Discussing the scene from pulp fiction with friends about what a quarter pounder with cheese is called a royale with cheese in France because of metric system...
Friend: ‘so if you go into a sweetshop in France do you ask for a royale of bonbons?’
When I lived overseas with ex (army) lots of others really struggled with the adjustment away from the imperial system to metric when shopping at the market. Quite a few would come away with either huge or tiny amounts of whatever they were trying to buy and being very british were too embarrassed to point out to the vendor there was a problem. The vendor wouldn’t know because they obviously couldn’t know if the buyer intended to buy for 1 person or 8 or whatever.
1 that I became friendly with came away with 15 fairly large sweet peppers on one occasion, I was in a different shop while she was in the market and we’d arranged to meet at a coffee shop, I offered to take them back for her but she was so embarrassed she wouldn’t even do that, so she and her husband (there were only the 2 of them) were eating peppers every mealtime for like 2 weeks! (She was quite a novice cook too, I suggested some batch cooking and freezing ideas but she wasn’t confident doing them)
They didn’t have peppers for a good while after that 😂
Yesterday DP looked on in complete surprise as I snapped the end off a box cutter (using the snapping tool at the end of it), revealing the next layer of sharp edge. Apparently he had no idea this was something you could do when the blade got blunt.
I lived with someone at one point who was going to throw a “broken” lamp out, their face just even at the point of me unscrewing the plug “you can’t do that it’s dangerous!” and when I changed the fuse and the lamp worked again you’d think I’d created light itself! 😂 the weirdest part? This persons father is an electrician yet apparently had never seen fit to teach their child (who was by this time in their 30’s) the basics!
I once knew a set of twins who had different birthdays (one before midnight one after) that confused fuck out of loads of people! 😂
My favourite I read of once I think it was travel agents commenting, the british customers who complained about their flights home from the Caribbean taking SO much longer than that of the friends they made on that holiday who lived in...Florida!
Apparently the biggest time difference is 26 hours? How does that even work?
I found out the other night the Orient express doesn't go through 'the orient' I had no idea! think you misunderstand the definition of orient or rather that there are different definitions
Orient simply means east, east of what is very open to interpretation, plus Istanbul which is where the orient express initially travelled to was considered at that time to be “in the east” by those Europeans, have you never wondered why certain countries in Northern Africa are/were described as “the Middle East”?
The orient express essentially became a brand name too and so not necessarily descriptive of its destination (which has changed several rimes) or route.
I’ve gone blank on the term for this (can someone help me out?) but Stanley is the brand name so I think I’m correct in saying all Stanley knives are box cutters but not all box cutters are Stanley knives?
Like all jacuzzis are hot tubs but not all hot tubs are jacuzzis.
@dragonfly97 actually endo can cause endometrial tissue to be in all sorts of weird parts of the body. I have some on my bowel, rectum and spine among others which causes some weird bleeding patterns, inc bleeding from the rectum while menstruating.