Separated by a Common Language?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

Well, it is plumbers we're talking about...

"I need a 6 inch nipple."

[monster]

Ineed a new ballcock.

I read "washing-up-machine" in books but I've never heard it called anything other than a dishwasher.

I was wondering whether or not to write about Hector's birthday party -if there was much material in that. I decided not, but then one of the parents must've known because he brought us a bag of zucchini (courgettes)

[monster]

Here's the cake, btw

(It's a nerf birthday party)

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[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by monster

I've heard spigot used a lot too -I just forgot about it! Is it regional?

I think it's more generational... an old fashioned term.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by monster

Here's the cake, btw

(It's a nerf birthday party)

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monster, for someone who doesn't like to shop, you sure have fine domestic skills.

I think the whole purpose of this thread was to make us want cake.

In Colorado the "oven" is just called the hot box, or sometimes tandoor.

And in the kitchen, the water comes out of the dingus. In the bathroom it's called a dongus if it's in the washbasin and a dong if it's in the keeler.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

In Colorado the "oven" is just called the hot box, or sometimes tandoor.

And in the kitchen, the water comes out of the dingus. In the bathroom it's called a dongus if it's in the washbasin and a dong if it's in the keeler.

You've got to get out more.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by monster

Are they refrigerated at the supermarket, now?

As Dani says - nope. We get them from the local butcher and they sit proudly on display behind the counter in large egg trays. You have to bring your own eggbox (carton?) as they're local farm eggs and although they're obviously sorted and stamped they are not packed. And yes, they come with feathers and gunk, are varying sizes and sometimes a bit knobbly.

As an aside, I looked all over town for white eggs for Easter. Nope. You can't get white eggs for love nor money in this town. Weird, because it was white or nothing when I was growing up. Still, the dyes worked well on the brown. They would just have been brighter on white.

And we don't put the eggs in the fridge when we come home either. They're out on the counter. Or they will be when I buy some today - I had egg on toast for tea last night.

Originally Posted by monster

I've heard spigot used a lot too -I just forgot about it! Is it regional?

Spiggits are biscuits in our family. Comes from my brother trying to say biscuits as a child (more properly s-bicits) Whenever I hear spigot that's what I think of.

Re wiping up. If you have soap bubbles on your plates when they're draining, you're using too much washing up liquid. We wipe up as soon as we've washed up and I don't recall any bubbles on the plates. And after all, you are wiping them... It would be a waste of hot water to rinse them! Then again, I grew up in a house where three of us would use the same bathwater, for fear of the ruinious cost of hving the immersion on. And we boiled a keetle for our morning wash in the sink.

[squirell nutkin]

You could rinse them in cold water.

[Pete Zicato]

Do Brits refer to all redheads as ginger - even the dark red kind?

[Spexxvet]

No, the dark red ones are called Maryanne.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Do Brits refer to all redheads as ginger - even the dark red kind?

And do they have the expression beat like a red-headed step child? And why is ginger a pejorative?

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

No, the dark red ones are called Maryanne.

hahah

[Cloud]

in the new Sherlock Holmes movie (which I bought and watched several times yesterday) they keep referring to the "ginger dwarf" with some glee. Also, Robert Downey Jr. is completely awesome . . . but doesn't sound too British.

ETA: I note that The Red-Headed League by Conan Doyle is available online for free in the public domain. Bet there are a bunch of spigots and ballcocks in it. Don't know about the ginger midgets.

[monster]

yes, although it's a little derogatory and it may be more the English than all the Brits. I think it stems from the Irish/celtic thing -the Irish were looked down upon. But they're all ginger and it's not as "sought-after" as a look as it is here. Although that's a little outdated now. But certainly when i was at school, they were all ginger. Your hair colors were blonde, ginger, mouse and dark. Shove me in the mouse category and color me purple.

[squirell nutkin]

and Bob's your uncle?

[monster]

actually, Colin's my uncle, but I always liked to be a little different.