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if they switched to metric and mum instead of mom it may help. :D
thier own biggest economy doesnt help, neither does thier imbicilic head honcho who said " the american way of life is not up for negotiation" imbicilic f'wit..... that will make them friends in poorer countries wont it ? (rolleyes...)
Zed,
You've just opened a new front on America. That is how they complicate life by being so stubbornly different for no apparent reason.
They had metric money very early on, yet the American Stock Exchange still gives values in fractions of a dollar and not by decimal point.
Who but Americans know what they mean by a ten penny nail? (Don't all rush and tell me -I know why).
When they had a gallon measure, it has to be different to the Imperial gallon.
Tried to work out shellac measures? Two pound cut? Sounds a bit painful.
And what they can do to language would leave even old Shakespeare gob smacked.
But although it is a bit of a simplification because I have deliberately left out race as an issue, important as it is, really there are four Americas. East Coast, West Coast. Bible Belt and those Good Ol' Boys down South who still fight the American Civil War. Which is why we have trouble talking about "Americans."
Jerryc
War does not decide who is right. War only decides who is left.
I assume by American Civil War you are referring to what we Southerners describe as the War of Yankee Aggression?Quote:
Originally Posted by jerryc
Or, as my grandmother used to call it in true Southern Lady understatement: The Late Unpleasantness. :rolleyes: :D:D:D
Sounds like your grandmother should have been an Honorary Sheila ... typical Australian flair for understatement :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke
Sorry Bob,
I promise I will never even whistle "Marching Through Georgia."
Jerry
War does not decide who is right. War only decides who is left.
I'll do my rendition of Dixie with a mouthful of SAO's,