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by smcl 2y ago
There are very few things which can be described as “setting sail” and can “drop anchor” so I think you can fill the gap easily
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by smcl 2y ago
> The same word applies to roads that do not pay for themselves through gas tax and/or tolls. It’s very weird how people talk about roads as a sort of universal public good whose construction and maintenance needs to be financed by
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by smcl 2y ago
I would hope any sensible person would look at two comments by two people saying that they are being excluded by each others groups and think "the issue is people being excluded because they are not part of the 'in' group in
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by smcl 2y ago
Haha well you were at least thinking along the right lines! Yeah so "root" in Australian slang refers to having sex.
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by smcl 2y ago
I reckon you can get a root with just a cigarette lighter if you hang around outside the right bars in Australia
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by smcl 2y ago
Yeah I was saying in UK/NZ/Aus (plus I guess Ireland too come to think of it) it's ungendered and not necessarily a severe swear word. I didn't think it was that harsh anywhere in UK but maybe I can't speak for Engl
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by smcl 2y ago
I feel like my role in the comments here is to add a Scottish flavour - what we'd say where I grew up (South Aberdeenshire) rather than "faffing about" is "footering about"
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by smcl 2y ago
Let's meet in the middle and use "I'm game" - neither up nor down!
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by smcl 2y ago
Interestingly, both twat and cunt are far more severe (and aimed at women) in US English than they are in UK/Aus/NZ English.
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by smcl 2y ago
Similarly (originating in linux circles in the 90s, revived recently by cryptobros) the acronym "FUD" always makes me smile. For our friends across the pond, both "fanny" and "fud" are Scots slang for the femal
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by smcl 2y ago
Ah ounces of course, that somehow totally escaped me. Yeah I have no idea what caused the switch, it could be specific to certain parts of the country or even groups of people/dealers
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by smcl 2y ago
Glad I checked back in this thread, I had never heard of the 473ml liquid pint or 551ml dry pint - that’s super interesting!
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by smcl 2y ago
I’m not sure anything I say will be of great value outside of Czech Republic - you can get Pilsner Urquell and Budvar (sometimes Kozel) in bottles/cans which are fine but not spectacular. The best beer I encounter is Pilsner Urquell or
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by smcl 2y ago
The big one - what measurement do people use for drugs? When I was at university weed was fractions of something (“an eighth”, “a quarter” - I suspect not of pounds that would be a lot) but now it’s grams
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by smcl 2y ago
Apparently A&W tried to introduce a “1/3rd Pounder” whose failure to gain popularity was attributed to people not realising 1/3 is bigger than 1/4. So I suspect that may have informed that decision
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by smcl 2y ago
The warm/flat thing is a peculiar (often American) stereotype and it's a bit of a misnomer - I'm gonna try to dispel it a bit because it's quite an interesting topic. The beers you're talking about are served cool (
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by smcl 2y ago
Heh well yeah the press finding things to be outraged at is nothing new. But in reality the population are quite comfortable describing their height in feet, their weight in stone and distances between towns in miles while also using recipe
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by smcl 2y ago
Not everywhere - if you order a "Royale with cheese" in Norway and Netherlands for example you're going to get asked "Do you mean a Quarter Pounder?" My point is that it's more of a name/trademark than a m
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by smcl 2y ago
> So for now, we're stuck with Quarter Pounders I think this is part of the reason why the US is so resistant to embrace metric - ridiculous things like pretending you'd have to rename a Quarter Pounder as a "113-Grammer&q
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by smcl 2y ago
I mean if sschueler wants to chime in to clarify they can. But idk if it's worth taking seriously something that is obviously some social media bait. It sounded to me like they were genuinely aggrieved by getting accused of "looki
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by smcl 2y ago
I have literally never encountered this. If people (plural) are calling you a creep for what you do in the gym you might want to do some reflection on whether you're actually the one in the wrong
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by smcl 2y ago
Ahhh I thought they'd just roll the dice and hope the EU wouldn't bother. That's wild, Americans are getting fucked over like this :-/
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by smcl 2y ago
This is so weird, how is this legal? No other type of company just tacks on stuff to agreements and contracts and says “you want this” so how come US tech companies are always getting away with it?
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by smcl 2y ago
I'm not convinced, this feels like those "actually this is good for bitcoin" replies that are popular with cryptobros anytime some bad news hits. Intel have lost out on a big, high-profile contract - this cannot be somethin
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by smcl 2y ago
Maybe more "old man yells at cloud" but I am kinda with you in thinking it's trash. The thing is that every generation has had its own equivalent swill for kids, this one is no different. His channel won't last, there&#x
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by smcl 2y ago
Which was a feature, given historical reliance on coal fires inside homes for heating.
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by smcl 2y ago
Much better answer than mine. Also worth mentioning they don't even own the rolling stock - that's the ROSCOs and tbh that's probably where the profit is to be made.
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by smcl 2y ago
True, but it's kind of a shame we're dependent on those emails being leaked. If they hadn't been then it'd be Dennis' claim that someone in the government pressured his employer to get him sacked. Which doesn&#x27
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by smcl 2y ago
Ah that's an interesting revelation. But yeah totally unsurprising really, he's very good at talking in plain, accessible English about rail-related matters that might otherwise cause people to glaze over and ignore. And it's
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by smcl 2y ago
British Rail has ceased to exist for quite some time

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