It seems to me that Americans don't drink that much (compared to us) from what I've heard. How much are you likely to drink on a night out?
Personally I drink at least a bottle of wine myself before we head out then a few beers and mixers whilst out to keep me going. If it's just a trip to the pub it'll be 4-6 pints of ale. I think this is fairly normal consumption for a student in the UK.
Sounds about right to me, well, at least in my case. Granted, if I really get going sometimes it'll be more like 5-7 pints, but even then it's no big deal. Then again, this could be somewhat off of a measure, as most of the people around me don't tend to make it past like, 4 pints, rarely.
I find it depends on the night, some nights I go out and after 3-4 pints I'm really feeling it, other nights I go out and drink utterly insane amounts* with only a fraction of the effect.
*Last time this happened was at a flat party I'm alleged to have drunk around 2.5l of cider 3 cans of lager and half a bottle of crabbies ginger wine. I felt slightly tipsy.
5 litres of Scrumpy. 12 cans of beer. And half a bottle of Rum.
I only had the beer because we were playing beer pong and I ended up playing 4 rounds. I was like a freaking machine towards the end of the night. It was doubles and I ended up playing the last 2 games on my own because my partner passed out.
After all that I found the bottle of absinthe I'd brought with me. Not wanting to waste it and feeling invulnerable I decided to neck it.
The reason I didn't add that bottle of absinthe to my list of consumed booze that night is because it came right back out. I then passed out on a settee for 30 minutes and then headbutted a lamppost in a fit of rage because I deduced I had embarrassed myself.
And still to this day I have never been graced with a hangover.
Hahah actually that reminded me of something relating to the original question! (Relevance in a thread on the internet? Never!)
A party to celebrate the birthday of one of my flatmates last year, an American student who had come across to study here. She drank around a quarter of a bottle of vodka and two glasses of wine then passed out. The party continued mostly regardless.
Next day meet her in the kitchen suffering from a bad hangover and joked about her being a lightweight, her response (approximately). "Look at it this way right, you are Scottish, you grew up in a pub and you've been drinking since you were like 15. Where I'm from people don't start drinking properly until they are 18."
Here, I've got a question for all you American types. How many of you actually like Monty Python? I've come across many Brits that constantly start quoting sketches from it at me and it's formed a lot of random friendships for me, however I seem to notice that it doesn't seem as popular over there. My sources aren't exactly accurate per-say (I know about 5-7 Americans and 4 of them despise it) but it's still perplexing.
What are grits? Seriously I hear about them all the time in games and stuff but have no idea. And can Americans tell the difference between different English accents? Cos the only American accents I can figure out are deep south and er... not deep south.
Also, I don't think I know anyone over the age of 10 who doesn't drink tea.
What are grits? Seriously I hear about them all the time in games and stuff but have no idea. And can Americans tell the difference between different English accents? Cos the only American accents I can figure out are normal and deep south.
Also, I don't think I know anyone over the age of 10 who doesn't drink tea.
1) I believe it is some kind of mush that some people like to eat for breakfast. I've tried them and they just taste very bland
2)I kind tell the difference between some accents but I can't place specific ones. I could only tell between large geographical distances like how you could tell the difference between someone from Texas and Maine
3) I don't drink tea but that's because I try to stay away from caffeine to start my day
It depends on what part of the U.S. you are in. If you are in the Pacific Northwest Soccer(football) rivals and is sometimes more popular than the other professional sports (especially if you are in Portland, Oregon (PTFC:Rose City 'Til I Die!)). If you are on the east coast of the U.S., you will find a very small following of professional soccer. In the southern U.S. they don't even know how to spell soccer.
i have a question for America,
Why do you do your dates backwards? as in MM/DD/YY opposed to the way the rest of the world with the DD/MM/YY, smallest unit FIRST so today is 21/05/11 in most of the world but Americans have it as 05/21/11.
Noah Webster wanted the American Colonies to use a differentiated form of English after the Revoloution. The Miriam-Webster Dictionaries (We would use Oxford) spell words like they sound, rather than as their etymological origin. (Hence Color/Colour)
For dates, the dates are written as they would be said : May 6th 1980 becomes 6/5/80, where we would put 5/6/80. The only one that doesn't follow this is Independence Day, 4th July.
Here, I've got a question for all you American types. How many of you actually like Monty Python? I've come across many Brits that constantly start quoting sketches from it at me and it's formed a lot of random friendships for me, however I seem to notice that it doesn't seem as popular over there. My sources aren't exactly accurate per-say (I know about 5-7 Americans and 4 of them despise it) but it's still perplexing.
What are grits? Seriously I hear about them all the time in games and stuff but have no idea. And can Americans tell the difference between different English accents? Cos the only American accents I can figure out are deep south and er... not deep south.
Also, I don't think I know anyone over the age of 10 who doesn't drink tea.
What are grits? Seriously I hear about them all the time in games and stuff but have no idea. And can Americans tell the difference between different English accents? Cos the only American accents I can figure out are normal and deep south.
Also, I don't think I know anyone over the age of 10 who doesn't drink tea.
Alright, this one is right up my alley. Grits are grounded corn porridge. Corn is a big thing here, really, especially in the south. Also, if you are wondering, in my opinion, grits are a tasteless paste... but that is just me.
As far as accents, we can't tell where they are from, but we can tell the difference between what we'd call a heavy British accent, along the lines of cockney, and the accent you hear more on the BBC news, which we'd consider a light accent. Least that's how most people I know see things.
As for tea, that whole Boston tea thing really did limit how many people in America actually like tea. Our tea equivalent in how much we drink and how many drink it is pretty much coffee as far as I have seen, though kids tend to hate it.
Here, I've got a question for all you American types. How many of you actually like Monty Python? I've come across many Brits that constantly start quoting sketches from it at me and it's formed a lot of random friendships for me, however I seem to notice that it doesn't seem as popular over there. My sources aren't exactly accurate per-say (I know about 5-7 Americans and 4 of them despise it) but it's still perplexing.
Probably just couldn't be bothered contending the point with you because you'd argue till you're blue in the face that clouds are made of cotton candy if you'd said it accidentally earlier on.
It really isn't. (Try Birmingham). We tend to be stereotyped by the South Estuary (Below the big river in London) accent. That's posh and overpronounced.
Most Brits find the Celtic or Southern American accent sexier, especially the Louisiana drawl; possibly because it doesn't sharpen pronounciation.
There are Canadians that hate the US too, I've always considered it like a political sports revelry, we make fun of each other a lot but theres only a few crazy jerks with true animosity.
I want to ask to UK, my grandmother went there and came back with a few menus of the places she ate, many of them had pidgin on it. How common pidgin in restaurants?
i would beg to differ actually depending what part of country you go to and its not normal pigeons its wild pigeons from the country ones that don't come in contact with people much like wood pigeons and such they are common in resturants you won't find them catching the common pigeon the flying rat one.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records that the first written use of the word football used to describe a game was in 1424 in an Act forbidding it. The first written use of the word football to describe the ball was 1486, and that the first use as a verb (hence footballing) was in 1599. For the etymology, the OED just indicates it is a compound of foot and ball.
Although it is widely assumed that the word football, or "foot ball", originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, this may be a false etymology. The historical explanation has it that the word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[3] These sports were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports more often enjoyed by aristocrats. This explanation is supported by the fact that the word football has always implied a wide variety of games played on foot, not just those that revolved around kicking a ball. In some cases, the word has been applied to games which involved carrying a ball and specifically banned kicking.
Probably just couldn't be bothered contending the point with you because you'd argue till you're blue in the face that clouds are made of cotton candy if you'd said it accidentally earlier on.
Or maybe, and unlike you, he didn't see it as a point worth raising. Which, I suspect, is the same conclusion at which anyone with half a fucking brain would have also arrived.
The fact that not everyone's currency is the dollar, isn't just some inconsequential detail.
And before you counter with 'it didn't detract from the joke'. It did.
If someone made the same joke about an American family and replaced 'Dollars' with 'Euros' or 'Francs'. You can bet they'd have been corrected by some disgruntled American making sure everyone understood that they use Dollars.
And with that. I'm out.
Not getting roped further into the pedantry Olympics with you.
For someone who wasn't interested in competing in the 2011 Pedantry Olympics, you sure were eager to latch onto some niggling bullshit point and feel compelled to bring it to my attention. And then, when I pishes and pshawed the point, you kept right on coming back with it. And then you wanna talk about who was trying to rope who into pedantry and who was trying to avoid getting roped? Please.
Pidgeon or Pidgin is eaten in Britain but mainly in posher restraunts as it is a game bird like pheasant, guineafowl and partridge, but mainly its mostly popular in the "Home Counties" These are the counties that border London but do not include London itself.
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