Posted: 12/3/2005 5:24:18 PM EDT
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I'm a big fan of the show "Top Gear" and watching it gives me a few questions: 1). When you buy fuel(petrol  ) it is in gallons. Is it in US gallons or Imperial gallons?2). When you say how much you weigh, is it in pounds or kilograms? 3).When you buy a milk, is it in gallons? Thanks in advance! |
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Thanks Andy you're awesome! 
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16 stone 2 pounds - fine figure of a man! Streetfighter's just jealous, he's got the build of the guy who keeps getting sand kicked in his face 
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Last night, I was walking around the house with only a pair of shreddies on, and I caught sight of myself in the mirror and near recoiled in horror at how fat I have got, and how little muscle I have. Maybe I should go out drinking with you guy's, make me look good 
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Shreddies=underwear? 
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I am an "average" guy at shoots... some smaller, and all sizes.. I usually buy the "smallest" Tshirt on sale, which XL.. They go up to XXXL...  America is Fat, what can I say? I pick heart attack @ 50 and playing with a minigun over living clean and playing with .22LR.  
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By the way, I am reading Terry Pratchett novels and have a couple questions... Well, one to start with. What is a "bloke"? I understand "a guy", but does it have negative or postive connotations? I asked this on a Pratchett forum (among other questions) and didn't get a response. The other one is "catch", interused with "latch". Is that "lock/doorknob", or a U bar with a bar falling into the "U" (use of "latch" in the US) Little things like that. I have these sorted out: boot/trunk hood/bonnet semi/lorrie flashlight/torch coffee or soda / "tea"
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I would like to point out to all you fatties out there, that i am not overweight.,.. Im just undertall, I should me 11' 6" for this weight And remember inside every fat person is a thin person trying top get out. but thats there own problem for being around when where hungry! lol James, |
I picked heart attack at 45.....  It would never be allowed for such a gun even to see the light of day over here, women would faint, chickens wouldn't lay, cows milk would dry up and the world as we know it would cease to exist.... ANdy |
 Osama Bin Streetfighter hunting Infidel Pigs with a 'Pig'....
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Was it a cheese and ham butty, Butty? I'm staying well away from the weight question.... there are no more pies...I ate em all..  Taffy the overweight par for the course AR owner |
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Back to the Pratchet questions, As mentioned above, a bloke is a guy, a geezer, and any number of other terms. A catch is the same as a latch, and can be used for almost every type of common door latching system. When we ran the World, before we let America have a go , we picked up many terms from the Johnny foreigners, and not being very cleaver or literate, our troops bastardised the terms they learnt, and we have the glorious and colourful language of today (although sometimes used in completely the wrong sense to the original word or phrase).Matt ETA corrected spellings - English as a second language, my first language is gibberish. |
Corrected the spelling 
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I've typed cleaver several times tonight for some reason. Must be Freudian. Where's that clever, it's rampage time! |
I see, that is why we have one word for both "Negotiate" and "fight".... English is the melting pot of languages, and it is being invaded by ebonix |