Them Crazy Brits...

[MarkusTay]

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The last time I was in the back of one of those I had to pay $900 To Get Out!

lol:bouncy::flip:

 

[Shawn R. L.]

PAYING to get INTO a New York cruiser........?? Umm, what is wrong with this picture?

 

[Sand Rat]

Umm, ok.


Must be something in the water

 

[MacBrown]

Probably only applies to those living in or around London.

The choice of vehicle for proms etc around here is Pristine White Limos and Extended Wheel base Hum Vees.

 

[philologus]

This is bizarre. We went to prom in pick-up trucks and rusted cars. Since we had to finance the entire deal we were less inclined to do something like this. Parents must be shelling out alot of bucks(pounds) for their kids nowadays.

 

[MacBrown]

When I went to mine, we got a lift in a mates Dads battered old VW Golf (or is it a Rabbitt in the US?)

 

[Infidel Castro]

Enough about the car.....

Why is it that the Americans have endeavoured to shorten every word in the English language yet still persevere with a word like faucet? Cut your word time in half by saying TAP! It\'s so easy!

Bloody mutilators....:innocent:

 

[MarkusTay]

Funny you should say that Rev

Ever notice people love to hack other people\'s names down to one sylable? Take Elizabeth for example; it becomes Liz, or Beth, or even El!

But then you get a name like mine With Only One Sylable and people Add to it! People call me Marcus, Marco, and even Marky when I was younger.

So, obviously Rev, it\'s not that people like shorter words, it\'s just that humans feel the need to butcher the language every chance they get.

So do you folks still call it a wireless? Or have you shortened it to radio? lol

I know they\'re both 3 sylables, but we prononce it Rade-Yo, so it only sounds like two.

 

[Avicenna]

Chalk it up as one of those British things we simply won’t ever understand, along with...

<snip>

...and their kettle-black penchant for referring to the French as less than masculine.

WTF? Everyone knows that\'s true!

AND he\'s tarring you with the same brush Rev - he uses the term British!!! What a load of nonsense!

 

[Infidel Castro]

But my folks always said wireless with only two syllables too! It\'s very easy

Avicenna - good spot on that Pete. It\'s only a personal opinion of mine, but you\'ve put my point across marvellously! lol

 

[Herb the bitter]

Originally posted by reverend
Enough about the car.....

Why is it that the Americans have endeavoured to shorten every word in the English language yet still persevere with a word like faucet? Cut your word time in half by saying TAP! It\'s so easy!

Bloody mutilators....:innocent:

Because everybody knows that water comes out of a faucet whereas beer comes out of a tap. Best to avoid confusion on such a vital issue. :innocent:

 

[Infidel Castro]

Now that almost makes up for it lol

But not quite

 

[supervike]

Faucet....tap?

Whats with all them fancy words? Smells like book learnin to me.

We say \"go fetch me somethin to drink out of the shiney tube from whence water comes\".

Hell, I think I\'d stab someone if\'n he said \'faucet\' round these parts.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Ah but that\'s american beer out of your taps.
The English, probably the Welsh, the Scots and definitely the Irish would rather have Ale!.


(Stirs the pot a little more )

 

[philologus]

Originally posted by reverend
Enough about the car.....

Why is it that the Americans have endeavoured to shorten every word in the English language yet still persevere with a word like faucet? Cut your word time in half by saying TAP! It\'s so easy!

Bloody mutilators....



Come on Rev. Some words I have learned from my UK co-workers and posts here:
Chav
Squaddie
Brickie
Why is it so popular to add y or ie after any word? Mutilators indeed.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by supervike
Faucet....tap?

Hell, I think I\'d stab someone if\'n he said \'faucet\' round these parts.

Hey as the old saying goes :
\"If it dont fit, don\'t force it!\"

:innocent:

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Ah but that\'s american beer out of your taps.
The English, probably the Welsh, the Scots and definitely the Irish would rather have Ale!.


(Stirs the pot a little more )

Hey MATE, that\'s some QUALITY yellow water comming out of them American tap\'s!

 

[MarkusTay]

The only \'Faucet\' I ever had in my house was that poster I had as a wee lad of Farrah.

And I thought \'American Taps\' was something that was played when a U.S. soldier died.

No sir, I get my H2O from a spigot!

Even if that makes me a bit of a bigot.

 

[Herb the bitter]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Ah but that\'s american beer out of your taps.
The English, probably the Welsh, the Scots and definitely the Irish would rather have Ale!.


(Stirs the pot a little more )

Well Mike if you had the cajones to show your face at a US GD(cough cough Chicago) I\'d be more than happy to dispell the myth that there aren\'t any quality American beers. Might even let you take a demon home with you. ;-)

(Given that you work in a place where the students have eaten the balls from computer mice for fun, I realize you are battle hardened and unlikely to be goaded into anything, but you can\'t blame a guy for trying)lol