Rain and water idioms / English Addict Live Lesson / Sunday 12th January 2020 / Mr Duncan + Mr Steve

they say that life is full of surprises it is full of ups and downs thrills and

spills sometimes you have to take the rough with the smooth here we go then

hello and welcome to another English addict live from the UK how are you

today are you okay I hope so

mmm-hmm whoo it looks very nice outside we have a lot of sunshine at the moment

however don't be fooled by the weather it looks very nice outside let's have

another look shall we it's looking rather lovely and glorious

you can see the sun shining in the distance across the landscape of

Shropshire yes it does look nice but apparently later on today we are going

to get lots of heavy rain and winds as well strong winds will be lashing the UK

later on so it looks as if the weather here in the UK is going to get very

rough and very turbulent later on so here we are hi everybody this is mr.

Duncan in England how are you today are you okay I hope so

are you happy I hope so here we go first of all I wasn't with

you on Friday now I'm not going to talk too much about this today because it is

something that is very personal and something that I'm having to cope with

at the moment in my real life away from YouTube suffice it to say I wasn't with

you on Friday for which I apologise I know lots of people were waiting for me

but I wasn't there unfortunately on Thursday night my

mother was rushed into hospital and that is where she is now and that is all I'm

going to say about that today so my mother at the moment is at the moment in

hospital so that's the reason why I wasn't with you on Friday for which I

apologise there were things happening that I could not control you know what

life is like sometimes things come along out of the blue without warning and that

as they say his life I suppose I suppose that's what you would call it

we have the live chat we have lots of things to talk about I haven't prepared

too many things today because I've been busy with other things doing other stuff

as I just mentioned a little bit busy over the past couple of days with

certain things however I am here to talk to you live and of course we have the

live chat as well let us not forget the live chat I am at the moment trying to

get the live chat on the screen there it is oh hello to everyone hello to the

live chat and nice to see you all here today

I wonder who was first on today's live chat let's have a look

Marwa Marwa or muwah I hope I pronounced your name right hello to you welcome to

the live chat and guess what you are first today

let's keep our spirits up today I'm sure I'm not the only person having problems

in the world so let's not dwell on that for too long

hello to you hello also to me tests hello - hi Lee Kwang hello Pappy

hello Jimmy Jimmy from Hong Kong hello to you

I like your your little icon your little emoji I like that it looks like a little

pig does it have anything to do with the Chinese New Year I wonder

hello Guadalupe hello Martha hello pal Mira hello Antonia Maria hello Maria

nice to see you here as well also Hank Rai and Olga

hello also grace Noemi Pat you Cory Chris oh my goodness so many people here

already hello Helena as well Maria again Kristina

hello Kristina how are you I'm okay thank you very much I'm not too bad I

really can't complain I always think to myself there are people in the world

much worse off than myself and that's what I like to think about and it always

keeps me going you see hello also - sassy sassy hello also

Belarusian hi Belarusian nice to see you here as well something that I saw on the

live chat last Wednesday we were talking about retiring last week and I noticed

that Belarusian mentioned I noticed that you mentioned on the live chat that you

have a friend who is still working and they are into their seventies so they

are over the age of 70 and they are still doing their job I think that's

incredible very interesting so we were talking last

week about retire and for those who were getting worried

no I'm not thinking of retiring just yet however as I said at the start of

today's livestream you never know we never know what is around the corner

waiting for us so as far as I'm aware and as far as I can tell at the moment

sadly and I don't have a crystal ball I cannot see into the future but I would

like to continue doing this for as long as possible and I suppose for as long as

you want me to do it so if you want me to do this I will carry on doing it is

that a deal okay that's what we'll do then mr. Bruno Beatrice

apparently it's very hot at the moment in Argentina there are many parts of the

world suffering extreme weather we have Australia I suppose a lot of people have

been talking about that one also we have other parts of the world suffering

severe weather as well here in the UK we are about to have some severe weather

would you like to have a look at what is coming our way

here it is so here is the weather for the next 24 hours and you will see there

is a storm heading towards us storm Brendon that's what they've called

it apparently the the weather forecasters in Ireland have named this

particular storm storm Brendon so there it is you can see it flying towards us

and also we can have a closer look as well so let's get in a little closer so

there it is again the UK and there is the storm that is heading our way

storm Brendon and this is going to hit the UK tonight and also early tomorrow

morning so a very big storm coming towards the UK

now and apparently where I live the wind will be very strong around 85 miles an

hour so we are going to get a very strong storm coming our way tonight and

it looks as if it's going to be a rather violent storm a rather ferocious storm

and maybe there will be some damage caused by this particular storm as well

oh my goodness I don't like the sound of that to be honest

so as we always say as a storm arrives or if a storm is on the way we always

tell people to batten down the hatches I love that expression if you have to

batten down the hatches it means you have to seal all of your doors and

windows you have to make sure that they are locked and everything is secure

because the wind is approaching the storm is on its ways so we have a very

big storm on its way right now here in the UK we might talk a little bit about

that later on it around about half past two around ten minutes from now

hopefully we will get mr. Steve on the live chat today I am tempting mr. Steve

with a very nice snack so this is another one of mr. Steve's favorite

snacks and today it is a digestive biscuit with a little bit of cheddar

cheese on top can you see the piece of cheddar cheese I happen to know that mr.

Steve loves digestive biscuits with a little piece of cheddar cheese so that's

what we're doing today we will be tempting we will be luring mr. Steve

into the studio with that particular snack but the big question is

will Steve take the bait if you take the bait

it means you actually take the thing or you go towards the thing that is being

used to tempt you so that's what I'm doing today I will be using one of mr.

Steve's favorite snacks to get him onto the live chat and also into my studio as

well lots of people on the live stream hello blues bird where are you mr.

Duncan I'm here right now live from England and as long as nothing else

happens in my life I am normally with you on Sunday Wednesday and Friday from

2 p.m. UK time so you can catch me right here on YouTube on Sunday Wednesday and

Friday 2 p.m. UK time don't forget to check the time difference where you are

so that is when I am on and for those who want to get in touch you are more

than welcome to send me an email you can follow me on Facebook and also if you

want to you could help me to continue with my work by sending a small donation

I see that's interesting apparently

apparently this year the Chinese New Year is the year of the snake apparently

it's the stake year which happens to be my birth year as well so my Chinese

zodiac sign is the snake so oh yeah that's interesting the snake is the

biggest reason why he is going to join us thank you very much your snack looks

very tempting well I hope it is I hope mr. Steve will be tempted into the

studio by my lovely snack that I've spent such a long time preparing for him

I hope I was in the kitchen working very hard and this is the snack that I will

be feeding mr. Steve today hopefully he will come in and he will be very excited

when he sees today's snack that I've prepared for mr. Steve mm-hmm so that

coming in around about seven minutes from now hello Irene nice to see you

here today busy week here in the UK busy for me for

reasons that I mentioned earlier the royal family oh what a difficult few

months they've had what so the latest of the royal family saga apparently Megan

and Harry they want to leave they want to leave the UK they don't want to stay

in the UK anymore they want to be far away from the royal family as far away

as possible I think this happens a lot though in families don't you don't you

find sometimes families are either very close together they are very close and

the keeping touch all the time or a family

can be very distant so maybe the children leave home and

maybe they move to another country or another part of the country you were

living in or they are living in and so they become distant they become very

distant very far away from each other maybe they don't communicate very often

as well so there are times when a family can be very distant maybe they don't

communicate with each other as much as they should and there are very very

various reasons for that many reasons why that can happen so yes very

interesting a lot of people here in the UK are preoccupied at the moment with

what is happening in the British royal family Luis Mendez hello Luis nice to

see you back and apparently you are very happy to see me yes I'm here again today

on a Sunday yes I didn't mention did you know it's Sunday

thank you very much for your company we are having a busy day today

I've had a busy week how was your week hello also - Anna last Saturday

says Anna I went to the hospital to see a friend of mine who has had brain

surgery now that sounds serious that sounds rather serious she was not

bad and I was absolutely emotional when she could speak better and singing her

perfect songs so yes I think it is a worrying time especially if someone is

going in going into hospital for surgery if they are going in for an operation or

something like that so it can be very difficult as you know if you are a

regular viewer you will know that I hate hospitals very much I don't like

hospitals whether I am a patient or a visitor or even if I'm just walking past

a hospital I just don't want to look I don't want to think about it too much so

I've spent the last two days at a hospital so as you can imagine I wasn't

enjoying it very much hello Corey what about the strikes in Paris Irene and

also Luis is well maybe Luis Mendez can also talk about this very interesting to

note that here in the UK on British television on the news here in the UK

they are not talking about the riots in France at all they're not mentioning

them at all it's very strange so I've been forced I've actually had to

go and find another news source outside the UK to find out about what's

happening in France so a lot of dramatic things taking place and apparently the

reason for the protests is a change to way that pensions are worked out and

given to those in France and it would appear that the French government is

slowly backing down albeit temporarily hello netra hello to you as well

hello also to Palmyra hello Hannon Hannon Hannon asks who is

mr. Steve well hopefully we will see mr. Steve soon because I have one of his

favorite snacks right here in the studio there it is so today I will be tempting

mr. Steve hopefully he will take the bait and he will come into the studio to

join us and there you can see what we are using today

a lovely digestive biscuit with some cheese very nice I like the look of that

also we have a couple of subjects to talk about today phrases idioms

connected to rain and water and I suppose to make the actual subject a

little broader we could expand a little bit more and say general weather as well

so we will look at that in a little while also what is the difference

between this word and this word so what are the difference is or what is the

difference between these two words a little bit later on I will be talking

about them and maybe mr. Steve will be talking to us about his plans for the

future because we were talking about retiring last week I'm not retiring yet

but we will see what happens however a lot of people do retire as an early age

some people retire later in life some people never retire they carry on doing

the things that they've always done forever

and ever until they drop a bit like Belarusian

who is still working as a dentist even though they are now into their seventies

and they are still doing their wood job the job that they obviously enjoy I

think so it would appear that Britain is going to

have some fun with these storms alongside its southern Ally Australia

well it's a little bit the opposite early we're going to have lots of rain

and in Australia in Australia they're having lots of hot weather but it is

summer there don't forget it is summer in Australia at the moment

hello also - Celia or should I say Cecilia hello to you we are having very

hot weather in Belo Horizonte it feels like I am living in hell I know the

feeling hello my seam oh yes the royal family is in trouble I saw a photo where

the Queen drove without a seatbelt and also a driving licence well I don't

think the Queen had a driving licence did you know that I don't think the

Queen actually holds a driver's licence I heard that many years ago how true it

is I have no idea but I heard many years ago that the Queen actually doesn't hold

either a passport or a driving license she doesn't have either of those things

because well she's the queen to be honest with you I mean everyone knows

who the queen is I suppose her face is everywhere on stamps on coins on notes

so all sorts of British currency has a picture of the Queen on it

hello also Chryst's in the Philippines there is a volcano mount mount thar

which has erupted after many after many after a long time causing people to

evacuate from the area hello Anna as well so many people are here now we are

going to take a short break and then after that mr. Steve hopefully will be

joining us so a quick break and then hopefully we will have mr. Steve here in

the studio I will get a little snack ready and hopefully I will be able to

tempt mr. Steve into the studio

there he is mr. Steve what what was he doing there it looked like he was

fighting with something no in fact it was mr. Steve with his poncho doing his

poncho dance something we recorded a couple of years ago and the rain is on

the way so we will all be wearing our Poncho's this time tomorrow because it

looks as if there is a ferocious storm heading this way however now wait wait a

moment we have something more important to talk about than the weather we have a

special guest but unfortunately our special guest sometimes is very shy so

today I have decided to make a little snack there it is can you see it there

is the snack for my special guest but unfortunately he is a very shy person as

you know and what we have to do we have to lure him into the studio so I will

leave the snack here and hopefully we will be able to tempt mr. Steve into the

studio it might take a couple of moments it might take a few seconds so please

bear with me trust me it will be worth the wait so here we go we have to tempt

mr. Steve into the studio

Oh gotcha we've got him again we've got mr. Steve we've caught him there is no

escape for you this time mr. Steve you are here you are now forced onto the

internet in front of all these lovely people so what do you think about that

it's a very dry I need some water mr. Duncan have some water I can't swallow

it I can't produce enough saliva mr. Steve doesn't normally have difficulty

swallowing things but today today you can't get it in Oh have you got it down

oh that's better mr. Duncan Oh once again we've managed to lure me to the

live stream okay with a tasty snack and that was of

course a digestive biscuit a wholemeal biscuit with cheese on yes my mouth one

of your favourite snacks well mr. Duncan can you see what I've

got on today now you can't know I knew harm I knew this was going to happen but

not me to jump up and down wait don't don't jump anywhere what I will do is I

will set one of the other cameras up and you can go in stand in front of the

other camera I've got a very special t-shirt on today viewers hello to

everybody in the world wide web of English mr. Duncan of courses that

probably already said that today but no a friend of mine has been on a tour of a

continent he was there for three weeks on holiday and he toured many different

countries in a certain continent now I maybe you could guess which one it was

maybe 10 anybody get a little if I say Condor maybe that will give somebody a

clue but he went to various countries in this continent and many of you will know

it's a particular continent that I wish to visit ok show us things very jealous

Condor is that the same spelling as the bird I'm not sure mr. Duncan I'm not

sure no okay do you notice I'm a little taller today

yes have you noticed as well because well for two reasons one Steve is

wearing a pair of strainers sneakers their running shoes but they have a very

thick sole so mr. Steve is looking taller also I've slightly repositioned

the camera as well so the camera is it is slightly different that's why I'm

having difficulty getting can you just move over Steve yes of Cour you likes to

push me off the screen I'm not pushing you off I'm just moving you over so

going show over there on the other camera show your t-shirt your t-shirt

your special t-shirt now don't forget we can't hear you it's a it's a camera but

it has no microphone unfortunately so so here is mr. Steve coming onto your

screen now there he is oh I like that Steve well we can't hear what you're

saying because you're not on the microphone in

fact I think I prefer it with you not on that so there is mr. Steve with his

lovely t-shirt and and one of your work colleagues brought this back for you

so very nice very nice what does it say on the back yes Oh turn around

No

so it says Kolker eric weeper maybe that is something in the Peruvian language so

come on come back Steve apparently Steve seems to think that he's a fashion model

I'm not sure about that so you're back so it's Peru Peru that is correct

friend of mine in fact he went to Brazil Peru Argentina Ecuador him and his wife

went all over the place it must have cost him a fortune you must you must

have been a bit jealous as well because you want to go to Brazil yes I do well

I'd like to go to South America so he's been to quite a few of the countries he

did a bit of a tour a tour for three weeks while he was away all his

customers left him and went elsewhere because he was away so no I'm only

joking a strange thing to say well I was jealous jealous green with jealousy

because he went to visit South America with his partner well his wife but

they've been married for many years I love the way you used you seemed to sort

of divide being a partner with being a wife but technically it's the same thing

isn't it yes but if you say partner yes normally

means unmarried normally means unmarried you say my partner in life you've just

noticed mr. Duncan there's some very extensive cobwebs the lights in the

studio are highlighting what can only be described as very poor tidiness in mr.

Duncan's mr. Duke Steve DS I'm the web's the web's are

everywhere they're gigantic those aren't webs they look like webs to

me mr. Duncan the mat the spider must be about that big yes okay I'm going to

come in here with a feather duster okay then well I would do if it wasn't

for the fact that I've thrown the feather duster away because it's useless

and living all this information a feather duster that's what you use to

get rid of cobwebs in the corners of your rooms but my mother always had

feather duster which she used but they're actually very poor at the job

because they leave feathers come off the does anybody know what a feather duster

is I think I think I think there are feather dusters in other countries it's

just it's a pole and it's got lots of feathers concentrated into the top and

the idea is the feathers will get rid of all the cobwebs and spiders so they're

not very effective it's just basically something you use for dusting bit of a

sort of a brush with a long handle but it's got made of feathers yes yeah

but the clue is in the word feather well I don't know if people use feather

dusters in it can be they're very ticklish there if you buy a feather

duster it's often got connotations with sort of how can I put it mr. Duncan

don't know recreational activities involve some form of stimulation

what feather dusters are used in a way aren't they you've never heard this at

all yes they they are because I think if you sort of rub a feather duster over

somebody's body it's supposed to be so I've heard it's supposed to be arousing

Oh a feather duster you must have heard of that yes he's led a sheltered life

well well I mean I've just heard about it's just what people say so I forgot to

change the camera by the way everyone's complaining they're all saying mr.

Duncan changed the camera we can just see your empty studio I forgot to change

it you see that that that's what people were seeing oh I see right so everything

that we've just said has been fairly pointless

well no wicked well we can still be heard but not seen it's a good job we've

got people watching some people might prefer that of course then you might

prefer not to be able to see is it's a little bit like a podcast so close your

eyes and imagine that you are listening to a podcast and it's pretty much the

same thing really so so this is a podcast with pictures isn't that nice

not very pretty pictures though no I think in fact to be honest with I think

I prefer this view so this is where I normally sit Steve in this chair can you

see in the distance there was a chair and that is where I spend a lot of my

time sitting editing typing sending emails reading emails so the corner of

my studio over there is where I spend a lot of my time doing hosing composing

and writing and doing all sorts of things so and you can see the clock of

course in the distance as well it is just coming up to quarter to three mr.

Steve yes well just above that clock and to

the left are all the cobwebs and I'm going to get a duster out they don't get

rid of them somebody says poor spiders why would we have to remove the Nets you

mean webs of course I tell you what I'm going to try and focus on those webs

because now I want to see them I want to see the cobwebs in my studio would you

like to see the cobwebs in the studio because Steve now has embarrassed me I'm

embarrassed I am ashamed you'll have to come to this view mr. Duncan okay where

the light is catching them yes well um the reason we don't want cobwebs and

spiders in the house is because they multiply just like what animals do once

you leave them to themselves and in fact this studio where mr. Duncan first moved

in seven years ago had and all I can describe as an as an infestation of

spiders so something's infested it means there's a lot of them so and we usually

use that word to refer to creatures like mice an infestation of mice or rats

spiders fleas you would normally use the word in that way to describe to many of

a particular animal or insect in one place in a room in a house and when we

remove certain cupboards obvious that the previous residents had

not bothered to get rid of the spiders and they've been Luck hunt you couldn't

count them there were hundreds of them and the problem is you do really don't

want them because they've become a bit of a pain in the neck yes here we go

so here are the cobwebs apparently these are the cobwebs the cobwebs that mr.

Steve was talking about there they are they're not that bad well not from that

angle mr. Duncan from this angle they look a lot I don't think you can really

see them from where you are where are you going no that's it you come over to

where I am mr. Duncan more over this way and you will see what I mean

okay then well unfortunately my equipment doesn't do that never mind I

have I have Awkward equipment a light is catching them my assuming my equipment

is awkward not the first time I've had that said to me cobwebs yes that's what

we use to describe the the spiders spin cobwebs don't though because they catch

their prey flies and well there's some spiders eat other spiders in fact the

spiders that we had infested in the room here our particular type of spider

called what what do they call mr. Duncan I can't remember their cellar spiders

they've got very very long legs and very small bodies compared to a normal spider

so they're about that big and they hang from the corners of the room and if you

go near them they vibrate very rapidly because they think you can't see them

but they actually catch other spiders which is something quite unusual if

they're cannibals in a wave if you think about it they're eating other spiders so

out of I've been talking to the neighbors and apparently lots of the

neighbors also have a problem with these types of spiders they're normally found

in dark places hence their name celer spider so the normally found in

dark cellars or room where it's damp horrible I don't like

them because when you go into into the gala there's millions of them in our

garage where I keep the car millions I would say is their multiplied very very

rapidly and you go in and they drop on you they do so you know here we go that

I think we've got I think we might have we might have it I think we've gotten

one of the things there it is can you see it there we go it's not it's not

very clear on the picture but you can see a cobweb that's the problem with

cobwebs the problem with cobwebs is you can't

see them very clearly and that's the reason why I can't see them so you can

see that there is a cobweb one of many cobwebs in my studio I don't know why

mr. Steve wants to embarrass me so much

Sarina said yes didn't we have some spiders in a box we did we had I was

looking after a friend's tarantulas which of course a very big spiders about

as big as your hand mr. Duncan's there pointing out the cobwebs so yes satoru

you know we were looking after my friend's tarantulas but he's now got

them back because he was renting somewhere and he wasn't allowed to keep

pets not even spiders so we had them for a year they've gone back now he's

looking after them so we're glad to get them out of the house so what have you

been talking about today mr. Duncan I feel as though I've been boring

everybody we've we've mainly been talking about cobwebs I think I've been

on I think 85% of today's live stream has been as talking about cobwebs so

thank you Steve anyway for letting me know about the cobweb that was really

really useful Christine of course is right when you

live in the countryside it's normal to have spied as it is because there's a

lot more of them and they they they come into the house when you've got the

windows open in the summer I've seen them crawling in

another thing that those spiders are also called daddy longlegs spiders

that's the other word for them so they that there are a particular type of

spider and until we moved here we we hadn't really seen them before but this

house is full of them and every year we try not to kill them Steve don't we we

try our best how mayor says that let me go and fetch

something oh I know what Steve is going to get that the thing that Steve is now

going to get was the first-ever mystery item on my first ever live chat my first

ever live stream ID mr. Duncan no we fetching my device here there we go let

me give you the full view are you sure that's not your your douche it's not a

lightsaber it looks like something you insert something that you insert

somewhere always rude aren't you mr. Duncan well in fact this is a humane way

Hugh may Humane if something is humane it means that what does it mean mr. do

something humane means it will not cause any strain or suffering that's it or

fear in someone so you are doing something without causing any any

cruelty or without being cruel so for example if your cat maybe you have a cat

maybe you have a very old pussy and your pussy is old and it's seen better days

and unfortunately your old cat can no longer walk its ill and clearly its

suffering so sometimes people will have their animal put down but the Mayland

the method the method is humane so they do it humanely so maybe I think normally

they use an injection so maybe they inject something into the animal to make

it sleepy and then it will slowly go to sleep forever a non humane way of

killing a cat for example to just sort of hit it a lot

that's it beat it with a stick and kick it so that

would be a non humane way of so a humane way of removing spot while they talk

about it when you people meat eaters of course if you're going to kill animals

to eat them you most people want to know that that animal has been killed

humanely yes so quickly so it doesn't suffer I'm going to be honest with you

Steve I've not met met many vegetarians who who just eat non animal products who

are happy with even humane killing no but if you're a meat-eater you don't

want to you don't want your animal to have suffered when it's done that's true

yeah but what about if your see some people think that plants have feelings

don't they so how do you kill a plant humanely yes is it vegetable there's no

such there's a little carrot what about the little carrot living in the ground a

little carrot minding its own business just living and having a lovely day

thinking oh this is nice isn't it oh I've got my I've got my lovely little

warm space in the ground and my little my little leaves are coming out into the

beautiful sunshine and that little carrot is having a lovely time and then

suddenly someone comes along and pulls it out of the ground

shops its head off and then slices it into little pieces after skinning it and

and then they boil it in water or eat it raw yes so this is used to catch spiders

in the house so it's got a little and you hear that we can all hear that Steve

it's like a vacuum cleaner and it sucks the spider you put it up to the ceiling

in you you turn this on and it sucks it in and then you let it out outside hmm

and that's what I do so let's see if I can find one in your room no no I wasn't

planning on this being a whole live stream there's one under your cap try

not to sit my brain up well so that was very interesting for bringing up that

terrible cobweb in the corner of the studio thank you very much you can

actually see the live chat there as well now by the way

brilliant done something very lovely for you it's not nice because yes I like to

look at the live chat somebody just said there what is the meaning of the idiom

get a rain check if you get a rain check it means you put something off to

another day or another time so a rain check is something that your arranged to

do at a later date because an event has been cancelled or called off so maybe a

sporting event is supposed to happen but unfortunately it rains so the person

will receive something that says you can come to the next game or the next match

so quite often is an idiom we will say I will give you a rain check it means we

will do something at a later date because I can't do it at the moment

unfortunately like the the weather idioms rain on my parade

yet dispatch you to spoil someone's fun to take away the enjoyment of something

maybe a person comes along and they try to take away your happiness or your

spirit of joy and contentment so someone comes along and they try to take it away

they try to rain on your parade yes so if you were having a nice outdoor parade

and all everyday and it rained it would ruin that parade so it doesn't mean

literally rain they could ruin it in other ways they can

be nasty to you or they could hit you or they could do something that would make

that event that you're part of unpleasant satury no mentions euthanasia

now I suppose euthanasia is one of those subjects that is very hard just to talk

about without any preparation but basically we are talking about putting

someone and by that I mean an animal or a person out of their misery

so we are entering a very big subject there quite a large subject that so not

only would you would you put an animal out of its misery

so euthanasia quite often is used with animals we often say that they are put

out put down or in American English they say put put out

I'm sure it's put out I think euthanasia is mainly used though isn't it mr.

Duncan in reference to human quite often yes so to end the suffering of a person

to end the suffering of a human being we often talk about euthanasia but not

the best subject to be talking about today by the way it's a very

controversial subject because most countries because a doctor would never

intentionally kill a person or end a person's life even though they are

suffering and have no chance of living doctors are not allowed to the and it

allowed to they have sworn they have to swear so when a doctor becomes a doctor

they have to swear not to cause any harm or distress or suffering to a human

being at all so they call it the Hippocratic oath that they have to take

yes but of course if you decided you wanted to end your own life or you

wanted somebody to end your life for you because you were suffering then that is

a very controversial subject which we won't get into because if you want you

can't do it in this country it's not allowed it's against the law and I think

it is in most countries Switzerland so you have to go to Switzerland if you

want to do if you want to end your life humanely obviously and you want somebody

else to do it for you so what I suppose is but could you describe suicide as as

euthanasia I think with euthanasia I think the point is that you get somebody

else to end your life for you okay but obviously that's not the same as murder

obviously there's a difference there so you amaze you is that you you've got a

terminal illness and you want for example you've got a terminal illness

you've got six months to live or a year to live

but for that entire time you are going to really suffer the doctors have said

there's no chance of you surviving no chance of you recovering ever so some

people might decide that they want their life to end but they want somebody to do

it in a humane way for them doctors can't do it it's not legal for anybody

to do it in this country if you do that you will go to prison so if if you if

you stood by that the railway track and you got your friend to push you in front

of the train but that that's humane isn't it would you say that's humane

probably not it's pretty fast isn't it I think that's humane and I think with

humane you don't want a lot of mess afterwards oh I see I think that you

know you want the body to remain fairly intact

okay no it's the typical situation is that somebody's got terminal cancer

terminal cancer okay well you cancer that can't be operated on no nothing can

treat it's you Bibi's gone to the point where there is no turning back it's

terminal it's terminal and but you know those last few months of your life are

going to be pretty awful so you ask a relative for example it could be your

partner who loves you very much will you when it gets really bad and I

can't help myself anymore will you end my life for me and that's you can't do

it it's not legal in this country because that person would probably go to

prison from even though the person was gonna die

anyway so you had to go to Switzerland it's still classed as murder yes it's

there there is no there is no way of taking a person's life without being

somehow charged with murder or manslaughter that's another one isn't it

I don't know why they call it manslaughter they should call it person

slaughter it's interesting that euthanasia has got the word Youth in it

I think I mean it's not about the same but youth usually means life and doesn't

it why are you th of course it's spelt

differently but it's but it's pronounced the same as an action it's euthanize yes

that's right somebody just asked about an idiom what is the meaning of you can

lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink yes well maybe maybe I want mr.

Steve to to take some advice from me maybe I want to give mr. Steve some some

of my wisdom that I've gathered during my long and productive long productive

long life so I want to pass on something to mr. Steve a piece of advice something

I want to let Steve know about and I believe it will help him to change his

life and make it better however maybe mr. Steve won't take the advice maybe

Steve will just ignore my advice and just say but what does mr. Duncan know

about that he knows nothing water what a stupid idiot

I'm going to ignore his advice so that's where the expression comes from you can

lead mr. Steve to water but you can't make him drink that's it but in that

case when we are talking about the idiom it's a horse yes

advice that you might give to somebody but if they don't take up that advice

then that's their choice they don't you know you can't make somebody do

something oh yes which right now that's all right yes

yes change the subject from murder to marry life yes that's just lighten

things up but it's light in the mood let's talk about something that's a bit

happy you started it by mentioning cobwebs it's amazing how a conversation

can go from one subject to another so because of here we go I will show you

because because of this cobweb in my studio we ended up talking about

euthanasia isn't that strange how one subject or one topic can lead to

another isn't it weird yes we're not getting good feedback about talking on

the subject of euthanasia no well I'm sure I'm sure a lot of

people are against it for for various reasons moral or religious reasons so

yes I could imagine that so in Switzerland it is it isn't allowed in

Switzerland right so where did I get that from wait well people did

Switzerland it isn't allowed to end someone's life those who came to die

here they have to do it by themselves yes well that's what I thought well when

you said that I thought that the person has to still do it themselves because I

saw a documentary about this very moving documentary about a man who had an

illness that was going to destroy his his body and I think his brain and he

decided to go to another country Switzerland but when they do it you

still have to do it yourself yes but people can give you the medicines don't

that's it and you might and yes it's like it's like I don't know it's like if

you owned a railway track and you had a large steam train so the steam train and

the railway track are there and they're yours but and then you let the steam

train go but then you say to the person right there there's the track there's

the steam train but you have to step in front of it would that be right always

with the jumping onto a train track mr. doe everybody knows how mr. Duncan will

end his life if he wants to blood is thicker

water that's a good idiom it means that your close relatives are essentially

more important than a peep from the friends that's essentially what it means

so no matter what your family do to you you will always forgive them that's what

the phrase means you will always figure you will forgive them far more things

and you would forget you forgive your friends

so what Lud ie blood relatives so you will accept a lot more from your your

family bad things and indiscretions and things that might annoy you so you might

lose a friend or get rid of a friend from your life for doing something

however you might be more forgiving when it comes to one of your family members

if your brother or sister stole some some money from you for example yes or

from you or from another relative yes from an or from another relative or even

from anybody else not so if they've even if they committed a crime a they'd

murdered somebody you would be more likely to accept and forgive them and

then you would if it was somebody who wasn't a relative ie the water is me is

somebody who isn't a relative that's it because of course evolution in terms of

evolution and survival it's our families that are more

important and no matter what they do the survival of the family unit is most

important because you're passing on your genes anyway

anyway what do you mean anyway I didn't finish my sentence that's not some

things to show using rain because we have a storm coming storm do we yes what

do you say when you've got a storm coming we better batten down the hatches

yes I've done that one already okay storm brain I was in the garden storm

Brendan is on its way streamed and Brendan it's been a it's

actually been named by the Irish Meteorological Organization so they've

named it so that's why it has an Irish name you see it so Brendan storm storm

Oh Brendan

save something for a rainy day see there is another one you see see what I did

that rainy you see it's raining rainy day save something for a rainy day you

put something back until you really need it you really need something so you put

it away or you put it somewhere safe until you need it

you put something away or save something for a rainy day when you really need it

you look at you what could you use it as an example for that types of food maybe

money money yes mostly mostly people will save money for a rainy day and what

we mean by rainy day and that idiom is bad luck so when you get some bad luck

yes or a situation where you leave something where you need something

so money yes something happens oh maybe something breaks down or your car breaks

down you need to have it repaired so you've saved some money for the rainy

day when things aren't going so well hmm hello also to Palmyra

hello Belarusian I was told by a friend's grandmother who was 10 years

spent 10 years in bed that she couldn't move she couldn't talk but when somebody

talked to her a tear could be seen from her I very sad so sometimes you might

appear to be completely unresponsive but maybe you still you are still aware what

is happening around you palmyra says in their country they say we say save

something for a black day yes and when things are going wrong that's it so save

it for a rainy day catch a falling star and put it in your pocket save it save

it for a rainy day patro says here that his brother always

stole money from him from his savings box but he always forgave him well

that's it but if a friend did that you'd probably or somebody you didn't know

very well you can call the police it is strange how we are more willing to

forgive a family member for their for their bad behavior because because

what's most important to most people is the family unit mother father

grandparents children so you will forgive a lot for them because you don't

want to give up that relationship but then that's all about passing on your

genes yes so you seem obsessed you seem obsessed today with kissing on your

genes I'm not particularly obsessed with that how are your genes they're gonna

stay with me got any children have you got any wise or exes well I did far as I

know I've never fathered a child as far as I know there are no I have no

offspring a little mini Steve as far as I know there's nobody out there I wonder

what I wonder what a baby would look like if you had a baby if you actually

fathered a baby it'd probably look like this really I mean let's face it Steve

looks like a a large baby anyway I mean it's incredibly sad for Humanity that

I'm not passing my genes on or not yet at least

I mean just imagine you know the gene pool of the human race without mine in

it hmm it's very sad but you know there you go

so is life a person who saves things for a rainy day can be very cautious so

maybe a person who saves something for a rainy day thank you Anna what is the

name of the person that saves money for a rainy day

cautious so maybe a person who is very cautious they are a person who is always

mindful of the amount of money sensible or sensible a sensible person will

always save money for a rainy day because life isn't fair and you don't

know what's going to happen you don't have to tell me about that one now

sometimes in life as I said at the of today's show sometimes life can be

unfair sometimes you have ups and downs sometimes you have thrills and spills

sometimes things don't go right and here's a good one

he never rains but it pours it never rains but it pours

that means when something bad happens quite often many bad things will happen

at the same time so you might find that there is more than one bad thing

happening so maybe this week for me there were a few things happening that

we've had to sort out and deal with but quite often lots of things will come

along at the same time witness Steve that's right so that's typically said by

somebody who if you're a sort of you normally say that to cheer somebody up

don't you if you say that to somebody and they're having a lot they're having

a bad day hmm the car broke down then they got to work and then they cut

themselves on a pen some paper or and the boss shouted at them and you might

say to somebody to try and cheer them away never rains but it pours that's a

terrible there and you're showing empathy to some understanding to

somebody my day is terrible I I cut my finger on a piece of paper my life is

ruined get over you can get now it's the accumulation of different bad things all

happening together you could kill someone with paper mr. Duncan maybe it

wouldn't be a very humane way oh my goodness what's what's what's wrong with

you today dark thoughts today mr. Dongo dark

thought are you saying that a piece of paper can be used as a weapon well I bet

they do in prison what that means now they'll be banning paper they do in

prisons I bet I bet they're always slashing each other with bits of paper

all the prisoners are covered in paper paper cuts but yes it never rains it

never rains but it pours it's it's a sort of your sort of and that often is

the case it's a similar expression to say

things bad things always come in threes don't they it's it's it's sort of it's

almost like a part of the human psyche that we said tend to think that if one

bad thing happens lots of others will probably happen at the same time and

certainly here in the UK we say things are always bad things always come in

threes so if one back bad thing happens you're waiting for the other two and

once you've had the third one you almost oh that's it I'm done for a while now we

do well have that looks we do often think that though don't we we often

think that bad things bad things come along in succession groups of three so

maybe one thing happens it's bad and then another thing happens and then we

believe that there will be another one another bad thing because we always

think that there they are always three of them we do I don't know why that is I

think it's and then when you've had the third one you think oh what a relief I'm

gonna have a spell now when there's no bad luck so yes it never rains but it

pours is a similar expression to saying bad things always come in three hmm but

that one's just a bit more specific come rain or shine come rain or shine so this

refers to any event anything that's coming your way so whatever happens come

rain or shine so whether something is negative or positive so come rain or

shine things will always be fine come rain or shine mr. Duncan will always be

here well on Sunday yes it is an expression which means no matter how bad

things get then mr. Duncan will always be here I mean not necessarily always

but that is the sort of way you could use that expression I always try to be

here unfortunately on Friday we had a little problem didn't we my mum was

taken into hospital on Thursday night oh so we've been the last two days haven't

we you haven't explained this yet I have oh right yes yes she's been suddenly

taken very very ill so my mum's in the hospital and that's

what we've been doing we've been going to the hospital for the past a couple of

days so that's why I wasn't there with you on Friday but I will be with you on

Wednesday don't worry this is when you can catch me by the way ah Sunday

Wednesday and Friday Roger wants flags of the day flags of

the day and the landmarks so that's where I used to we used to start the

livestream - oh you mean flight flags of the world and I was in a different part

of the world every year talking about different highlights of different

countries wasn't I so yes pecho does like flags of the world say that I'll

try and find it shall I try and find flags of the world

Oh only Pedro likes it just didn't get good feedback did it apart from Pedro I

don't remember that I've only Joe are you watching the same livestream Jamila

says mr. Steve is as right as rain hi soon as right as rain that's a good one

we haven't gotten unless mr. Duncan has that one here if something says right as

rain but what does that mean mr. Dave right as rain means perfectly okay fit

as right as rain yes something is perfect that there are no problems

everything is everything is as right as rain as it should be as it should be

just like rain I suppose rain is as it should be rain is rain I'm trying to

find the flags of the world people say I feel as right as rain

can't you meaning I feel healthy I feel happy I feel good

I'm as right as rain right as rain that's a very commonly used expression

in the UK actually as opposed to feeling down in the dumps which if you say you

feel down in the dumps that's the opposite to saying right as rain it

means you're feeling sad unhappy not necessarily ill just emotional your mood

is is down down in the dumps you're really cheering everyone else

today you're not even cheering me up I really do need cheering up today

here's something to cheer you all up especially Pedro Belmont here it is it's

Steve its flags of the world

so just for Pedro that was flakes of the world oh very nice

very very nice now I was quite impressed with the way

that I managed to do that what a big head I mean not there's no modesty there

at all is there I just know my modesty I managed to find the flags of the world

people are talking about a book popper Gary oh and Balzac of it that's book and

it's a book I think I can't remember who first mentioned it now saying that it's

it's it's a book about somebody who saves their money all the time and never

gives it to anybody oh it's not isn't that where the word

miser comes from does it I'm sure it is yes I might be mistaken but but we do

have a great word called miser it's it's a word but I think that comes from a

story of a person who would not give their money away they would just keep it

and it would just pile up hoard their money well we've got a similar story if

it's May it may be similar to Scrooge the book that we have here so different

cultures probably have different different stories regarding people who

save their money and we've got one called Scrooge that's a great that's a

great word miser so a person who keeps their money they don't like to spend

money they will save it they will let it pile up in their in their room or put it

into their bed many years ago before people used banks people would often put

money under their their mattress on the bed I'm a bit of a miser would you say

mr. Duncan I don't like to spend money I like to save it I've always been a saver

rather than a spender which is the complete opposite to my sister she's a

spender not a saver I'm you know that's there are typical behaviors I think I

spend more now but I think as you I think it's all to do with security with

me I like to feel as though I'm never going

to be in a position when I don't have any money if I lost my job you know I'd

have savings to keep me going yeah I like that security I don't think that's

the same thing as a miser a miser just won't spend money at all so they won't

even invest it or put it in the bank they will just keep it all around them

it I suppose it's very similar to the fable of Midas King Midas that's another

great story where he touched the things around him and everything magically

turned to gold but in the end he had nothing he starved to death because he

couldn't eat because every time he touched the food it turned to gold he

couldn't eat so he starved to death somebody said there was no flag of

nicaragua nicaragua in there nicaragua that's a very difficult word for us to

pronounce nicaragua nicaragua i think of nicaragua 'yes i spell that correct easy

pronounce that correctly easy but you are an English teacher I would expect

you to be able to mr. Duncan yes well that was interesting any more any more

phrases to do with the the weather mister yes I'm trying to I'm trying to

so we had come rain or shine here is another one and this this is one that we

often say when we want to cheer someone up we want to make them feel happy we

want to make them feel joyous on top of the world we want them to feel bright

and gay keep your sunny side up keep your sunny side up don't worry

keep your sunny side up keep your sunny side up mr. Steve don't get down don't

get miserable stay cheerful keep your sunny side yes it just means show us

your your happy bright sunny personality and keeping good spirits even when

things aren't going so well keep listening I don't like today I mean

today I've this week or should I say the last two

days I've had some really awful experiences but I always try to look on

the bright side of life so sometimes you have to do it sometimes

you have to force yourself sometimes you can do it quite easily so Pedro's seen

flags of the the world and now he's off oh I see you've just used us used us I

feel I feel you stopped by joking I feel as if you spent the night with me and

then you you get up in the early morning and leave before I've even woken up

hungry wasn't there either mr. Duncan no Nicaragua Lincoln agua I bet you any

money I bet you ten pounds hungary is in that list it is it is there have another

look keep your sunny-side up stay looking on

the bright side of life even when things seem bad always look on

the bright side of life I do I do do do do do thank you very

much to song so yes a miser apparently is from the Latin Missouri as' poor and

lack of generosity so a miser actually comes from Latin I suppose there's no

surprise there really see you later Pedro Pedro is going you can also say

look on the bright side yes you can look on the bright side of life the sunny

side the positive side the the fun side anything that gives you that feeling of

positivity and makes you feel happy I suppose yes because if you stay positive

it's difficult because I you wouldn't call me the most positive person in the

world would you mr. Duncan I've always been my father said to me I

can still remember him telling me you're a pessimist not an optimist

amongst other things and then I was only about seven or eight at the time and

that stayed with me ever since he probably shouldn't have said that

because I do tend to look on I'd tend to look for the worst things that can

happen yes don't I yes I don't tend to think you're the complete opposite mr.

Duncan always thinks everything's going to be alright and will work

I was on the opposite end I would think things if it can go wrong it will and

probably will so we're both in extremes you're an optimist I'm a pessimist yes I

am quite optimistic even last night last night we got back late last night from

the hospital very traumatic day and we got back we decided to have a little

beer didn't we we thought let's have a beer

we rarely drink beer but last night go on okay that this is a good

indication of our different carers so as so I thought I said to Steve I said

let's have a beer we've got a couple of cans of beer they've been in the

cupboard for a long time but I thought let's have a beer so we opened the beer

and I poured the beer into two small glasses so we had half of the can each

Steve so this gives you an insight into Steve's brain Steve instead of just

enjoying the beer instead of enjoying the beer and just having a little moment

of relaxation he decides to look at the cam that the beer had come out of to see

when the sell-by date was or the use-by date and he says oh oh I don't think we

should drink this beer oh it says December 2019 oh I don't I

don't think we should drink that I said to Steve I said look for goodness sake I

just enjoy the bloody beer yes because I because I've because I've read all this

information on canned food that metals and chemicals leach out into the food

and and I didn't enjoy it at all I only drank half of it and threw the rest away

I was convinced it was going to make me ill well I drank it I had my I had my

beer and I enjoyed it and all you've done Steve is bring all

all that negativity onto yourself that's you I that just that's the way I am it

is it certainly is and well I used to work with somebody when I worked in the

hospital I mentioned this the other week I used to work with somebody he was

always very downbeat he was always looked down in

the dumps he was always negative everything was his in fact his whole

deportment was you know he said it went around like that he was it was the same

age as me I know he's a bit older than me at I'm sorry I've got to stop you

Steve just use a word that I haven't heard for about 35 years

deportment it portman do your deport I've never talked about that is a word

that is actually a word that has more cobwebs on it than in the corner of my

studio right no one ever talks about deportment well deportment means how do

you carry yourself your posture your posture and you walk when you stand up

have you got good deportment you're bad deport deportment do you hold yourself

up and stand erect and walk with a positive stance ballerinas have good

deportment okay because you walk and people that are in the in the Armed

Forces have good deportment so it's it's it's it means that you carry yourself

you know you're not slouching I just love the way that you mentioned

ballerinas and people in the army have you got good deportment let's see if

people use this phrase at all we've got and noisy bird outside I upset that

what's that what bird is it mr. Duncan what do you think it is I can't remember

the name oh for goodness sake you're gonna be in the next bit to my mother so

did people hear that loud sort of metallic call of the pheasant I went

outside earlier and I upset him he was hiding in the bushes and he flew off it

you know in a panic okay Tomic says I'm a wimp thanks for that

yes it's true I'm not a wimp I'm not a wimp

a wimp is somebody who cowers from a weak person yes I'm not a weak person he

didn't stand up for himself and is afraid to

stand up to people or to take on new challenges that isn't actually me just a

weak weak person or with a person with a weak character yes you can't stand are

you always if you if you say your negative or somebody who is thinks

negatively that that's not the same thing as a wimp that's a different thing

all together a wimp is somebody who doesn't stand up for himself it's just

we a weak person yes weak that's it that is not me mr. Duncan I can stand up for

myself iced you wait okay we get it I find that

very hard to believe somebody says I don't have a good Department

yes Department report yes it means if you slouch I will put the word if you

slouch your shoulders around and your neck is bent and you sort of shuffle

about deportment it means you carry yourself

no nice positive way your neck is straight your shoulders are back and I

think it makes you you feel more positive if you walk and that actually

is a scientific fact if you actually feel when you see somebody if they're

feeling worried or afraid they they sort of you know they their whole deportment

changes and they they sort of go into themselves but if you they've found that

if you actually I'm gonna increase your make your mood better by just standing

okay and acting like you were positive and that actually changes it has a hand

effect of changing your mood so doing something physical change can change

your mind okay as well as the other way round okay

let's let's draw a line under that yes graceful way of carrying yourself here's

another one it's all water under the bridge something that has happened that

you want to forget about maybe a disagreement that you've had with

someone that you know maybe something that you want to forget about maybe you

had a fight with your friend or partner and now you want to forget all about it

we can say that it is all water under the bridge it's over

with let's forget about our differences let's forget about the fights that we

had wouldn't it be lovely if the USA and Iran said let's forget about it it's all

water under the bridge of course it isn't going to happen because things

have really escalated over the past few days yes for reasons I'm not going to go

into just like water that flows constantly flows and new water comes

along in life events happen they go and new events come along and you know it's

don't keep hanging on to those past events let it flow away let it flow away

just like water would under a bridge flow away and you have arguments or

friends or family and sometimes for a long people weeks or months or years in

some cases I had a friend well-known in speak 2 for 10 years or never again and

then when you meet up when you talk about it you think oh that's not so bad

and then you say then they might say well I apologize for what I did to you

those bad things I did to you and you might say let's forget about it it's

water under the bridge you've just gone you've just reminded me of something I

remember many years ago my father and my my uncle virtually getting into a

fistfight in the back garden of our house when

they were trying to put a green house up in the back garden and my father called

my uncle a wimp he called him a wimp and and my uncle

got very angry and they started sort of but they weren't really fighting with

their fists but it almost became violent however my uncle left the house in a

hurry he sped off in his Citroen he had one of these cars called a Citroen

French car and and he was very strange because when you started the car up it

would it would rise on a cushion of air very strange I always thought his car

was like something from the future so if you remember Citron's during the early

1980s they actually looked like cars in the future because they would they would

take off they would hover slightly when you started live up yes they did you

they were very comfortable though they were they did have I think sort of air

Springs and so they were very comfortable hmm Tomic I forgive you for

calling me a wimp it's water under the bridge

however accurate you were I think he probably meant because I was frightened

at the sound of the bird so yes when it comes to things like that maybe I am a

bit of a wimp yes if an animal came near me or somebody looked angry and wanted

to beat me up I think I would be a bit of a wimp if someone is really scared we

can say that they are afraid of their own shadow maybe a person who is who is

a real coward or a person who is a wimp if you said to somebody there's a spider

in the corner of that room will you remove it and somebody might scream and

they might not like the spider and you might call them a wimp you wouldn't

maybe not you wouldn't call a girl a wimp if she didn't like if she didn't

like a spider you would call a man a wimp if if he couldn't pick up a spider

and put it out but we win well we all know that women don't like spiders

anyway so so you don't have to say that do you really not to a woman but you

would to a man because all women all women every single woman on the planet

that they're all afraid of spiders aren't you I know you are you're sitting

there now saying mr. Duncan you're right I am a woman and I'm afraid of spiders

are I think so I'm I'm a hundred and one percent sure that that's true our mech

was saying it in reference to the point that I only drunk I overstated that my

worries about the beer being out of date as usual I was worried that I might get

poison baby always happens over cautious over cautious anything Steve does he's

always worried we can't have any fun early without Steve finding one

to worry about anything whatever it is anything I always look for

I mean it's healthy in a way to always be able to see whether somebody thought

something is dangerous or not that's okay what could go wrong that's healthy

but if you fixate on that too much then it becomes a bit of a disorder hmm

and you there's only so much you can do in situations to to mitigate the danger

of something to reduce if you mitigate something it means you reduce okay I'm

loving your choice of words deportment is is the best word that I've heard in a

long time deportment well if you don't carry on don't explain it all again when

you're young as you get old okay you mustn't let it slide if you

don't have to explain it again there is a rewind button on the player so you can

if you want to know what's what deportment means go back about 15

minutes on the live stream and you will see Steve talking about a word that no

one on the planet uses anymore Cecilia is not not afraid of spiders but is

afraid of snakes yeah I think I would be pretty afraid of snakes I would yes it

depends where it is really I mean in this country you shouldn't need to be

afraid of snakes because we haven't really got any poisonous snakes but what

if they what if there's a lot of snakes around you and they don't know got

baseball bats can you be afraid of them then I think so I would it also depends

where the snake is maybe it's going up your trouser leg in which case you have

to be very afraid we have I believe do we not soon a tea

cake we come a tea waiting a tea cake in a cup of tea waiting yes very nice we're

doing a slightly longer one today because I wasn't here on Friday because

my poor mummy was taken into hospital she's still in hospital now thanks for

your lovely messages by the way thanks a lot today

want to talk too much about it but yes

silence on the live stream that must be a first that doesn't happen very often

be the first time that's ever happened the only time we get silence on here is

when I forget to open the microphone a lot of snakes in Brazil that is correct

I've heard this yes yes well in in the forests giant anacondas and and adders

and all sorts of rattlesnakes probably I think rattlesnakes are more in the sort

of desert II areas but yes lots of venomous dangerous snakes what we've

seen programs about that every year hundreds thousands of people die oh my

god is a hundred is it hundreds of millions I think it's Millions

is it billion uh Dyer snake bites because they they all you you have to

have your limbs chopped off and all sorts of things Steve have you ever come

face to face with a snake uh yes because my friends what kind of snake you're

talking about mr. Duncan I don't know what you mean what do you know what you

met all these I've just realized these running shoes are very uncomfortable

okay Glenda needles in my feet they're not very good running shoes if they're

making your feet hurt I know but they're not mean you're not meant to stand in

them you meant to run in them that's probably rather uncomfortable what brand

are they a six that does not sound like a brand that's never heard of them Steve

has bought some cheap sneakers no they're not a six a SC i I think

something like oh it's basics no it's not basics it starts with an A it starts

with an A hey Ashton a six let me have a look let's see if I can I've seen I've

seen the there we go these are my running shoes stinky stinky running

shoes a six a si CS that's the first time I've ever worn them because I

bought the Museu bought these they were in a sale I do a lot of run

and I bought them in a sale you can't smell this there's nothing wrong with

that there's no that fast just the glue Lucas I've never I've never actually

it's the first time I've ever worn them because I bought them at the end of the

summer and they were in a sale and I needed some more new running shoes but

of course it's winter now and I didn't want to get them dirty and muddy so I

haven't actually used these I've been using my winter running shoes which are

designed for running in this so yes they were actually quite expensive there are

people can you believe it there are people who actually enjoy smelling and

sniffing other people's shoes they actually find it stimulating I don't

know why they do that because I can't stand I hate the smell you wimp mr.

Duncan you wimp I think that's like saying you that you

like smelling other people's farm you can see I haven't I haven't even been

running in these you haven't used them look how clean the soles are that's why

I've got them on in the house because I actually took them straight out of the

box so I should be using these insulating when the weather is better

okay I I I'm I'm sure you're really pleased to hear all of that news about

mr. Steve's new sneakers back to snakes no I haven't come face to fit the only

yes okay I won't say that there is what you call this an idiom another another

word for shall I say it mr. Duncan it's a little rude no probably not no no

don't well I think it's just not rude

yes I suppose I suppose it can be a sort of euphemism euphemism not an idiom not

not not a euthanasia ism like a euphemism an alternative word for

something if you were to use the word trouser snake that was a trouser snake

look can I just say that you have opened this door and now you must walk through

now you opened the door didn't I saying have you come face to face with any

snake Eyez is not and snakes and then you giggled you

mention snakes now somebody has mentioned snakes on here right you sure

it was it was now I can't remember either yes so Sam or Sam or us man asks

where are you in Britain we are in a place called Much Wenlock Much Wenlock

is a tiny little town and we lived there so does anybody know what the phrase

trouser snake means it's a part of the body part of the body it's a part of the

male body it's a man's body part so women don't have trouser snakes well

actually they might they might nowadays actually nowadays they might you see you

see we live in this world where everyone wants to swap and change it's a little

bit like having one of those modern drills have you seen those tools that

you can buy and you can put anything on the end of them and some people like to

change their tools so they take that off and put something else on there instead

so yet they might so a lady might have a trouser snake she might decide that

that's what she wants for her birthday hi Lee Kwang says why didn't you buy

Nike shoes that better than Asics well that's a matter of opinion

okay matter of opinion so that's something that probably can't be proved

but is something that you could debate how do you prove then well that's why

it's a matter of opinion you say a matter of opinion you're

referring to a subject that you can't actually prove one way or the other or

would be difficult to prove so it's dependent on I think in different

countries different brands have different levels of status Nike or Nike

I don't know how you pronounce it now Nike Nike in the 80s and 90s and the UK

night he was the top brand I think it was if you had Nike trained as zero

really something there were many brands I wear but Nike was one of

top ones but now I don't think they're in the UK I don't think Nike are quite

seen as one of the top brands any well there was a little bit of controversy

about Nike wasn't that so I think it was all to do with the the American football

players not kneeling or kneeling on the ground and I think it had something to

do with that taking a knee so I think it has to do that okay talking about

trouser snakes is woken Jeff up he's made a copy jeff has woken up Jeff was

there but the mention of trouser snake and we certainly they were the comment

we certainly know how to get Jeff's attention yes a big snake in the

trousers says Cecilia Cecilia I'm surprised that Cecilia would say that

I'm finding out a lot of things today about you out there in YouTube land but

yes Santa Reno says of course the police if you're looking for somebody that's

missing a missing person or you want to find somebody you you give the dog the

somebody's shoe or underwear and of course they will having very good scent

memory they they will track down that person they have a keen sense of smell

yes certain types of dogs not all dogs I mean you never see a chihuahua on it in

a search party looking for someone I tell you the reason I use Asics over

over Nikes because I've got very wide feet very broad feet and this particular

brand it tends to have a much broader fitting when I used to be when I was

young because did they have did they have sneakers then a few years ago just

run around in bare feet through the mud so when I was when I was growing up my

mummy and daddy took me to a shoe shop to be measured to have shoes used to do

you remember in the I don't know if people do this and at least I'd say in

the olden days but when we used to grow up when you went to where we used to

grow up maybe they still do it for children I suppose they do

they put your foot into a measure and find out what size your foot is here for

they give you the but what shoes to wear and it does help you know you're not

just going to put any any shoe on a child are you were a big clown shoe can

you see your son or daughter walking around with giant long shoes just

because the person in the shop couldn't be bothered to measure their foot so

quite often with a child you have to measure their foot because their feet

are still growing and I used to work in Footwear you do many years not anymore

rather you do that's the present tense although big did although past ten

although due to the smell in the studio it feels as if I am working in Footwear

again joking but the point I was making mr. Duncan okay you won't make I was

making a point you you rudely interrupted were you making a point what

was the point I was making something about something about the shoes I was

making it I was making a point about the shoes what were we saying just before

you you interrupted me so it's up to you to remind me of what I was talking about

what are you talking about says jamila steve has no idea he called yes about

broad fitting that was it Thank You Tomic for reminding me so I

read your your your message and then it reminded me so they used to say to me

when I was a child the assistant in the shops used to say Oh has he got six toes

because my foot was so wide they used to laugh and joke they could never find

feet as shoes to fit my wide feet and they used to joke that I had six toes so

there you go I just thought I'd just throw that little story in Wow well I

still have broad feet what is the difference between an idiom and a

euphemism well an idiom is something that is often used in a way that it's

not designed to be used so an idiom is a kind of expression however euphemism is

something slightly different so you will say something that is rude

good or naughty or something that might be offensive but you use something else

that isn't offensive in its place for example I'm trying to think of well

I suppose trouser snake trouser snake trouser snake is a euphemism for the

mail app latest ogre said it when I said it well I was going to say appendage I

said her pending and he said the other word a euphemism another way of

different word or expression for something there we go but okay what are

you talking to Nike has an offer running shoes so Tomic says that you can get

wider shoe fittings in Nike that's good to know is it I feel like it working in

the shoe shop again you did you worked in a shoe shop this many years many

years many many years ago before I've before I got a proper job I used to

spend all day looking at people's stinky feet it was only a part-time short

affair before I went on to become an international YouTube star well that the

thing no Amy al sir says I wear Nike sneakers seems that they're very very

popular is Nike welcome to sneaker talk a new podcast where we talk for hours

and hours about foot width and they're obviously comfortable and I think

certain brands because of your feet shape of your feet certain brands are

more comfortable for you than others eisah like Adidas shoes but anyway okay

is there someone else in this room if there's someone there who's that I'm

thinking I'm looking off when I'm thinking and our brains working away you

are always looking off do you have flat feet no I don't have flat

feet up with a lovely arch but a lovely arch in my foot I don't have flat feet

no but they're they're quite wide I can walk on water

actually they're so wide and many people say to me you know aren't you you can

walk on water you're such a wonderful person if you say to somebody if you

someone's walking on water if you say someone's walking on water they're there

of course going back to biblical times if you talk about the Bible cause Jesus

Christ could have walk on water if you believe the stories of course so if

somebody says to you all you can walk on water they're saying that you're at the

same level as as Jesus but we must be careful what we say there's a very

naughty boy well there was a famous story wasn't that famous story in the

Bible in the Bible where Jesus walked on water I remember these stories because

we sort of grew up with them Indian school did is there actually a story

where he does walk on water oh yes there is yes there's one where we

drink a lot of water we walked on water definitely I remember it was a other guy

that could part the water Noah and there was it wasn't Noah and there was the

other no no no I met with the ark it was Moses Moses parted the waters you're

right yes if you believe this if you believe it you know

always Doris did you learn much about the Bible at school because you seem to

be making this stuff up Tomic says you've offended people who

work in shoe shops now by saying yes then I got a proper job well yes well

well no one starts a career it's offended all just assistants shop

assistants just people have a shoe shop around the world shoe shops but it is

but it is the worst job in the world it can't be the worst job in the world mr.

Cain I think you should you know not deed

yourself into a Heimlich digging your hole I've done it I've done the job and

and so I I'm in a position where I can actually say that that job literally

stinks literally you have to spend all day you get people coming in off the

streets and they want to be measured or they want to try on a pair of shoes and

I used to have to put up with some of the worst smelling feet ever some of

some of the feet were awful certain sometimes the toes were all sticking out

the ends bye-bye belarus belarus is going see you

later belarus is already gone see you later talking of bad jobs when

we were visiting your mother in hospital that suddenly reminds you of what nurses

have to do in a hospital okay they have to do some things which you would never

want to have to do normally in normal everyday life would you there I mean the

things that they have to do to care for people in hospital that's got to be one

of the most fantastic jobs to do and it's not very well-paid I wouldn't know

some of the things that you have to do if you're a new job to admire that is oh

here we go we've got it we've got a new nickname for mr. Steve we want we can

call mr. Steve The Hobbit because vicars hobbits this is another

book this time we're not talking about Dino The Hobbit mr. Duncan we read that

at school did you okay you're not you're not getting it

confused with the Bible are you it would appear that you are but yes they're all

stories they are stories that's true but yes because in the story by Tolkien

Junior Tolkien yes I know I know mr. Duncan

junior Tolkien yeah that's his what was his name then his full name

Jon I don't know Jeremiah Jacob I don't know what his first day was but he's

known as Jo so it's not the same guy that wrote Game of Thrones but

apparently the hobbits all of the hobbits

very wide feet their feet are almost square shaped because they have their

large so yes you are right mr. steve is full of himself

it says serene I'm it's all acting I'm just joke I just Joe thank you for I'm

doing it for comic effect finally someone has noticed that Steve is really

full of himself thank you thank you very much Oh somebody nutrient Trin knew in

watching in Vietnam says hello it's my very first time that I'm here

thank you very much Trin thanks rien new wind you deserve a round of applause I

think so welcome to my live chat

it's always nice to know that we've got new people watching and they make

comment so it's nice to know when anyone's watching because a lot of time

people are watching but they're not making comments so we don't know they're

there so ask us a question I'm not usually here of course no Steve's

normally off with the off somewhere else he's off with the fair is people seem to

think we're promoting brands you're adidas nike a6 I will get them all in

I've only been wearing adidas clothes on my videos for about the past twelve or

thirteen years well of course we'd love to be sponsored by any of those

particular brands wouldn't we mr. Duncan or anyone

whatever you do maybe I don't know maybe you run a shoe shop and you want to

sponsor me although I have a feeling I have a feeling after today I don't think

any shoe shop or any shoe manufacturer is going to they're not going to sponsor

this on burnt your bridges there mr. dome I have another idiom we've got in

there burn two bridges it means that there's no way back you

said or done something it is so upsetting that there's no way

that you can go back to where you were before okay with a person or an

organization so for example you might leave your job and you might before you

go you might swear at the boss and tell him to get lost and say you're the worst

boss ever or do something awful if you might you might have a poo on his office

desk exactly you take a dump you could just take a giant wet stee something so

bad big poo on his desk that you could never

go back to that job again so no one would ever accept you back in no matter

what never whereas if you just left and just sort of say goodbye I hope

everything goes all right in the future you might have had a job offer back

there but because you made a dump on his desk and mr. Duncan said you don't have

to go back say I've never done that I've never

actually taken a giant dump on any boss or any boss's desk just so we're clear

on that when are we going mr. Duncan

we're not dark outside it's getting dark in Hungary it's getting dark in here

well we were talking about euthanasia oh yeah there's a very dark subject I'd say

that and wonder that we've moved on from and now we've returned to thanks to you

thank you Steve well we're going in a moment because

we've been here for two hours so an extra long one just the way Steve

likes it today today nobody Ben anyway now I won't go back to trouser snake

we've dealt with that one okay so another thing to mention today we were

able to tempt mr. Steve into the studio by offering this one of mr. Steve's

favorite snacks but the big question is what will the snack be next week what

will they the snack that I will be using to tempt mr. Steve into the studio what

would it be next week find out don't forget also I'm back with you on

Wednesday and Friday as well hopefully and also next Sunday we'll be back

together next Sunday won't we yes if you let me mr. Duncan we will see what

happened are you inviting me on next Sunday if the fates allow we will need

so long we will be here that's a Christmas song

well I'll toddle off shall I mr. don't guess I'll go prepare the tea and tea

cakes I am I'm quite hungry I'm quite peckish to be honest do you want another

quick sniff of my virtually unused trainers no no we won't do that I do not

want to sniff you I think this is some kind of fetish no I don't want to sniff

your sneakers to be honest deep-fried Mars bar no we're just having yes and

we'll be preparing the meal for tonight we haven't got salmon tonight because we

haven't got any in the fridge we need to do a shop so we haven't discussed that

mr. Duncan what we're going to eat tonight oh maybe we can discuss that

later beans on toast when we're not doing a live stream ta ta everybody and

hopefully see you next week bye bye he's gone mr. Steve has left the building

K says are you having a deep-fried Mars bar I like the sound of that do you

know what I actually fancy a deep-fried Mars bar that sounds quite nice in fact

well I'm going it's time to say goodbye I've been here for two hours I hope

you've enjoyed today's busy lesson sorry once again for not being with you on

Friday as I explained earlier some circumstances some things occurred that

I had to sort out thank you very much for your company thank you for watching

I will see you on Wednesday at 2 p.m. UK time also don't forget if

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that's it it's time to go almost time to say goodbye thank you very much to Maria

Rosa Olga thank you very much for watching me during this live stream a

very long one today very long thanks also to mr. Steve for joining me today I

enjoyed your company well he said you're welcome by Anna

bye rosa bye-bye - hi Lee Kwang pal Mira

very great to see you all here today thanks for your lovely messages of

support during my rather difficult time I will be back with you on Wednesday at

2 p.m. UK time this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of

English saying thanks for watching see you on Wednesday

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