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BRITISH
Estate Agent
http://alexandrascomplaints.files.wo...tate-agent.jpg
AMERICAN
Realtor
http://cuinsight.stream1011.netdna-c...2-a5d14b89.jpg
Basically the same thing, a smug bastard with little or no specific training and all the expertise and in depth knowledge of a shit flinging monkey that has been repeatedly catapulted head first into a brick wall. The US version sounds like a baddie from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
Thongs in Australia =flip flops elsewhere.
Thong = is a g string here.
OzzlandQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
Barbie
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...37_468x441.jpg
Pom
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4045/4...739dcab3_z.jpg
UK and USA
Barbie
http://www.fashion-doll-guide.com/im...rbie-dolls.jpg
Pom
http://www.thatswhatchesaid.net/wp-c...ed-Pom-Pom.jpg
cool. Were they buried under teh eggplant or the zucchini? I tend to bury them under the zucchini as it gives teh fine squash a few extra stripes on the outside.[/QUOTE]
Confused? Don't be http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...ml#post1147622 is here to help
AMERICAN
Eggplant
http://santarosa.ifas.ufl.edu/wp-con...Egg-Plant1.jpg
Only Joking ;D
Eggplant
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PH__yDeQ63...eggplant-3.jpg
BRITISH
Aubergine
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PH__yDeQ63...eggplant-3.jpg
AMERICAN
Zucchini
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_POsJ-2ndxT...s_zucchini.jpg
BRITISH
Courgette
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_POsJ-2ndxT...s_zucchini.jpg
The Aubergine is actually a berry and the Corgette is the swollen ovary of the Zucchini flower. Both are culinary staples all over the world.
We are lazy bastards we couldnt be stuffed trying to get our mouths round the word
Aubeerwhatever we went with egg plant :D.
Yeah one burns the others flaming.
US - Right side of the road
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.48541...05818&pid=15.1
UK - "Right" side of the road
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.48719...16694&pid=15.1
These are great ;D One that always gets me is 'pissed'
Think thats more Aussie isnt it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
If somethings funny, we say 'what a pisser.'
Pissed as a maggot is a very old term out here.
AMERICAN
Snickers
http://www.fdin.org.uk/wordpress/wp-...t_snickers.jpg
BRITISH
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o.../marathon1.jpg
Actually they are called Snickers over here now too. Where they always Snickers in the US? or were they Marathon originally ? Anyhoos seems like they have shrunk
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...w/marathon.jpg
http://s114.photobucket.com/user/tig...athon.jpg.html
Always been snickers as far as I remember but "Snickers" does now make a Marathon Energy Bar.
Coke here is legal but not in the USA.
That reminds me. We used to have a similar chocloate bar called a Topic whose advert had the taglineQuote:
Originally Posted by Greenbeanz
"What has a hazelnut in every bite?"
Squirrel Shit ;D