PhuturePriest Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Most of these are accurate, but at least in Kansas, we call them "curtains", not "drapes". We also interchange the words "movies" and "films". Calling a trunk a "boot" simply makes no sense at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 What are you talking a boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermia Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 https://plus.google.com/photos/107975600933203785518/albums/5840791220591630593?authkey=CP-zlduNwtjRwwE Pictures of hats and my cousins (and I) and a tea party... Oh and EA, my grandmother is letting me use her standing big hoop or whatever it is called. It will be a new experience for me! :woohoo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermia Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 https://plus.google.com/photos/107975600933203785518/albums/5840791220591630593?authkey=CP-zlduNwtjRwwE Pictures of hats and my cousins (and I) and a tea party... Oh and EA, my grandmother is letting me use her standing big hoop or whatever it is called. It will be a new experience for me! :woohoo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermia Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 https://plus.google.com/photos/107975600933203785518/albums/5840791220591630593?authkey=CP-zlduNwtjRwwE Pictures of hats and my cousins (and I) and a tea party... Oh and EA, my grandmother is letting me use her standing big hoop or whatever it is called. It will be a new experience for me! :woohoo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted September 7, 2013 Author Share Posted September 7, 2013 Recently, I have had a crazy craving for pumpkin pie. I LOVE pumpkin pie. I haven't had a pumpkin pie in YEARS. The English have never quite grasped the wonder that is pumpkin pie, so the last time I had it was when I got some of the pumpkin stuff at an American import store that was about two hours drive away from my college - and nowhere near where I live now! They don't even sell actual pumpkins in this country except for the week of Halloween. BUT Today I was at the supermarket and I spotted something wonderful: So now I can have pumpkin pie! :dance: The trouble with moving between countries is finding things you love that you can't get in your home country. When I first moved to the UK 9 years ago, there were no Oreos! Now Oreos are everywhere, but pumpkin pie has been eluding me until now. :dance: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 :hehe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) rotfl Sad thing is it took this American a few minutes to figure it out. I will point out, however, that they do call our odd system the 'English' system..... And then of course, let's not get started with years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds!!!!! I'd love to see THAT put into metric!!!! Uh... it's about time!!!!! Edited September 16, 2013 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaD2006 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 :hehe: HEY! I like rollercoasters!!!!!! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 rotfl Sad thing is it took this American a few minutes to figure it out. I will point out, however, that they do call our odd system the 'English' system..... And then of course, let's not get started with years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds!!!!! I'd love to see THAT put into metric!!!! Uh... it's about time!!!!! Hmm...I suppose your system is quite similar to the imperial measurements. We use a bizarre mix of imperial and metric. I'd tell you my height in feet and inches and my weight in kilograms (actually that I wouldn't tell you at all :P ) I have real trouble when using American recipes sometimes. I mean, a cup of butter?? What kind of dumb way to measure butter is that? Butter isn't a liquid! Flour and sugar too, it's SO much easier to weigh them than try and get an accurate measurement in cups. My mother was offered a job in Washington a few years ago and I am glad she didn't take it - I'd have gone mad there! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 HEY! I like rollercoasters!!!!!! :P Rollercoasters should stay in theme parks where they belong, not measuring things :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 MEASURING TOOLS.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 Those are some odd measuring tools! It has gotten so cold in England recently. :cold: We've even had the heating on. In September. Not that long ago I was sunbathing in the garden! It's 12ºC today...or 53ºF for those of you with rollercoaster measuring systems. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Believe it or not, Emily... those are used in dressmaking! And I totally get your CCCCCOOOOOLLLLDD September.... it is a lovely 65°F 18.33 C. 58°F14.44 C. here in Sunny San Francisco today.... and this is a bit warmer than it has been in days. Been debating about heat... and about taking a hot water bottle to bed. Brrrrr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 Ah, I did not know that! I want to get more into dressmaking at some point...I found a whole load of fabric in my grandmother's stuff. God bless her, she had a very WWII mentality of "save everything! I can find a use for this!" so I now have a nice little hoard of free sewing supplies. I may have to get my sewing machine out and do some experimenting. How I got my sewing machine...my mother cannot sew to save her life. She breaks sewing machine needles and once sewed her finger to my sister's bathing suit without realising it. Because I can sew I was always given the sewing tasks until eventually (after the third time sewing up the hem of my sister's school trousers by hand) I said "if you want me to keep repairing everything buy me a sewing machine!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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