Submitted by graham on 5 May, 2006 - 06:03
I've never been a big fan of popcorn - it didn't quite cut the cheese when it came to snack material. The salty stuff is a little bland, the sweet (you guessed it) a little sweet. The 'butter flavor' gives off such an evil stench that I am pained to use the word butter in the same sentence. Catherine recently found some cheese flavoured stuff - but this too was passable at best.
Submitted by graham on 8 February, 2006 - 18:04
IF YOU ARE A BRIT IN THE USA, YOU MIGHT BE GOING NATIVE IF....
This extensive list is reproduced from http://www.chris-longhurst.com/goingnative.html from an original article at http://www.britishinamerica.com/. Click on the read more link to get the full list. More and more of these are becoming true the longer I stay here.
Language
- You have started Americanising the pronunciation of your Rs in order to get understood on the phone.
- Writing the month before the day no longer seems weird and unnatural.
- You call shops "stores".
- You call petrol gas.
- You go to the movies instead of the flicks (or cinema to the youngsters) which is, of course, in a theatre.
- You talk about taking the elevator instead of the lift.
- You chomp ice (is this a Texan thing or more widespread?)
- You stop asking for rubbers when you want an eraser.
- You wear a sweat-shirt with B.U.M. Equipment written across it.
- You pronounce aluminium as aluminum.
- You start to pronounce the W's and H's in place names...Warwick...Birmingham etc.
- You greet people with.... Hey! How ya dooin! Or... Hey... How's it goin'?
- You find yourself saying... "you becha..!!" instead of "yes"
- You stop telling people you'll knock them up in the morning
- You call a bumbag a fannypack.
- You have stopped trying to bum a fag off a friend.
Submitted by graham on 7 February, 2006 - 07:49
Jeremy's house and extensive garden, located just outside Thousand Oaks, played host to a Superbowl party with a twist yesterday. Guests where treated to the normal delights of delicious food and beverages but where also invited to place an illicit wager on the game and to join in on a round of croquet. Of course, as with the 'football', the Americans always have to do things a little differently.
