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in England they call eggs "crackers" because you have to crack them. They call fried eggs "boiled crackers" (why?) and boiled eggs "scuba crackers." Hardboiled eggs are "hardscuba crackers" and softboiled eggs are "softscuba crackers." Scrambled eggs buck the trend and go in an even stranger direction: they're just called "whipped breakfast."
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Reality Protester posted:canada had this show no way lmfao
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RIP DINOBOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SepcT0KtUM
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Mar 25, 2021 04:30
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im putting the rubbish in the bin and then putting it in the skip for the lorry
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Bharat, Masr, Zhongguo, Suomi, Hayastan, Deutschland
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Mar 25, 2021 04:59
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Oh and the Swedes pronounce it "ik-iya"
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Norway is like a little nature preserve of brands, for some reason. Cif is still Jif, and Surge is called Urge but never left stores. (I think we were the original test matket, even). Unilever heart ice cream have tried and failed, leaving us with local brands and the sporadic import. Also, Batman was Lynvingen (he lightning wing) up to 1987 - about the same period he was a leather patch in Swedish. I wonder if there was a central push to unify the branding or if they both realised it sounded a bit silly at the same time? Maybe it was just around the time the toys started appearing? Oh, and one of those international ongoing confusions: Kellogs makes two different chocolate cereals. One is light crunchy rice crisps, about the size of raisins. The other are dense crunchy wheat ... scoops, I guess. Here, the former are "coco pops", in a yellow box with a monkey, while the latter are "coco pops", in a green box with a monkey. The Kellogs page only lists the rice crisps, but they are very rare in stores, while the wheat ones are common. I have no idea. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 00:00
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Smythe posted:RIP DINOBOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did anyone actually watch any of the ugly 90's cgi shows? Whenever beast wars would come on when I was a kid I would immediately change the channel because of how ugly everything was
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Revins posted:Did anyone actually watch any of the ugly 90's cgi shows? Whenever beast wars would come on when I was a kid I would immediately change the channel because of how ugly everything was Yes, all the time. We loved Beasties and ReBoot. I can't remember if there were any others.
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Revins posted:Did anyone actually watch any of the ugly 90's cgi shows? Whenever beast wars would come on when I was a kid I would immediately change the channel because of how ugly everything was Yes of course. I think you did childhood wrong, sorry. Smythe posted:no way lmfao Typical warmonger American 
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This does a great disservice to Bounty bars, as they are objectively superior to Mounds (it helps that they are milk chocolate, and better-quality chocolate at that, and Mounds are dark chocolate [no dark chocolate hate, I just specifically prefer milk chocolate with coconut])Kazzah posted:Oh and the Swedes pronounce it "ik-iya"
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Revins posted:Did anyone actually watch any of the ugly 90's cgi shows? Whenever beast wars would come on when I was a kid I would immediately change the channel because of how ugly everything was You think that's bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW162T0zfWU
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I know in Sweden they used to call him Läderlappen, The Leather Patch, untill some time in the 90s. Läderlappen is a dumb name, but it's not literally a "leather patch" - it's from a family of bats - Vespertilionidae, läderlappar in Swedish. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4derlappar
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here in italy, all the words that would normally be in english (tree, chair, bread, truck, etc) are instead in italian. it can be really confusing
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Von Pluring posted:Läderlappen is a dumb name, but it's not literally a "leather patch" - it's from a family of bats - Vespertilionidae, läderlappar in Swedish.  Wow that makes much more sense. Thanks!
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Mar 26, 2021 11:21
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In the UK they call sports "sport" and math "maths", it's sickening.
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Smugworth posted:Around here we call them "Trash Burgers for Dumpster People Who Deserve To Be Ground Up Into More Whopper Meat" Truth, worst burgers we've ever hard. The only upside to the local BK is they serve beer.
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mobby_6kl posted:Waschbär in german, which is exactly what it sounds like Tvättbjörn, Pesukarhu also both mean wash bear. It's the english who are the weird ones.
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Smythe posted:no way lmfao its a canadian show so Beasties is actually the CORRECT name 
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Doctor Dogballs posted:in England they call eggs "crackers" because you have to crack them. They call fried eggs "boiled crackers" (why?) and boiled eggs "scuba crackers." Hardboiled eggs are "hardscuba crackers" and softboiled eggs are "softscuba crackers." Scrambled eggs buck the trend and go in an even stranger direction: they're just called "whipped breakfast." wtf are "eggs"
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Von Pluring posted:Läderlappen is a dumb name, but it's not literally a "leather patch" - it's from a family of bats - Vespertilionidae, läderlappar in Swedish. It means "leather flapper". There was an Old Swedish word that meant "night flapper"; "natbakka", that it seems somehow went to England and replaced the Old English word "hreremus" ("shaky mouse") during the Middle English period, and this word eventually morphed into "bat". Mooey Cow fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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And just to round that out, Swedish and Norwegian kept the local version of the old English word - it's a "flaggermus" here, a fluttering mouse. I think Swedish spells it fladdermus, and both are also really close to German "Fledermaus" . (English: ten centuries of trying to separate from their European family.)
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If a business in the UK tells you they have high turnover, they're saying they bring in a lot of revenue, not that their employees quit all the time. But since you should never do business with anyone in the UK anyway this is not important to know.
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In Austria they traditionally have a style of chips that contains the chips themselves (of course), olives, pastrami and American dressing. They call it loaded chips, but I'd say it's a bit far from it!
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what is "American dressing"
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Aardvark! posted:what is "American dressing" As an American I was totally confused and googled it and I'm still totally confused. Every recipe I found was different and had some weird ingredients. The only common denominators appear to be ketchup and mayo, but the recipes I saw called for things like whipped cream, orange juice, and worcestershire sauce So basically really bad and weird Thousand Island
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Redczar posted:
In french it was called Piège de Cristal, the crystal trap. Reminds me of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead which became "You must not tell mom the babysitter is eating dandelions by the root" We have a word for dead and it would've been fine.
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Jippa posted:For some reason teenage boys in europe and the us need different names for this. it's called axe in most of europe and looking at wikipedia it's actually french in the first place, i mean we had this forever here but i didn't know it originated here i have learned a lot about axe body spray today
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Aardvark! posted:what is "American dressing" 
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Revins posted:Did anyone actually watch any of the ugly 90's cgi shows? Whenever beast wars would come on when I was a kid I would immediately change the channel because of how ugly everything was I did because I was like 23 when Beast Wars first appeared on television and I was fascinated by it. And by that I mean I watched it when I was stoned.
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I liked reboot when I was a kid because hell yeah tv about video games Haven't seen it in like two decades though I bet it's loving hilarious now lol
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I'm an American who lived in the UK for 5 years and I have two questions. 1. What the gently caress is a digestive 2. What the gently caress is Foxy Bingo and why is it the one I want
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Revins posted:Did anyone actually watch any of the ugly 90's cgi shows? Whenever beast wars would come on when I was a kid I would immediately change the channel because of how ugly everything was I hated beast wars/beasties at first cause I loved the original 80s cartoon and who was this ape guy? Not. MY. Optimus  But then I caught myself watching the episode where Megatron kamikazes gorilla-Optimus into moon-turned-planet-destroyer and got hooked. Honestly it's a better show than the original 80s cartoon since there's an actual plot and character development. Then Beast Machines came out and ruined my favorite character rat trap.
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Aardvark! posted:what is "American dressing" cum, op
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Gishin posted:I'm an American who lived in the UK for 5 years and I have two questions. And they just never stopped calling them that even after it became obvious it was not true
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Jippa posted:For some reason teenage boys in europe and the us need different names for this.
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R.L. Stine posted:the united kingdom is completely hosed up WTF? The Spider was a completely different comic.
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Lol i remember my first rauwe bonk camp
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I'm tegen over de gruwel!
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