This is really quick question. Is it true that a program is called a programme in England? I have a friend “from” England, and she told me that, but I am leaning on the skeptical side (she has tricked me before, and made me look quite the fool.) :oops:
~Chris~
Well, that is the real spelling, but I suspect the shorter version is quite common over there now. Email me if you need some potential ammo for a counterstrike involving non family oriented terms.
you look better with the patch on your eye and the beard .
Hi Chris,
Yes, in England Program can be spelt Programme, but this is now usually shortened to Program. There are other words that have become shortened or the spelling made easier for use in the USA, i.e. Color (Colour), Tire (Tyre), Aluminum (Aluminium).
Things get even more interesting when objects are named differently. On an Automobile (Car) the hood is a bonnet, a fender is a wing, a trunk is a boot. Things get even more interesting in references to the anatomy a Fanny is an Ass where as a Fanny in England is a ‘front bottom’ not a back bottom’ :oops:
It’s never ending and can be a source of misunderstandings.
Bob
Dumb me, I never thought of looking it up in the dictionary to see if it existed. :microwave:
Chris
Fanny is an Ass where as a Fanny in England is a 'front bottom' not a back bottomI never knew that one!
As CaptDilli says “I love Weather Display Chatter”
Chris
My favo(u)rite real event, guy visiting from UK office stops by admin assistant desk and says, “Hi I’m Chris, do you have a rubber I can use?”
He wanted an eraser.
Another I have just remembered is a ‘Fag’
In GB it’s slang for a cigarette…
“Can I borrow your rubber, I am going to have a fag” 
That makes me think of the show “Are You Being Served” and all of the “pussy” jokes.
Chris
Bob, have you ever tried asking about “pot plants” in Home Depot, referring to “house plants”? I actually got a very helpful response, but it wasn’t at all what I was looking for. 8O
Pot Plant. :lol:
if you need some potential ammo for a counterstrike involving non family oriented termsOk, she didn't lie this time but she fooled there worst in my life so I have to be careful.
She has a twin, whom I met. So a few weeks later, we were talking, and she was saying “we are really different, even though we were conjoined twins!!!”
I was like what are the odds. First, they are from Thailand (aka old times Siam, Siamese twins), second that they would have no health problems, and third I would meet Siamese twins!!! So I believed it, really surprised, until she was like “I am joking about the conjoined thing, you idiot” 8O 8O 8O 8O
I can never live that kind of thing down. So stupid!!! So I am always looking for the PERFECT comeback.
The moral of the story is I now a highly cynical about everything she says. and if anyone has any good “pratical jokes” please share to help my bruised ego 
Chris
So, who here is British then?
Hey, I just thought of another…
Chips!! Here they are Crisps (english) and in GB they are Fries, not the puny little ‘french fries’ but something to chew on rather than nibble…
Bob
Well, since you started on food I can no longer resist adding;
http://www.mrbrainsfaggots.com/ It looks like bad joke from Saturday Night Live but it’s for real. Check out the family tab. Actually I learned something from this, I was thinking they were mutton.
I was a Brit once, but it’s been a very long time since I have lived there.
So, who here is British then?
Is it bad when your brain is misfiring and shutting down when you are 20. I seem to have lost my ability to think at things logically. 
Not British per se, but spent a lot of time in GB, and has British mannerisms, like spelling colour, programme, etc…
Chris
Hey, I remember Brains Faggot’s and I can remember going to the local ‘chippy’ for faggots, chips and mushy peas…
I guess you know know I’m English… Been here since '99
Bob
“Spotted Dick” for dessert, er, sorry, pudding? :lol:
Bread Sauce with Chicken or Turkey and Yorkshire Pudding, savoury with roast beef or sweet as a pudding with Lyles Golden Syrup.
What about Tizer and Vimto eh! As a kid my Mum & Dad used to go to the Pub on a Sunday Lunchtime and the highlight for me was a bottle of Vimto to drink and a bag of Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps…
Bob
Wow, flavored crisps huh, you must be a young. They were plain with the salt separately in a twist of blue paper when I was doing the kiddie pub thing. I remember Tizer, but I’ll never forget cat pee tasting Lucozade when I was sick, may not have made you feel better, but it sure made you not want to be sick any more 
Yea, the crisps with the small bag of blue salt was made by Smiths, I remember tham as well. I was a mid/late 50’s child…
Bob
http://www.mrbrainsfaggots.com/news.htm
The last video on the left side, I think not appropriate for children.
“When they call you a giant panda, they weren’t kidding”
Won’t someone please think of the children.
Chris