Ok a few more.
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Spending a penny/watering the daffodils/taking a whizz/having a slash
Nice Marty, throwing Mike off like that.
Mike- that is a picture of a spanner. There, saved your bacon Marty.
Now the funny thing is that we have spanners in the US as well but they are not wrenches. They are used to tighten and loosen things, often things like gland nuts (Easy Boys!) and they come in two basic flavors: the outside 'hook' style used to grab onto notches cut into the periphery of a nut, and the true 'spanner' which has two protruding pins on the face of the tool that engage with holes in the edge of a round nut. The advantage of the later system is that no extra room around the nut is required to allow for a tool because the spanner grabs onto the face of the nut, not the outside. I have no idea in the world what 'our spanners' are called in the UK. ??
Brian
Yeah, self- explanatory. Add to those:
Shedding a tear, having a squirt, etc.
Brian
Yeah, we call them erasers. But we also have a use for the word rubbers, which brings up an interesting question: in the UK, you could actually borrow a rubber, use it and return it to the person you borrowed it from? Would they take it (without 10' long tongs)? Can multiple people use the same rubber?
And on the dishes made with organs, which seem to be both plentiful as well as odd (steak and kidney pie..... not that must draw in a LOT of tourists). This too brings up a question: what do you Brits. do with the part of the animal we colonists call 'meat'? Cut it out of the way in order to get at the kidneys?
NOW this is getting fun!
Brian
And as an added treat, the various systems cross pretty well in that cubic meter is 1,000 liters. Slick. Quick, how many fluid ounces in a cubic yard (get fresh batteries for your calculator.....).
Brian
I meant to respond on this and forgot
yes thats more commonly known as a spanner here, a wrench looks more like this
Nice Marty, throwing Mike off like that.
Mike- that is a picture of a spanner. There, saved your bacon Marty.
Now the funny thing is that we have spanners in the US as well but they are not wrenches. They are used to tighten and loosen things, often things like gland nuts (Easy Boys!) and they come in two basic flavors: the outside 'hook' style used to grab onto notches cut into the periphery of a nut, and the true 'spanner' which has two protruding pins on the face of the tool that engage with holes in the edge of a round nut. The advantage of the later system is that no extra room around the nut is required to allow for a tool because the spanner grabs onto the face of the nut, not the outside. I have no idea in the world what 'our spanners' are called in the UK. ??
Brian
although "having the squirts " is slightly different
Interesting- I had no idea what you call that. We call it a 'pipe wrench'.
Brian
you forgot to mention black pudding, which I really love especially deep fried in batter
Yeah, we call them erasers. But we also have a use for the word rubbers, which brings up an interesting question: in the UK, you could actually borrow a rubber, use it and return it to the person you borrowed it from? Would they take it (without 10' long tongs)? Can multiple people use the same rubber?
And on the dishes made with organs, which seem to be both plentiful as well as odd (steak and kidney pie..... not that must draw in a LOT of tourists). This too brings up a question: what do you Brits. do with the part of the animal we colonists call 'meat'? Cut it out of the way in order to get at the kidneys?
NOW this is getting fun!
Brian
and given that 1 litre of water weighs 1kg then 1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 metric tonne
So a swimming pool measuring 10m x 5m x 3 m deep holds 150 tonnes of water
this I would call a "C" spanner
we used to chuck rubbers around the classroom at school which often led to the teacher chucking his duster at you if he caught you !!!
Yes, it is almost as if someone actually sat down and designed a measuring system.
Maybe we (the we being native English speakers around the world) do not like it because it is a French invention? If so, that is too bad 'cause one can have all the disdain in the world for a group of people and still use their good ideas.
Brian
or was it those damned Froggies
http://www.metricationmatters.com/who-invented-the-metric-system.html
(and they keep doing that- anybody remember the Wentworth system? ?? ?? ??).
Ahhh, no. I remember the Whitworth ..that was the wrench...er spanner I through in the mix. See the "W"
Ahhh, no. I remember the Whitworth ..that was the wrench...er spanner I through in the mix. See the "W"?