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British colloquialisms are usually pretty entertaining, but I discovered today that we call a flu shot in the US is a “flu jab” in the UK. “Make sure you get the flu jab!”, posters will say. Hearing that i just imagine a doctor walking up to a patient and poking him aggressively with his index finger. Got me laughing for a little bit.
Whereas in America, a "flu shot" is likely to be administered with a rifle.
I'm surprised it's not called a 'stabby arm drug', such is the US determination to name things in the most unnecessarily descriptive way possible.
See also 'horse back riding' and 'side walk'.
And in England, one of the daily meals is named after a beverage.
Imagine a “Think i’m gonna make a pizza for coffee tonight” coming from someone’s mouth. Its hilarious
You wouldn't see the doctor anyway, they've all got migraines.
Never knew McIntyre browsed the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSw3IWRJa0
Yeah, I didn't exactly think it was an underground reference that nobody would be able to pick up on. :cab:Quote:
Originally Posted by hfswjyr
Only in northern pits.Quote:
Originally Posted by mugbull
Generally US terms were developed later than ours so are more literal and descriptive. 'Autumn' and 'Fall' is a good example. See also things like the u in 'colour'. It doesn't need to be there, so the arch-capitalists bin it, but the word isn't the same without it.
I would easily king hit any Australian saying fall this month.
Being a reference :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
When one of my friends did a study abroad thing one of the things I found funny was it seems all of our signs are basically synonyms of each other.
We have things like "Stay Off The Grass" and yours will say "Keep Away From Lawn" (not exactly but you get it).
Also wait is "tea" not like a snack between lunch and dinner? Is that just what you call dinner?!
Evening meal.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruhnaldo
Meat, spuds, veg etc = dinner (the rest of them here call that "a roast").
Anything else = tea.
Morning meal - breakfast
Afternoon meal - Lunch
Evening meal - dinner.
Tea is a drink. 'A brew' is a process.
Breakfast
Elevenses
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper
In that order, regional differences excepted.
God damn your British humor and my continued inability to figure out which posts are serious and which aren't.
So far all three posts explaining tea have not been 100% true.
Tea = anything you have has your evening meal.
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Anything in between is just called whatever you eat. It’s not a “snack” unless you’re a toddler. If you eat a packet of crisps at half past three in the afternoon, you have a “pack o crisps.” Not a snack.
I suppose you can call anything you eat within an hour before going to bed, “supper,” but again it’s for kids really. You’re just devouring your body weight in Skittles with a cup of tea, it doesn’t need to be called supper as if to justify your actions.
Mine was neither British nor humour.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruhnaldo
'This'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Dinner at lunchtime? Or do you eat at 8am, 5pm, and 7pm @Baz?
Scumbags and northerners have 'dinner' for lunch, 'tea' as the evening meal and both of them are a bit earlier.
Southerners and well brought up people like me have 'dinner' or more formally 'supper' or even more formally 'dinner' in the evening and it's later.
Not really sure why that is, maybe working class people had to get up earlier to go down't'pit so everything is brought forward a bit.
This is far and away the shittest discussion we have on this board.
Are you fucking kidding me I'm wildly enthralled [/no sarcasm]
I actually agree completely with Spikey for once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Come over for Lunner.
I grew up calling my evening meal "tea", but my wife dragged me from my working class roots up to middle class and it's now "dinner".
The black country should be separated from the rest of the West Midlands, it has entirely different rules.
That map does a better job of defining the North than you usually see (Cheshire being the awkward divided region, so lol at George Osborne).
Fucking hell Devon, I blame second home owners.
They tried this in America for awhile but thankfully it didn't really work out tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
I have a special dislike for Asda not having the 'h' in yoghurt and that's before getting to the doughnut debacle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Bum bag. Fanny pack might as well be a sanitary towel.
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Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
Sounds like you need to get over yourselfQuote:
The word is derived from Turkish: yoğurt
Nah, fuck the yanks.
And the Turks.
Mert has the worth of boast worlds
Is that him speaking out his nose?
I think chips is probably an okay, descriptive term for crisps.
'Faucet' is the exception that proves the rule. Like, what the hell does that mean?
'Hey buddy, what beers have you got on faucet?'
Who says it like that though? We say "on tap".
Right, because it's a tap. So why do you call the actual thing a faucet?
So why can't you call a tap in a house a tap then?
Wow I just realized if I get water out of the kitchen faucet I'm drinking "tap water".
If I get water from outside, like the water hose, for example I'm getting "tap water" from the "spigot".
But we'd also say shit like "just get (water) from the tap" talking about the same exact shit.
Apparently the longer I look at the word "tap" the less real it seems.
There is no tap.
"Bin" vs "trashcan" is another classic along Jimmy's lines. I could go on for days
My parents call the evening meal tea sometimes and my dad also says 'dinner' when he's referring to lunch now and again. I would never say such a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Social mobility in action, baby.
Elevenses :lol:
Taking liberties @Disco