I believe that the film "Our Souls at Night" came out in 2016. Starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda it was a light-hearted suburban feel-good romp with many comical moments. If you want to know more about it you can search on Google. You might even have watched it.
Over here in England, for reasons I could not at first understand, the title of the film caused much amusement. I remember that chat show host Graham Norton tittering about it during his interview with Jane Fonda. She looked as non-plussed as I felt. What was so funny?
Here in Yorkshire we pronounce our vowels clearly. Let us focus on the first word of the title. If someone accidentally hit you with a cricket bat you would probably shout out "Ow!" not "Ah!". Taking the "Ow!" that's how Yorkshire folk would pronounce the first part of "Our". In contrast posh southerners in the London area would say "Ahr".
Southerners have similar difficulties in pronouncing "flower" and "tower" for example. The way they say "tower" is almost exactly the same as the "tar" that you find on the surface of paved roads. Anyway, when reading this film title aloud they would say "Arseholes at Night". It's no wonder that up here in Yorkshire we did not get the joke.
A film about arseholes in the night would not appeal to me but I guess that some visitors to this corner of The Blogosphere (mentioning no names) would be gripped by it.
By the way, as well as having a literal meaning that involves buttocks, hairs and pimples , an "arsehole" can be a certain type of obnoxious human being - as with the American word "asshole". Examples of "arseholes" are trolls who patrol Blogworld, spammers, Vladimir Putin, Nigel Farage and Elon Musk.
By the way, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are definitely not arseholes in my humble opinion. They have made some great films and in addition to that have both done a lot of good in the world. She is now 85 years old and he is 86.
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