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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 9:36:25 PM
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manda59
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So now I've got to ask, Manda and Aga, do you regularly say, "to be honest" and "off you go"?
Not sure about regularly, but I have said them at some time or other, more the second one than the first (people I speak to tend to know that I will be straight with them). Do you really find them strange/unusual?
The first time I said "There you go" to my friend in Maine (not the same as off you go, lol), there was a bit of a silence and he said "what's that supposed to mean?" (he was thinking I was being dismissive, lol). Really, it doesn't mean a lot at all, it's just a way of neatly marking the end of one conversation topic, especially when there is a bit of a silence. It can also mean "well there isn't really any more to say about that".
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 9:38:34 PM
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nicole6598
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LOL I didn't think "there you go" would be cultural, we say it here.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 10:12:49 PM
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manda59
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I love her because she is so odd!
Thing is, there's odd and then there's odd.
And then there's weird, Nigella kind of weird. And not a weird kind of weird either. More of a strange weird.
Though I am guessing you probably haven't twigged what I meant, lol.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 10:23:25 PM
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Ok, American friends - how do you pronounce ALUMINIUM?
Do you say (a) alooo-minnem
or (b) a-loo-minny-yum
???????
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 10:28:25 PM
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Ok, American friends - how do you pronounce ALUMINIUM?
Do you say (a) alooo-minnem
or (b) a-loo-minny-yum
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a-loo-mii-num
How about ROOF or ROOT?
an uhhhh sound or an oooooo sound?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 10:34:37 PM
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Ahh, but do you call the little room the bathroom/restroom or the toilet?
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You mean the outhouse? 
isn't that the WC in England? (I know they had that term "WC?" on a lot of doors going to the restrooms in Germany)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 10:51:41 PM
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isn't that the WC in England? (I know they had that term "WC?" on a lot of doors going to the restrooms in Germany)
WC is a bit archaic here now, though most people would know what it was (not sure about my children's age group tho)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 11:00:47 PM
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Manda don't they say aluminium the first way and you and I would say it the second way?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 11:29:07 PM
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Manda don't they say aluminium the first way and you and I would say it the second way?
unless you are my hubby who says "alooominimum"....lol. He can't say that one right. Or "acetaminophens".....he gets all tongue tied on both of them.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 12:49:26 AM
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We say aloo-min-um.
Over there and down there, what do you call a shopping cart/buggy? In the south, it's pretty common to say buggy, but I think most people in the U.S. call it a shopping cart. I call it a buggy because my hubby has rubbed off on me.
Nicole, when you said the "f word" I was thinking no we don't because I thought you were talking about "THE f word". Fanny is not a bad word over here, it's just like saying butt, booty, bottom.
Manda, yep Oreo is used as a derrogitory racial slur referring to a black and white peson.
I can't believe ya'll just got Oreos over there. Well, Brittain is next on the obescety bandwagon right? LOL, JK! OK, so did you get the Oreo soggy in milk before you ate it? It's really good like that.
Over here on the west coast, a scone is a triangle shaped bakery product that is kind of hard. Sometimes they put blueberries or other fruits and flavors in them, but to me they're nasty. They aren't sweet, they are just a boring hard triangle.
A biscuit is soft and can be made with pancake mix. They are shaped like flattish cylindars. You can put gravy on them (breakfast sausage gravy) like I do every Saturday, or eat them with butter and honey, or you can make a Thanksgiving sandwich out of it like I do with turkey, stuffing, gravy and mayonaise.
I was talking to Ageptos about Gordon Ramsay in another thread. I watched the cook along show from a website that has TV shows. I honestly though Gordon Ramsay was a horrible person who was just mean and I thought to myself that I feel really sorry for his wife. But, then Kitchen Nightmares started showing over here, and I was able to see his softer side. I was shocked actually. And, then I watched the cook along show that airs over there, and even has a good sense of humor. Kind of nasty though, but funny.
I didn't want to get too off topic in that other thread with agaptos, so I'll ask here. When I watched that cook along, they were saying THE f word and a woman was cooking naked at her house and her breasts were showed on TV. Agaptos was telling me that after 9pm is when that stuff can be showed, but I wasn't clear on if the F word was bleeped and if the body parts were blurred. Over here, you can't say the F word on TV any time of day unless it's HBO or Showtime channels which you have to pay extra for. You can't show a woman's breasts on TV any time of day either unless it's HBO or Showtime.
Which brings me to something else that's funny. When you watch a movie that has cusswords in it on TV over here, like Die Hard, the bad words aren't bleeped out. They dub over cuss word substitutes. Like Yippy-cai-A, Mother lover! It can get so silly sometimes. Do they do that over there, or is it all just bleeped out, or showed after 9pm with all the cuss words?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 1:01:38 AM
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I didn't want to get too off topic in that other thread with agaptos, so I'll ask here. When I watched that cook along, they were saying THE f word and a woman was cooking naked at her house and her breasts were showed on TV. Agaptos was telling me that after 9pm is when that stuff can be showed, but I wasn't clear on if the F word was bleeped and if the body parts were blurred. Over here, you can't say the F word on TV any time of day unless it's HBO or Showtime channels which you have to pay extra for. You can't show a woman's breasts on TV any time of day either unless it's HBO or Showtime.
Which brings me to something else that's funny. When you watch a movie that has cusswords in it on TV over here, like Die Hard, the bad words aren't bleeped out. They dub over cuss word substitutes. Like Yippy-cai-A, Mother lover! It can get so silly sometimes. Do they do that over there, or is it all just bleeped out, or showed after 9pm with all the cuss words?
I can't answer for the Brits but here in Aust swearing is ok after 9pm as is nudity. Can't say I agree with it. Swearing has become so commonplace here that children can be heard to say things that I am still not sure of the meanings  .
I watch Survivor and have seen where they blur even the hint of anything indecent being shown. One girl from Survivor China wore her shorts pulled up showing her buttocks [like our competing lifesavers do here to avoid rubbing] and her bottom was blurred even though nothing indecent was really showing. Seems funny when other aspects of the Amercian lifestyle seems so liberal.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 1:21:04 AM
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The thing with Survivor is that the show is on prime time TV over here, so it shows sometime between 7pm and 9pm on regular TV that you can pick up with an antenna. So, I think that might be why it's blurred out for you too. But, the weird thing is, you can flip over to MTV (a pay channel) after school and look at Britney Spears' buttcheeks in a music video. Not her butt crack though, the lower end of her buttcheeks.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 4:40:31 AM
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actually aussie mum its 8.30 for swear words, there was a movie on ten a few weeks ago I think that had swear words from the get go! They also say "bloody" and "b" word for a female dog. on biggest loser over here alot. Sorry I don't know if I was allowed to say either of those words...
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 5:30:20 AM
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Over there and down there, what do you call a shopping cart/buggy?
In the UK we call it a trolley.
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I honestly though Gordon Ramsay was a horrible person who was just mean and I thought to myself that I feel really sorry for his wife. But, then Kitchen Nightmares started showing over here, and I was able to see his softer side. I was shocked actually. And, then I watched the cook along show that airs over there, and even has a good sense of humor.
Gordon can be a hard man, but he knows his business and gets results. He's a family man and very devoted. He has little or no self-control regarding swearing, and when he has appeared on a chat show I watch (Jonathan Ross) he's promised each time to watch his language, but then something slips out and he apologises and looks all sheepish. We have had Kitchen Nightmares USA showing here recently, so I imagine that's the same series you've had there. He really showed his tough but compassionate side there, and was able to get alongside even the toughest and mostt stubborn people.
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I didn't want to get too off topic in that other thread with agaptos, so I'll ask here. When I watched that cook along, they were saying THE f word and a woman was cooking naked at her house and her breasts were showed on TV. Agaptos was telling me that after 9pm is when that stuff can be showed, but I wasn't clear on if the F word was bleeped and if the body parts were blurred.
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Do they do that over there, or is it all just bleeped out, or showed after 9pm with all the cuss words?
Alternative words are not bleeped out. Swear words are mostly bleeped out before 9; the only time I've seen boobs shown before 9 is on health/diet type programmes.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 7:01:35 AM
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I love cookery programmes
Do you like Hester Blumenthal or Gordon Ramsay at all? 
We pretty much love all cooking shows, my son calls them cooking problem shows  Do y'all get Iron Chef over there? I love Gordon Ramsay..."Now go cook, ya Donkey!"
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I love her because she is so odd!
Thing is, there's odd and then there's odd.
And then there's weird, Nigella kind of weird. And not a weird kind of weird either. More of a strange weird.
Though I am guessing you probably haven't twigged what I meant, lol.
I'm trying, lol! But, no, its more of a nodding my head like I get it, but I really don't...so, would I say, "I don't twig, ya, Manda...or...I'm not twigging what your saying"??
So, in talking with your Maine friend, do you get a lot of "wicked goods" or "aya"? My hubby's from ME, and this family seems to be speaking a different language sometimes...
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 8:01:11 AM
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Do y'all get Iron Chef over there?
Haven't heard of it - sorry!
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I'm trying, lol! But, no, its more of a nodding my head like I get it, but I really don't...so, would I say, "I don't twig, ya, Manda...or...I'm not twigging what your saying"??
More like the latter. I tend to use it more in the past tense than the present. Not twigging is kind of final.
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So, in talking with your Maine friend, do you get a lot of "wicked goods" or "aya"? My hubby's from ME, and this family seems to be speaking a different language sometimes...
My friend is from NC but studying at the University of Maine for his PhD, so he's probably heard that stuff, just doesn't say it himself!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 9:51:43 AM
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We say aluminum, because that's how we spell it. There's no 'i' after the 'n.'
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 9:57:11 AM
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moreso with Torchwood I love Dr Who, but Torchwood is just plain bad 
To put it mildly. 
Well, we're too simple NOT to like it!
We call it the Brit X-Files...we have to like it.
golly, hope "brit" is not derogatory
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