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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by sunflwrgrl13
(Post 7479151)
In the workplace I much prefer men who wear a t-shirt (vests are those sleeveless little jackets that have button up the middle) under their dress shirts. Btw, they don't wear the sleeveless t-shirts (wife beaters) under dress shirts, it's typically the short sleeve version.
What is called a vest in the UK is called a wife-beater in the USA. What is called a waist-coat in the UK is called a vest in the USA. A t-shirt is a t-shirt in both countries. but in the USA men wear a t-shirt under their dress shirt & in the UK men wear a vest/wife-beater under their shirt (or they used to but it has gone out of fashion now, and generally people wear nothing under their shirt now). |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Do little kiddies still wear vests - an underwear garment (as added warmth) under their clothes?
I know the girls at school did back in the UK until it was time to start wearing a bra - then the vests went out the window. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by exvj
(Post 7478170)
I believe some students turn thir underpants inside out for the same reason
Then British mothers knew the need to look your best when wheeled into the emergency room on a stretcher. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by lansbury
(Post 7479419)
My wife refuses to iron and press my underpants and socks, my mother always did this.
Then British mothers knew the need to look your best when wheeled into the emergency room on a stretcher. Heaven help the wife of a retired man.. get busy, you! :lol: |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by sunflwrgrl13
(Post 7479151)
In the workplace I much prefer men who wear a t-shirt (vests are those sleeveless little jackets that have button up the middle) under their dress shirts. Btw, they don't wear the sleeveless t-shirts (wife beaters) under dress shirts, it's typically the short sleeve version.
I can't stand seeing men's chest hair poking out their shirts. Nobody wants to know how hairy (or not) your chest is, so leave it covered. And nobody wants to see your man nipples poking through the usually thin dress shirt. The t-shirt gives an extra layer to prevent those little embarrassments. Would you like to know why you get all these negative responses? It's the tone that you write with. Perhaps it's a shortfall of the written word, as opposed to the spoken. To me, none of your sarcastic wit (if you possess any) comes across - most of your posts come across as autocratic, superior and condescending. You may not mean it like that (but maybe you do), so your posts beg for nasty remarks in return. Now that was an informative reply and I learned something factual Ah well in that case I would much rather see that little white T shirt than a male 'sports bra' or scotch taped quarters Many people in England find me reasonably amusing, but obviously nobody in the US - that constitutes a more valid reason to return to the UK rather than vest wearing and all the things that people get upset about on here ok well you guys win eventually so well done. The war on people who tease about america and use British humour on a BE site has been won and the correct flag raised - if there are any things different about america and the UK, all the differences simply point out the superiority of the american way in everything from check pants to private medicine My form I-407 is at hand so you can turn your guns on the next upstart |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 7479426)
You lazy so & so, my DH not only irons his own, he does mine too.
Heaven help the wife of a retired man.. get busy, you! :lol: |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by exvj
(Post 7479427)
My form I-407 is at hand so you can turn your guns on the next upstart Remember no peace treaty was signed after 1776 so they may still be viewed as enemy combatants. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
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Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza
(Post 7479392)
Do little kiddies still wear vests - an underwear garment (as added warmth) under their clothes?
I know the girls at school did back in the UK until it was time to start wearing a bra - then the vests went out the window. They were Liberty compared with the corsets that women previously wore. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by lansbury
(Post 7479445)
Gad sir, no true Brit retreats in the face of the enemy.
Remember no peace treaty was signed after 1776 so they may still be viewed as enemy combatants. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by lansbury
(Post 7479433)
But your DH is a citizen I'm not, the agreement my wife signed with the US government to caterer to my every need is still valid. :lol:
Get her a nice new iron for your anniversary and see if that doesn't advance your cause. :lol: |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 7479484)
Well alright, as long as you keep up the Good Works. :)
Get her a nice new iron for your anniversary and see if that doesn't advance your cause. :lol: What she is getting a new kitchen, it is being gutted as we speak. They have already found a problem we didn't know existed, mold behind one of the old cabinets and wet wall board I guess from a leaking pipe so an iron might be beyond the budget. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
My Northern Irish friends call a sleeveless white undershirt a "wife-beater." In fact, my rock band friends dared their bass player to play a gig wearing only a wife-beater on top. Here in hot, open-minded Austin, no-one cared! They had a good giggle over that one.
I imagine that said shirt was on the tour bus, to be worn under another shirt, or as sleepwear, but not meant to be seen in public. ;) |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Back in England we used to call Stella Artois "wife beater".
I've also heard vests/wife beaters called an Italian Tuxedo over here. |
Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by exvj
(Post 7479427)
Many people in England find me reasonably amusing, but obviously nobody in the US -
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 7479697)
I dunno, I've laughed at many of your posts.
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