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Attention All Americans

Postby Riku Rose » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:55 pm

This is a guide to say words right.

Pants = Trousers
Gas = Petrol
Pulka Dots = Spots
Elevator = Lift
Chips = Crisps
French Fries = Chips
British = English
Red Necks = Pikeys
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:05 pm

I already knew this but thanks in fact I have a good friend who is from the UK though he recently moved out my neighborhood to get a bigger house for his family.

I only am teasing when I mock the words.
Oh and No one calls them french fries,they are just fries..except when we eat at places that serve fish n chips.
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Postby Nick Tyndall » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:13 pm

God, and I hate when they say the names of deserts all wrong. Where I work there are a lot of Americans and I keep having to tell them that over here we say "Jelly" miss, not jello, J E L L Y. And we don't unecessarily stress the YO in yogurt. Being Americans I know you may say "Yo" a lot when trying to get peoples attention, but it's not that hard to say yogurt, like it is spelt.

Cum to ourz contry, respect z god dam laguage!
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Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:13 pm

Thought it was "Freedom fries" now anyway?
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Postby Spokane » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:15 pm

Nicholas Tyndall wrote:Cum to ourz contry, respect z god dam laguage!


And you do?
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:18 pm

Ban! wrote:Thought it was "Freedom fries" now anyway?


One retard state made that the legal new name and has been mocked ever since and if anyone actually calls it that,be assured they will die a horrible death.
Thankfully never heard anyone call them that.



Nicholas Tyndall wrote:God, and I hate when they say the names of deserts all wrong. Where I work there are a lot of Americans and I keep having to tell them that over here we say "Jelly" miss, not jello,

It's THE ONLY BRAND "Jello"and no one dares to say no to Cosby.
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Postby Fist of Legend » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:20 pm

people have called them pants for decades in england. i'd argue you're more likely to hear someone call them those in most regions than wheel out the horrendously formal "trousers".

....and that's the most non-consequential thing I will post on the internet today. Or possibly ever.
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Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:23 pm

That is actually pretty good to know. I thought it was more widespread than that before, like French-hatred was a "cool" thing or something.

I actually quite wished our government was the same, that they bowed to the demands of "its people" rather than "international peer pressure". Or, that "our people" had the balls of the French "people" to be as big a pain in the arse when they didn't like something the government did...
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Postby Spokane » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:41 pm

Here, the only people i could imagine using the word trousers are really deep rooted farm people/country folk.
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Postby Kenny » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:24 pm

I ain't calling a red neck a pikey. That is too damn goofy to say.
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Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:53 pm

We can all agree that niggers and Pakis are the same the world over though, right? :?
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Postby Spokane » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:53 pm

Never even heard the term before. Doesn't even make sense to me, the name makes me think nothing of red necks.
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Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:41 pm

SHUT UP!
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Postby Gingefners, The » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:22 pm

Thing is this side of the world we use pants too, but pants is your undercrackers, not the trousers. Which is why it makes me giggle like a schoolgirl when I hear pants.
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Postby Spokane » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:02 am

We use underwear, that makes perfect sense too. Briefs is a kind of underwear, as well as boxers, panties are what girls underwear are called most the time, old women wear granny panties.
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