I speak fluent Danish, Dutch and English. I can read French and German. Furthermore before I got into Danish I learned Norwegian for 3 years. I had 1 course in Spanish and 3 courses in Russian and naturally through the kids and my wife’s family I pick up a lot of Thai, which I can read as well.
Beside real languages I know several programming languages, since I’m a developer Unicyclists are strange creatures.
We’re fostering a 6 month old so get to see our fair share of kids TV.
This morning I had the joy of seeing a unicycling carrot on Cbeebies (streaming from the UK).
The kid isn’t even 1 year old and they’re already into baby TV? I don’t know much, but that seems a little young. Aren’t babies always sleeping at that age anyway?
I caught another one. I was watching One Piece on Netflix and the main characters were captured by some clown pirate and when they are let out of their care a dude on a unicycle rode past in the ring.
The Belgian La Chouffe brewery has redesigned the bottle label of its blonde beer. The unicycling gnome has been replaced by a walking one. I wrote to them to say that, as an enthusiastic unicyclist, I very much regretted this, as it meant that the uniqueness of the beer was lost. They just replied with a meaningless marketing chatter saying that La Chouffe always stands for innovation, blah blah blah…
I just came across an article in a magazine supplement inside an Australian newspaper named “The Australian”. It was by a motoring journalist describing driving on the Stelvio Pass (in Italy, 2757m high) in a V12 Ferrari on a weekend celebrating the 200th anniversary of the opening of the pass. He described it as:
“Unfolding beneath you like a race track that has somehow tumbled down a mountainside, its corners squashed together in the fall, are no fewer than 48 hairpin bends, with short, sharp straights between them, and an occasional long, loud one. The surrounding mountains look like Switzerland has had sex with Scotland”.
He then went on to say:
“We bolted down towards the town of Meran, past the most Italian police car I’ve ever seen - a Lamborghini Huracan - and hundreds of cyclists heading tortuously for the top. Not a single one of them looked like they were enjoying themselves.”
And finally, could this refer to a forum member?
“My favourite, however, was one man, alone, setting out from the bottom on a UNICYCLE. I kid you not. He did not find it funny when I asked him if he’d dropped his juggling balls and offered to help him find them.”