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[Cerebral Assassin]

Yeah, except we were talking about PAL SNES vs. NTSC SNES, not television in general.

Well then you should have said that then( but even if you had the PAL/JP design is significantly better than the abomination that is the US design).

 

[frankie_baby]

Sunny side up and over easy aren't the same. Sunny side up is when you don't flip them and the whites are still somewhat clear on top. Basically, it's really runny and a little slimy to me. Over easy is just that, you flip them and let them cook briefly to cook the whites, but the yolk is still very runny. Over medium is where you leave them a little longer. Still runny.



I don't know if you're joking or serious, but yes.

i've never heard of medium eggs being cooking style so logically assumed you meant size

 

[ViRiX]

Yeah it's pretty lame how a lot of restaurants pay under minimum wage because they figure the waiters get tips... but is it really even a tip at that point or am I (the customer) just paying them to do their job?

It kind of defeats the purpose.

And as for the Kettle Vs. Microwave thing, I'm in the US and have never really thought of boiling water for hot chocolate or coffee in the microwave although I do it for noodles all the time. Wow. I've always used a kettle for hot beverages.

 

[andycapps]

i've never heard of medium eggs being cooking style so logically assumed you meant size

My bad, over medium is just like over medium except you leave it longer when you flip it. Nothing fancy. But yeah, larger eggs the better for me.

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

Well then you should have said that then( but even if you had the PAL/JP design is significantly better than the abomination that is the US design).

That's entirely subjective, but I do prefer the design of the Super Famicom/PAL SNES.

 

[frankie_baby]

Yeah it's pretty lame how a lot of restaurants pay under minimum wage because they figure the waiters get tips... but is it really even a tip at that point or am I (the customer) just paying them to do their job?

It kind of defeats the purpose.

And as for the Kettle Vs. Microwave thing, I'm in the US and have never really thought of boiling water for hot chocolate or coffee in the microwave although I do it for noodles all the time. Wow. I've always used a kettle for hot beverages.

bizare as it may be restaurants in the uk were allowed to do the same until only a year or 2 ago, though the minimum they could be paid was only like a quid less than normal minimum wage (and obviously had to be made up if tips didn't cover the difference)

 

[ElectricBlue187]

For curious UKers, this is what a typical movie opening in America is like.

Spoiler

including the murder depending on which city you're in

Not accurate (they would shoot at the screen, not use a knife)

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

For curious UKers, this is what a typical movie opening in America is like.

Spoiler

including the murder depending on which city you're in

Not even remotely accurate.

 

[daviyoung]

Not even remotely accurate.

I think you're taking this all a bit seriously.

These are our, superiour, Avengers:

 

[demon]

Yeah it's pretty lame how a lot of restaurants pay under minimum wage because they figure the waiters get tips... but is it really even a tip at that point or am I (the customer) just paying them to do their job?

It kind of defeats the purpose.

Years ago the National Restaurant Association (I think that's what it's called) headed by 2012 Republican presidential candidate/joke character Herman Cain lobbied to have restaurant worker minimum wage stuck at something ridiculous like $2/hr while it went up everywhere else. A lot of restaurants take advantage of that and pay their servers a shit wage and expect customers to make up for it, but oftentimes it doesn't happen. Those facts might be a tad off but it's pretty much accurate.

So while people in the US complain about tipping, they're not taking into consideration that their their server is likely earning a sub-sub-sub-sub-poverty-line wage, and the food would most likely be more expensive anyway if that weren't the case.

 

[Jables Swan]

As for language, I will always speak English. Not this American bastardisation of it.

 

[Silphonica]

I'm sorry but boiling water in a microwave is fucking weird.

I don't drink tea or coffee but I still use a kettle eg when im boiling water to cook pasta or something.

 

[StopMakingSense]

I'm sorry but boiling water in a microwave is fucking weird.

I don't drink tea or coffee but I still use a kettle eg when im boiling water to cook pasta or something.

We don't boil water in a microwave in America, but we will use it to heat water for tea/coffee/etc. All boiling is done on the stove.

Important to note that a LOT of American homes have electric stoves, so bringing a water to temperature for just a cup of tea takes quite a while.

 

[frankie_baby]

We don't boil water in a microwave in America, but we will use it to heat water for tea/coffee/etc. All boiling is done on the stove.

Important to note that a LOT of American homes have electric stoves, so bringing a water to temperature takes quite a while.

so even more of an argument that americans need kettles, i'd feel like sliting my wrists if i had to wait for a pan of water to boil

 

[lenovox1]

As for language, I will always speak English. Not this American bastardisation of it.

Modern British English is as much, if not more so, a bastardization of the language.

 

[Sato Koiji]

I love american claps!

Best thing evah!!

They clap everywhere anytime! Its fantastic!

 

[Silphonica]

We don't boil water in a microwave in America, but we will use it to heat water for tea/coffee/etc. All boiling is done on the stove.

.

Still just as weird.

 

[DJ_Lae]

so even more of an argument that americans need kettles, i'd feel like sliting my wrists if i had to wait for a pan of water to boil

I can't believe they're as uncommon as this thread makes them sound.

Everyone I know in Canada has an electric kettle.

 

[StopMakingSense]

so even more of an argument that americans need kettles, i'd feel like sliting my wrists if i had to wait for a pan of water to boil

We have kettles, it still takes quite a while to get to temperature with a kettle.

Unless you are talking about an electric kettle. Yeah, those just never caught on here. Probably because of the early and rapid influx of microwaves. My japanese roommate had one in my apartment at college, and it was neat.

 

[Silent_Bomber]

Before the iPhone, most people didn't have unlimited texting. Meaning you were charged for every text you sent and received. That's changed now.

Ah, OK, I did hear this like 10 years ago tbh.

 

[frankie_baby]

We have kettles, it still takes quite a while to get to temperature with a kettle.

Unless you are talking about an electric kettle. Yeah, those just never caught on here. Probably because of the early and rapid influx of microwaves.

sorry i'm british so i meant electric kettles

 

[Soodanim]

I'm from the UK.

I remember seeing people drinking wine at a Pizza Hut. I think it was in Oxford.

I laughed and laughed and laughed. That blew my mind.

I would have done the same, why the fuck would you go to Pizza Hut and order wine?

I cheer when the Avengers came on screen. I laugh when Hulk smashes Loki

I boil my soup in microwave sometimes, even my tea

I call American football FOOTBALL and international football SOCCER

Everyone laughed at Hulk when they first saw Avengers. But laughing is as far as acceptable noise in the cinema goes. The rest of the time you'd better be the most stoic fucker on the planet, or as someone quoted early on in the thread, you might be mistaken for a cunt. Or people will laugh at/with you. I think it was the midnight screening of Harry Potter 8 and I saw people clap in a cinema for the first time. I looked around and wondered what was wrong with everyone. (I rarely go to the cinema, and even more rarely do I go on day one.)

If it's soup from a can, you're allowed to microwave it. I've never noticed a difference, and it is noticeably faster. But tea? Even when I re-heat cold tea in the microwave the taste changes, so it's gotta be boiled water.

I get the etymology of "soccer", but you must get that it is strange that you use the name "football" for it, given that the rest of the world uses it for something far more fitting of the name.

The advantage of Americans having different names for things, is that outside of some of the "biscuit" sort of stuff, everyone knows exactly what you mean anyway, because of TV.

 

[Captain Chaos]

UK Coca Cola better then US high fructose shit.

 

[Nyoro SF]

I have never met a single person who heats up water in the microwave and I've lived in Philly/Boston for most of my life. Everyone has a regular kettle or an electric kettle. Hm....

I couldn't live without my electric kettle, that's for sure. I enjoy tea + hot chocolate way too much.

 

[StopMakingSense]

I get the etymology of "soccer", but you must get that it is strange that you use the name "football" for it, given that the rest of the world uses it for something far more fitting of the name.

A lot of the old colonies use soccer for their word for futból, not just America.

 

[frankie_baby]

UK Coca Cola better then US high fructose shit.

the most famous american product and we brits get the better version, thats got to say something

 

[Acorn]

UK Coca Cola better then US high fructose shit.

Yep. But the USA has more flavoured coke than us. Although coke vanilla had made a welcome come back recently.

Edit: also they have lucky charms and still have nerds and dweebs which were stupidly discontinued here.

I miss nerds

 

[Monkeylord]

Yep. But the USA has more flavoured coke than us. Although coke vanilla had made a welcome come back recently.

Meh... Cherry 7Up is where it's at anyway.

 

[frankie_baby]

Yep. But the USA has more flavoured coke than us. Although coke vanilla had made a welcome come back recently.

Edit: also they have lucky charms and still have nerds and dweebs which were stupidly discontinued here.

I miss nerds

they need the extra flavours to try to disguise the corn,


pretty easy to get lucky charms, nerds and dweebs here, selfridges or import sweet shops

 

[Blearth]

UK Coca Cola better then US high fructose shit.

Mexican Coke is pretty widely available here. Comes in those badass glass bottles.

 

[cdyhybrid]

An American team has won every NFL game in London. Also, we beat you in the World Cup. Checkmate.

 

[Ikuu]

An American team has won every NFL game in London. Also, we beat you in the World Cup. Checkmate.

The UK doesn't have a football team.

 

[cdyhybrid]

The UK doesn't have a football team.

Whoa whoa whoa, I know they haven't won a World Cup since like 1950, but to deny the existence of the team itself is going a bit overboard.

 

[frankie_baby]

An American team has won every NFL game in London. Also, we beat you in the World Cup. Checkmate.

just wait til they play against the sillynannies

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Yep. But the USA has more flavoured coke than us. Although coke vanilla had made a welcome come back recently.

We have evolved past that. Coca Cola Freestyle machines are a blessing from up on high.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Mexican Coke is pretty widely available here. Comes in those badass glass bottles.

So wait, citizens of the USA have to import real sugar Coca Cola from, of all places, Mexico?

Fucked up if true.

 

[frankie_baby]

We have evolved past that. Coca Cola Freestyle machines are a blessing from up on high.

i've heard about them but never seen the flavour list, only 6 different flavours of actual coke, how disappointing

 

[DBT85]

Comes in those badass glass bottles.

Transatlantic brofist

 

[Blearth]

So wait, citizens of the USA have to import real sugar Coca Cola from, of all places, Mexico?

Fucked up if true.

Don't hate on Mexico. I'd sacrifice you for them in a heartbeat.

 

[Chance Hale]

We have evolved past that. Coca Cola Freestyle machines are a blessing from up on high.

My favorite part of going to Fuddruckers.

 

[Var]

I would trade Coca-Cola for some Irn-Bru.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

We really need to invade the UK at this point, take these savages over and convert them to Christianity.

Spoiler

and outlaw "kettles"

 

[ConfusingJazz]

i've heard about them but never seen the flavour list, only 6 different flavours of actual coke, how disappointing

Pro move: Mix the vanilla flavors with the citrus falvors. Specifically Coke Orange and Coke Vanilla to make Coke Creamsicle.

I would trade Coca-Cola for some Irn-Bru.

Here: http://www.irn-bru-usa.com/distribution.html

 

[frankie_baby]

Pro move: Mix the vanilla flavors with the citrus falvors. Specifically Coke Orange and Coke Vanilla to make Coke Creamsicle.

sounds interesting dont think we have them anywhere here though

 

[AoM]

As for language, I will always speak English. Not this American bastardisation of it.

How can you bastardize a bastard?

 

[ConfusingJazz]

How can you bastardize a bastard?

Maybe he avoids all the words that are French in origin, and still uses the thorn.

 

[The Adder]

that takes far too long and doesn't sound nearly as cool

"Esnee-es" sounds better than "Snes" which sounds better than "Snez"

 

[Var]

Here: http://www.irn-bru-usa.com/distribution.html

Bit pricey but might have to jump on that anyway.

 

[Jables Swan]

How can you bastardize a bastard?

Modern British English is as much, if not more so, a bastardization of the language.

True that.

 

[Amakusa]

England has around 20 accents and is only the size of Louisiana, the language fight is over England, go home you're drunk.