American Exceptionalism

What do they call chips?

 

They call cigarettes fags.

And instead of bucks they say quid.

 

Crisps I think.

 

could you eat a milkshake without chewing?

 

Reminds me of a time I went over to a friend's house with a guy I was dating at
U of H years ago to hang out the semester I lived on campus. He was from Liverpool and I was used to his lingo, but when he said, "I need a ***" I had to quickly explain what he meant to my friends.

 

MacDonalds are called O’Donalds in Ireland.

True story.

 

These I had heard of, but forgot about chips being crisps. I remember something about wrenches being spanners or something, too.

 

Don't forget the boot and bonnet (trunk and hood) or the blower (hairdryer). Oh, and we mow the yard and they mow the garden. Crazy how our word meanings are so different.

 

The craziest thing I heard about were the very isolated dialects that exist in the U.S. that I had never heard of until the past few years. Like the Gullah language spoken around east coast near the Carolinas or also around North Carolina the "Ocracoke brogue" dialect. You listen to these people speak and can't believe they're American. It's like a different world. YouTube has some videos of them talking in their languages and you'd think they're from another country. The Ocracoke people sound like British/Irish when they talk.

 

At least the milkshakes are cheaper than Jamba Juice

 

So are the 99ers called
Ye 99ers ?

 

My buns have no seeds

 

I've easily eaten at McDonald's less than 10 times since they went away from styrofoam packaging. I do own some of their stock though, thanks to fat asses everywhere.

 

That’s interesting. I read a book where a biker gang out of that area all had Scottish-type brogues. I thought the author might have made it up.

 

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Judging from the bench ad I think that's Minneapolis. There are a lot of national guard out because of the Derek Chauvin trial. I saw a couple outside an assisted living facility last night even though it was about a mile from the Hennepin County Courthouse.