Somewhat relatedly, I have a t-shirt from ESA that has an astronaut, the ESA logo on and the phrase “Space is our middle name” and now after many many years I have realised that they are referring to “Space” being what the middle letter of the acronym ESA stands for.

I just thought they were like oh yeahhh we do space

NGL this whole time I thought John Williams the composer had a side gig playing classical guitar

I’ve also messaged an artist on bandcamp to find out if the digital only EP with 6 songs on it is indeed really the same price as their swanky looking vinyl version of that EP at £24 because ok £24 for a vinyl record with 3 songs that were on the last release plus instrumental versions of those 3 song feels ok because I get a thing to hold but digital only when I question where I’d even get the same frequencies out of the music and not even a thing to hold ehhhhhhhh

Also, while I’m here, that bandcamp does not include VAT until you are in the checkout process INFURIATES me because ok sure £15 for only files, fine but then SUDDENLY it’s £18 somehow????????? I could not live in the United States for many reasons but THISSSSS!!! is a medium sized one

Buying a CD from the record shop which will get sent to me in the post and I will then rip MP3s from instead of spending £4 more for the digital album on bandcamp feels weird but also makes more sense to my wallet

The most annoying thing about not speaking or understanding Chinese is less that I don’t understand the words but more that my family’s dialect isn’t even Mandarin so for food words I’m looking for something that ok I can’t spell anyway but also isn’t even going to be close to the most common version of that word.

oooh always exciting when I’m listening to a podcast and it mentions something like the Cinque Ports and like… I have heard of it! I saw a thing at a castle/museum!