AHHA, man I went to a history museum in upstate NY, they really have a hate hard on for Brits still. They were trying to shoot a cannon in a parking lot as well, with gun powder and no ball obviously. Very nice collection of stuff they have, mostly guns and swords I was lloking at.We told them we were Canadian there like oh welcome welcome, you can tell they were scanning us for Brit ancestry lol.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
omfg I just thought of a region specific one (several actually)
Fucking British people saying torch when they mean flashlight and chips when they mean fries and crisps when they mean chips and pissed when they mean hammered and arse when they mean ass and biscuit when they mean cookie and ladybird when they mean ladybug and aluminium when they mean aluminum and maths when they mean math.[/quote]
lol fucking hillbilly[/quote]
Hahaha, it’s just confusing. I mean they ask me if I want chips and I’m like “Sure, oh these are fries” and they’re like “Oh you wanted crisps then?” or “Hey grab the torch will ya?” and I’m like “Who the fuck still uses torches?” or “Oh man he’s pissed!” and I’m like “about what?” or they ask if I want a biscuit and I’m like “Well okay, oh sweet this is actually a cookie!”
I don’t think you people even have biscuits in your country. Like the stuff they give you at Cracker Barrel literally doesn’t exist for you, and I’m sorry.
[quote]youngoldguy wrote:
“I could care less.” Every time I hear that I think, “no, that means you do actually care, which is the opposite of what you’re trying to express.”
[/quote]
YES YES YES!!!
I always want to sit these people down and ask them to make a list of the things they care about in the order in which they care about them (top of the list would be the things they care most about, bottom of the list would be the things they care the least about). Then I would like to point out that when they say they COULD care less about something, IT REALLY ISN’T SAYING ANYTHING AT ALL!
…“look at all the things you care less about that the subject/topic at hand”! It only introduces the possibility that the topic/subject could be the thing that they care the MOST about, being that they have other things they care less about
But if they say it correctly, that they COULDN’T care less, then we know that the subject/topic is in fact the SINGLE thing that they care the very least about.
fuck, I couldn’t CARE MORE about something than this stupidity!!!
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
omfg I just thought of a region specific one (several actually)
Fucking British people saying torch when they mean flashlight and chips when they mean fries and crisps when they mean chips and pissed when they mean hammered and arse when they mean ass and biscuit when they mean cookie and ladybird when they mean ladybug and aluminium when they mean aluminum and maths when they mean math.[/quote]
lol fucking hillbilly[/quote]
Hahaha, it’s just confusing. I mean they ask me if I want chips and I’m like “Sure, oh these are fries” and they’re like “Oh you wanted crisps then?” or “Hey grab the torch will ya?” and I’m like “Who the fuck still uses torches?” or “Oh man he’s pissed!” and I’m like “about what?” or they ask if I want a biscuit and I’m like “Well okay, oh sweet this is actually a cookie!”
[/quote]
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
My personal favorite thing to hate is
“Its not my fault” [/quote]
Kinda related, I can’t stand when people say “my bad.” Aw, my bad, man. My bad.
If you’re trying to apologize, man up and say the words “I’m sorry.” If you made a mistake, fucking say “whoops” or something more intelligible than “my bad.”
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
omfg I just thought of a region specific one (several actually)
Fucking British people saying torch when they mean flashlight and chips when they mean fries and crisps when they mean chips and pissed when they mean hammered and arse when they mean ass and biscuit when they mean cookie and ladybird when they mean ladybug and aluminium when they mean aluminum and maths when they mean math.[/quote]
lol fucking hillbilly[/quote]
Hahaha, it’s just confusing. I mean they ask me if I want chips and I’m like “Sure, oh these are fries” and they’re like “Oh you wanted crisps then?” or “Hey grab the torch will ya?” and I’m like “Who the fuck still uses torches?” or “Oh man he’s pissed!” and I’m like “about what?” or they ask if I want a biscuit and I’m like “Well okay, oh sweet this is actually a cookie!”
I don’t think you people even have biscuits in your country. Like the stuff they give you at Cracker Barrel literally doesn’t exist for you, and I’m sorry.[/quote]
Was this meant to be a response to me (because you said your country)? Sorry if not!
Lol I think that the same could be said in reverse. But, in fairness, American English probably isn’t as confusing for us due to the fact that so many of the TV shows over here are American. So we are exposed to Americanisms a lot.
Having said that I had no idea those are what you called biscuits! (I just looked them up). They look like scones as far as I can tell, which we have plenty of. Do you not use the word scone?
Also with regards to cookies vs biscuits, cookie is commonly used day to day here, but specifically refers to round, flat, chewy “biscuits” while biscuits are small, baked and hard. So the chewiness is the distinguishing factor as far as I can tell. Lol.
[quote]furo wrote:
Having said that I had no idea those are what you called biscuits! (I just looked them up). They look like scones as far as I can tell, which we have plenty of. Do you not use the word scone?
[/quote]
Scones (over here at least) are a desert item. They’re a flaky pastry like a biscuit, but they are sweet and often glazed or made with berries or something sweet in them.
[quote]furo wrote:
Do you not use the word scone?
[/quote]
Yeah, pretentious douche bags who think “being European” is the height of all things chic use scone.
Anywho, I use a lot of these in my day to day speech, lol. Eh, it is what it is, you know what I’m sayin’?
If you can’t tell the difference between crisps, biscuits, scones and cookies, you’re probably a cracker.
[quote]furo wrote:
So we are exposed to Americanisms a lot.
[/quote]
Well, explain this hot dog heresy, you bloody limey.
I know you guys suck at food, but to pickle a fucking hot dog?
Are things so bad there, people might flee to America, but your government lies to them about what our hot dogs are really like to keep them island bound?
Any country that would do this to a hot dog … . . well I COULD care less about them, but it would be difficult.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If you can’t tell the difference between crisps, biscuits, scones and cookies, you’re probably a cracker. [/quote]
A “scone” is a homosexual biscuit. Everyone knows this.
Orientate, as in, “I’m going to pull out my map and orientate myself”
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If you can’t tell the difference between crisps, biscuits, scones and cookies, you’re probably a cracker. [/quote]
Guilllllllttttyyyyyyy!
Forte, when used to describe an area where a person excels. But only when pronounced “for-tay”.
It’s “fort” like the thing you make with couch cushions and blankets.
When people talk about Einstein’s definition of insanity.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]furo wrote:
Having said that I had no idea those are what you called biscuits! (I just looked them up). They look like scones as far as I can tell, which we have plenty of. Do you not use the word scone?
[/quote]
Scones (over here at least) are a desert item. They’re a flaky pastry like a biscuit, but they are sweet and often glazed or made with berries or something sweet in them.[/quote]
Ah right that’s the exact same then, scones are sweet here too. We don’t have an exact equivalent for what you call biscuits as far as I know.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Forte, when used to describe an area where a person excels. But only when pronounced “for-tay”.
It’s “fort” like the thing you make with couch cushions and blankets.[/quote]
F that. I drink lattes and excel at my forte, my bad, but I couldn’t care less.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Forte, when used to describe an area where a person excels. But only when pronounced “for-tay”.
It’s “fort” like the thing you make with couch cushions and blankets.[/quote]
F that. I drink lattes and excel at my forte, my bad, but I couldn’t care less. [/quote]
Yolo, per se.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Forte, when used to describe an area where a person excels. But only when pronounced “for-tay”.
It’s “fort” like the thing you make with couch cushions and blankets.[/quote]
It’s not though! Forte must be pronounced “for-tay” it’s from the Latin fortis, forte. The “e” is the actual ending on the root word.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
yolo
fitness
hashtag
wod
amrap
metcon
ass to grass
You better not say any of that shit Derek.[/quote]
WTF
What the hell has any of that to do with me.
[/quote]
Don’t you do crossfit? If not it’s close enough as to be indistinguishable in my ignorant mind.[/quote]
Lol I have my power rack at a crossfit gym that is owned by an Orthopedic surgeon friend of mine. I do some of the workouts from time to time, mostly cause they have all the bumper plates. But I actually do my own programing.
Like the fat bar DL’s and powercleans I did this morning.