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[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]Very few Brits under the age of 20 can write an entire sentence without a spelling error. In America, it's mostly people under 19 1/2 that have that problem. :cool:[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Kif]What the hell is up with popsicle? Candy? Calling chips fries, then calling crisps chips?![/QUOTE]
:lol: It's stupid Sidewalk, becauee they have to take it so literal, when they speak English and there is already an english word for it... |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]What's funny about sidewalk? It's a walkway on the side of the road.[/QUOTE]
Its a pavement, or path, not sidewalk. |
[QUOTE=firecrackercheese]Haha, i heard about that on the news, i thought it was completely ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, i just did then, kinda sick as well. |
Someone update on what happened in the past few days, I have no idea what's going on.
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Apparently there was a hacker or something, I don't know the full details
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EDit, i read that wrong, i suck.
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[QUOTE=Kif]What the hell is up with popsicle? Candy? Calling chips fries, then calling crisps chips?![/QUOTE]
Popsicle - I don't know. It's supposed to be similar to icicle though. Fries - Why would they be chips? They're fried potatos. Chips - They're chips of potato. |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]What's funny about sidewalk? It's a walkway on the side of the road.[/QUOTE]
Pavement? God... |
[QUOTE=PDWAB]Someone update on what happened in the past few days, I have no idea what's going on.[/QUOTE]
Someone was making unbannable spam bots and flooding the boards. |
[QUOTE=firecrackercheese]Pavement?
God...[/QUOTE] The street is made of pavement too, as are blacktops and road medians. GG on being disturbingly general. |
[QUOTE=PDWAB]Someone update on what happened in the past few days, I have no idea what's going on.[/QUOTE]
Some people spammed the forums into hell, so the mods closed them to clean it up... Tea was nice... |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]Popsicle - I don't know. It's supposed to be similar to icicle though.
Fries - Why would they be chips? They're fried potatos. Chips - They're chips of potato.[/QUOTE] There chips of potato, i guess, but it dosnt have to be so literal. And there crisps, because there crispy. |
Yeah, but chips are also chips of potato
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[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]The street is made of pavement too, as are blacktops and road medians. GG on being disturbingly general.[/QUOTE]
Roads are made of tarmac. Pavement is made of flags, aka paving slabs. |
Aluminum!!?
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[QUOTE=firecrackercheese]Aluminum!!?[/QUOTE]
Ha ha, they say that word so funny. |
[QUOTE=Untitled]Roads are made of tarmac. Pavement is made of flags, aka paving slabs.[/QUOTE]
Wtf is tarmac? We have some tar roads, but tar is only used for repairs. 99% of the roads are made of pavement. |
NO MORE USA vs. UK ARGUMENTS
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[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]Wtf is tarmac? We have some tar roads, but tar is only used for repairs. 99% of the roads are made of pavement.[/QUOTE]
How can it be made from pavement? that would take forever to lay down. I think tar, is short for tarmac. |
[QUOTE=Untitled]How can it be made from pavement? that would take forever to lay down. I think tar, is short for tarmac.[/QUOTE]
Pavement = poured cement. It's cheap and doesn't wear down. |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]Wtf is tarmac? We have some tar roads, but tar is only used for repairs. 99% of the roads are made of pavement.[/QUOTE]
It's that bouncy stuff in playgrounds. :) |
[QUOTE=firecrackercheese]It's that bouncy stuff in playgrounds. :)[/QUOTE]
Ok.. :confused: |
Ha, yeah !
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Pavement = Paving flags, there concreat squares that are lay down like bricks. If you was to make a road from it, then it would take forever.
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Most of the roads areound here are tarmac...
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[QUOTE=Rancid Dan]Most of the roads areound here are tarmac...[/QUOTE]
Not out of paving flags, like the pavement though? |
[QUOTE=Untitled]Pavement = Paving flags, there concreat squares that are lay down like bricks. If you was to make a road from it, then it would take forever.[/QUOTE]
No? [url]http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Pavement[/url] |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]Ok.. :confused:[/QUOTE]
They have like a rubber and tarmac or something, they put it under slides, and swings and stuff in parks, so if kids fall off they have a nice soft landing. |
[QUOTE=Untitled]They have like a rubber and tarmac or something, they put it under slides, and swings and stuff in parks, so if kids fall off they have a nice soft landing.[/QUOTE]
Not here they don't. The playgrounds are covered in wood chips. |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]No?
[url]http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Pavement[/url][/QUOTE] Way to bring the american dictionary into things agian :rolleyes: |
[QUOTE=Untitled]Way to bring the american dictionary into things agian :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Dictionary.com is universal. |
[QUOTE=Captain Jack Sparrow]Not here they don't. The playgrounds are covered in wood chips.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, you get that aswell |
And sand.
I love that site says "Chiefly British. A sidewalk" so americans can understand. EDIT, YAY, Kimi Raikkónén was on QoS, and i guess it was him right, and the teams didnt, hes so awesome. |
[QUOTE=Rancid Dan]Most of the roads areound here are tarmac...[/QUOTE]
Yeah same here, but at the moment, they're digging up half the road in the town centre. |
[url]http://www.pavingexpert.com/images/patios/riven04.jpg[/url] Look, a pavement, made from paving flags.
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[QUOTE=Untitled][url]http://www.pavingexpert.com/images/patios/riven04.jpg[/url] Look, a pavement, made from paving flags.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.gribblenation.com/scroads/photos/85n-pavement.jpg[/url] [url]http://photos1.blogger.com/img/172/1358/640/101504-06%20Leaf%20strewn%20sidewalk.jpg[/url] |
[url]http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cmaqpgs/amaq/i85i285.jpg[/url]
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2nd link dosnt work, and there roads :rolleyes:
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[QUOTE=firecrackercheese][url]http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cmaqpgs/amaq/i85i285.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]
What the spaggetei junction got to do with it :confused: |
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