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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   Moving back or to the UK (https://britishexpats.com/forum/moving-back-uk-61/)
-   -   Language Differences between USA and UK (https://britishexpats.com/forum/moving-back-uk-61/language-differences-between-usa-uk-837126/)

Gozit Jul 3rd 2014 12:57 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 11323719)
You can buy everything, in America. Or so I've heard.
Not kinder eggs ;)

robin1234 Jul 3rd 2014 1:18 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by gozitanguygoinghome99xx (Post 11323754)
Not kinder eggs ;)
All I know is, the consumption of alcohol in the US actually went up during prohibition. Of course, the tax revenue from alcohol sales plummeted which is why prohibition was repealed...

Just saying ... If you really want kinder eggs ....

Gozit Jul 3rd 2014 1:32 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 11323776)
All I know is, the consumption of alcohol in the US actually went up during prohibition. Of course, the tax revenue from alcohol sales plummeted which is why prohibition was repealed...

Just saying ... If you really want kinder eggs ....
I do. I live in Canada so I can go to the store and buy them... Pas de probleme ;)

robin1234 Jul 3rd 2014 4:31 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by gozitanguygoinghome99xx (Post 11323793)
I do. I live in Canada so I can go to the store and buy them... Pas de probleme ;)
Americans hate you for your freedoms:mad:

bigglesworth Jul 3rd 2014 5:56 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Okay, I'll bite.

What the heck are "kinder eggs"?

robin1234 Jul 3rd 2014 6:12 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by bigglesworth (Post 11324061)
Okay, I'll bite.

What the heck are "kinder eggs"?
They are those things that you see a picture of if you do a Google image search for kinder egg.

robin1234 Jul 3rd 2014 6:16 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by bigglesworth (Post 11324061)
Okay, I'll bite.

What the heck are "kinder eggs"?
Anyway, they are supposedly illegal in the USA. Problem is, unlike guns, the founding fathers did not think to write out a constitutional amendment saying that citizens' rights to own & eat them should not be abridged.

bigglesworth Jul 3rd 2014 6:44 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 11324078)
They are those things that you see a picture of if you do a Google image search for kinder egg.
You don't mean those awful Kinder eggs? Does anyone actually eat them?

I thought it was about happy free range chickens.:o

Gozit Jul 3rd 2014 7:43 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 11323976)
Americans hate you for your freedoms:mad:
:lol:;)
Originally Posted by bigglesworth (Post 11324125)
You don't mean those awful Kinder eggs? Does anyone actually eat them?

I thought it was about happy free range chickens.:o
LOL cant believe you never heard of them ! Are they not available in the UK either? (though I am sure they are not illegal in the UK, they may not be sold there)

I personally like them once in a while...

Sally Redux Jul 3rd 2014 9:49 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by gozitanguygoinghome99xx (Post 11324193)
:lol:;)


LOL cant believe you never heard of them ! Are they not available in the UK either? (though I am sure they are not illegal in the UK, they may not be sold there)

I personally like them once in a while...
I think they are, they started putting the toy in a plastic container after a kid choked on one.

robin1234 Jul 3rd 2014 10:08 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 11324310)
I think they are, they started putting the toy in a plastic container after a kid choked on one.
It's dangerous out there. I'll definitely think twice before making a video of me swallowing a teaspoon of cinnamon.

Sally Redux Jul 3rd 2014 10:10 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 11324331)
It's dangerous out there. I'll definitely think twice before making a video of me swallowing a teaspoon of cinnamon.
Sadly I did know someone whose little boy died by choking on a silverskin pickle. The story on the BE home page keeps reminding me of it.

Gozit Jul 3rd 2014 11:53 am
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 11324310)
I think they are, they started putting the toy in a plastic container after a kid choked on one.
They put the toy in a plastic container here too

Pearlgirl Jul 3rd 2014 11:46 pm
Re: Language Differences between USA and UK
 
Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11322897)
You realize you can't own an Englishman, at least not a genuine one, don't you? :unsure:
Well, I suppose I should have written "my husband." Attributive adjectives are just so hard to control! Or is that Englishmen? Or husbands? Or anything? :rofl:


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