's all I'm saying.

That's all I'm saying.

So the accumulated items are the things you've bought

over the year for yourself.

You might have things that you no longer need,

or maybe things you no longer use.

We describe these as unused items, things

that you don't want or things that you no longer need.

Quite often this particular phrase is used

when something is still new.

So we have never used it.

It has never been used at all.

Quite often the thing will still be in the box and still be sealed

or wrapped in the box.

So unused items quite often are

things that are as good as new

because they've never been used.

Something you no longer want or something you no longer need

can be described as surplus to your needs.

It is something you no longer require, something you no longer need,

maybe a thing that you used to use in your job or part of your work.

But now perhaps you've changed your job, or maybe you no longer work

so that thing becomes surplus to your needs.

You do not need that thing anymore.

It is something that is no longer used.

I like this word.

Oh, very nice.

Superfluous.

If something is superfluous,

it means it is no longer required.

It is no longer needed.

Maybe it is something that you had.

And perhaps you have it already.

It is superfluous.

It is no longer needed.

It serves no purpose to you

it is superfluous.

I like that word,

something that is no longer used.

And there are many things.

Quite often I think sometimes we live in a wasteful society where we buy things but we never use it.

Maybe something we feel that we need.

But then after we buy it, after we get it,

we realise we don't actually need it at all.

So sometimes that happens, sometimes that is, it is no longer used.

Maybe it is something you only use once or twice and then never use again.

Quite often things you buy for your kitchen,

maybe a bread maker or an ice cream maker,

or maybe some other device

that is supposed to save time in the kitchen.

But you use it once or twice and then you realise

you don't want to use it anymore, so you put it away.

So I think most of us somewhere in our kitchen,

there is at least one thing

that has been put away in a cupboard or hidden away

that we no longer use, perhaps something that you use for DIY.

Or maybe if you are doing a certain task, maybe something you buy

and you only need that thing once and then you put it away somewhere.

So I think it kind of happens quite a lot.

Another one, oh, we can describe things

as a clutter or mess.

We can describe something as a clutter.

Clutter.

So if there are lots of things like ring around,

like here on my screen, you can see here

there are lots of things lying around clutter,

lots of things just thrown on the floor

or maybe in the corner of a room,

something that is clutter.

Or of course, we can use the word mess as well.

Mess.

The word mess means something

that is disorganised, things that have just been thrown in one place.

It is a mess.

We often use the word mess to mean confusion as well.

Maybe things are in a mess.

Everything is in a mess.

Some people say that the world at the moment is in a mess.

Everything is disorganised and confused.

It is a mess.

One thing we have to do quite often, we have to make difficult decisions in life

and one of the most difficult decisions, especially when you have things that you want to keep,

but you know,

that thing will be in the way

it is something that is large or something that is too big for the room,

or maybe things that you no longer need, but

you still feel as if you have an attachment.

You still feel as if you want to be near that thing.

Sometimes you have to make it difficult decision.

Shall I keep that thing or shall I throw it away?

Keep or fro?

Do I keep it or do I throw it away or throw it out?

Furniture maybe something that is old,

maybe a chair that is now falling to pieces,

or maybe something you've had for many years and you don't want to say goodbye to it.

You want to keep it even though it's old and worn out.

Should I keep it or should I throw it away?

Quite often people will keep old things

because they remind them of the past.

This is something we were talking about yesterday because Mr.

Steve wants to bring some of his mother's furniture

here, too, to have in the house.

So that is one of the things that we are having to do at the moment.

We are having to make a very tough decision on what to keep

because Steve's mum has furniture in her house

and now she no longer needs it because she's no longer around.

So we have to make the difficult decision,

keep or throw, of course, these days

and this is a very good idea.

Charity shops and maybe

charities that have shops where they sell things second-hand furniture

or used furniture.

Quite often they will collect anything that people don't want anymore.

So that's a good idea. I think

so quite often we have to think about

what we are going to throw away and what we are going to keep.

But I think sometimes it is very hard to throw things away

as we will find out in a few moments from now.

So when we want to keep things, we often put them in

storage.

We put them into storage.

We decide to put them in a certain place or a certain part of the house.

These days, of course, a lot of people have too much stuff.

They have too many items in their life.

So they will often take those things

to another place, to a storage area.

So these days it is possible to rent

or even buy a place to store things.

And I think it's one of the reasons why people have too much stuff because they know

if they have too many things, they can always put it somewhere else.

They can always put it into storage, store

it somewhere else.

So I think these days there are two types of people.

There are people that want to keep things and they don't want to throw things away.

And there are other people who just throw things away.

They get rid of them and then they buy something new.

So I think those are the two main types of people that exist.

Then of course we have places

where people like to put junk.

Well, first of all, we have this place,

if you are lucky enough to have a roof on your house, quite often

there will also be a loft or attic,

a place in your roof space and quite often

people will put things up there.

I think most people at some point

will put something in their attic or loft.

So here in the UK we often describe the place

at the top of your house or the roof space

as the loft loft

and some people say attic.

So to be honest with you both of them are acceptable.

So I think it's fair to say that lots of people these days do like to put things away.

They like to store things.

They don't want to throw those things away because they remind them of the past.

They remind them of a moment of time,

maybe from their childhood.

There is also a carriage.

There is a carriage. Most

if they have a car

or they have a place where they want to put things quite often there is a storage area.

Of course, your garage is supposed to be used for

your car, but these days

a lot of people just put junk rubbish.

They have things that they just put in their garage,

even though those things they probably don't need anymore.

And they might.

They might never use those things again,

but they still put them away.

They put them in a place where they can keep them safely.

And quite often that place will be the garage.

People will put things away

and well, you can see what's happening there.

There are too many things in the garage.

Too many things have been stored away.

Here's another one, another picture.

Oh, this also is a garage.

You can see quite often people will clear out that garage

or a place where they have lots of unused things, lots of junk.

It's amazing over the years how much junk you can actually collect.

And quite often

you find that

now and again, you have to clear out, you have to throw away

some of the junk that you have.

And I think this is something that happens quite often

in people's lives.

It is something that happens the older you get.

Quite often you like to keep things because you don't want to throw them away.

You don't want to throw them out.

Another word we can use is hoard

a person who hoards things, hoard

it means to put things away or to keep things nearby.

You put them all into one place.

You keep collecting everything and there are people who can't stop doing it.

They have to keep keep everything that happens in their life.

Maybe newspapers, maybe magazines.

And they feel a personal connexion to them,

but they can't throw them away.

So some people hoard and other people store,

but they are two different types of thing.

And then we have the noun hoarder.

A person who is a hoarder is a person who can't stop

keeping the things that they have personal contact with.

So they collect everything around them and they keep it.

They can't let go.

A hoarder is a person who is unable to throw things away.

They are unable to let go of items.

The emotional bond between the person and the items is unusually strong.

The habit of hoarding items often comes after a traumatic occurrence

or personal tragedy.

So there are people who cannot stop themselves

from keeping everything

that they've touched or things that have been in their life.

In fact, there are some people who keep

everything, let's

just say, and that's all I'm saying about that.

So hoarding can be a problem.

But I think it's fairly normal for people in their everyday lives.

I think it's normal for people to collect things, keep things, especially things

that mean something to them.

I suppose the danger is

sometimes you might not want to let go of anything.

You want to keep it all nearby.

So that was today's subject junk

items, things.

Another word I didn't mention today was tat tat.

That is something that you buy that is already useless,

something you've bought that is already useless.

It has no purpose anyway.

Maybe you buy something from a market.

It's very cheap.

But when you get it home you realise it is just

tat it is rubbish.

Thank you very much for your company today.

We've had a lot of people here.

We had Mr.

Steve here forcing me to turn out my lights.

Did you see that?

And we had to light our candles.

If you missed that, you can watch it again because the live stream

will be available to watch as many times as you want.

See you later.

Thank you very much for your company.

This was a special Thursday English Addict Extra.

I will be back with you on Sunday from 2 p.m.

UK time. Mr. Steve will be here as well.

Hopefully he will be in a much better mood.

He was a little bit grumpy today, don't you think?

Thanks for your company.

Thank you very much for joining me very

to have you here today.

Nicoletta.

When I went to Scotland, I left my clothes

for a landlady of a bed and breakfast,

and she gave them to Barnardos, a famous charity.

Yes, Barnardos is a charity

mainly aimed at children, helping

children and helping children who are suffering,

or maybe who have families, who have little money.

So Barnardos.

Yes, many charities.

Many charities will take your old furniture

and also your old items as well.

Thank you very much for your company.

I will see you on Sunday 2 p.m.

UK time is when I'm back with you

I think I will leave you with the lights.

Would you like to see the lights or maybe the view from my window?

I think the view from my window is much nicer, to be honest, because it looks amazing outside.

I love it very much.

In fact, thank you for your company.

See you later. Catch you on Sunday. This is Mr.

Duncan in the birthplace of English, saying, see you soon, take care of yourselves.

Enjoy the rest of your Thursday and the rest of your week.

And of course, until the next time we meet, you know, what's coming next.

Yes, you do...

ta tar for now.