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[silver]

There are some other amusing differences between British and American slang. I'm not sure about Australian slang.

I once went to school with a British student who asked for a "rubber" and got the strangest looks from her classmates. Here, a rubber is a condom. The poor thing just wanted to borrow an eraser.

Then there are "fags". Here, they do not mean cigarettes, and if you ask for a fag, you may not get what you intended. A British acquaintance of one of my son's friends nearly had an unfortunate experience when he asked a group of guys for a "fag".

"Lemonade" there is "7-Up" or "Sprite" or a related drink there. Here, "lemonade" means a drink made of lemons, water and sugar. Usually. We do have alcoholic lemonades, though. I remember seeing "lemonade" on a menu when I visited England, ordering one, and giving the waiter a very strange expression when he brought me a 7-Up. I thought he was trying to be a wise guy.

I found out the hard way ... A "bathroom" in England is a room with a bathtub. If you really, really have to pee, do NOT ask for a bathroom.

[calalily]

fanny (means bum) fanny (means vagina) - hence the giggling when we hear Americans talk about "fanny packs".

Holy hell, there went my coffee.

That's so freaking funny. Fanny Packs are stupid, imo, anyway, so to hear that makes it all the more fun to tease those who wear them now..lol.

The only people I ever see wearing them now are American tourists (you can tell the French, Swedish etc. since they wear backpacks).  Oh, and just in case you're wondering what we call "fanny packs" - bum bags.

And silver - we derive our slang a lot more from Britain - we use rubber, fag, lemonade and bathroom in the same context.  It was really weird to ask for a bathroom in LA - here we use (in order of how well you know the person, and how comfortable you are) toilet (polite) or loo and toot (colloquial).  It's not unknown for a man to ask for the shithouse.  Australians like the swearing.  

[Paden]

Thanks a lot, guys, I just choked on my fucking pretzel! I knew most of the slang for Aussie, we had an Aussie student two years out of the three that I attended Sr. High, and she was wonderful for my education! I'd explain American usage to her, she'd explain Aussie to me and the one thing we agreed on was for smokes, we both called them coffin nails but that didn't deter us from smoking the damn things under the water tower!
As for the Marathon bar, I remember that one being kind of a flat braid shape (or plait) of caramel covered with chocolate. I remember putting a piece of one in my mouth and letting the chocolate melt off and just enjoying it... I miss those things...
One thing I really want to try some day is a deep fried Mars bar, it sounds good... I've been advised to stay away from Toad in the Hole and Bubble and Squeak, though...

[Captain Feathersword]

And silver - we derive our slang a lot more from Britain - we use rubber, fag, lemonade and bathroom in the same context.  It was really weird to ask for a bathroom in LA - here we use (in order of how well you know the person, and how comfortable you are) toilet (polite) or loo and toot (colloquial).  It's not unknown for a man to ask for the shithouse.  Australians like the swearing.  

There was some publicity about the whole loo issue (what about dunny Cala?) in the press in UK when William and Kate broke up. It was reported that she wasn't posh enough because she said toilet instead of loo.  :roll:  There was then far too much column space and air time devoted to the curious habits of the upper class. Apparently the rules change fairly often and only the blue bloods are in the know.

[calalily]

There was some publicity about the whole loo issue (what about dunny Cala?)

I knew there was one I forgot - but I often feel that way, so I just ignored it  :oops:

[liegenschonheit]

Brit slang is fun, but Halloween is better, so nah.

Last Halloween, my entire family decided to have some fun. We transformed the front porch of our house into an enclosed mad-doctor's operating room. We bought scrubs from thrift stores, and I made myself a little nurses outfit and hat, and a bunch of surgical masks, and then covered everything in fake blood. My youngest brother sat with his head through a hole in the table, and in the dark with smoke machines and a black light, he totally looked fake. Then my mother's husband (who is 50, btw) totally overdid his performance as the mad doctor, screaming and cackling while we ushered kids through the door 'the doctor will see you now'. The fake head thing scared more than a few adults and teens, and he went easier on the little ones, but everyone had a great time. We must have had a couple hundred trick or treaters, we went through more than forty pounds of bulk candy.

I'm 26, and I'm never giving up Halloween. It's a family tradition.

[Frank]

Here in the states, I loved the hijinks that the cast of "Roseanne" would pull every year, tallying up pratical jokes. Me and my family, eh........just did the T&T thing. The apt. complex me and my wife live in and have for the past 5 years has been a void around Halloween. Lots of decorations, no kiddies and families out gathering candy. But it's a dual-university town where we live, so it's fun to see the college kids go all the way around halloween...

[naceygirl]

Calalily, for Halloween, if you dress up, you should buy some smarties candies and safety pin them all over your britches, cus you're Miss SMARTY-PANTS! :lol:

But yeah, they'd have to come up with something that doesn't put a bunch of crap directly into the game, though, because that's a horrible thought.

No Halloween in Aussie land.  

  their smart downunder! Here in the good old USA I dont even celebrate Halloween.

We do have Halloween!  Here in Perth we do, anyway.  But it's different.  We have dress-up parties.  There isn't any trick-or-treating.  

[Witchboy]

I loved the hijinks that the cast of "Roseanne" would pull every year, tallying up pratical jokes.

I Absolutely love Roseanne! I have them all on dvd up to season 8 + the Roseanne Halloween Edition dvd with all the Halloween episodes from every show.

[Soup Parrot]

Brit slang is fun, but Halloween is better, so nah.

Last Halloween, my entire family decided to have some fun. We transformed the front porch of our house into an enclosed mad-doctor's operating room. We bought scrubs from thrift stores, and I made myself a little nurses outfit and hat, and a bunch of surgical masks, and then covered everything in fake blood. My youngest brother sat with his head through a hole in the table, and in the dark with smoke machines and a black light, he totally looked fake. Then my mother's husband (who is 50, btw) totally overdid his performance as the mad doctor, screaming and cackling while we ushered kids through the door 'the doctor will see you now'. The fake head thing scared more than a few adults and teens, and he went easier on the little ones, but everyone had a great time. We must have had a couple hundred trick or treaters, we went through more than forty pounds of bulk candy.

I'm 26, and I'm never giving up Halloween. It's a family tradition.

I hope you get us some pictures of your next Halloween show for us all to see.

[LadyDea]

I love Halloween. I don't go out trick or treating anymore, but I have younger siblings that do, so I get to steal their candy when they're not looking. But really, Halloween was more about the atmosphere to me, it is just wicked fun and I love it. Of course, the goodies help too.

[naceygirl]

And silver - we derive our slang a lot more from Britain - we use rubber, fag, lemonade and bathroom in the same context.  It was really weird to ask for a bathroom in LA - here we use (in order of how well you know the person, and how comfortable you are) toilet (polite) or loo and toot (colloquial).  It's not unknown for a man to ask for the shithouse.  Australians like the swearing.  

Not to forget the slang 'Dunny' for toilet.   We use that a lot here (I'm in Perth).  That one is one of my favourites.  

We also call sweaters 'jumpers', drink english tea all through the day and call our cookies 'biscuits'.  If we do have 'cookies', they're usually large baked chocolate-chip things.

[SparklePlenty]

If we do have 'cookies', they're usually large baked chocolate-chip things.

Which is exactly what a cookie should be.  :wink:

[HawkGirl]

Back to the topic at hand. I hope they're better at keeping their supporters interest peaked. They lost ours several pages back. Guess that means they didn't accomplish what they set out to do. It has turned into a much more interesting conversation, since then. But, what can we expect from such winning personalities as Thomas, Greg, Suzy, and LyricLee. Each, their own worse enemies.

[BlackPearl]

Someone informed me that GoS (Garden of Shadows) forum was shut down by the Save Sims2 Community for filesharing.  Do y'all know anything about this?