Guess what I found today?
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That is funny! I love different cultures!0
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Ha ha yes, brilliant!IamUndrCnstruction wrote: »I found three pairs of jeans, two shirts and a dress for free! Love shopping in my own closet
Nooooooooooooo. The Brits root for their team - or to them it can also mean 'looking for something' so the term 'rooting around in drawers' is perfectly acceptable. In Australia, plants have roots, and the only other acceptable meaning for it is having sex so no, we hopefully don't 'root for our team'. Certainly not in public anyway.Lrdoflamancha wrote: »Hey dont you Aussies Root, Root , Root for the home team???
The other complication is durex. In the UK that's sticky tape, in Australia it's a brand of condom. Could be a bit problematic
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GrannyMayOz wrote: »
Ha ha yes, brilliant!IamUndrCnstruction wrote: »I found three pairs of jeans, two shirts and a dress for free! Love shopping in my own closet
Nooooooooooooo. The Brits root for their team - or to them it can also mean 'looking for something' so the term 'rooting around in drawers' is perfectly acceptable. In Australia, plants have roots, and the only other acceptable meaning for it is having sex so no, we hopefully don't 'root for our team'. Certainly not in public anyway.Lrdoflamancha wrote: »Hey dont you Aussies Root, Root , Root for the home team???
The other complication is durex. In the UK that's sticky tape, in Australia it's a brand of condom. Could be a bit problematic
Never seen Durex sticky tape here, its also a condom.0 -
GrannyMayOz wrote: »
Ha ha yes, brilliant!IamUndrCnstruction wrote: »I found three pairs of jeans, two shirts and a dress for free! Love shopping in my own closet
Nooooooooooooo. The Brits root for their team - or to them it can also mean 'looking for something' so the term 'rooting around in drawers' is perfectly acceptable. In Australia, plants have roots, and the only other acceptable meaning for it is having sex so no, we hopefully don't 'root for our team'. Certainly not in public anyway.Lrdoflamancha wrote: »Hey dont you Aussies Root, Root , Root for the home team???
The other complication is durex. In the UK that's sticky tape, in Australia it's a brand of condom. Could be a bit problematic
Never seen Durex sticky tape here, its also a condom.
Ditto - definitely a condom not tape in the UK!
@Lrdoflamancha We English/British/Irish (I know they're not the same, but we have similar ways of thinking on this subject) are generally more modest and retiring, don't like to be seen as self-promoting. So we usually would end up putting ourselves down rather than saying how great we are.0 -
@Spush and @totaloblivia, maybe I got my countries back to front then - it's possible. I haven't interacted with durex sticky tape for around 40 years. Oh well, I tried LOL.
And I reckon you can add the Scots and Welsh to the modest and retiring as well. Even the Aussies, in their own particular way. Anyone singing their own praises too much over here would be made short work of. We like to choose for ourselves who we idolise and will not have it forced on us
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GrannyMayOz wrote: »@Spush and @totaloblivia, maybe I got my countries back to front then - it's possible. I haven't interacted with durex sticky tape for around 40 years. Oh well, I tried LOL.
And I reckon you can add the Scots and Welsh to the modest and retiring as well. Even the Aussies, in their own particular way. Anyone singing their own praises too much over here would be made short work of. We like to choose for ourselves who we idolise and will not have it forced on us
It was a great thought though GrannyMay! Yes, I was imperialistically including the Scots and Welsh under British, whether they like it or not. With the election looming, all kinds of national agendas are at the forefront. In Northern Ireland you can get paranoid.
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"whether they like it or not" - try and read that with a jocular tone of voice... I was trying to be funny, but it doesn't read that way. Sorry.
In France there used to be hot chocolate called Bonki, and of course, Condom is a town in France.0 -
Oh, I have taken all of this in a spirit of fun @totaloblivia, please don't worry
I always forget that 'British' includes everyone. When I lived there, I could say that I was English/born in England and nobody thought anything of it. The compulsorily inclusive 'Britain' came after I left.
LOL some international words really can make your eyes pop out on stalks can't they?0 -
GrannyMayOz wrote: »Oh, I have taken all of this in a spirit of fun @totaloblivia, please don't worry I always forget that 'British' includes everyone. When I lived there, I could say that I was English/born in England and nobody thought anything of it. The compulsorily inclusive 'Britain' came after I left.
LOL some international words really can make your eyes pop out on stalks can't they?
Just don't ask for preservatives in France...unless you want condoms.0 -
Or commerce either, if my high school French rumour was correct.0
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Well, we find it odd your children use rubbers on their homework! (Kids still use pencils, right?)
Although, to be fair "rubber" is fairly outdated lingo here.0 -
There was a big move here to call them erasers for some years, but my grandchildren 9, 7 and 6 are all calling them rubbers again. And yes, here at least, children use pencils until Year 4 (age 9).
*kitten* is another word that changes across the Atlantic. In Britain it's slang for a cigarette. I believe in New York it means a gay guy. It's not really used in Australia at all, but there are sufficient British people that you'd be understood to mean cigarette if you said it.
On another note, the Australian colloquialisms have almost all died out in the 45 years I've lived here and been replaced with American terms. It makes me very sad to see a culture disappear
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I just found my knee caps! They are so boney!0
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GrannyMayOz wrote: »*kitten* is another word that changes across the Atlantic.(
Wow, they *** out an English word for cigarette? It was 'f a g' sorry MFP, you've no business interfering with that.
I guess slim knee caps are always boney in appearance. OK standing up, just boney when you sit.mongoosealamode wrote: »I just found my knee caps! They are so boney!
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GrannyMayOz wrote: »GrannyMayOz wrote: »*kitten* is another word that changes across the Atlantic.(
Wow, they *** out an English word for cigarette? It was 'f a g' sorry MFP, you've no business interfering with that.
I guess slim knee caps are always boney in appearance. OK standing up, just boney when you sit.mongoosealamode wrote: »I just found my knee caps! They are so boney!
F A G in the US is a derogatory slang for men who prefer men for sexual partners, rather than women... So for the US, it is as awkward a word as Fanny is to the UK.
I'm not sure exactly when it changed, but I have a 6.75" wrist. As a woman who always had 8.5" or larger wrists, having to wear anklets in place of bracelets, this was an utter shock. I was told that it likely fat loss combined with reducing swelling due to inflammation. I didn't even know with my stock Polish heritage that having smaller wrists was possible. I had resigned myself to never being able to buy a bracelet or watch straight off the shelf! It makes me wonder a bit about my ankles, too, but sadly, I never really measured them much, but I used to have to loop necklaces around more than once for anklets, too...0 -
It's certainly wonderful to see changes in our bodies! I'm glad you can now use regular jewellery Carly. I can see definition of veins and tendons in the back of my hands and the tops of my feet now that I couldn't before. The veins look really big but I just got off the treadmill so perhaps they'll shrink to lady-like proportions soon 0
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