PSA: Brits, biscuits are not cookies

[WelshBloke]

lol. He really doesn't have my number, but in order to explain the irony I'd have to escalate this thread into something it currently isn't.

Probably best to wait for the hairynecked one to return if youve got a really good troll post to let loose. No point in wasting it. :awe:

 

[HAL9000]

I've never heard any pronounce Hyundai like "hundy".

Hun day
Hun die

those are just as bad as hundy

 

[Patterner]

those are just as bad as hundy

Err, I used to work for Hyundai, and most of the Koreans there pronounce it "Hun Day", so I think I'll take their word for it. Every now and again you'd get a fresh off the boat type that would enunciate to the point where you could hear the "y", but mostly not. Also, that's how the company indicated it should be pronounced in a commercial "rhymes with Sunday".

I've also never heard anyone pronounce it "hundy", though I could see that happening in the deep south.

 

[HAL9000]

Err, I used to work for Hyundai, and most of the Koreans there pronounce it "Hun Day", so I think I'll take their word for it. Every now and again you'd get a fresh off the boat type that would enunciate to the point where you could hear the "y", but mostly not. Also, that's how the company indicated it should be pronounced in a commercial "rhymes with Sunday".

I've also never heard anyone pronounce it "hundy", though I could see that happening in the deep south.

Wow... Errm my Uncle's step-brother works for Hyundai and he get's pissed off about it all the time...

 

[Patterner]

Wow... Errm my Uncle's step-brother works for Hyundai and he get's pissed off about it all the time...

That's because Brits are weird.

Another thing, what's the deal with "aluminium"? Even its discoverer decided to call it aluminum (after switching from alumium, originally). Apparently it was some douchebag literary twat that decided he like "aluminium" better because it had a more "classical" sound.

From the WikiPedia article: Davy settled on aluminum by the time he published his 1812 book Chemical Philosophy: "This substance appears to contain a peculiar metal, but as yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state, though alloys of it with other metalline substances have been procured sufficiently distinct to indicate the probable nature of alumina." But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, in a review of Davy's book, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

It's a trunk, not a "boot."

 

[WelshBloke]

It's a trunk, not a "boot."

Its a bonnet, not a "hood"

 

[Patterner]

Its a bonnet, not a "hood"

I could see this when they still looked kinda like a bonnet...of course, they don't really look like a hood either so both names kinda suck. I'm not sure what else we'd call it, since "Engine Covering Flap" is kind of a mouthful.

 

[HAL9000]

I could see this when they still looked kinda like a bonnet...of course, they don't really look like a hood either so both names kinda suck. I'm not sure what else we'd call it, since "Engine Covering Flap" is kind of a mouthful.

The one thing I will give americans is "side walk" It is the thing you walk on at the side of the road.

 

[Patterner]

The one thing I will give americans is "side walk" It is the thing you walk on at the side of the road.

What do you guys call them?

 

[Brigandier]

What do you guys call them?

Cookies.

 

[WelshBloke]

What do you guys call them?

The pavement.

 

[TraumaRN]

I'm stunned no one has brought up fish and chips yet.

Personally I love the chips down in Australia, way better then most places in the States where I ordered fish and chips.

 

[HAL9000]

I'm stunned no one has brought up fish and chips yet.

What do you call fish?

 

[TraumaRN]

What do you call fish?

Not the fish, the chips part of it. We call them fries, you call them chips oh what the hell it's deep fried potatoes, they are fucking yummy whatever you call them

 

[WelshBloke]

I'm stunned no one has brought up fish and chips yet.

Is there some controversy about fish and chips?

Its fish...


...and chips.

Now a saveloy thats a controversial subject.

Edit: And dont ask about the battered sausage!!

 

[Herr Kutz]

The one thing I will give americans is "side walk" It is the thing you walk on at the side of the road.

No space between side and walk.

 

[HAL9000]

No space between side and walk.

Good to know.

 

[Patterner]

What do you call fish?

Well played, sir.

 

[TraumaRN]

PSA for any and all Americans:

Lemonade is totally different in the UK/Australia.

That's all

 

[HAL9000]

PSA for any and all Americans:

Lemonade is totally different in the UK/Australia.

That's all

It's fizzy lemon flavoured drink?...? What's it like in America?

 

[WelshBloke]

PSA for any and all Americans:

Lemonade is totally different in the UK/Australia.

That's all

Why whats lemonade in the US? :hmm:

They dont get it from horses do they?

 

[TraumaRN]

It's fizzy lemon flavoured drink?...? What's it like in America?

Generally it's lemon juice(with or without pulp from the fresh squeezed lemon), sugar and uncarbonated water

Generally your lemonade is what would call Sprite, or Schweppes(love me some Schweppes)

 

[HAL9000]

Why whats lemonade in the US? :hmm:

They dont get it from horses do they?

I think it's probably Orange Juice... That would make sense.

 

[HAL9000]

Generally it's lemon juice(with or without pulp from the fresh squeezed lemon), sugar and uncarbonated water

Generally your lemonade is what would call Sprite, or Schweppes(love me some Schweppes)

Ahh well there we have a difference, Sprite is Lemonade here, Lemon Juice is Lemon Juice. Like Orange Juice is one thing and Fizzy orange is something else.