Boots Christmas advert

It look it's annual tradition that right-wingers upset Christmas adverts. They are simple.

Why a Christmas advert has led to 'boycott Boots' trending online
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/boycott-boots-trending-online-christmas-advert-adjoa-andoh-b1193146.html

Twittersphere / Twitterverse - Collins covers the slang!
to ruffle someone's feathers
yuletide
bauble
tinsel/glitter- uncountable [quote]there are lots of baubles, tinsel and glitter
ire (formal)anger - pronunciation
woke [quote]at one point Andoh uses they/them pronouns when referring to one gift recipient
derision
‘tis [quote]‘Tis the season - pronunciation
snowflake [Collins]If you call someone a snowflake, you think that they are too easily offended or upset.
< snowflake generation [Collins]the generation of people who became adults in or after the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previous generations

The Twitterphere
Boots upset right-wingers over Christmas advert starring Adjoa Andoh - here’s why
https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/boots-christmas-advert-adjoa-andoh

boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

I don't read contemporary novels. I only read classic novels. I know the name of Sally Rooney, but the others...

Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/28/sally-rooney-percival-everett-arundhati-roy-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza

oppression
signatory
pledge
complicit
discriminatory - accent
whitewash
apartheid - pronunciation and spelling
inalienable
enshrine
obfuscate
art-washing / artwashing [Wikipedia] Artwashing describes the use of art and artists in a positive way to distract from or legitimize negative actions by an individual, organization, country, or government—especially in reference to gentrification.
dispossession <> possession
oppression
in good conscience
interrogate
Fossil Free Books
plainly
apologist

Authors use 'apartheid' for Israel and Palestine. It's similar as South Africa in fact.

Blitz

It's promising. The Blitz and Sir. Steve. And Paul Weller.

‘I wasn’t interested in Churchill’: Steve McQueen on the ‘ordinary people’ in his film Blitz
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/04/steve-mcqueen-ordinary-people-film-blitz-war

<words>
grimy
raid
pick over
blitz spirit
abundance [quote]The blitz spirit is here in abundance [Collins]Food was in abundance.
pull together
namecheck
poignancy
brink [quote]There’s Somalia, which is on the brink of war now, which doesn’t get a lot of headlines.
warden
Benjamin Clémentine
munitions
chore (noun)
in [quote]I thought to myself, that’s my ‘in’ - I cannot find the meaning
desensitise
turn a blind eye
deem

‘Not many people know what happened’: covered up London Blitz tragedy is inspiration for Steve McQueen’s new film
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/15/not-many-people-know-what-happened-covered-up-london-blitz-tragedy-is-inspiration-for-steve-mcqueens-new-film

Blitzkrieg
Bethnal Green
Balham
Bianca Stigter
stairwell

I didn't know about Bethnal Green tube disaster.


What the director says hits home as his films. I want to watch Occupied City, too.
But I'm also interested in Churchill and Monty. Hitler and Goring are more than that.

Oasis offspring

I was lured by the title of ES again! It's my routine now.

Get to know the Gallagher brood: what do Gene, Lennon, Anaïs and co do and who are their mums?
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/liam-gallagher-children-noel-gallagher-kids-gene-lennon-anais-mums-modelling-jobs-b1182977.html

The name of the children are useless information, but I found good Use of English.

<words>
delve into
[quote]tell-tale heavy brows and strong noses[unquote]
laid-back - forgot, again!
feud - forgot, again!!
clan
four-piece band
duopoly < monopoly
lookalike
tie the knot
call it quits
unruly
brawl
-esque

Groucho club - I remember this
Crohn’s and Colitis UK
Napapijri
Charlotte Simone
Ringo Starr’s grandson - I remember the Tesco fight
Golders Green - this reminds me another article
King Alfred School
Bedales School
Camberwell College of Arts
New Forest

Liam Gallagher tells Oasis fan to 'shut up'

Learning English from LG. Monkey see, monkey do. His language isn't good for copying. though.

Liam Gallagher tells Oasis fan to 'shut up' as singer hits out at reunion tour ticketing backlash
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/liam-gallagher-tells-oasis-fans-shut-up-over-ticket-prices-smug-rant-b1180514.html

<words>
rant
hit out at [Collins](American) to attack in words; criticize severely
fork out [Collins] (informal) If you fork out for something, you spend a lot of money on it.
computer glitches
wade in
(SIC) (sic)
goad [Collins] If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something.
kneeling
smug
staggered

a comment on the article.
[quote]alot of people need a check up from the neck up , they are barely worth 15quid a ticket[unquote]
dead from the neck up [Collins] (informal) stupid or unintelligent

English Teacher

When I heard the name of the band and the album on the radio at first time, I was attracted. I hadn't known them.

Who are English Teacher? What to know about the Leeds-based winners of the Mercury Prize
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/english-teacher-band-mercury-prize-what-to-know-b1180476.html

<words>
buzziest < buzzy
[Collins]If a place, event, or atmosphere is buzzy, it is lively, interesting, and modern.
?? The writer is saying about the band, not a place... [quote]the buzziest band of the year
hail from - I saw this before...
quartet (pronunciation)
deprivation - I saw this before...
limelight

Frank, a film 2014 - I've been wanting to watch it, for a decade...
PRS - PRS for Music - Performing Right Society
Pitchfork (US)
Loud and Quiet

Their music is good but too indie. They are working in a provincial city, Leeds.
It's strange for them being the winner, but it's Mercury...

That’s a wrap

It's 22 years! He is right. If you become old and fat, you don't need to do what you don't like.

Jeremy Clarkson explains why he’s ended TV partnership with Richard Hammond and James May
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-hammond-may-b2605977.html

<words>
pack in [Collins] If you pack something in, you stop doing it.
blizzard [Collins]You can refer to a large number of things that you do not like or which annoy you as a blizzard of those things.
[quote]their working relationship did not disintegrate “in a blizzard of outrage and tabloid headlines

[quote]Earlier this year, it was reported that Clarkson, Hammond and May had dissolved their production company, declaring solvency and appointing a liquidator to “wind up” their business.[unquote]
dissolve a company
declare solvency
appoint a liquidator < liquidate

Liam Gallagher is an early riser

He is 51 now. He still swears and leads a life to be healthy.

Liam Gallagher reveals 4am wake up time and surprisingly healthy breakfast choice as face of Stone Island
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/fashion/liam-gallagher-oasis-stone-island-face-wake-up-four-healthy-b1179715.html

<words>
rectangular < rectangle - aww, I completely forgot this...
set aside [Collins]If you set aside a belief, principle, or feeling, you decide that you will not be influenced by it. [quote]he and brother Noel had set aside their differences to reunite Oasis

He wares Stone Island.
[quote]The flashy launch follows a summer of right-wing protests in Britain which saw a number of Stone Island jackets pictured on rioters.[unquote]
This is true. I can see photos Tommy Robinson wore the jacket. Liam Gallagher and Tommy Robinson... a bit dodgy

[quote]This new push marks a welcome polishing of the 1980-founded brand’s image, which has remained beloved in fashion circles[unquote]
push, polishing
[quote]the singer reveals he is an extremely early riser, as well as his healthy go-to breakfast of choice[unquote]
early riser, go-to

[quote]To [..]who stole my Stone Island parkas from my hotel room while I was playing Glastonbury hand them over all will be forgiven[unquote]
parka - he wares a parka

delusion

Reunion, reunion, reunion. I found a joke of Paul and Ringo reunion. I saw an article of William and Hurry reunion. And the Smith.

Morrissey claims Johnny Marr ignored lucrative Smiths reunion offer
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/30/morrissey-claims-johnny-marr-ignored-lucrative-smiths-reunion-offer

<words>
buzz [quote]Social media has been buzzing this week since Noel and Liam announced
vitriolic [quote]two brothers who despise each other with such vitriolic passion
delusional < delusion
grin

Morrisy is worse than far-right
[quote]Morrissey has long lost his “criminally vulgar” shyness, stretching and often breaking the patience of fans with controversial pronouncements on politic[unquote]

Well done, Johnny Marr.
[quote]earlier this week, when a Smiths fan posted on X: “If Oasis can do it, The Smiths can too (I’m delusional)”, the guitarist replied with a photograph of the grinning Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, pint in hand. [quote]
[quote]Marr continues to tour as a special guest to New Order[unquote]

revelatory

I'm so thrilled to bits at the news, unexpectedly.
My stance had been anti-Oasis for long. To be honest, I'd looked down on Oasis fans. I thought the brothers were too rough and their music was too simple.
However, surprisingly, the news of reunion made me nostalgic. I realise that I like the legendary brothers and their Britpop music.

Oasis reunion confirmed for UK and Ireland tour in 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/27/oasis-reunion-confirmed-for-uk-and-ireland-tour-in-2025-liam-noel-gallagher

<words>
will-they-won’t-they
leg - domestic leg of the tour
feud
revelatory
ignite
televise
acrimoniously < acrimonious
to bury the hatchet
snipe
wane
lucrative - forget this? remember!!
[quote]Some have speculated that one motivation for a lucrative reunion might be Noel’s recent divorce from his second wife, Sara MacDonald, in a settlement reported to cost around £20m.[unquote]

Who is Sara MacDonald, the Scottish ex-wife of Oasis star Noel Gallagher credited with the band's reunion?
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/music/who-is-sara-macdonald-the-scottish-ex-wife-of-oasis-star-noel-gallagher-4757652

‘Oi, tofu boy’: The best putdowns, quips and insults from Noel and Liam Gallagher’s 15-year-long feud
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/noel-liam-gallagher-feud-fight-timeline-insults-tofu-b1034188.html

This writer use American English and some typos in the article.
<words>
rile
lyricist
solid [Collins]If you do something for a solid period of time, you do it without any pause or interruption throughout that time.
[quote]which descended into roughly 10 solid minutes of insulting each other [unquote]
G&T [Collins]gin and tonic
sombrely < sombre
blitzed
noughties
in a world of
emanate
partial [Collins]If you are partial to something, you like it.[quote]the musician is very partial to using his Twitter account to air his feelings towards his brother when he so chooses
bonehead

They are totally the characters of The Brothers Grimsby. Completely comedy. It's pleasing to see them in the news.

gust

It's not only Taylor who has cancelled a gig.

New Order cancel gig amid weather warning
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8l2lyerego

<words>
ground [quote]cancelled on "health and safety grounds" [Collins]If something is grounds for a feeling or action, it is a reason for it. If you do something on the grounds of a particular thing, that thing is the reason for your action.
in due course [quote]There will be an official statement in due course regarding tickets [Collins]If you say that something will happen or take place in due course, you mean that you cannot make it happen any quicker and it will happen when the time is right for it.
gutted [British, informal] [quote]the band was gutted about the cancellation
set back [quote]Setting back all the work that had to start in the early hours
gust [Collins]A gust is a short, strong, sudden rush of wind

New Order has five members now. I recognise three of them. I don't want to see New Order without Peter Hook.

[quote]I'm very disappointed, but life's too short to be angry about these things.[unquote]
Poor he.

I was cancelled by Greta last year. I was disappointed, even I'm not a big fun of Greta. I had been excited to get a competitive ticket.
I found the reason of the cancellation by the article later.

Greta Thunberg pulls out of Edinburgh Book Festival over 'greenwashing'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66407059

She is too strict.

elated

Uri Geller is also one of my interests. I thought he was a psychic but he is an illusionist, a spoon-bending magician, a mystic, a performer or a showman according to the Guardian.

Illusionist Uri Geller says he was buyer of John Lennon’s glasses for £40,000
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/01/illusionist-uri-geller-says-he-was-buyer-of-john-lennons-glasses-for-gbp40000

words
spectacles - round spectacles
-tinted - The pair of blue-tinted spectacles
elated [quote] He told the BBC he was “elated” with his purchase.
photocall

[quote]He gave me an alien egg. The glasses will be displayed prominently in the John Lennon section of his museum in Tel Aviv alongside the alien egg.[unquote]

He is a collector, too.

arduous

He hasn't founded yet.

'We will not lose hope,' says Michael Mosley's wife
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ddpwwrp3no

Words
advocate
terrain sounds like train
sniffer - a sniffer dog
arduous[quote]why the missing presenter would try to make a long, potentially arduous journey in such heat[unquote]
Hay Festival

I want to listen to The One Show, but it's too gossipy.

On the coastal path near where Michael Mosley was last seen
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cv22dz0w7k2o
rugged coastline

The route Michael Mosley is thought to have taken
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c3gg78wn434o
unforgiving hillsides / unforgiving landscape
scouring all these rocky facings
working theories
we've seen drones up

it's exceedingly hot
it's sweltering
it's incredibly hot
it's unrelentingly hot

It's not mentioned in the article or footages, but I saw some articles which said it was 37.5 or 40 degrees. It's exceedingly hot, indeed.
He used an umbrella, but he might get heat stroke...

namesake

A genius passed away.

Roberto Cavalli: Italian fashion designer dies aged 83
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68801294

[quote]
The fashion house that bears his name announced the death on Instagram but provided no details.
[unquote]
Is the underline subject? What does this bear mean? Is this?
[Collins]If you bear someone a feeling such as love or hate, you feel that emotion towards them.

Word
namesake - After launching his namesake fashion brand in 1970, [..]
scanty - the Playboy Bunnies' scanty uniform
tap - [Oxford] [transitive, usually passive] tap somebody (North American English) to choose somebody to do a particular job
verve
seductive

The second photo in the article shows how genius was he. He turned Spice Girls to be looked sophisticated and fashionable!
I've never possessed his clothes, but my mother has some, his clothes proved that attire was very important.

I like his words.
[quote] I started to understand that God is really the best designer, so I started to copy God. [unquote]
R.I.P.

compassionate

I didn't know that he stepped down as host of University Challenge due to Parkinson's disease. I also didn't know that World Parkinson's Day was 11th April. Furthermore, I even didn't know much about the disease. I didn't know that it causes depression.

Jeremy Paxman: Parkinson's 'makes you wish you hadn't been born'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68795161

Word
neurological
neurodegenerative diseases
compassionate < compassion - compassionate care
involuntary - involuntary shaking - accent: inv-O-luntry
condition [Collins]If someone has a particular condition, they have an illness or other medical problem
a neurological condition, a heart condition
sufferer [Collins]A sufferer from an illness or some other bad condition is a person who is affected by the illness or condition.

I compared Wikipedia between English and Japanese

Prevention section
It's interesting that English Wiki doesn't mention about cigarette, but Japanese. It's first time to find the benefit of tobacco, apart from relaxing.
It's glad to know that "Caffeine appears protective with a greater decrease in risk". It's also good to know that Alcohol isn't bad for the disease in Japanese Wiki.

List of people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
I didn't know Billy Connolly is also Parkinson's. I only knew Michael J. Fox but Parkinson's is not uncommon.
Hitler is listed in Japanese Wiki, but not English. Japanese Wiki is unreliable, but Adolf was teetotal and had character which was tend to be suffered Perkinson's.
It's awesome that Masa Saito is the only Japanese who is listed in English Wiki. Even a lot of notable Japanese are listed in Japanese Wiki!
I believe that Mino Monta is a smoker but it seems cigarette (and alcohol) didn't work for him. That's the shame.