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[Oren]

That's a funny story. You never know if you're talking to a brick wall, or if the person sees three heads on your shoulders.

[harry]

Now that depends exactly where you are and context. "Knocked up" means (a) Beat the door to arouse me from sleep. (b) To get pregnant. Depends on the locality.

[harry]

If you want to hear extreme English you need to experience Pidgin English or Nigerian English.

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Ah, yes. Niuginian indigene (we used to call them "New Guineans") describing piano: "Im e big-pella box, you itim teeth e cry out."

Or an inhabitant of the same country, having seen both a food mixer in the missionary's kitchen and the Missionary Aviation Fellowship fixed-wing aircraft but seeing the MAF helicopter for the first time: "Mixmaster blong Jesus Christ."

Perce

[Scott]

Why not just call it gasoline? Calling it "petrol" is just as stupid as calling it "gas".

[Douglas Johnson]

Or my lovely young English friend, just arrived in the states, who asked if she could borrow my rubber. -- Doug

[z]

Douglas Johnson wrote in news: [e-mail]:

you're taking the piss

[(PeteCresswell)]

Long long ago, far, far away... my English girl friend never could get used to Americans saying they were "stuffed" following a large meal or, for that matter, the expression "Stuffed Shirt".

[Stormin Mormon]

My friend Jack, visiting Australia. Finished a meal, pushed away and announced "I'm full!". The Aussies started laughing. Finally he figured out that "I'm full" was slang for "I'm pregnant".

[Eeyore]

You're one to talk, polluting the audio groups with your ignorance.

Gas = gas = liquid petroleum gas or liquid natural gas in my book ( for automotive applications ).

Only US retards use gas to mean petrol.

Graham

btw do think Pacific Gas and Electric runs filling stations ?

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[Eeyore]

Calling it 'gasoline' would be fine, as I do when myself when chatting with US residents. Calling it 'GAS' is NUTS. A GAS is a GAS not a liquid.

Graham

p.s. why are Americans so retarded ?

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[cj]

Probably due to the same thing that causes Brits to think that automobiles have wings...

[Scott]

Gas is a state of matter; gasoline is a motor fuel. "Petrol", OTOH, is a goofy-sounding derivative of a word that can properly refer to any of hundreds of discrete distillates, and only means "gasoline" by dint of social convention. Just like "gas" in the US. And just as stupid.

For the most part I just say "we need more fuel", which is valid no matter the particulars of the car/truck/motorcycle/boat/airplane I'm in. But this is a result of conditioning from my dad being a truck [lorry] driver, and there was never a question that trucks use fuel, diesel fuel. Never gas. It stuck with me.

1. Most likely a vestige of our English heritage. Take a close look at the idiots and halfwits we left behind; coming from that kind of stock, is it any wonder?
2. You need to be more specific; America is a continent (actually a pair of them); "American" can cover everything from Aleut and Inuit to the Araucan and any number of Incan descendants, who all originated on other continents anyway.
3. Your mother.

[harry]

But you had the retard Bush! :-) And may yet have, (so I hear) the even greater retard Palin! How can you sleep at night with that possible scenario?

You are quite right about the dimwits over here. They are known collectively as "New Labour". We all came from Africa. Just some of us sooner than others.

[Eeyore]

And what do you call them ? Want to argue over bumper / fender too? The fact is that GAS is not a LIQUID. Ever heard of a 'phase diagram' ? SOLID, LIQUID, GAS

Graham

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[Steve Daniels]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:11:42 +0100, against all advice, something compelled Eeyore , to say:

gas

with

GAS

What is it about Brits and their compulsion to argue? Gas, in context, is obviously a shortened name for gasoline. I can't believe you don't understand that, and must conclude that you are arguing for the sake of argument.

What's up with that?

[Winston]

(...)

Oh sorry. This is 'Abuse'. 'Argument' is down the hall.

:)

--Winston

[Mark Lloyd]

gas

chatting with

LIQUID, GAS

I used to live on a farm. We had a tank of gas (gasoline) for farm equipment next to a tank of gas (propane) for use in the house, It was confusing.

[Stormin Mormon]

The hell! I paid for argument, and I'm not leaving until I get my money's worth! Now get that bloody snooty nose out of the air, and get about business, you worthless rag!

[Stormin Mormon]

I'm sure it was tempting to pour a bucket of gasoline onto your stove, and inflate the fuel tank of your auto with LPG. No telling how we survived as a species.