{"id":1106,"date":"2009-08-21T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2009-10-07T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:10:27","slug":"the-fat-website-show-an-arab-reads-the-broons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"The FAT Website Show &#8211; An Arab Reads The Broons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unexpected pleasure in the past six weeks was the opportunity to meet Mike&#8217;s OCD music-obsessive Egyptian friend Adham who also travelled from Dubai to visit Australia.\u00a0 During Mike and Matt&#8217;s return leg to Brisbane, Adham came along and hung out with us for a few days.\u00a0 He was a lovely guy.\u00a0 He seemed very earnest and happy to absorb his surroundings.\u00a0 The OCD stuff was hilarious because he would drive Mike and Matt nuts with his extraordinarily long shower routine in the morning which apparently is comparable in length and complexity to Patrick Bateman&#8217;s routine in <em>American Psycho<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107  alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thebroons.jpg\" alt=\"thebroons\" width=\"544\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thebroons.jpg 544w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thebroons-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Broons<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On our final night, while we were making good inroads into a bottle of Talisker whisky, we got Adham to try and read aloud from a copy of The Broons.\u00a0 For those who don&#8217;t know, The Broons is a Scottish comic strip, written in thick dialect.\u00a0 Adham does his best and this video is the result:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8a9PRFHi0o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8a9PRFHi0o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unexpected pleasure in the past six weeks was the opportunity to meet Mike&#8217;s OCD music-obsessive Egyptian friend Adham who also travelled from Dubai to visit Australia.\u00a0 During Mike and Matt&#8217;s return leg to Brisbane, Adham came along and hung out with us for a few days.\u00a0 He was a lovely guy.\u00a0 He seemed very &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,425],"tags":[383,382],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-tfw-show","tag-adham","tag-the-fat-website-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}