When America gets it right.

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Most of their spelling and grammar differences are just wrong, but occasionally something it works, and works even better than our version! Dear reader I give you the 'cell' or 'cellphone'. It is much easier and more pleasant than the 'mobile phone' that we linguistically haul around. Is it the only one?

MissconductUS - sorry it wasn't clear which drug you were meaning.

"Both of my kids had asthma, so yes, I know that anything that blocks the COX-1 enzyme can be problematic. Fortunately, neither were triggered by NSAIDs and they both outgrew it." That's great, wish I could! At one point I thought I was past it (hadn't had an attack almost 2 years) and foolishly didn't keep my inhaler to hand, I got caught out by local farmer using something that triggered it and ended up needing an ambulance! Idiot!

No problem graphista, we'll just blame mycat for posting about her antiviral and pain meds at the same time.😈

Sorry your asthma has been such a bother. I still keep a rescue inhaler around for the kids just in case.

Homo milk?!

Taking of bloody inhalers, I got charged over $200 for mine when I developed asthma this year.

They see trucks (pick ups and suvs) and rigs (lorries) on the highway

12 years in the US and I just recently realised that here (New England) a truck means a pick-up truck, whereas a lorry is called an 18-wheeler or a semi or a tractor-trailer or a rig or a big rig.

I'm still not quite sure what a mack truck is or if it's different to the others.

I wouldn't call an SUV a truck, but then we have a CRV which I think of as an SUV, but I suspect it's actually a crossover.

Don't get me started on backhoes and loaders. No. Idea.

Mack is a brand, like Volvo or Kenworth, etc. They make juggernauts, dump trucks, and other large vehicles beloved of small boys.

Backhoes are a sort of digger that can scoop with an attachment on one end and push or scoop with a bulldozerish bucket at the other end. A loader is like a bulldozer that can scoop up heaps of rubble and load it into a dump truck or onto another heap.

Having just done one, and gearing up for the other, can I make a pitch for Thanksgiving over Christmas?

Thanksgiving has the food, the family gathering, the decorations but without the pressure to buy a thousand presents and send a million Christmas cards. For non-Christians, it really does have the best bits of Christmas (other than a tree), and I really love the focus on appreciating the good aspects of our lives over acquiring more material things.

I'm with you, Olenna. I much prefer Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Speaking of trucks, there is that great American form of entertainment known as a tractor pull. Big rigs, etc. in a football stadium pulling things. I have never been.

Is it bad that I was HORRIFIED at supo's lack of truck knowledge?

DS is five. DH is a builder. I dream about these fucking things.

DS's first word was Mummy. 2nd was backhoe.

You also are missing a whole world of skidders, feller bunchers, snow groomers.

We're yet to go to a tractor pull. DS and I went to a few lawnmower races last year.

There's a monster truck locally shaped like a lobster. It's called 'the crush-station'.

I used to live in London and go to Mitchellin starred restaurants and wear 5 inch heels. Who even am I anymore?!

Speaking of small boys and trucks, some boys never outgrow their fascination with trucks. Both my husband and my son drive big pick-ups. Neither of them has a particular need for a truck.

DH gets a new toy every year.

This year it was some huge bush hog attachment that goes behind the tractor and enables him to cut very long grass in huge fields. To be fair it's earned us quite a bit of money already.

Last year it was a wood splitter (which I adore as I can spilt wood myself without ending up in a chiropractor).

Is it bad that I was HORRIFIED at supo's lack of truck knowledge?

I do have a snowblower. And DH has a pickup truck that I repeatedly talk about selling, then he proves to me that it's useful once again and I back off for a while.

@Stupomax I reeeeeeally want a snow blower. I spend HOURS shovelling!

We actually did sell dh's pick up truck haha. Now he has a summer Range Rover (heat doesn't work) and a Winter Audi (overheats and clouds of smoke come out if it's not cold outside).

I reeeeeeally want a snow blower. I spend HOURS shovelling!

You live in Maine and have tractors and no snowblower?

The world has gone mad, obviously.

Below is our little workhorse of a snowblower. Not terribly expensive and will only handle about a 10-12 inch snowfall (that's the height of the opening), so you may have to use it more than once in a big storm with lots of snow.

Honda Single Stage Snowblower

We got ours in 2003 and it still runs like a champ. Honda power equipment is legendary for it's quality and durability. It's very easy to start and much quieter than most thanks to the 4 stroke engine. Even DD can start it and use it.

Mycat you can use the website to find a dealer near you. Tell DH that this is on your "must have" list this year.