161 – Oh Boris, Boris, Boris….

First Brexit, now Boris…. 😔 It’s not a good time to be British! The only thing to do in a situation like this is laugh or cry, so we try to laugh! We talk about CF Charlie and Boris becoming a couple 💑, chicken in the fridge 🍗, me getting punched in the face 👊 and much more! So just keeeeeep on ROCKin’ baby! ✌️

The RnR vocab that you will learn in today’s show:

Memory of a goldfish
Let’s stop this dry patch
Emolliate my listening skills
A very topical show
I know fuck all about rugby
He was one of the big Brexiteers
That man is just clueless
He blew millions on a garden bridge project
The chicken went off
Playing the poverty card
He had a blazing row with his partner
Johnson has slagged Trump off quite a lot
Every cloud has a silver lining
He just made up a story that just wasn’t true
He was talking to another journalist about beating up another journalist
His friend, the enforcer, said just a cracked rib
I didn’t instigate the fight
I’d best not say anything here

RnR Grammar

There were a few things to choose from today, but the one I liked most was at the beginning of the conversation when we mentioned we hadn’t spoken in a long time and said:

“it’s been a long time”

This is VERY common when two friends don’t speak for a long time, or you might even hear “how long has it been?” Notice we use the present perfect here and the verb ‘be’, it kind of makes no sense because there are words that we don’t say.

For example, the ‘correct’ phrase would be “it’s been a long time since we spoken last time“, or “how long has it been since we last spoke?“, but these last few words are left unsaid!

So there are TWO phrases you can use when you haven’t spoken to a friend in a while… you’re welcome! 😉