What a great post Nora’s Mum!! Apart from not understanding some of our language, you don’t have to be a Brit. The more diverse the better. We can all learn from one another.
You can be an Honorary Brit if you like?!
Anne
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Thank you, Anne! I am honored.
Well what a lot of interest this post has caused!
Thanks to all who backed me up, as someone who only tries to support others going through this cruel carry on, it means a lot.
Yeh, it can take a lot of time and energy to try to help someone through a new experience…experiences many of us have struggled through.
So if you are still here OP, let’s forget the past and move on.
Boudsx
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Hi NM, a British hono(u)r requires U … Just teasing. It took me a while to work out that If I understand the meaning, being silly about UK spelling is just plain daft.
We are all just people and forum members, in light of recent threads : ABSOLUTELY NO OFFENCE INTENDED, if I cause any I humbly apologise and will slap myself with a wet kipper.
M
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I nearly reported the anon post on 12th Feb. Wish I had.
We’re a great little community with the same medical condition and we support each other from our own experiences.
Sue said this too.
Keep smiling everyone. 
Jen
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when you’ve done with said wet kipper…pass it on…
Boudsx
Just to put your.mind at ease, we do not have to pay for shopping carts (drives me mad that my mother still uses that term, after living in Canada, also garbage and faucets!) you get your coin back when you return your trolley, you can even geet a coin the right size and weight to use I have one on a key ring! Does not stop them still being abandoned though! So basically like a deposit and to encourage you to return the trolley! Hope that explains it!, but £1 is pretty cheap I am sure they cost a lot more than that.
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sounds like we have a new party game “pass the Kipper”
I almost added “Even if I can’t spell!” to that post. The spellcheck on this forum is set to British, and it keeps trying to correct me. I’m too rebellious to cave in. We fought for our spelling independence!
(But now I have to ask, what exactly is a kipper? Would it be like a sardine?)
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Yeah, but see, a trolley is like an independent rail car, and we don’t want tracks running through our grocery stores, so we use carts, which is a 4-wheeled container, usually of metal rods, that’s used to haul things. Of course, this isn’t to be confused with a wagon, which is also a 4-wheeled container used to haul things but is usually made of wood. Or sometimes cloth. But sometimes a 4-wheeled cloth cart is a baby buggy. I don’t think we even have baby buggies any more, because everyone wants a stroller, which these days are made with storage baskets and cup holders for mom’s convenience. We don’t have prams here, which sounds too much like prawns, but we don’t have prawns, either. They’re just “shrimp”. Of course “shrimp” can also be an insult to a short person, but we can’t use that term any more for fear of offending someone. So you understand now why we need shopping carts?
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Yes a Kipper is a small oily fish - usually smoked
I can only admire someone who will happily argue with auto-correct.
Mick
these last few posts have cheered me up no end!
Kippers! Thanks Mick!
02:49 Carole , really
that was about the time my poxy head decided to compare Synchronous digital hierarchies and Plesiochronous digital hierarchies before dragging me to Phase shift keying… if only my silly brain had paid attention to this stuff when I was working.
In order to go back to sleep I will think about Kippers, language variation and cheese. For those that think this is all BS PDH vs SDH | difference between PDH and SDH
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love you for your wit and tenacity Mick
Boudsx
I know Mick
my body clock is a mental mess!
such is life. c’est la guerre or is it c’est le gare?
There again, we call them trollies, not meaning trollies as you do, we call them trams! Our shopping trollies are the same as your carts. Of course I understand the need for them, but I was saying we do not have to pay for them! We don’t have trams/trolley cars in our supermarkets! I found the I trolley in Orlando great for getting about, took you to the bus stop for going further than International Drive.
Um. Yes. Sort of. You are right about not wanting train tracks through a supermarket.
I believe some people here have started calling their pushchairs ‘strollers’. We don’t have baby buggies you see, we have pushchairs. Unless we have no children in which case the word choice is moot. Cup holders on baby transport!! Really? Maybe they have them here. Thank whatever deity you care about I don’t have use for a pushchair, stroller, baby buggy or pram.
Prawns on the other hand, I do have a use for. For me, prawns are bigger than shrimps. Which by the way if there’s more than one of them are shrimpS (plural = an S at the end). We certainly don’t have shrimp. What about Tiger prawns, Madagascan prawns, South American prawns? (I don’t actually know what the South American prawns are called - I just know they’re big and delicious and are sold by our fish shop (which is a shop, not a store!) Not to be confused with a fish and chip shop. Or just ‘the chip shop’, or ‘the chippie’.
Thinking about it, we don’t have rail cars, we have trains. And we have carriages in our trains, not wagons. We don’t have ‘station wagons’ either (isn’t that a tad confusing?) we have ‘estate cars’.
In fact, we appear to share a language, but actually we don’t!
You are an honorary English person, should you fancy it. But I fully understand it if not. You are certainly a member of our family. And a very welcome member. Another ‘sister’. My cup runneth over with ‘sisters’. I love them all.
Sue
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Life is a war, or life is a train station? Not sure which is correct. Probably both.
Sue (confused!)
Bonet de douche Rodders.
M
Kippers aren’t exactly like sardines. They’re bigger for one thing.
A kipper is a smoked (nothing to do with nicotine - not even e-cigarettes) herring. They are split almost in two (butterflied - nothing to do with insects) and smoked. Then they are commonly used as weapons - as in ‘slap myself with a wet kipper’! Or used in a game, like a truth or dare game, whoever is kept holding the kipper must forfeit by completing a dare (eg: go and kiss that girl over there / hit that big bloke with the cauliflower ears) or tell everyone a big secret.
Alternatively you could eat them! Or just throw them straight in the bin as inedible, then live with the scent of rotting kipper until you give in and empty the bin (throw out the garbage). Then be chucked out of the Neighbourhood Watch (a quasi-legal local spy ring) for crimes against the village/town/city.
Sue
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