The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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JAS_OH1 said:
I am not sure it would sound vastly different to most Americans (unless they had spent some time in the Netherlands and/or Germany).

One of my nephew's wife is from Berlin (she speaks 3 languages fluently and bits and pieces of several others). She works for the embassy and they travel around quite a bit. I haven't seen them in a long time because they haven't been in the US since about 2000, unfortunately. Anyway, I could rarely detect any accent when she spoke English, I suppose being married to an American (and interacting with international diplomats on a regular basis) does make a difference!
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Pennsylvania Dutch is vastly different to Dutch though, about as related as Jiddisch or Afrikaans. I understand some things they say but it's mixed with lots of unknown words. But I can imagine the accents sound similar as they are all related.
Love is the best teacher to learn a language, definitely!
 
Windigo said:
Pennsylvania Dutch is vastly different to Dutch though, about as related as Jiddisch or Afrikaans. I understand some things they say but it's mixed with lots of unknown words. But I can imagine the accents sound similar as they are all related.
Love is the best teacher to learn a language, definitely!
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I am sure to you and many others it is very different, yes. Just like to me, the southern accent in the US is vastly different from the midwest or the NE US. I have a neutral accent, even though I lived in Florida for so many years. People up here are surprised when they find out I lived in the south most of my life. My oldest brother has quite the Georgia twang, LOL (he lives in NE Florida about 15 miles south of the GA/FL state line).
 
caseydog said:
My dogs hated it. It is very slippery for dogs and cats.
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And got chicks! They have enormous fun skidding to a halt and have you in hysterics when they try to run around the kitchen/dining room/sitting room circuit... lol. sorry...
 
garlichead said:
Can't wait until biking weather. 25.00 is a fill up, so maybe 30.00 now.
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Filling up my 4x4 is about $180 AUD right now. She's not being used much. Filling up hubby's 4WD SUV is only $110 and she goes roughly 100km a tank further than my 4x4 does.
 
Windigo said:
Yeah bell peppers or just peppers is the one I've heard used most in England too, maybe the maker of the chart was confused themselves.

We Dutch use the word 'Paprika' for bell peppers, and when I was younger I was very confused by Brits using 'paprika' and then grabbing a spice jar. Until I got older and realised that's the name for what we call 'paprika poeder' or bell pepper powder when translated literally from Dutch.
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Capsicum is Australia
 
I'm so over not having hot water! It's warm (ok it was warm yesterday and the day before, it isn't today) and very humid right now. I can't wash clothes because I can't dry them. It's been wet and windy most days and whilst we're not getting the worst of the weather that south east Queensland & north east NSW have been getting, we are getting the tail end of it. Not as bad as murphyscreek or Frizz1974 but we don't have a tumble drier so can't wash & dry clothes unless the weather cooperates.

And because it's not sunny, I can't use my solar shower bags to get hot water either! Our landlady and landlord tried to get a plumber to replace the boiler yesterday but the plumber failed to turn up. The plumber that did turn up was here to fix a leak that I couldn't demonstrate because I don't have hot water... The leak only drips for a short period when you run the hot tap in the bathroom basin. If you stop running the tap the moment hot water arrives in the sink, the shower sounds like it is leaking in the wall.... of course you can't get at the pipes in the wall and I can't demonstrate because I've no hot water.

It stopped being hot on Wednesday night but because I don't use much hot water, I didn't notice until Thursday afternoon. I just thought I'd gone mad so said nothing until hubby got home and confirmed that it was by now only luke warm... by Friday it was almost cold... so the hot water heater is trying to work but not being very successful.... my landlady offered us their gas camping shower, but they couldn't get it to work... so back to boiling the kettle, washing in cold water and using that awful dry powder shampoo on my hair. I really need a shower. Plus it's not that warm here right now so I'm not inclined to have a cold shower. I think I'm over that stage of my life! Lol.

And with all the pressure testing of the pipes, the sediment in the pipes has been stirred up, so the irony is that our only drinking water is the now cold water in the hot water tank until the pipes and the tank settle back down. You have no idea how glad i am that tomorrow's electricity cut has been cancelled. Lighting a fire would have been my only way to keep the chicks warm.... (they have a reptile ceramic heat lamp for warmth in their cage. The youngest were 2 weeks only on Friday)...
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
It stopped being hot on Wednesday night but because I don't use much hot water, I didn't notice until Thursday afternoon. I just thought I'd gone mad so said nothing until hubby got home and confirmed that it was by now only luke warm..
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I feel wimpy in comparison. I noticed it was a little cool this morning and that the water was cold too. I went to tweak up the heating on the remote control thermostat and realised it was because the batteries needed replacing - easily fixed.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I'm so over not having hot water! It's warm (ok it was warm yesterday and the day before, it isn't today) and very humid right now. I can't wash clothes because I can't dry them. It's been wet and windy most days and whilst we're not getting the worst of the weather that south east Queensland & north east NSW have been getting, we are getting the tail end of it. Not as bad as murphyscreek or Frizz1974 but we don't have a tumble drier so can't wash & dry clothes unless the weather cooperates.

And because it's not sunny, I can't use my solar shower bags to get hot water either! Our landlady and landlord tried to get a plumber to replace the boiler yesterday but the plumber failed to turn up. The plumber that did turn up was here to fix a leak that I couldn't demonstrate because I don't have hot water... The leak only drips for a short period when you run the hot tap in the bathroom basin. If you stop running the tap the moment hot water arrives in the sink, the shower sounds like it is leaking in the wall.... of course you can't get at the pipes in the wall and I can't demonstrate because I've no hot water.

It stopped being hot on Wednesday night but because I don't use much hot water, I didn't notice until Thursday afternoon. I just thought I'd gone mad so said nothing until hubby got home and confirmed that it was by now only luke warm... by Friday it was almost cold... so the hot water heater is trying to work but not being very successful.... my landlady offered us their gas camping shower, but they couldn't get it to work... so back to boiling the kettle, washing in cold water and using that awful dry powder shampoo on my hair. I really need a shower. Plus it's not that warm here right now so I'm not inclined to have a cold shower. I think I'm over that stage of my life! Lol.

And with all the pressure testing of the pipes, the sediment in the pipes has been stirred up, so the irony is that our only drinking water is the now cold water in the hot water tank until the pipes and the tank settle back down. You have no idea how glad i am that tomorrow's electricity cut has been cancelled. Lighting a fire would have been my only way to keep the chicks warm.... (they have a reptile ceramic heat lamp for warmth in their cage. The youngest were 2 weeks only on Friday)...
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And here in Toowoomba after the sun briefly shone this morning, is pouring rain again. Had hung all my washing outside, and now transferred in to my garage.
 
Morning Glory said:
That is cheaper than the UK. The current price here is currently £1.53 per litre (which is 2.58 Canadian dollars).

Translating that to gallons and US dollars makes my brain hurt!
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Yeah, that double conversion is too complicated for me to want to mess with.

Oh, I found a converter online. You are paying $7.67 per gallon US. :eek:

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garlichead said:
I remember when I was a kid living as an army brat, my dad mentioning the gas prices in Lahr Germany when we lived there being so much more than what it cost in Canada, and it's still the case obviously.
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My senior year in High School, the second Arab oil embargo hit, and gas prices went up to 47¢ per gallon. We were shocked!

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JAS_OH1 said:
Yes, they are "carts" up here in the north, but in the south US they are often referred to as "buggies" in some regions (and carts).
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i haven't heard "buggy" for shopping cart in decades. A lot of people in Port Arthur called them buggies back when I lived there, but when I go back now, I don't notice it anymore. My friends down there say "cart."

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murphyscreek said:
And here in Toowoomba after the sun briefly shone this morning, is pouring rain again. Had hung all my washing outside, and now transferred in to my garage.
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We're due single figures overnight again later in the week. Severe weather warnings and the likes have been issued for here from tonight but it's unlikely to be too bad. I think it's the wind and sudden thunderstorms that are likely the biggest problem. Nothing like your area.
 
caseydog said:
My senior year in High School, the second Arab oil embargo hit, and gas prices went up to 47¢ per gallon. We were shocked!

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The furthest back I remember was filling up my Norton Commando 750 and I was around 20 so early 70's and for Sunoco 100 which was the highest octane at the time was .39 cents a gallon which is 4.5 liters and before Canada went metric in 1975.
 
caseydog said:
i haven't heard "buggy" for shopping cart in decades. A lot of people in Port Arthur called them buggies back when I lived there, but when I go back now, I don't notice it anymore. My friends down there say "cart."

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Probably most of the people who called them buggies in PA aren't alive anymore. My grandparents, aunt, uncles, etc. They certainly didn't change their terminology to become more hip and with it. They are all passed away.

Just a few years ago when I was visiting Port Arthur, I drove my aunt to the grocery store and went to get her walker out of the trunk. She said, "No, just grab me one of them buggies."
 
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