Another day of arctic adventuring, and another day I just don’t have the wherewithal to effectively discuss. Yet.<\/p>\n
So rather than burden you with an overly emotional attempt at restructured narrative (abbreviated highlights: morning in thick ice field; climb to crow’s nest; walk along coastline in Barclay Bay, where quite possibly no human has ever tread before; drinking cocktails poured over glacial ice; Vikram swimming in -1-degree Celcius water; the best photograph I’ve ever taken in my life (on somebody else’s camera); projections onto icebergs at night), for our American audience I’ll offer a basic glossary of British dialect common on the ship, and possibly causing minor confusion to the Stateside readership.\u00a0 [Note: this list might be heavy on the Manchester euphemism, as my cabin-mate Liam has plied me with Mancunian talk.]<\/p>\n
knackered:\u00a0 tired
\nshattered: see above
\nthrow a wobbly: to get mad
\nMum: mom
\nslag: [retracted]
\nborf : [retracted]
\nchunder: to vomit
\nmake sick: see above
\nbollocks: exclamation of frustration; or [retracted]
\nbrew:\u00a0 tea; or, a beverage (quite possibly life-sustaining), served hot every 40 minutes or so
\nslash: to use the toilet, #1
\n[retracted]:\u00a0 [retracted]
\nnick: to steal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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