American things

If it makes you feel any better, the section of my supermarket that sells genuine cheese is approximately 100 times larger than the square footage where canned 'cheese' is displayed for sale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGH55fjBvI

different cheese sections for proles and bourgies, with the latter over by the salami: an american thing?

(i'm a tillamook man and they have the right idea working both sides of the street: motorcycle battery of cheddar over here, "we stuck some peppercorns into an ounce of also-cheddar and left out the food coloring, give us $9.50" over there)

sometimes mac and cheese is the only good thing on a bar menu.

Hives and hickeys.

do non-americans use the baseball base system to delineate sex acts?

1st wicket, 2nd wicket etc iirc

take the points and the goals will come iirc

Whip the bails off.

Cricket is much better for ridiculous double entendres.

Tell it to Meatloaf!

Really though is there a Brit equivalent to president progressive sexual “scoring” i.e. first base, second base etc.?

disregard “president” damn thumb

No, rounders isn't that popular.

You can actually bowl a maiden over in cricket!

yes that’s p good

people don't get hives outside the USA?

nah there are beekeepers all around the world

I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress

the bee population is in global decline, i imagine beekeeping must be pretty stressful

bees live in "tower blocks" in the UK

I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress

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i think in british english they just call that a rash?

Ha, that's right!

A rash is different than hives. Hives ime are like individual welts whereas a rash is more diffuse and has more points of irritation (many small bumps, for example). You can get them both from contact with an irritant or from mental stressors, but they are not the same thing. ime.

Maybe in BrE the technical term “urticaria” is in common parlance

(Australia has the skin version of hives too ftr. "Hickeys" started to take over from "love bites" in the '90s afaik, as with many other slang terms in Hollywood teen movies. no idea what #youths today call them)

We're lessy fussy about stuff like that over here. I'm sure there are regional names for hives, though I still don't really know what hives are... or is.

Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.

I'm sure I have had a hive and I'm sure I just called it a rash!

The NHS apparently calls them hives but I've never heard anyone use that word irl.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hives/

I suppose we should mention zits here as well.

plukes

Exactly.

so this is a list of colloquial names for skin problems?

i had a period of acute urticaria with some angioedema of the eyes and lips recently. lasted for about 4 weeks, responded to antihistamines, was (seemingly) idiopathic.

hive are not fun

(xp) American names for skin problems.

Why is the song "Please Mr. Postman" and not "Please Mr. Mailman"?

Good question.

https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg

why not "carn postie"

having A/C on 24/7 but keeping the butter in the fridge 24/7 anyway

People keep butter in the fridge? (Assuming you mean butter that is in the butter dish to be used soon, not backup butter)

oh yes!

I don’t know if people who do that. It would make the butter hard to spread.

yes, yes it does!

Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!

we keep butter in the fridge and I don't really know why. I personally never spread it on anything and only use it for cooking.

I’m dumb

Well if you aren’t going to spread it keep it in the fridge. Put butter to spread on things on the counter. The Tao of butter.

In the Prime Grateful Dead doc, their british tour manager comments that Americans are unusually obsessed with defining "what america is" and I thought that was a good observation, although not much to do with butter

https://www.countrylanekitchens.net/images/products/thumb/butter_bell_antique_white_linen_2.jpg

I have one of these butter bells, a little bit of water in the bottom and it stays fresh and spreadable for weeks