[Sage]

Originally Posted by Giligan

If an Alabamian hic or dumb cowboy wanna-be slob from Nevada was to come over across the puddle, most narrow-minded Europeans would, sadly, conclude that all the Yanks are that bad.

#1- There is no "i" in "Alabaman".
#2- "hic" is an onomatopaeic interpretation of a single hiccup. "hick refers to an unsophisticated person of rural upbringing.
#3- Are "dumb cowboy wanna-be slobs" common in Nevada? I've been to Nevada quite a few times and have yet to see one there.

By the way, I don't recall you stating where you're from. Is it a wondrous place whose denizens suffer no ignorant and prejudiced stereotypes? If so, I'd very much like to visit a place like that.

[Giligan]

I'm terribly sorry, forget that post.

[rlpw]

Originally Posted by Sage

#1- There is no "i" in "Alabaman".
#2- "hic" is an onomatopaeic interpretation of a single hiccup. "hick refers to an unsophisticated person of rural upbringing.
#3- Are "dumb cowboy wanna-be slobs" common in Nevada? I've been to Nevada quite a few times and have yet to see one there.

By the way, I don't recall you stating where you're from. Is it a wondrous place whose denizens suffer no ignorant and prejudiced stereotypes? If so, I'd very much like to visit a place like that.

Nice talkin there partner! From a slightly overwheight, grey headed, redneck with a thick drawl

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by rlpw

......with a thick drawl

[samIamsad]

Originally Posted by Melanie68

LOL!? In all those years I've never seen, heard about or used anything quite like that. Oh, I spent two hours of yesterday in the bath tub. Rather cool. Er, hot.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Two hours? You must've looked like a pale prune after that.

[samIamsad]

Kind of. But the sheer awesomeness always makes up for that. There's really nothing as relaxing as lying in the tub, reading a book or magazine,........ until someone's knocking on the door telling you to get the hell out of there because you've been occupying the bath room for like an eternity. They...just...don't..understand!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

You looked like an awesome pale prune?

[Sage]

Originally Posted by rlpw

Nice talkin' there partner! From a slightly overweight, grey headed, redneck with a thick drawl.

Why, thank you Sir!
In describing yourself you have also described me, except that my hair is (still mostly) black.
I've been reading your posts for a while now, and may I just say that I like your style, buddy!

[Sage]

Originally Posted by rlpw

... a thick drawl.

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Hehehe!
Trep, you're not imagining how thick our respective drawls would get if Mr. Rlpw and I were sitting around talking to each other in person, are you?

[Intrepid Homoludens]

< faints >

[rlpw]

Yeah the more drawlers you put in a room the thicker we get! Be like goin to the Texas State Fair. I get Texas Monthly here and my accent gets worse just reading it.
the problem with me is I sound like Lyle Lovett with a head cold

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by RLacey

And nobody should complain about the separate taps thing. I happen to like it that way, and you can always fill a basin if you want your water at a different temperature .

Originally Posted by Melanie68

You like something like this? *shudder* You either get all hot or all cold when you need to wash your hands. No thank you.



This is better (or one with a single handle):

Originally Posted by RLacey

Oh, you wimps . A little cold water never froze anybody.

Originally Posted by RLacey

That's why you use hot water! Or mix the two together in the basin! Or use the shower if you really must mix your water before it comes out of the tap!

Originally Posted by undeaf

Oh, and burn yourself? Great idea.


No, that's wastefull and dirty.


What?

And just what is the advantage of your dark age taps anyway?

Originally Posted by Stoofa

I HATE THOSE TAPS!!

All of the old buildings on campus have them and they are so AWFUL for handwashing. I have to turn both on at once (wasting water) then cup some cold water in my hands and quickly dash them under the scalding hot water.

One thing that boggles me is the use of boilers. I was visiting a friend in Boston once and his apartment was heated by a boiler. I didn't know this and had never accounted a boiler heated home before and so burned the palm of my hand on this one large piller in the bathroom by the bathtub that was really a pipe carrying boiling hot water. The radiators hissed and make scary noises at night.

Ah, I see what's the problem is we have here. There's less and less people being taught traditional Alltami.

You ask what Alltami is? Why, the "Ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.", of course!


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[Jatsie]

Originally Posted by RLacey

Possibly, but if you can seriously name me a UK television watcher who doesn't watch BBC channels or listen to BBC radio or use the BBC website then I'll show you a three-headed monkey. You're not alone in hating the licence fee, mind you, but I'd far rather take it over the alternatives.

*raises a hand*

Now show me my monkey!


I oppose the licence fee in principle, but really, £130 p.a. is pittance, so it's not worth getting annoyed over.

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

Ah, I see what's the problem is we have here. There's less and less people being taught traditional Alltami.

You ask what Alltami is? Why, the "Ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.", of course!


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Damn straight. Everyone else just looks for the easy way out .

[samIamsad]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

You looked like an awesome pale prune?

That's more like it!


About these taps, that's a joke. Isn't it? They're completely made up. Aren't they? How impractical is that? Surely they aren't the standard thing every household has over there. Or are they? And that a place as sophisticated as Oxford University has these, that's unthinkable. Isn't it?!???

Bloody hell!

[SSH]

The BBC has more than 5 channels, but only 2 are on analogue TV. BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, Cbeebies, CBBC, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament, etc. The licence fee doesn't pay for anything except the BBC channels though. ITV, Channel4 and 5 are all paid for by adverts.

Freeview (http://www.freeview.co.uk/) is free digital TV and for a one-off fee to but the set-top-box (typically about 40 quid) then you get BBC1-4, ITV1-4, ITV play, c4, e4, c4+1, more4, film4, 5, Sky3, UKTV History, Ftn, abc1, CBBC, Cbeebies, CITV, and some more crap that I can't be bothered copying from that website...

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Sam

About these taps, that's a joke. Isn't it? They're completely made up. Aren't they?

A tap like this is in the house were my mother grew up. It's not replaced since it still works and the house is only used in the summer. Really inconveniant though in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Melanie68

[Giligan]

Technically, couldn't you solve the problem by just attaching a pipe with each end connected to each faucet, with a faucet in the middle? Granted, it would be a lot of work, but well worth it if the dual faucets bother a person.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I've always found cute the differences between American colloquialisms and British ones. When I was in London years back I would occasionally get something for 'take away', which is the equivalent of 'to go' here in the States.

One time I was in line at the cafeteria at the polytechnic in Enfield where was studying for the summer, and the nice young fellow with that knee-weakening accent serving us offered me a 'jacket potato'. I immediately thought of the little brown spuds wearing beautifully tailored Harris tweed blazers and looking incredibly swank, then I realized he meant baked potato still in its skin. I said, "Okay, thanks."