Hot Heart Posted June 29, 2016 Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 Yeah, there's a lot of interesting "genericized trademarks" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 29, 2016 Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 (edited) Durex totally sounds like a brand of condoms. Â *Edit - Or a Klingon admiral. Edited June 29, 2016 by TheMightyEthan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 Durex is a brand for condoms though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 29, 2016 Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 lol, okay, that's what I thought, but then the article listed it just as adhesive tape so I just thought I was crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 One for the Canadians: Hows the constitutional monarchy play out over there. (I'd include other commonwealth countries in this question but I'm not sure we have any visitors from there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 My impression is that Canadians only have a constitutional monarchy insofar as that description humors some senile old lady who lives on an island across the sea and her immediate family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 I think Australia is more keen to get rid of her than Canada? Don't think either are pressing for it in any serious manner though (i.e. not as hard as Scotland presses for independence though I know that's not the same issue). I know Australia rejected the idea in their last referendum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 Â Accidentally came across this and it seems a pretty comprehensive list. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 So comprehensive that they repeated 51 at 83. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 It's an omnishambles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 Good list, though there were a few that didn't strike me as particularly British (such as plastered for drunk, although here it specifically means really really drunk). Â Does "up for it" really mean up for sex specifically? Â Because we'll say up for it about being willing to do things in general. Â "Does anybody want to go to the movies?" "Sure, I'm up for it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 Yeah, "up for" used interchangeably with "down for" or "down to" to mean that I am willing to participate in whatever activity. Depending on context "it" may well be implying sex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 It's sorta more in a if it's the only thing you say, like going to a lass, give a wink n "you up for it?". So yeah, largely context based. Â On the "things you can say for drunk" I know some folks don't like him but this covers it best: Â (funny, he opens it with "up for it?" ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 I think he's one of those "fun to dislike" people because he is a) Successful, b) Not offensive and c) White, middle class, male. Â I find his stuff funny, but it's cheap "what's with that" observational stuff, as opposed to the more cerebral Sewart Lee humour. Â (Not that I'm saying "Boo hoo, why will nobody stand up for the rich white guy?" more that he's a safe person to hate on). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 Has this already been posted? Â Sums it all up in a oner for me: Â Â Â I think he's one of those "fun to dislike" people because he is a) Successful, b) Not offensive and c) White, middle class, male. Â I find his stuff funny, but it's cheap "what's with that" observational stuff, as opposed to the more cerebral Sewart Lee humour. Â (Not that I'm saying "Boo hoo, why will nobody stand up for the rich white guy?" more that he's a safe person to hate on). Â Yeah, he's camp in a slightly irritating, forced way - which frustrates anyone trying to be 'cool' - but he is legitimately funny if you sit down and watch one of his shows. Content is pretty trite but execution is amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 I won't defend imperial measurements, because I agree metric is better in all ways.  That said, that Fahrenheit comparison is off-base.  Sure, it seems random when comparing it to when water freezes and boils, but that's not what the scale was based on.  0 F was set for the temperature of brine, chosen because it self-stabilizes the temperature so that you can get a good baseline anywhere.  He chose 32 F for the temperature of an ice-water mixture (which is also self-stabilizing) because as a power of 2 it was easy to create the gradiations because he just had to divide the scale in half 5 times, which is easy to do.  Body temperature was set at 96 F for the same reason, being 64 degrees above the freezing point.  So the scale has logic to it, it's just not decimal, nor based on freezing and boiling.  All of that said, I still think we should switch to Celsius just for consistency's sake with the rest of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 Hey Brits, does the pun "the tuppence ticket" for Trump and Pence scan? Â Does it read as a joke about how trifling the two are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 I guess it might to anyone that was born before 1950? I don't think we've had tuppence as a currency since 1972. *googles* 1971 (which was decimalisation day when we shifted from shillings n pence n what not over to pounds and pence where 100p made £1).  Also my gran has one of these, wondered what it was for: (I just used to like clicking the buttons as a kid)   I remember seeing someone question how it was that 1cm2 of water weighs 1g and freezes at 0C n such. "Cos the measurement system was built that way". I know they're shifting from using physical items as the measuring stick though (seeing as the kilo balls have been changing weight between each other over the last few decades). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 I think "tuppence" is still accepted as being "fuck all" though. Mostly as an abbreviation of pre-decimalisation 2p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 So after seeing the "Millennial whoop" thing going around I figured I'd read it(it's one of the few articles that aren't about whatever millennials are killing this week). Anyway this brings me to: In America are "Whoop" and "Woah" the same thing? Â Like what sound plays in your head when Krikkit Warships appear? To me "Whoop-whoop-whoop" is what Zoidberg says when walking. Â Article for you: http://qz.com/767812/millennial-whoop/ I obviously don't listen to enough modern music, the referenced Tarzan Boy near the bottom is one of the few songs I knew from that list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Yeah, no, those people crazy, "whoop" and "whoa" are two entirely different sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 (edited) Millenials are killing the music industry one whoop/whoa at a time. Â Edited August 29, 2016 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Also rock and roll is corrupting today's youth, as is disco, and hip-hop, and boy bands, and whatever the fuck Justin Beiber is... Â Also all of those things aren't even music, they're just noise, they're not nearly as complicated and beautiful as real music... Â GET OFF MY LAWN! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Â Meanwhile in the 1800's/America. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 (edited) We still don't have pins for our chipped credit cards, and even though I got a new debit card earlier this year it doesn't have a chip. Edited August 30, 2016 by TheMightyEthan Fixed typos, stupid phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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