What have you learnt today?

[oakpope]

^ A French nightmare

[xbuzzerx]

Hey, I use "whilst" and "in hospital". The latter is very common to hear among Canadians; that's how they say it on the news.

Many of you also say "mum."

[AshyPhoenix]

Many of you also say "mum."

Yeah, on the east coast. Newfies talk funny.

[belamo]

I learned if you tweet a jokingly derogatory comment about a certain chain restaurant, they'll respond to that tweet in less than five minutes.

Lex

They have people getting paid to do that, what did you expect?

[G-Lexington]

I'm pretty clueless about how social media works. And restaurant chains. And people. And a bunch of other stuff.

Lex

[PreTTy PeTe]

I learnt that some people here are pussies

[belamo]

I'm pretty clueless about how social media works. And restaurant chains. And people. And a bunch of other stuff.

Lex

And all that is supposed to go along with the fact that you tweet on Twits?

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I learnt that some people here are pussies

You mean pussies like assholes, manholes?

[G-Lexington]

And all that is supposed to go along with the fact that you tweet on Twits?

Yet another thing I don't know much about. I'm starting to wonder if I know anything at all. That's OK - I never let it worry me none.

Lex

[belamo]

Many of you also say "mum."

As if "mom" sounded any less silly, said by over-five-year-olds.

[PreTTy PeTe]

You mean pussies like assholes, manholes?

more like shit heads.

[belamo]

more like shit heads.

Oh No yellowbellies, no assholes, just shitheads. Get it.

[G-Lexington]

Lex

[Keeland]

B Lemon is ugly.

[frankfrank]

QUOTE: JohannBessler [JUB quote function isn't working for me today; happens once in a while]

^We used to use "supper" all the time in the South. No one--at the time--ever used the word "dinner".
I don't know if they still use it.

Another one--the expression "in hospital". Or "maths". I chuckled the first time I heard the word "maths", because it sounds like someone "doing it the hard way."

I was born and raised near Detroit, and my parents ALWAYS called the evening meal "SUPPER." I wonder what a "supper versus dinner" map would look like. (Somewhere I saw a map showing where soft-drink beverages are variously called soda, pop, coke, and tonic. Maybe there was another term as well, I forget. Quite interesting.)

I will sometimes say "in hospital" and "to hospital." Which brings up THIS question: Why do we say...

go to school
go to college
go to work
go to court
go to jail
go to church

but we say go to THE university, and THE synagogue?

[BENDERBOY]

Hee Haw..........

[AshyPhoenix]

That life really, really wants to shit all over me for the previous and next two weeks. I'll be glad when this is all over.

[Keeland]

Another one--the expression "in hospital".

Up here in snowdrift land, the hospital (a big building with a lot of windows, but there isn't time for that now), as in "The accident victim was taken to the hospital" is replacing the standalone hospital. More rarely now would be said, "The accident victim was taken to hospital," which makes more sense, and prevents my yelling obscenities at the news reader.

The hospital moves hospital from the general to the particular; it suggests there is only one, perhaps in the entire universe.

At least "He goes to school," used in the general sense, isn't likely to gain the superfluous "the" — I hope.

[JohannBessler]

QUOTE: JohannBessler [JUB quote function isn't working for me today; happens once in a while]

I was born and raised near Detroit, and my parents ALWAYS called the evening meal "SUPPER." I wonder what a "supper versus dinner" map would look like. (Somewhere I saw a map showing where soft-drink beverages are variously called soda, pop, coke, and tonic. Maybe there was another term as well, I forget. Quite interesting.)

I will sometimes say "in hospital" and "to hospital." Which brings up THIS question: Why do we say...

go to school
go to college
go to work
go to court
go to jail
go to church

but we say go to THE university, and THE synagogue?

Up here in snowdrift land, the hospital (a big building with a lot of windows, but there isn't time for that now), as in "The accident victim was taken to the hospital" is replacing the standalone hospital. More rarely now would be said, "The accident victim was taken to hospital," which makes more sense, and prevents my yelling obscenities at the news reader.

The hospital moves hospital from the general to the particular; it suggests there is only one, perhaps in the entire universe.

At least "He goes to school," used in the general sense, isn't likely to gain the superfluous "the" — I hope.

You two have very valid points. I guess "the hospital" really doesn't make sense, does it?

One thing I can see about Canada is that it seems to have characteristics of both influences. For example, Canadians use the "flavour" etc., spelling, but don't use the linking "r" that the Brits do--"Cuber and America, Vodker and Gin, Laura Norder", etc.

Here's another one: In the US, the 1st floor represents the floor that sits on the ground; in the UK, the 1st floor represents the level directly above it.

What do the Canadians use?

[belamo]

Here's another one: In the US, the 1st floor represents the floor that sits on the ground; in the UK, the 1st floor represents the level directly above it.

What do the Canadians use?

Are they really that Chinese in the US: so what does "ground floor" mean to them? "Basement"?

[Keeland]

Here's another one: In the US, the 1st floor represents the floor that sits on the ground; in the UK, the 1st floor represents the level directly above it.

What do the Canadians use?

The first floor is the ground floor, as in the U.S.

Deep thoughts: What's printed on the ground-floor button in a U.K. elevator/lift? And if there are two identical buildings, one in North America and one in the U.K., is the U.K.'s taller, notwithstanding?

Does the European Parliament dictate lift-button signage in the Sceptered Isle?

[xbuzzerx]

You two have very valid points. I guess "the hospital" really doesn't make sense, does it?

One thing I can see about Canada is that it seems to have characteristics of both influences. For example, Canadians use the "flavour" etc., spelling, but don't use the linking "r" that the Brits do--"Cuber and America, Vodker and Gin, Laura Norder", etc.

Here's another one: In the US, the 1st floor represents the floor that sits on the ground; in the UK, the 1st floor represents the level directly above it.

What do the Canadians use?

Are they really that Chinese in the US: so what does "ground floor" mean to them? "Basement"?

The Japanese language does the same as well. I could be wrong but I think the word for the 1st floor (as Americans would think of it) is more like "ground floor", and then 1st floor 2nd floor translate more like "storey", implying being up from ground floor.

[belamo]

The Japanese language does the same as well. I could be wrong but I think the word for the 1st floor (as Americans would think of it) is more like "ground floor", and then 1st floor 2nd floor translate more like "storey", implying being up from ground floor.

Oh, that's so enlightening

In BCN the land has always been so scarce, and the developers so greedy, that XIXth century type of buildings were reshaped, during the second third of the XXth century, as monster wedding cakes with basement, ground floor, mezzanine, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and up to sixth or seventh floor, and then, on top, penthouse, "overpenthouse", first penthouse and second penthouse.

[borg69unimatrix]

Do they still leave off the 13th floor on buildings that are taller?

[belamo]

Do they still leave off the 13th floor on buildings that are taller?

I am typing to you right now from a thirteenth floor/storey/whatever named "Planta 13"... depends on the particular silliness of different cultures, I guess

[Keeland]

Do they still leave off the 13th floor on buildings that are taller?

They would, but no one knows which floor is the 13th because of the floor-numbering system. They have two 12th floors or two 14th floors, which causes no end of problems with the mail.

Besides, in Spain everyone uses Roman numerals but no one is taught them, because the government doesn't want anyone to know they might live or work on the 13th floor. Happily for the government, Roman numerals printed on elevator buttons have to be so small no one can read them.

So the 13th-floor conundrum is avoided.

[borg69unimatrix]

It amazes me that in today's age we're still that superstitious.

[belamo]

They would, but no one knows which floor is the 13th because of the floor-numbering system. They have two 12th floors or two 14th floors, which causes no end of problems with the mail.

Besides, in Spain everyone uses Roman numerals but no one is taught them, because the government doesn't want anyone to know they might live or work on the 13th floor. Happily for the government, Roman numerals printed on elevator buttons have to be so small no one can read them.

So the 13th-floor conundrum is avoided.

I don't seek to get enlightenment from JUB, but you can always find it, occasionally, more or less hidden, anywhere

[PreTTy PeTe]

^ I never liked the Marx Brothers. definitely not has brilliant as The Three Stooges.

[belamo]

^ I never liked the Marx Brothers. definitely not has brilliant as The Three Stooges.

I am only a big fan of that sequence. LOVE it. Totally. The whole movie is fine, if you ignore the infamous minstrel sequence as you ignore just all the musical interludes in their movies.

This one is not bad either... (though the rest of the movie is rather a bore)...



Then there is, of course, Duck Soup... but I never found A Night at the Opera all that much of a big deal, not even the contract sketch.

[BENDERBOY]

Humility....

[belamo]

Humility....

You finally actually SAW yourself in the mirror?

[BENDERBOY]

You finally actually SAW yourself in the mirror?

Not a pretty sight, that's why i never look.

http://salmanlatif.files.wordpress.c...08/dorian.jpeg

[belamo]

Not a pretty sight, that's why i never look.

http://salmanlatif.files.wordpress.c...08/dorian.jpeg

Don't be so modest: you are a work of art.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_Albright.jpg

[Keeland]

I don't seek to get enlightenment from JUB, but you can always find it, occasionally, more or less hidden, anywhere

This explains why everyone in Spain gets lost in elevators.

[BENDERBOY]

Yes a right piece of work.

[Sigma-taylor-E]

That no one will ever perform a better "Caruso" than Luciano Pavarotti

[belamo]

This explains why everyone in Spain gets lost in elevators.

Spain's financial system in the global financial system shaft of ups-and-downs...

[Piggyboy]

Hmm...I learned a lot. A virtual world is for those whose cannot make it in the real world.

[belamo]

That no one will ever perform a better "Caruso" than Luciano Pavarotti

Bleh!.. Burp!

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Hmm...I learned a lot. A virtual world is for those whose cannot make it in the real world.

You definitely read like a virgin... in both worlds.

[Piggyboy]

You definitely read like a virgin... in both worlds.[/QUOTE]

If you say so. xD LOL!

[belamo]

If you say so. xD LOL!

Just elaborating along your fine line of wisdom

[Piggyboy]

Just elaborating along your fine line of wisdom

Yep, no doubt about it...your father should have pulled out early!

[G-Lexington]

They say a little learning is a dangerous thing. I'd say there are more lessons to be learned yet.

Pig, perhaps it's true. Perhaps all of us on JUB are social misfits who can't function in actual society. Are you here as a member, or simply swinging by to point that out?

Lex

[belamo]

Yep, no doubt about it...your father should have pulled out early!

If you say so... I seem to have been by dragging men from the very beginning, and the doctor, taking my dad's lead, agreed to pull me out only while in the tenth month of pregnancy already

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They say a little learning is a dangerous thing. I'd say there are more lessons to be learned yet.

Pig, perhaps it's true. Perhaps all of us on JUB are social misfits who can't function in actual society. Are you here as a member, or simply swinging by to point that out?

Lex

Only narrow minds, not little learning, are dangerous.

[JohannBessler]

The Japanese language does the same as well. I could be wrong but I think the word for the 1st floor (as Americans would think of it) is more like "ground floor", and then 1st floor 2nd floor translate more like "storey", implying being up from ground floor.

Some esteemed British author believed that the American/Canadian system actually makes more sense.

This time, I agree. 1st floor means the first floor that sits on the ground. The second floor, of course, is the second one that sits on the ground, and so on.

The European system of the first floor meaning the "second floor up" doesn't really seem logical to me,

I've wondered something. Say, you plan on buying a house. A two-story house in the US means exactly that--two floors; the first floor (story) sitting on the ground, second floor(story) the one above it.

How do Europeans refer to this kind of dwelling? How would a European refer to a one-story bungalow?

[JohannBessler]

^Touche, Lex.

I used to use that analogy all the time on AOL Chat. People would come into the From the Left and talk about what cunts the chatters were, and of course we'd all say,"Then what are you doing here? So we can get a good sniff?" and so on...

It never failed to shut them up.

[Piggyboy]

If you say so... I seem to have been by dragging men from the very beginning, and the doctor, taking my dad's lead, agreed to pull me out only while in the tenth month of pregnancy already

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Only narrow minds, not little learning, are dangerous.

Yet you were the sperm that won the race to the finish line. o.O

[refujiunderground]

that tv infommercials are getting worse and worse.



so this in the early morning and i . really, breh?

[belamo]

Some esteemed British author believed that the American/Canadian system actually makes more sense.

This time, I agree. 1st floor means the first floor that sits on the ground. The second floor, of course, is the second one that sits on the ground, and so on.

The European system of the first floor meaning the "second floor up" doesn't really seem logical to me,

I've wondered something. Say, you plan on buying a house. A two-story house in the US means exactly that--two floors; the first floor (story) sitting on the ground, second floor(story) the one above it.

How do Europeans refer to this kind of dwelling? How would a European refer to a one-story bungalow?

Floor is what is built over the ground. Your system would then "make better sense" only when a "ground floor" is built over a basement floor, wouldn't it?

As for your question, we call it a two-floor/storey/whatever house: ground floor and first floor... over a basement

[belamo]

Yet you were the sperm that won the race to the finish line. o.O

You are assuming there was a competition at all