I thought “gun-toting Creationist” was the polite term?
Cute, and definately smug.
This post is an excellent example of what being smug is all about.
Oh, peel me a grape.
Yet another great example of smugness.
Those of you who’ve commented on the unbelievable length of our political campaigns: try living in one of the “swing” states, like Ohio. Constant commercials, one after the other, several phone calls every day. I’d be happy if they’d just omit the entire last year of every campaign.
Burrrrrrnnnnn
I had a discussion in the pub tonight, admittedly only with a couple of folk, and they find the US thing of re-rinsing hilarious, making fair objections like that if you are rinsing the thing again then eventually the water is going to have this alleged “soap” in it anyway once you get to the end of things. And again pointing out that there’s no taste at all because the stuff is scrubbed off when you dry the plates.
So there ya go.
You are missing the point you filthy English person 
We all have dishwashers here but, even if we don’t, you don’t just have standing pools of water that you dip your used plates and utensils in. You run them under running water before your dry them. The rinsing side of the double sink isn’t filled with water. It is for rinsing. It is no wonder the Native Americans thought the English were disgusting when they first landed. That group was but they learned better. Not so much back at home…
It doesn’t say anything about stopping for funeral processions going the other direction. You yield the right of way to a funeral procession that’s going the other way simply by not being in their lane (which is sensible and mandatory at all times anyways because of physics).
Thanks, and you spelled “definitely” wrong.
He might have meant “defiantly”.
…so I did.
No one I know dries their dishes with a towel. They are left to dry on a rack and then put away later. And Shagnasty’s right about rinsing dishes - running water, not stagnant. A shower as opposed to a bath.
Yes, you rinse them under the tap, not in the dirty dishwater.
This thread just got really boring.
LOL
I don’t understand this.
Americans and Canadians say they’re going to the “Bathroom” or “restroom” (The term varies regionally) because that is the common expression for that room. The TOILET is a plumbing fixture, not a room. Here, saying you are going “to the toilet” would be like going to the kitchen and saying you’re going “to the microwave.”
As to why people in other English-speaking countries use the term “toilet” to refer to a room that has more than a toilet in it, I’m not totally sure, but I think it’s a holdover from England. In visiting there I twice was in someone’s home where the toilet was actually in its own room, separate from a room right next door with a bathtub and sink. I’ve never in my life seen such a thing in North America, where those fixtures are more or less always in the same room, unless a house is additionally outfitted with a “Half bathroom,” e.g. a toilet and sink. So it may be that “the toilet” as the name for a room is from the fact that the English actually have rooms with just toilets in them. Most Americans (and Canadians) have never, in their lives, seen such a thing, so that word wouldn’t make sense to describe a room.
Brilliant!
That Americans don’t routinely put butter or margarine on their sandwiches.
That, in some areas at least, you guys vote for every single possible person who could be voted for. Water boards, etc. I remember one bloke (in California, perhaps?) counting up his total possible votes for that year to something like 38.
The religion thing I can agree with, from my UK perspective. I know it’s not like it’s the subject of every coffee break conversation in the US, and people pay lip service to religion a lot of the time, but it still seems SO much more prevalent than it is in the UK and I had previously assumed otherwise. I mean that those Americans on this thread saying that religion hardly ever comes up at their work probably - based on my impression from these boards - have it come up more often than it would in the UK.
Yeah, it was formerly pretty common to have the toilet in a room separate to the bath. However, most US restaurants and other public facilities do not have baths in them either, and people still refer to it as the bathroom.
The thought makes my stomach curdle. 