I couldn't figure out a better way to explain it other than 'more lemony than lemonade' so here's a link to the product sold in Aus, and there is a link on the right of the page to what we consider lemonade.

I find that really interesting. So, do people just ask for a coke and the host give them whatever carbonated beverage they have? Or is it just that everyone everywhere drinks coke as a default?

Cordial is a specific drink which is concentrated liquid flavoured sugar; we mix a small amount of it with water. Juice is 100% fruit juice, and Fruit Drink is kind of a mix of juice and cordial you buy pre-made.

Yeah, I figured most people would know coke means coke, I was just intrigued by all the comments where ordering Coke needed specification beyond 'diet'? I guess. So thought I'd add my experiences. Language usage of the same words but with different meanings is a pet study of mine.

Soft drink encompasses all fizzy drinks with sugar, whereas Coke is a specific brand, Soda is most commonly referred to mean Soda water. All of these are the south Aussie terms I'm familiar with.

Here's my affirmation to add to the pile. How am I supposed to find new celebrities to obsess over if I cant match the right names to the perfection or not?

Jezebel, just because you get clicks doesn't mean we are happy, it just means we hope you will change it each time we click. BUT, you will notice less comments as…

I doubt that was the way it happened. More likely humans realised the parallels between a calf drinking milk and a baby, and when mother mortality was so high, someone made a last ditch effort to save their baby and it worked. There is evidence it (milk drinking) developed in multiple locations at different times.…

My papa drinks pepsi max instead of water! Then wonders why he can't sleep...

I would try this. I'm lactose intolerant, and haven't had milk since I was in single digits. As milk substitutes only recently started to become affordable to me, I didn't try lactose-free milk until I was in my 20's. I immediately got adult acne, stopped the milk, it went away. I'm not sure if this milk would be…

It began with her committing a violent act, the whipping, against him. I think we need to hold this at the forefront of our minds. Victims of sexual assault, regardless of gender, can be EXPLICITLY or IMPLICITLY threatened. This would fall under Implicit threat; if he didn't comply, he could expect more violence.…

I've always been a Kristen Stewart supporter, because I feel like if I'd gotten famous, that is how I would've ended up. I did some minor, very minor acting as a child, and the constant judgment and comment on my appearance, monitoring of everything I did, ate, wore etc and I was only a teen who played children! I…

This is one of those stories where I really, really don't want to have any similarities between myself and the perpetrator, but it's only fair to answer the question you posed. I am a 23 year old female, and as late as last year was still asked for ID to M15 movies. At the age of 15 I played a 9 year old in a…

True, but I can't really comment on studies outside of the psych and anthro fields though. And of course both of those are plagued by self-report biases. It is quite a frustrating field(s) for all the aspects you've mentioned.

While I largely agree with you re: data interpretation, I found in my time in academia that the design of some studies could unduly influence the data collection in a way that ignores or misrepresents certain things. For example, when (especially with newer researchers) conducting studies on aggression, I've found…

You know, that way of thinking is a) complete bullshit, and b) exactly what is holding your country back. I am an aussie, I recently went into the ER with stomach pain, and within 24 hours I had been x-rayed, ultra-sounded, and given a CT scan, I was then given emergency abdominal surgery, and spent a week on a ward…

Where were all the people who thought freckles were cute when I was in school??
I was bullied mercilessly for years, and have had more then one teenage boy tell me as a teen he didn't 'do freckles'. And I wasn't even asking them out! I was just existing!

My mum said once 'wouldn't it be cute if they ended up together one day?' referring to my half siblings. As in they aren't blood related to each other, but are both to me. My brother and I have the same mother, my sister and I the same father. They are the same age and after she said that I haven't hung out with them…

Ok, Eminem is Problematic as Fuck (official title) but I can not hate him. I grew up with his music, because my friends older brother was a fan. He (Eminem) helped me get through a really tough childhood, especially his particularly fucked up shit. Now, think of the sort of life a girl child who grew up and felt and…

A similar situation happened here in Australia. A woman in the hospital waiting room breastfeeding was asked by an apparently contract/volunteer worker (meaning minimal training) to move to a storerooom... a cupboard basically. The woman said she felt humiliated, and wasn't aware the person who asked her wasn't a…

Congrats on the sobriety! I'm 8 months sober (almost 9!), but still struggling, and I too like to remind people not to compliment or romanticize alcoholics as it gives us one more reason to hang on to the addiction.