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[stonemonkey]

Pants are what you wear on your head when you're having a lazy weekend morning, what do Americans call what we in the UK call pants?

Marmite, yuck.

'Use of both knife and fork. It really is a pretty civilized way to eat!' how do you eat a steak?

'Flow of foot traffic that is enough to make you wanna hurt someone. Every man, woman and child for themselves! No rules...just dodge bodies.'

That I gotta agree with, the size I am I'd knock those little old ladies flying and I don't wanna do that and they know it and expect me to dodge them. I have found a solution, totally don't look where I'm going and everyone gets out of my way. The grocery shopping thing is in a similar vein and often find trolleys parked across aisles but you usually have your own battering ram/trolly.

Petrol? pretty sure it's the same as gas although gas here is what is piped into your home for the cooker and boiler. Do Americans have diesel?

TBH, I don't think I've ever heard anyone slip up and say dollars or cents.

I feel sorry for everyone in the US, you don't have bollocks.

[KyrosV]

My sisters Husband whos american but came over hear and works on a base, said that when he arrived, they were all given a sheet of british to american comparisons of definitions to words. He said he was really suprised by some of them. Ill have to see if I can borrow it from him if he still has it

the american pants comes from the french word 'Pantalons' by the way...

[Rivelution]

Pants are what you wear on your head when you're having a lazy weekend morning, what do Americans call what we in the UK call pants?.

Beanie

'Use of both knife and fork. It really is a pretty civilized way to eat!' how do you eat a steak??.

We dont use anything, we just eat our stakes like dogs. Naw just kidding, we use a knife and fork too.

Petrol? pretty sure it's the same as gas although gas here is what is piped into your home for the cooker and boiler. Do Americans have diesel?

Yes we call 'petrol' gas over here. We call the gas that connects to your cooker 'gas' as well, except at least over here in California we call it propane too, which is usually what the gas is.

Yeah we have diesel, except they way we use it is totally different from you guys. From what I've heard, diesels in Europe are used in fuel efficient cars and the engines are pretty quiet. While over here, diesels are used primarily in large pick-up trucks for towing, which I believe you guys say "lorry," and they are loud as hell and arent economical at all. Oh and Diesel is the most expensive gas, well at least in California, while I've heard that diesel is the cheapest gas in Europe.

Diesels primarily fuel trucks or vehicles like the Ford F-350.

[darwin dali]

'Use of both knife and fork. It really is a pretty civilized way to eat!' how do you eat a steak??.

We dont use anything, we just eat our stakes like dogs. Naw just kidding, we use a knife and fork too.

Petrol? pretty sure it's the same as gas although gas here is what is piped into your home for the cooker and boiler. Do Americans have diesel?

Yes we call 'petrol' gas over here. We call the gas that connects to your cooker 'gas' as well, except at least over here in California we call it propane too, which is usually what the gas is.

Yeah we have diesel, except they way we use it is totally different from you guys. From what I've heard, diesels in Europe are used in fuel efficient cars and the engines are pretty quiet. While over here, diesels are used primarily in large pick-up trucks for towing, which I believe you guys say "lorry," and they are loud as hell and arent economical at all. Oh and Diesel is the most expensive gas, well at least in California, while I've heard that diesel is the cheapest gas in Europe.

Diesels primarily fuel trucks or vehicles like the Ford F-350.

Well, on the fork and knife issue: it's always made me cringe HOW Americans use those utensils: they hold the fork in the right hand to shove the food in their trap. Then when they need to cut something up, they use the knife in their right hand and the fork in their left hand to accomplish the cutting. As soon as they're done, they put the knife down and switch the fork to their right hand to eat the cut up stuff. So weird and inefficient and to me so uncultivated.

Diesel is also the almost exclusive fuel for the thousands and thousands of semis that clog our freeways. Semis or trucks or rigs are those monstrously huge 'lorries' on which basically all the continental shipping of goods depends here (with the exception of air transport and some few railways).

[McLaren Fan]

Well, on the fork and knife issue: it's always made me cringe HOW Americans use those utensils: they hold the fork in the right hand to shove the food in their trap. Then when they need to cut something up, they use the knife in their right hand and the fork in their left hand to accomplish the cutting. As soon as they're done, they put the knife down and switch the fork to their right hand to eat the cut up stuff. So weird and inefficient and to me so uncultivated.

[scotty]

Oh and Diesel is the most expensive gas, well at least in California, while I've heard that diesel is the cheapest gas in Europe.

Diesel is usually around 15p a litre more here. I think it used to be the case that you made up the difference in fuel economy (although you had to deal with the engine being loud and slow), but now... hmm, a lot of petrol engines are very economical!

[stonemonkey]

Petrol? pretty sure it's the same as gas although gas here is what is piped into your home for the cooker and boiler. Do Americans have diesel?

Yes we call 'petrol' gas over here. We call the gas that connects to your cooker 'gas' as well, except at least over here in California we call it propane too, which is usually what the gas is.

We can buy bottled gas like propane and butane for heaters and things like camping and BBQs but I think the gas piped into homes is mostly methane.

Pants are what you wear on your head when you're having a lazy weekend morning, what do Americans call what we in the UK call pants?.

Beanie

LOL sorry. Someone calls and asks what you're up to, gets the reply 'Sittin' here with my pants on my head'.