OT how much USA peeps are different
 

On 05/08/13 22:56, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-08-05 21:29:31 +0100, David.WE.Roberts said:

On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 11:50:38 +0100, Broadback wrote:

I have subscribe to "rec.food.cooking", as I think several people who
post here are. It makes you realise what a difference there is between
us and them, foreign in all but language and that differs more as time
passes by. do other here agree, or am I wrong?

Just to add to the various apocryphal tales.

When we were visiting the US on business in the '80s we were (with a very
straight face) advised that smokers should not tell their US counterparts
that they would "like to bum a fag" as it did not directly translate.

Cheers

Dave R

Also better not to offer to "knock you up in the morning" to a female colleague or friend!

They don't believe that city councils used to employ
"knocker-ups". Back in the 50s my parents had to show
them the newspaper cutting lamenting that the last
Durham(?) knocker-up had retired.

But then neither do they understand why someone called
Randolph Haagens raised smiles over here when he
introduced himself saying "Hi, I'm Randy"

OT how much USA peeps are different
 

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:01:55 +0200, Martin wrote:

We get the local W Sussex news, which you get depends how you set up the
freesat box (for those that use freesat).

You can receive all the BBC regional news channels with Freesat.

Yes I know! That's how I've set up the post code.



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