I assume it means vomiting.

You're thinking of Men At Work. . .

Looking it up, haver appears to mean babbling or talking foolishly.

I'm always focused on the needs and interests of the proletariat. But of all genders.

Yeah, havering is talking too much or babbling on. I tend to think of it as the kind of babbling speech that people do when they are nervous and trying to fill the silence, or the kind of talking people do who just love the sound of their own voice.

Vomit is "boak" and the associated verb.

I was referring to another song that used terms unfamiliar to an American audience (including a reference to vomiting): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Under_(song)

Personally, I didn't love Tennant's sketch, although I do like the song.

I actually like the Dr. Who video more, but I appreciate that seeing both of them together makes clear that Tennant really enjoys the song.

5: Your reference was perfectly clear. I deliberately mistook it to make a stupid joke. I have my hobbies.

The Proclaimers are Scottish, but my heuristic (if I don't understand a word it is related to "vomit") is only for Australians.

Who was it who on this blog, I think, confessed an inability to keep separate in their head the Proclaimers and the Pretenders? This specifically came up in the context of a cover version of "The Needle And The Damage Done" by one of them that was thought to be by the other.

But seriously, who can keep straight the various islands somehow related to the British Empire?

Not me. I confused Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, and Morrissey for years. Not all three at once.

12: Did you confuse me with any of those three too?

No.

I didn't know you then.

I just found out that the character in Shrinking that's dating Harrison Ford is not played by Teri Hatcher. I was very shocked to learn this.

16: That's Wendy Malick! She was one of my favorite TV sit-com actresses back when I watched tv.

(I didn't even know the TV show "Shrinking" existed, but in my relentless quest for knowledge, I found the wikipedia page and found the character dating the Harrison Ford character).

I always thought "haver" meant to go hiking, because you might carry a haversack.

I think that's a longer "a" sound.

I'd never heard a Scottish person say "haversack" (still haven't) and didn't want to presume.

Good point.

I feel like I should have recognized a lot more faces in the BAFTA video than I did. I got Georgia Tennant (more from context than actually recognizing her face), Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, and Warwick Davis. Other than that, I think there was probably James McAvoy and the lady who played Elphaba, but that's all I got.

In the older video, the most interesting thing to me was the scene where Tennant is dancing with a jean jacket and a Spider-Man t-shirt. It reminded me of Spider-Punk from the Spider-Verse movies, but as far as I can tell predates the character. Just a coincidence, I guess.

Oh god, for at least a year or more, my brain smashed Larry David and Larry Kramer into a single person with really amazing artistic range before the absurdity of that dawned on me.

Turns out they had somewhat different demeanors if you paid close attention.

I just learned that 'haver" is from the German for oats because a haversack was originally a nosebag for horses.

Beowulf has a line describing someone starting to speak as "he unlocked his word-hoard". If a Scottish person was about to start rambling pointlessly we could say "he unfastened his haver-sack".