your daily recap

[rone]

Italy 1 - Australia 0: the Aussies played well.  Very well.  They only lacked luck and finishing.  And then the referee stabbed them all in the back with a phantom penalty call in the last 30 seconds of the game.

Ukraine 0 - Switzerland 0 (3-0 PKs): Couldn't watch it due to actual work being done.  Sounds like the Swiss are the Shaqs of soccer.  Italy-Ukraine should actually be duller than England-Portugal.  This Cup is really not taking a good shape.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me... how do you distinguish a "real" chemist from a drugstore "chemist" in England?

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Technically, the latter is a pharmacist, but a lot of people use "chemist" for that, too. If I'm introduced to someone, and just say I'm a chemist, they are as likely as not to think I work in a pharmacy. If asked, I'll add some kind of description or, rather than saying, "I'm a chemist," I'll say something like, "I work for a nasty little chemical company in [wherever]." If they don't get it, I don't really care enough to try to correct most people.