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Jul 3rd 2014, 12:57 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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Originally Posted by robin1234

You can buy everything, in America. Or so I've heard.

Not kinder eggs

Jul 3rd 2014, 1:18 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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 Of course, the tax revenue from alcohol sales plummeted which is why prohibition was repealed...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 ....

Jul 3rd 2014, 1:32 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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I do. I live in Canada so I can go to the store and buy them... Pas de probleme

Jul 3rd 2014, 4:31 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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

Jul 3rd 2014, 5:56 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

Okay, I'll bite.

What the heck are "kinder eggs"?

Jul 3rd 2014, 6:12 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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.

Jul 3rd 2014, 6:16 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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.

Jul 3rd 2014, 6:44 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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.

Jul 3rd 2014, 7:43 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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Americans hate you for your freedoms

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Originally Posted by bigglesworth

You don't mean those awful Kinder eggs? Does anyone actually eat them?

I thought it was about happy free range chickens.

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...

Jul 3rd 2014, 9:49 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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I think they are, they started putting the toy in a plastic container after a kid choked on one.

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Jul 3rd 2014, 10:08 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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.

Jul 3rd 2014, 10:10 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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.

Jul 3rd 2014, 11:53 pm

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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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

Jul 4th 2014, 11:46 am

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Re: Language Differences between USA and UK

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

You realize you can't own an Englishman, at least not a genuine one, don't you?

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?