Details, Details, Little Details...

Hi everyone,

I wanted to start a little lighthearted thread on those little details that I've noticed that I don't think anyone else has.

Did you notice the BBC iPlayer has a volume slider that references This is Spinal Tap? It goes to 11!

There's a trailer for the BBC News progamme "The Papers" which features a Gender Neutral character (there's one in a library and the voiceover uses the pronoun 'they').

There's a version of INXS's "New Sensation" in which Michael Hutchens introduces a "trumpet" in the breakdown/bridge but a saxophone starts playing.....(this one makes me giggle every time).

What other little details have you noticed that might have slipped others by? I love collecting these!

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  • Love how wide ranging this thread could be. One I’m always noticing is the epidemic that is people saying ‘the thing is is…’ I’m not trying to be a grammar nazi, I’m just genuinely baffled how widespread this phenomenon now is when it seems much harder to not just get ‘the thing is THAT’ intuitively right. 

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  • Love how wide ranging this thread could be. One I’m always noticing is the epidemic that is people saying ‘the thing is is…’ I’m not trying to be a grammar nazi, I’m just genuinely baffled how widespread this phenomenon now is when it seems much harder to not just get ‘the thing is THAT’ intuitively right. 

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