MUs, hemispherical anomalies and such...

[Panda Termint]

Then there's the curious case of Australian school-children being taught to call a pencil eraser a "rubber".

That one always caused confusion and mirth in Flag Courserooms when one heard an Aussie ask, "Do you have a rubber?/Pass me the rubber etc". :D

[byte301]

Not really, where I'm from, although I have heard it used that way. I wouldn't use it that way.

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"I was eating a bar of chocolate whilst standing in a queue on the path, just down the road from the pub, when a mini drove past with its boot open".

(Relatively) understandable to Brits.
Probably gibberish to yanks.
What about our antipodean buddies?

I wouldn't either. lol

I was chowing down on a Hershey while standing in a damn line on the sidewalk, a block from my favorite honky tonk, when some little foreign car blasted by with it's trunk lid wide open!

(How's that?)

[byte301]

Then there's the curious case of Australian school-children being taught to call a pencil eraser a "rubber".

That one always caused confusion and mirth in Flag Courserooms when one heard an Aussie ask, "Do you have a rubber?/Pass me the rubber etc". :D

Some people in the US used to call galoshes rubbers. I don't know if anyone still does but it used to get a rise out of everyone. lol

[quietheart]

I remember calling the galoshes rubbers , I musta been about 6 at the time, needless to say when I had kids we called em galoshes , lol.

[Lesolee (Sith Lord)]

I was chowing down on a Hershey while standing in a damn line on the sidewalk, a block from my favorite honky tonk, when some little foreign car blasted by with it's trunk lid wide open!

(How's that?)

Strewth mate. That's ripper.
Have a five-X on me.

(That's my fake oz pronunciation. If we get the gnat's piss 4-x beer, presumably they keep all the good stuff. :D )


(Ok, I admit it, I haven't got a clue about beer either. )

[Lesolee (Sith Lord)]

Then there's the curious case of Australian school-children being taught to call a pencil eraser a "rubber".

Hang on. If we Brits call a pencil erasing device a "rubber", and so do the auzzies, that make the yanks wrong doesn't it?

For goodness sake learn to spreak ploper Engrish like wot we do.

[Panda Termint]

Please don't make the Yanks wrong, you know what happens when you do that! :D

[Alan]

Then there's the curious case of Australian school-children being taught to call a pencil eraser a "rubber".

That one always caused confusion and mirth in Flag Courserooms when one heard an Aussie ask, "Do you have a rubber?/Pass me the rubber etc". :D

Where is your routing form?

I just got routed out!

Or anything to do with "routing" caused more laughter and general "joker/degrader" behavior for brits and commonwealth people! :D

Perhaps LRH wasn't joking when he designated the way out as Route 1 - Route 2 - Route 3 - Routine 2-12 etc.... to get routed is to get screwed!

Alan

[Carmel]

Where is your routing form?

I just got routed out!

Or anything to do with "routing" caused more laughter and general "joker/degrader" behavior for brits and commonwealth people! :D

Perhaps LRH wasn't joking when he designated the way out as Route 1 - Route 2 - Route 3 - Routine 2-12 etc.... to get routed is to get screwed!

Alan

Yes, "screwed" as in 'done over', AND "screwed" as in 'laid'.

We used to have many jokes about the routing form, but then the pronunciation of it got changed to "r our ting", the "rooting" got dropped.

[byte301]

Strewth mate. That's ripper.
Have a five-X on me.

(That's my fake oz pronunciation. If we get the gnat's piss 4-x beer, presumably they keep all the good stuff. :D )


(Ok, I admit it, I haven't got a clue about beer either. )

LOL wut? I've been pwn'd.:D