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Post by pamelaj on Dec 2, 2009 17:17:55 GMT -5
I hope its ok that i started this thread and if one already exists, sorry i didnt see it.
All of us are from a wide range of the world and somethings i dont understand. I figured i'd start this so if anyone has a question about what something is, such as a twinkie..sorry Helen, they can ask here. I have 2 questions to start.
1. What is a bloke/bloak?
2. What in the world is a crate of lager?
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Post by sunshine78 on Dec 2, 2009 21:03:56 GMT -5
Pam, do you have BBC? Or anything like PBS? They show "britcoms", which I love. I'll go ahead and define the above two, for you, since I speak American English and English English, lol:
1. A male, guy, dude, etc. 2. I'm not sure what a crate equals to, unless it's an actual crate or barrel (we all have our terms for containers, which vary), but lager is like warm beer. At least, I think it's served warm, over there.
I'd like to share one of my favorite terms: grotty, adj., meaning gross, dirty, gaudy, baroque, probably from the root word "grotesque", which leaves the noun, grot, meaning grunge, or any other synonym you may want to use for caked-on mystery substance.
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Post by pamelaj on Dec 3, 2009 7:57:38 GMT -5
EWWWW...warm beer?
Where i am beer is sold usually icy cold and it comes in 6-12-18-24 packs. Beer is also NOT sold in regular stores. We have beer stores that sell just about every flavor of beer and we also have liquor stores that sell the stuff like wine, vodka, rum etc...
Here you can beer at the liquor store but you cant buy liquor at the beer store.
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Post by hellsbells on Dec 3, 2009 13:44:40 GMT -5
WHoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa there...........! A crate of lager: Lager is what you call beer, it's the pale yellow fizzy stuff. But we do NOT serve warm - at least not intentionally!! What we often refer to as beer over here is ale - more olde worlde traditional stuff, darker and stronger flavour. Which does tend to be served at room temperature because it brings out the flavour more. But please do not be under the impression we serve cold 'beer'!!!
A crate is basically the package it comes in - basically meand a box but a crate is more like an open box which has individual squares to hold each bottle/can (or maybe that means tin to you).
'Fanny' in the UK is slang for vagina, so when you guys over in the States talk about Fanny Packs it cracks me up. We call them Bum Bags!!!!!!!!!
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Post by pamelaj on Dec 3, 2009 16:59:59 GMT -5
LOL. The differences from around the world are interesting. I guess Helen a crate of beer here would simply be a case as it has 24. The difference is the box is sealed shut. As for the wam Ale/Beer thing, i couldnt imagine not having one that wasnt icy cold. The funny thing i truly love about some words used in the UK is the term for a cigarrette.
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Post by sunshine78 on Dec 3, 2009 21:07:33 GMT -5
Haha, re: fanny, lololol!!!!!
Oh, right - it's ale that's room temp, my bad.
In Australia, if I'm not mistaken, if you're "stuffed", you're pregnant. So, never ever tell anyone how full you are, over there, lol.
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Post by Kitty on Dec 4, 2009 2:35:18 GMT -5
lol!! that's hella interesting sunshine
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Post by hellsbells on Dec 4, 2009 9:27:41 GMT -5
Pam, it's not warm, it's room temp not warm, and it's a very particular type, usually quite dark and almost flat. Like the monks used to brew......if it's cold you don't get the same flavour, like the way you don't chill red wine. Also known as 'real ale'........bit of a geek's thing. Most of us wouldn't touch a warm 'lager' if our life depended on it. Oh and yeah.........'Can I have a fag'..........lol!
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Post by cherry on Dec 4, 2009 14:54:57 GMT -5
Real ale is the shizzle. Warm lager, I laughed my bottom off when I read that. Warm lager is what happens when a cheap skate at the pub nurses a pint (drinks a beer/lager very slowly) for 2 hours and it just looks like wee in a glass cos the bubbles and the head are gone. In liverpool our word for bloke is 'fella', it's probably the only city in the UK that doesn't use the term bloke. I also laugh at the term fanny pack... Now that we have a translation service I will have all kinds of questions
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Post by hellsbells on Dec 4, 2009 15:20:40 GMT -5
Lol. I really shouldn't get involved in conversations about the differences between American English and English English. I get very opinionated :-)
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Post by cherry on Dec 4, 2009 15:27:10 GMT -5
I'm a pedantic arse-pain when it comes to american vs english spelling
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Post by pamelaj on Dec 4, 2009 15:48:09 GMT -5
HAHA...im Canadian....EH
LOL Helen...a fag. I met someone a few summers back in a bar and when she asked me for a fag, I told her she was at the wrong kind of bar..lol.
She and I laughed so hard
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Post by sunshine78 on Dec 4, 2009 18:34:43 GMT -5
LMFAO. Love it.
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Post by hellsbells on Dec 5, 2009 7:42:33 GMT -5
Cherry, right there with you. I make the odd typo, but I even text everything long hand. I also studied languages at school/uni so I'm rather pedantic about spelling and grammar. Errors jump off the page and hit me right between the eyes! I have however learned that it doesn't matter so much to other people so I try to be less vocal about it!
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Post by pamelaj on Dec 8, 2009 7:24:21 GMT -5
What is Grey Goose?
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