TheMightyEthan Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Bathroom lights work with a regular switch inside the bathroom. He was saying that what you call chips we call french fries everywhere, not just McDonald's. What the hell is an electric shower? Or a power shower for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 There are three basic shower types here. an electric shower is a small unit (about a foot tall and a few inches deep) that sits on the wall in your shower. cold water pipe goes in, hose and showerhead comes out. A heating element inside heats the water, usually have a temperature dial and a power dial which would have off, cold and two levels of hot power. a mixer shower has hot and cold water pipes from your heating system a mixer tap for temp adjustment, and the shower head. they're the most basic. a power shower is basically a mixer shower with a pump to increase flow rate. Because the last two systems use your hot water they're not good if you have a small hot water tank as after one person has a shower there's no hot water left. A lot of older houses have these hot water systems, as decent combi boilers (that heat water on demand rather than heating it and keeping it in a tank are relatively new here) hence the popularity of the electric shower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 (edited) An electric shower sounds dangerous. A power shower sounds like a sex thing, or maybe an industrial cleaning-type shower. The guy who posted to Facebook was from Florida, where it is normal for people to carry guns everywhere, not be polite, be afraid of their neighbors and the government, hate and fear foreigners, and Bush is considered a hero and Obama an idioFlorida is both the South and a million times worse than the South. Most of the population is high on fundamentalist Christianity and/or methamphetamines/bath salts/the hot new cheap degenerate drug of the month. It is America's shitstick and non-USAns should be aware that white Floridians are, as a rule, dumb and evil motherfuckers or retirees from the North or both. Edited October 6, 2015 by Mr. GOH! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 @TFG: The mixer shower is the only kind of shower I have ever encountered in my life. I have heard of showers with built-in on-demand water heating, but it's always as part of the actual shower itself, not a separate attachment you can install later. I've also heard of on-demand water heaters for replacing the house tank heater, but it's for the whole house and from the faucet side would be transparent to the user, you just wouldn't run out of hot water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 I don't think many Americans differentiate between mixer showers and power showers; most newish homes don't have power showers, but I have definitely taken showers in homes in the USA with showers that had their own pump to increase water pressure. It's not common at all, but there are some places in the US with low water pressure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 I'm confused about him saying the TV looks better. I was under the impression lots of your TV still wasn't in HD, whereas here everything is in HD unless you set it up wrong. I've a sneaky feeling since our HD is likely to be just as 1080p as yours that he's maybe talking about the general quality. Especially since he's 60 he might favour our dramas more, we do have some good ones (you guys carry importing them). This is England, our wiring situation is pretty good on the safety side*. And as a just in case there's an emergency cut off right out of shot there (usually if you're a terrible person you'll put the light switch and shower cut-off switch next to each other and your guest will power off the shower each time they go to have a piss in the dark). Given you guys have AC in a lot of places it's strange you don't have electric showers. They're still a bit of a luxury over here mind, but becoming popular since bathtubs = space we don't have in modern homes. *especially given you guys use a regular switch in the bathroom. Can't find a full picture of one, just a picture of the handle, but basically it's a white plastic hockey puck in the ceiling with a string coming out the centre which descends to a pull handle of your choice (you can get some nice themes pull handles). I imagine you guys have the little wall lamps with shot pull cords on? It's one of those but all the way from ceiling, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Yeah, I've seen lights like that, but they're typically in closets. My guess about the electric shower would be that it's not really a thing here because given we have more space in general we probably tend to have bigger tank water heaters than you do, making it less necessary. The AC is basically a requirement for huge areas of the country due to weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 So cos it fascinates/bemuses me that you guys do this: Do any of you know your like...genetic breakdown or whatever..heritage. i.e the whole "I'm 1/32th Irish" stuff. My gran has been doing family tree and pretty much everyone I'm related to until you hit my parents generation are all from like a 20sq mile area across a handful of villages with the occasional exotic person from Leeds in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 It's not really something most people do for real, I think, it's more like when you're sitting around with family at holidays or whatever it's kind of fun to try to work out "Okay, great grandma X was Irish, and great grandpa Y was German..." and figure out the percentages. For obvious reasons we're a lot more mixed than you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 Asian folks should start doing the percentage thingie. Like sure, I'm 100% Chinese but China's a big place and regions do have their own flavors. Hell, every village has their own flavor. What I'm getting at here is that when these sort of discussions come up, it's pretty boring when it comes to me and most other Asian folks. I do suspect though that if something was done with me, I'd get something similar to what Dean's grandma found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) China is as ethnically diverse as the whole of Europe; you could break it down by ethnicity (1/32 Han, 1/2 Cantonese, 1/16 Fujian, etc). I'm half Scottish (with some English thrown in further back;the Scottish half is split 3/4 clan Campbell and 1/4 clan Blair) and half "German," although the "German" half is mixed evenly between Swiss German and Eastern European diaspora German (the millenium-long diaspora ended after WW2 when the Eastern block relocated ethnic Germans in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and so on to Eastern Germany). I consider myself a generic white Midwestern American, although I like to proclaim my membership in clan Campbell whenever I drink a bunch of Scotch. Edited October 17, 2015 by Mr. GORE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 The thing is about Chinese ancestry, I don't think anybody kept track of who really came from who. At the very least, the upheavals of WWII, Civil War and Cultural Revolution kind of wiped that stuff out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) According to Americans, Glaswegian is the sexiest uk accent, followed by cockney. Geordie was seen as the most intelligent. This is not how the survey would pan out if carried out over here. In the opposite direction Brits* found New Yorkers to have the sexiest accent, Chicagoans the least. *hate that term, as I can't help but associate it with vaguely racist red top headlines. Edited October 19, 2015 by TheFlyingGerbil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 What, which New York accent? There are at least 3 or 4 "New York" mainstream/iconic accents, some of which aren't really in existence any more. For example, both Robert DeNior and Woody Allen have New York accents, but they're very different-sounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Over here Geordie accent is meant to be most kind (hence call centres opening up here), but intelligent? Not sure I find any american accents particualrly attractive, many are sort of nasally, or sound close to west country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Well, we're probably all getting our accents from mainstream media (but seriously, where would Americans be hearing Georgie except in Georgie Shore: the complete opposite display of intelligence?!) On that basis, I say Texan accent is sexiest. At least that is where Angie Harmon and Peri Gilpin are from and what I know of that accent. On the other subject, my sister does genealogy as a career (you can see her on Heir Hunters occasionally) so maybe I should ask her more about my heritage. All I know is that my dad's family were all cockneys. Funny related story: my dad didn't find out his mum had died earlier this year until this sister came across the death certificate months afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 TExan just sounds bombastic and ignorant to most other Americans. George W. Bush spoke with a (fake) Texan accent. I think Angie Harmon has a sort of flat non-specific accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I'm sure we've bought up pasties before, but I don't remember anyone mentioning the US term, "hand pies". That's really cute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hand pies? I have never heard that term before in my life. And the only pasties I'm familiar with are the covers for strippers' nipples. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 That's a traditional pasty. I guess hand pie must be a regional term then. What would you call that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 A weird calzone type thing, I guess. Never seen such a thing that wasn't Italian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) Hand pie might be a Southern term. I've seen it used by by Texan bbq restaurants' traveling teams at bbq festivals. Sadly, I think most Americans would think of them as hot pockets. Edited October 26, 2015 by Mr. GORE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I'm sure it has been brought up before, but for the letter Z: Zee vs Zed It always throws me for a loop when someone says "zed" because it almost sounds like the names Ed and Ned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I think of it as a name because of Emperor Zed from the Power Rangers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 The only time it bothers me is when you're singing the alphabet (which admittedly isn't as much an issue as it used to be) as zed totally doesn't rhyme with vee, cee or me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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