S5/E7 - Catching Up with Harry: Natural British English Between Friends
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What career paths did Harry and Charlie consider?
You ever think, oh, that's a career I would have enjoyed.
Do you think engineers are good at planning social events? Yeah, I use the toilet brush with the plate and...
No, never. And never use your J-cloth from the kitchen on the toilet.
No, there's a good rule.
You think they went straight from dead people to delivering babies? Just back and forth, constantly. And they just swapped. I've had enough dead people for the day. Can I, I want something new. Oh no, this baby's dead. Oh, next. No, cut that, cut that. Cut that, please. But then back in the day, yeah, we're not going down infant mortality. That's not fun. How's your sex life?
Hello, mate. How you doing? Hello. Yeah.
Good. Thank you. It's been a while, hasn't it?
It has been. It has been a long old time. I feel like we've got a lot to catch up on. But the first thing for me is you're in a new environment. I don't understand the backdrop. Can you explain that? I know.
I actually don't know. I just woke up here. I don't know where I am. So I moved in with my girlfriend, Rosie, who appallingly you've never met.
I know.
Yeah. She's completely wrong. Yeah. I'm going to put that on you, though.
Yeah. Yeah. Just for no reason.
No. Yeah. Yeah. I think you you're right there. I definitely could have engineered a meeting by now. And it's not really engineering. It's not it's not that complicated.
Do you think engineers are good at sort of planning social events?
Well, I've never really been friends with engineers until I struck up a friendship with Dima, who is the guy for listeners who I meet up with once a year to do the Camino. He's a good friend of mine. But yeah, he's my only engineer friend. And is he good at making plans? Well, I probably see him twice a year, maybe three times a year. And it's always at the same time of the year. So I think they're good at kind of regularity, having structure to their social engagements. Does he encourage that annual get-together? Yeah. Yeah. To be fair, we both do. Yeah. We don't want to see each other more than two max three times a year. I think that's enough.
So maybe you could be an engineer, you know, if you're doing the same as him.
Wow. Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I was actually encouraged to go on an engineering apprenticeship. Oh, my goodness. When I was like 16. You know, when you finish, you finish school. Wait, was it?
How did Harry's move in with his partner change his life?
I think it was maybe after sixth form. I was about 18. Yeah. Before going to uni. But I hadn't made up my mind as to what I wanted to do next. So I was going to do a gap year. Yeah. gap which basically means do bugger all um maybe work a few odd jobs and travel if you can if you can afford it and if you are yeah privileged enough to to go traveling you do that basically so you bum around Anyway, that's the definition of a gap year. And why did you say gap year?
Why did you joke about it like that? It was culturally relevant.
Yeah, that became a thing, didn't it? Well, I just remember there was a video of this posh twat talking about what he did on his gap year. So year is like a really... I don't know, I guess posh. What would you call those people? Ra, very ra way of saying year. Very, I don't know if you'd even call it RP. It's like even beyond RP.
Yes, it's the Eton accent really, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Sounds German.
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