OT - Mindless Rant - Page 2

capnq · #11 July 27th, 2001, 07:02 AM

I grew up in Berks County, Pennsylvania, roughly 50 miles NW of Philadelphia. I drank soda when I lived there, and pop when I moved here to Pittsburgh. Back then I ate "Italian sandwiches" and "steak sandwiches", which are subs and Philly cheesesteaks here.

justjake: nah, I've got an appointment in 'Sliberty today; have to take a bus dahntahn to get there.

Hadrian: I highly recommend getting an uninterruptable power supply/surge protector.
APC has an Online questionnaire for figuring out what capacity you need. IIRC, their URL is
www.apcc.com

My UPS keeps me Online through several power flickers a month, and gives time to shut down properly during longer outages.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Quikngruvn · #12 July 27th, 2001, 07:03 AM

Don't make me start speaking Southern! Wait, I can't control it....

I'mon watch me some rasslin!

Quikngruvn

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Alpha Kodiak · #13 July 27th, 2001, 07:10 AM

I was born and raised in AZ, and still live here, and I drink pop. My wife was born in up-state NY and moved to AZ as a teenager. She drinks pop as well. The trouble is, around here most people are transplants from elsewhere, so people here may drink pop, soda or coke. You have to have your universal translator on at all times.

Puke · #14 July 27th, 2001, 07:45 AM

It has been my experience that people that come from places that have 'pop' also posess a substance known as 'soda-water.'

I have heard this 'soda-water' used to refer to carbonated beverages of all kinds, as well as this Nasty Sh*t that you can obtain from 'soda fountains' (the source of fountain drinks) that appears to be the water+soda (being the chemical soda, not the slang term) before it is mixed with the flavouring syrup. why anyone would consume such a thing is beyond my ability to comprehend.

On this logic, it would seem that the back-woods folks with their 'pop,' while they are bizzare and culturaly-devoid enough to consume soda-water, are a step up in technical terminology from us in the civilized world with our 'soda.' In my defense, I atribute this to the fact that we have evolved passed the need for such things as 'soda-water' and that without this root from which to derive a destinction between 'soda' and 'pop' we have discarded an obsolete term.

While some of you might be thinking that ethnic clensing is a perfictly good method of settleing the 'soda' vs 'pop' debate, I would remind you that this is America (specificly, the United States of said continent) where at least I know Im free (to call my carbonated beverage whatever I darn well please.) ...and I think I'll call this one "Bob."

*pop* fizzzzz glug-glug-glug

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edit: wait, dont flame me. the backwoods culturally-devoid thing was a joke. I dont look down upon anyone based on their locality, unless they are from LA. you can tell from my superb spelling how edumacated I am, so if you really think I would insult the education / culture of a group of people just because they are from another part of the country.. well.. maybe i... I mean, THINK AGAIN!

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CaptSpoogy · #15 July 27th, 2001, 09:06 AM

It has to be POP, or at the very least Cola or even Coke - never Soda. When I was younger I couldn't understand why they always called it Soda on American TV - then I went there for a little while...

Other Canadian-American things, eh?

About
Roof vs Ruff
Washroom vs Bathroom
Colour vs Color
Metre vs Meter (By the way, convert to Metric already!!!)

Actually I don't think you could - old crazy farmers would start shoting people as soon as they started posted speed limits in kilometres per hour!!!

Some of you Americans know nothing of Canada...When I was in the US, I had people believing that Polar Bears would eat my garbage and I'd have to shew them off with a broom in Toronto during the 10 months of winter - and that was in Washington State - which is technically further north than Toronto. Others ask me "Do you know Celine Dion?" or do I live in a igloo? C'mon. Do you serious believe these things...?

Puke · #16 July 27th, 2001, 09:53 AM

wait a minute, you dont have igloos?

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

edit: and who the heck is Celine Dion? sounds like a Frenchie, if Canadians are French and Eskimos are from Canada, is this Dion person some kind of French Eskimo from Canada? Or did you mean to say Celine Dio, the adopted Canadian step-daughter of Rodney James. In which case I can understand why people would be interested.

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dogscoff · #17 July 27th, 2001, 10:31 AM

Well over on this side of the pond... (UK)

Cola = cola. No other carbonated bevrages (ie lemonade) are covered by this term.

Coke = cola. Even if they're buying Pepsi, most people will ask for a Coke. Now _that's_ brand identity.

Pop. Back in the 1950s people in the UK used the word "pop" as a blanket term for fizzy drinks of all kinds. Now it just sounds a little... well... camp. "Pop" is now only used for balloons and music.

Soda - on it's own means nothing. Soda water is simply plain carbonated water.

Basically we in the UK have no generic term to describe carbonated drinks in gnral. Th closst we hav is "soft drink" (Which I imagine applies to you lot as well) but which also ccovers all non-aloholic fruit juices, cordials etc. Not tea and coffee, though, oddly.

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Rollo · #18 July 27th, 2001, 11:57 AM

Now, to confuse matters a little bit more:
Where I come from we call pop "Brause" and sandwich "Stulle". Please note that I say pop, because I lived in Ohio for one year as an exchange student.

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Originally posted by capt_spoogy:
Some of you Americans know nothing of Canada...When I was in the US, I had people believing that Polar Bears would eat my garbage and I'd have to shew them off with a broom in Toronto during the 10 months of winter - and that was in Washington State - which is technically further north than Toronto. Others ask me "Do you know Celine Dion?" or do I live in a igloo? C'mon. Do you serious believe these things...?

I know excactly what you mean. Coming from Germany I got questions like: "Is Adolf Hitler still in charge?", "Do you also have trees there?" and remarks like: "Wow, Germany, that must have been a long DRIVE."

Rollo

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DaftWager · #19 July 27th, 2001, 02:13 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
I was born and raised in AZ, and still live here, and I drink pop. My wife was born in up-state NY and moved to AZ as a teenager. She drinks pop as well. The trouble is, around here most people are transplants from elsewhere, so people here may drink pop, soda or coke. You have to have your universal translator on at all times.

Really? I'm an AZ native (Chandler) too, and all I�ve ever heard is soda, even when I go out. This is all very strange.

tesco samoa · #20 July 27th, 2001, 02:23 PM

Hey Capt. Americans offical language is Metric. Their Govn't uses it.

Now if I could only end this message with that quote from abe simpson. Metric is the instrument of the devel. In my time we used to get........... Cannot remember the rest.