Basically this is my reason for trying to improve my language skills.
“Got anything stronger” MEANS alcohol, these people need to sort their lives out.
I used to do that with the kids I babysat. “Oh no, guys, I’ve forgotten how to do XYZ, can you help?” And miraculously the table would be set or whatever...
I can’t remember being taught to do laundry. It was just a thing that happened (sometimes my mum did it, sometimes my dad) and I kind of picked it up by osmosis, the same as most domestic tasks. So when I meet people who have ‘no idea’ how to do something, I don’t really believe them, also it’s 2015, if you don’t know…
What’s the point? Doesn’t decaf coffee exist everywhere, and most places can make it into whatever format you want, so... why?
In the UK freedom of speech has exceptions for hate speech, including abusive, insulting, or threatening words, or which has intent to cause distress (amongst other things).
Actually a lot of Quakers don’t consider themselves Christians (at least in the UK), although George Fox did (I understand).
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No.
Wow...
Oh. My. God.
I wouldn’t dream of it (I’ve done my time, I know the drill), I will just continue to be confused, and apologetically asking people to explain to an idiot foreigner.
My mind is slightly blown that tax isn’t the same all over the country... still, you must all be really good at percentages...
You were just doing what the rest of us have wanted to do for years...
I had the opposite experience in the US, kept trying to pay for things priced at $19.95 with a $20, and then finding out it was more, very confusing for a Brit abroad.
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Salted popcorn and Minstrels is my cinema snack of choice. Salty chocolatey yummmmm....
I eat mayonnaise on pizza, or at least dunk my crusts in pizza, at home, where no one but my housemate can judge me. Not in public.