[Mattsius]

Originally Posted by Kolzig

On an interesting note, I suffered an injury while playing football over a year ago, I had broken my right knee anterior cruciate ligament=ACL.

Doctor is on friday, that's when I'll hear the news, whether I can get back to the game.

Yeah, I remember that. You were pretty crushed back then because you couldn't play. Not surprising I guess. Where do you play btw?

Good luck with the doctor. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[Kolzig]

Well, I play on the lowest division, the 6th.

But I still love to play football, even though I have no real talents.

Anyway my number one sport is floorball, our team is in the 3rd division in that, so I guess me & the guys have some talents for floorball.

And I've been waiting for doctor to show green light for 15 months now, tomorrow will be the judgement day.

[log p]

my favorite sport to play is pinball...what?...not a sport?...well then cross-stitch...err...yeah...ping-pong then

[Jony]

Originally Posted by ConcreteRancor

Ahem....

Lorry, prat, afters, abattoir, loo, quid, bop, blagged, aerial, public school, back bacon, pram, caravan, chips, crisps, wellies, wee, draughts, propstand, beefburger, lolly, biscuit, dustcart, fag, fishfingers, bonnet, boot, gammon, gherkin, poof, pitch, piles, aubergine, torch, petrol, arse, berk, knickers, pillock, whinge, nought, windcheater, noughts and crosses, nappy, hob, lemonade, love bite, minced beef, treacle, rasher, randy, roger, row, saloon, sellotape, shandy, swede, telly, ten-pins, waistcoat, wanker, zed, and football.

And you're saying we speak the same language? In the words of Cousin Avi: "I thought this country spawned the f*cking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it."

Well thats just dialect and slang. Anyway I never liked the word "soccer" *shudders. It sounds so irritating. I might post why it shouldn't be called "soccer" *shudders, but no one would be interested in an adventure forum.

[scabb]

I'd be interested to know the US English for the following:
-Lemonade (Sprite, 7-up - Is this just soda in America?)
-Shandy (Beer + Lemonade!)
-Gammon (Half Pork, Half Bacon! Brilliant!)
-Sellotape (They have to say Sticky-back Plastic on the "telly", because Sellotape is a brand name. Like Tannoy, which we use for Loudspeakers even though that too is a brand-name.)
-Gherkin (What do you get on your McDonalds "beefburger" [Which are generally called hamburgers over here ]?)
-Aerial (I take it you mean the kind used for receiving TV Signals etc?)

A lot of the words you mentioned are slang, and you have your equivalents which we find just as silly (Hickey for love-bite, cookie for biscuit, pants for trousers). We have biscuits called cookies, of the chocolate-chip variety. I like how the Brits simply shortened the word "Underpants" to "pants", whereas the Americans took it to mean "the garment that is underneath your pants", thus giving birth to "Pants" instead of trousers. I have no idea which is the more correct definition, but it's quite interesting in a dull sort of way.

It would also be interesting to know what you all call the television remote. Nearly everyone I know has a different nickname for it, including "Remote", "Mote", "Flipper", "Flicker", "Clicker", "Changer" and even "Totem". We use "Clicker" in our house.

[log p]

i refer to the remote control as "the missing link", seeing as how it is often going on ventures between the sofa cushions or to parts unknown...and in the not-so-glorious state of my lazyassedness i refuse to change the channels if it involves standing up and walking to do so...hence "missing link"...also can be called the "key to avoiding being disgusted by george dubya's mug"...but mostly its just a remote or a channel flipper

[ConcreteRancor]

Originally Posted by scabb

I'd be interested to know the US English for the following:
-Lemonade (Sprite, 7-up - Is this just soda in America?)
-Shandy (Beer + Lemonade!)
-Gammon (Half Pork, Half Bacon! Brilliant!)
-Sellotape (They have to say Sticky-back Plastic on the "telly", because Sellotape is a brand name. Like Tannoy, which we use for Loudspeakers even though that too is a brand-name.)
-Gherkin (What do you get on your McDonalds "beefburger" [Which are generally called hamburgers over here ]?)
-Aerial (I take it you mean the kind used for receiving TV Signals etc?)

Lemonade: Well, we just ask for a Sprite. Or a 7-up. Either one. What I hate, though, is when you ask for, say, a Sprite, and the server says "7-up okay?" Yes, 7-up is okay. They're the exact same thing.

Shandy: No one I know drinks this vile concoction in the states. I don't believe there is an actual name for it over here. I think the closest thing we have is Mike's Hard Lemonade, but that doesn't have beer in it.

Gammon: If this is referring to what I think it is, we call it Canadian Bacon.

Sellotape: Scotch tape. Not all made by Scotch, true, but it has now joined the ranks of Xerox, Kleenex, and Thermos.

Gherkin: Pickle.

Aerial: Antenna.

Note too that I used a "British Dictionary" to find a lot of those words. Hence "beefburger," which I was a little surprised at myself, but I figured, what the hey. And since I don't believe there is an actual scientific term for a hickey, I consider love-bite to be a word in its own right, not just slang.

And remote control is just "remote" in my house.

[edlglide]

Originally Posted by ConcreteRancor

Lemonade: Well, we just ask for a Sprite. Or a 7-up. Either one. What I hate, though, is when you ask for, say, a Sprite, and the server says "7-up okay?" Yes, 7-up is okay. They're the exact same thing.

I don't know about that -- personally I hate both those drinks, so I think they taste the same, but I have a feeling that they're like Coke and Pepsi. Some people say they taste exactly the same, but they really aren't that similar.........I could easily pick which one was Pepsi and which one was Coke in a taste test. As an example, my mom loves 7-Up but can't drink Sprite. And it's not just the brand name, because I've seen her get a glass of Sprite that she thought was 7-Up and not be able to drink it.

[ConcreteRancor]

Originally Posted by edlglide

I don't know about that -- personally I hate both those drinks, so I think they taste the same, but I have a feeling that they're like Coke and Pepsi. Some people say they taste exactly the same, but they really aren't that similar.........I could easily pick which one was Pepsi and which one was Coke in a taste test. As an example, my mom loves 7-Up but can't drink Sprite. And it's not just the brand name, because I've seen her get a glass of Sprite that she thought was 7-Up and not be able to drink it.

I can pick out Coke and Pepsi, but Sprite and 7-up are far too similar for me. I tend to buy Sprite though, if I have the choice. Just out of habit.

[scabb]

Originally Posted by ConcreteRancor

Shandy: No one I know drinks this vile concoction in the states.

Really? I think shandy is actually quite nice, but usually better with cheapo lemonade. 7-up and Sprite tend to be too lemony. Or you can buy it pre-made, if you're posh.

[DomStLeger]

Originally Posted by ConcreteRancor

And since I don't believe there is an actual scientific term for a hickey, I consider love-bite to be a word in its own right, not just slang.

It's called a Bruise. Or if you want to be completely scientific "a bruise caused by one person sucking somebodys skin, usually (but not confined to) the neck"

[Sly Boots]

7 Up is sweeter than Sprite, also it's more flavoured.
Had no idea that the two are lemonades, just water and sugar.

[ConcreteRancor]

Originally Posted by DomStLeger

It's called a Bruise. Or if you want to be completely scientific "a bruise caused by one person sucking somebodys skin, usually (but not confined to) the neck"

My sister gave herself a hickey by sucking her lower lip into the top of a Snapple bottle. She had a big purple ring around her lower lip for about a week. It was hilarious.

[Kolzig]

Eidos gets new stupid ideas.

Announces Championship Manager Online.

http://www.jadestone.net/

[Sly Boots]

Actually, it's not such a bad idea.
And I didn't know CM will be developed by Swedish. That could mean more objectivity (the English have the funny idea that their premiership is by FAR the best league in the world).
Still, I hate Eidos, so I'll go with FM2005.

[DomStLeger]

CM5 is being made by Beautiful Game Studios which I think are british based. Jade Studios are making the online version.

Thing I don't get, is CM5 for the PS2. Can it really handle such a processor intensive game? I mean, I'm doubting the PS2 was designed to be fast at processing spreadsheetsd full of datd was it?

[Kolzig]

Well CM5 will most likely have a weee small player database.


And to tell something about CM Online makers Jadestone, only thing they have made in the past is small mobile games.

I think it's a too big step from mobile games to a massive multiplayer football manager game.

[ragnar]

I don't care about Eidos games. It's SI that is the team!

[Sly Boots]

Originally Posted by Kolzig

Anyway my number one sport is floorball, our team is in the 3rd division in that, so I guess me & the guys have some talents for floorball.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is floorball ? Maybe I know the sport, just not its translation in English, so a brief description would do.

[Kolzig]

Originally Posted by ragnar

It's SI that is the team!

This is exactly what every CM fan should be told, Football Manager is SI's next game, and CM is Eidos-shite from now on.

Every single one of my CM playing friends have not had even a clue about this fact. But they were quite glad when I told them how things are.