12 Jun 2019, 4:02 am
kraftiekortie wrote:
The "WC" (water closet) is the universal, especially European, term for the Loo, bathroom, restroom, toilet, etc.
...It makes me think of Jack Paar
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" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
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12 Jun 2019, 4:11 am
Mountain Goat wrote:
SaveFerris wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
Here in Wales it is just as common to use 1st and 2nd floors.
Yeah , I've just had this debate with my GF
The "Ground floor" and the "First floor" above it is an English thing I believe. Not sure... It doesn't help when my local council run multistory car park has two floors lablelled with the same floor number... Is a bit wierd when one climbs the stairs and stops for a rest or slows down... Then climbs again to see the same floor number! I think it does it in the lift as well, but I don't use the lift. I don't like them. I tend to not like confined spaces like that, and besides, when I was in my late teens to early 20's three times I was stuck in lifts all in seperate locations. I avoid lifts and also esculators that go downhill which means certain places I tend to avoid if theh have no normal stairs. One shop has a choice of lift or esculator and my Mum insists I go up because she wants to buy trousers or something and needs me to look. (I rarely ever get new clothes as I like the ones I have... I'd rather patch my comfy old ones up). Anyway. I am a little nurvous while up there because I know I need to use either the lift or the esculator to get back down, and I use the esculator objectively. Going up on an escilator isn't too bad. Is going down I don't like... with all those people coming up towards you...
..." Shop " is more British, " store " more American.
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
12 Jun 2019, 4:28 am
...The kind of residential, rather upper-ish class, boarding school that is called a " prrp school " in the USA is a " public school " in Blighty - although it's ANYTHING BUT " public " by the American definition! 
would a " public school " in American be a " state school " in Brit 
? I read something in a British political magazine regarding your possibile next PM, Boris Johnson - it quoted someone who went to university (Oxford) at the same time as Boris who, unlike Boris, was a " state school " boy, the writer put it - I guess poorer and went to an Smerican-definition " public school (He didn't like Boris ).
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
12 Jun 2019, 4:36 am
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12 Jun 2019, 4:41 am
DeepHour wrote:
Yes, 'State School' is the general term for a publicly funded school over here. In the 11-18 age group, most of them are 'Comprehensive Schools', ie they don't select pupils on ability grounds, though there are still about 150+ of the old 'Grammar Schools', which require pupils to pass the Eleven Plus exam to qualify for entry.
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...Were/are " grammar schools " different and lower in status than the " public schools '
?
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
12 Jun 2019, 4:44 am
ASS-P wrote:
I guess an " off-liscence " in Brit is what gets sorta blandly called a " convenience store " here, especially for big chains (like 7-11 or AM)PM?
off license or 'offie' is equivalent to your liquor stores - mainly booze & fags for sale
Quote:
I'm going down the offie to get 10 Bensons and a bottle of Thunderbird Red - do you want anything
12 Jun 2019, 5:02 am
ASS-P wrote:
...Were/are " grammar schools " different and lower in status than the " public schools ' ?
?I can't speak for Grammar Schools in the present era, as I've no experience of them, but certainly in the post-war period up to perhaps the mid-1980s, the best Grammar Schools were very good indeed, probably every bit as good as any Public School in academic terms. After 1986, the old Grammar School exam system ('O Levels' and 'A Levels') was abolished, and the Grammars followed the same curriculum and exam system as the Comps (GCSEs and dumbed down A Levels). As a result, standards fell a great deal, I believe.
In terms of 'social status', the Grammars are lower in general, but not everyone in this country cares much about that.
In the 1970s, I attended a Direct Grant Grammar School, which was a mainly publicly funded school with more autonomy for the headmaster and governors. These were probably the best schools this country has ever had, but their status was abolished in the late 1970s. Many became Independent, fee-paying establishments.
12 Jun 2019, 5:15 am
SaveFerris wrote:
ASS-P wrote:
I guess an " off-liscence " in Brit is what gets sorta blandly called a " convenience store " here, especially for big chains (like 7-11 or AM)PM?
off license or 'offie' is equivalent to your liquor stores - mainly booze & fags for sale
Quote:
I'm going down the offie to get 10 Bensons and a bottle of Thunderbird Red - do you want anything
...I wrote out a response to you and, nearly finished, lost the draft
. Twice . And, it's nearly 3:15 AM, I'mmin my shelter bunk, I'm straining my eyes, I have to get some sleep, this is running out of juice ...
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
12 Jun 2019, 5:19 am
ASS-P wrote:
SaveFerris wrote:
ASS-P wrote:
I guess an " off-liscence " in Brit is what gets sorta blandly called a " convenience store " here, especially for big chains (like 7-11 or AM)PM?
off license or 'offie' is equivalent to your liquor stores - mainly booze & fags for sale
Quote:
I'm going down the offie to get 10 Bensons and a bottle of Thunderbird Red - do you want anything
...I wrote out a response to you and, nearly finished, lost the draft
. Twice . And, it's nearly 3:15 AM, I'mmin my shelter bunk, I'm straining my eyes, I have to get some sleep, this is running out of juice ...Get some kip dude
kip = sleep
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