The whole jelly/jell-o/jam thing bugs me. Tell an American you like jelly, they hate jelly but they think you mean jam when you actually mean jell-o not jelly...or jam. wut
F*** you Walker
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I never bothered to know the difference between jelly and jam. They both come in a jar and are delicious on toast, so why distinguish?
As for jell-o... how could you call it anything else? Jelly and jam are taken. Besides, it says jell-o on the box.
^ case in point
I never bothered to know the difference between jelly and jam. They both come in a jar and are delicious on toast, so why distinguish?
As for jell-o... how could you call it anything else? Jelly and jam are taken. Besides, it says jell-o on the box.
^ case in point
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS MON CAPITAINE
YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HARTLEH'S STRAWBERREH JELLEH
Why would anyone need to know the month when they woke up before they knew what day it was? :lol:
That's a silly question. Personally, I prefer to describe today as "December twelfth" or just "the twelfth". "The twelfth of December" seems a bit long. Month/day/year day/month/year, the difference is negligible. Having two formats does get confusing when a date like 05/08/2012 comes up, though. I think America should just use the systems that the rest of the world is using. But that would require re educating everyone. And that would require reading stuff like... books. Eeeeewwww.
Oh, and Jell-O isn't jelly. It's brand name gelatin.
Saying it is a little different that writing it down, often when someone asks you to sign something & date it they are more interested in the day it was signed on than the month. Id still say '12th of December' though as again people would be more interested in the day than the month.
Holy ****! I'm famous!
But dudes. Arseface, here's the thing. Your chart, it maketh no sense. On the one hand, you have a US measurement of distance, a distance unit used only on football fields, a third unit of distance, and a unit of weight. Compared to two distance measurements and two weight measurements. What's up with that?
Seriously, though, the answer here is that the US lurves tradition. That's why we stick to the cool units, rather than the boring practical units for most things.
So far as temperatures go, who cares? There's not really any practical benefit to Fahrenheit over Celsius. Or vice versa. Both scales are pretty damn arbitrary.
And I write my dates like this now, just to annoy people: 12DEC12. So... yeah. Dunno we're traditionalists, though. So I write dates Month DD, YYYY just cause that's what I've always done.
And you think you're better than Americans? WELL WE HAVE A STATE THAT LOOKS LIKE A PENIS, SO THERE.
AND ALSO WE HAVE CRABS. LOTS OF CRABS.
I'm sorry, I'm not arguing very well this morning.
EDIT: Also, Queen confused me with her jelly/jam/jell-o rant.
And also-also, I recently discovered that "skank" has an oddly different meaning for the UK.
EDIT2: ALSO-ALSO-ALSO, this seems irrelevant, but funny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars#Dates
But dudes. Arseface, here's the thing. Your chart, it maketh no sense. On the one hand, you have a US measurement of distance, a distance unit used only on football fields, a third unit of distance, and a unit of weight. Compared to two distance measurements and two weight measurements. What's up with that?
Seriously, though, the answer here is that the US lurves tradition. That's why we stick to the cool units, rather than the boring practical units for most things.
So far as temperatures go, who cares? There's not really any practical benefit to Fahrenheit over Celsius. Or vice versa. Both scales are pretty damn arbitrary.
And I write my dates like this now, just to annoy people: 12DEC12. So... yeah. Dunno we're traditionalists, though. So I write dates Month DD, YYYY just cause that's what I've always done.
And you think you're better than Americans? WELL WE HAVE A STATE THAT LOOKS LIKE A PENIS, SO THERE.
AND ALSO WE HAVE CRABS. LOTS OF CRABS.
I'm sorry, I'm not arguing very well this morning.
EDIT: Also, Queen confused me with her jelly/jam/jell-o rant.
And also-also, I recently discovered that "skank" has an oddly different meaning for the UK.
EDIT2: ALSO-ALSO-ALSO, this seems irrelevant, but funny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars#Dates
It's like "whore" or "slut" only a leetle less harsh. It's not quite as offensive, but it's not something you'd call someone who you liked except for the same way you'd sarcastically use "bitch."
Weirded me out when I heard a woman I work with refer to a guy who I also work with as "a skank." It was like, "wait, what?" I'd never heard it without the sexual connotation before.
It really is weird logging on and seeing "new reply to **** you, Walker."
I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you Brits call coolers fridges? Then what do you call fridges?
Watch this scene, the line was from that. The tall guy in it who's obsessed with American things says it.
As for the boxes you call coolers, I've always called them cool boxes. And we just call fridges as they are. When I said cooler though I was refering to the big electronic ones that you see in off-licenses (or as you call them mini-marts/grocery stores.)
That's basically what it means in England, whore or slut. Except, well... skankier. Like a lower class slut. A classy skank would be a slut, a skank would be more of a filthy commoner than a slut would be.
I never bothered to know the difference between jelly and jam. They both come in a jar and are delicious on toast, so why distinguish?
As for jell-o... how could you call it anything else? Jelly and jam are taken. Besides, it says jell-o on the box.
^ case in point
Wait... so you guys call Jelly 'Jell-o' and Jam 'Jelly'? ...so what in God's name is Jam in the US?
My head... it hurts.
In all seriousness, I lied. I do know the difference. Prepare for some knowledge on USA jargon because jelly and jam are physically distinct. Jelly is highly processed and homogenous. It's artificial. Nature never created anything that resembles this, delicious as it may be.
Jam on the other hand bears some resemblance to what fruit it's supposed to be. It has pulp, seeds, texture that suggests it was not created in a lab but rather actually hails from real fruit. It's that healthier toast-topping alternative that your girlfriend yells at you for not knowing the difference when you come back from the store with jelly for the first time after moving in. You monster.
Jelly and jam are available at the grocery store, a lesson you have now learned. You would have a hell of a hard time trying to find jelly at a farmer's market, though I suspect jelly has a much better chance of remaining edible after a nuclear apocalypse. She'll be thanking you after the world ends. :thumbsup:
As for Jell-o... dude, you for real? It says the name on the box. You other english-speaking folk sure can be creative.
I think it's all the rain. They get so bored without any available outdoor activities that they just do cruel and depraved things to their words.
Also, I would argue that jelly and jam are equally unhealthy. But I don't eat jam, so what do I know?
...I dunno, she still used it much more casually than we would have. I think it's just a difference of degree in vulgarity.
Can't watch it, I'm at internship. But... I don't know. I mean... I honestly can't say that I call those things anything. If I had to, I'd probably call them fridges.
EDIT: Apparently, the FDA actually defines what "jelly" and "jam" and "preserves" and so forth are. Bahahahha. Also, short explanation from a company.
Dis' some kind of military thing. We had to mark the date like this as well.
Well SCREW YOU! We have a peninsula housing three whole countries that looks like a penis, so HERE!
SonofRaiden
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what about all this? fighting over all this sh*t? so european people do stuff differently than americans. I don't care. as long as you can measure, I could care less if you give it to me in metric or Imperial.