What have you learnt today?

[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

[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.

[belamo]

Humility....

You finally actually SAW yourself in the mirror?

[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

[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...

[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.

[belamo]

If you say so. xD LOL!

Just elaborating along your fine line of wisdom

[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.

[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

[Sigma-taylor-E]

[QUOTE=belamo;8680373]Bleh!.. Burp!

Shock I tell you - SHOCKED

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[belamo]

Shock I tell you - SHOCKED

Now get steamrolled.




However, I would never be so daring as to state that nobody could ever sing better than a certain one some particular composition... as crappy as that composition may be.

[Sigma-taylor-E]

Now get steamrolled.




However, I would never be so daring as to state that nobody could ever sing better than a certain one some particular composition.

Oh dear lawrd. The errors of my ways! I'm a fool! Beautiful!
So point taken, what I should have said was: "Hitherto, I've yet to hear someone sing " Caruso " as good as Luciano Pavarotti."
Oh the limitations of my prose!

[belamo]

Oh dear lawrd. The errors of my ways! I'm a fool! Beautiful!
So point taken, what I should have said was: "Hitherto, I've yet to hear someone sing that totally übercrappy 'Caruso' as good as Luciano Pavarotti."
Oh, the limitations of my prose!

FIFY.

Oh, the limitations of your own understanding, no matter the quality of anyone else's English prose

[G-Lexington]

that tv infommercials are getting worse and worse.



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

We used to have an Abs here - Absolut. I think he was more into jam bands than hip hop, though.

Lex

[belamo]

that tv infommercials are getting worse and worse.



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

That may be hip-hop that they are swagging to, but in that still they look pretty jazzy...





I do not even wonder anymore at the fact that people are still tolerant anf generous enough to consider this and that "worse and worse" "every day".

[PreTTy PeTe]

I learnt that peanut butter is weird and only mangiacakes eat it.

[belamo]

I learnt that peanut butter is weird and only mangiacakes eat it.

You mean to say that it actually tastes as bad as it looks in American movies and TV shows?

[G-Lexington]

I have a feeling that today, I'll learn what th'heck a "mangiacake" is.

And I do like peanut butter.

Lex

[PreTTy PeTe]

You mean to say that it actually tastes as bad as it looks in American movies and TV shows?

yes only cakers and my dog eat it.

nasty shit.

[PreTTy PeTe]

I have a feeling that today, I'll learn what th'heck a "mangiacake" is.

And I do like peanut butter.

Lex

mangiacake is a loving expression we have for people who are anglo and eat jos louis for dessert.

that's all

[belamo]

mangiacake is a loving expression we have for people who are anglo and eat jos louis for dessert.

that's all

PreTTy, you are an enemy combatant

[star-warrior]

I did not make a cake today, but I ought to have.

[PreTTy PeTe]

I did not make a cake today, but I ought to have.

but if you did make the cake you could have left it out in the rain. ............and it took someone so long to bake it.

[star-warrior]

but if you did make the cake you could have left it out in the rain. ............and it took someone so long to bake it.

Lol, not much chance of rain today. However, I had a very nice birthday. Got to finish Skylanders Giants finally.

[G-Lexington]

Perhaps I'll also learn what jos louis is.

Lex

[FPNY]

jos louis was a famous fighter back in the day

[PreTTy PeTe]

Perhaps I'll also learn what jos louis is.

Lex

[TheLyingGame]

Anal hurts.

[belamo]

The American version of Cole's Pastoral State, courtesy of Piero il Bello .

[pat grimshaw]

Anal hurts.

Yes it does! The only people who could enjoy it are masochists.

[belamo]

Anal hurts.

That must be the X-rated version of "love hurts".

Yes it does! The only people who could enjoy it are masochists.

Unless you have anything like the gaping Groot Gat of Kurt Wild, able to swallow Castro's anaconda as if it were a tadpole, only idiots would attempt anal with someone they are not really open to.

[xbuzzerx]

Yes it does! The only people who could enjoy it are masochists.

I bet your sex life is fascinating, Pat.

[pat grimshaw]

I bet your sex life is fascinating, Pat.

Yes, it is. Sometimes it's a minuet and sometimes a fandango.

[belamo]

Yes, it is. Sometimes it's a minuet and sometimes a fandango.

But it's always Boccherini.

[G-Lexington]

It's like Hostess or Little Debbie snack cakes, but presumably higher class.

Lex

[pat grimshaw]

@ #876



Boccherini perhaps but more often Khachaturian, Kodaly, the Presets, Orff,etc.

The music depend on the man: it's not 'Person A' using 'Person B'.

[belamo]

Boccherini perhaps but more often Khachaturian

Fast or slow... or fast&slow?

[pat grimshaw]

Fast or slow... or fast&slow?…

all those as well as VERY fast as in Khachaturian's Sabre Dance and Kodaly's breathless Slavonic Dances. And there's a FABULOUS orgasm in Daphnis and Chloe.

[xbuzzerx]

That putting herbs and spices into tinned soup makes them taste incredible.

Try basil on top of spaghetti next.

I can fool my self that I didn't used bottled sauce.

[belamo]

I didn't know Kirk Douglas could dance ballet!

That was Andy Whitfield, you big snowflake!