*humming*

[ladylight]

I am happy. I've had the luxury of a whole day to myself (contracted a real cold and couldn't go to uni, heh ... teach me to tell porkies XD) and spent it cleaning, catching up on all the normal things normal people get to do, and snoozing for short periods before being overwhelmed by phlegm

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[saltnester]

A "fake Jamaican"?

[Londoner waves hand] I don't tell no pork pies, miss! Hehe, even more amusing than whatever the hell American biscuits are is talking about pasties to Americans: apparently it's some kind of stripshow wear over there. Which is just...ouch. Talk about peas in unfortunate places.

[telyanofcelore]

Still unsure about what a porkie is... and yes, pasties are indeed stripshow wear here, for some unknown reason. I suspect because they are pasted on. Very odd.

You don't get biscuits?

[saltnester]

pork pies -> lies
Not to be confused with your plates of meat. [feet] Or something you're taking a butcher's hook [look] at.

the peas! the peas! Would it bemuse you that I had one for lunch today?

Of course we have biscutis - real biscuits, like hobnobs and digestives, chocolate chip cookies, gingernuts and bourbon creams...it's you guys have those freakish yorkshire-pudding-cum-savoury-scone things...I mean, who would want to dip that in their tea? O_o

[erkkan]

Hehe, I'd forgotten about cockney rhyming slang. All makes sense now... And yeh, I don't know why we call your biscuits "cookies". Given the french, yours is correct. I'll have to look into that some time... Etymology is fun. ^^;;

[ladylight]

Aussie rhyming slang is slightly different in places (and doesn't have as vast a vocabulary XD), but yeah, that sort of thing. Pass the dead horse :D

Did you know that the French call pencils crayons, and crayons pastels? @_@

[ladylight]

ALYSSA'S FRIEND FROM ATLANTA: You know what I'm really dying for lately?

ALYSSA: What?

AFFA: A biscuit with bacon! Wouldn't that be just perfect right now?

ALYSSA: ... I think I'm going to be sick.

AFFA: Huh? You don't like bacon?

ALYSSA: Not on biscuits! That's gross! Or do you mean dry biscuits?

AFFA: Of course *dry* biscuits! Why would you eat them wet?

*two stare at each other across a cultural chasm* @_@

[ladylight]

No way! Is the A as in 'paste' or 'past'? @_@

Biscuits we have, but our biscuits are what you call either 'cookies' or 'crackers'. Specifically, dry biscuits are crackers, sweet biscuits are cookies. What you call a biscuit, an Aussie would call a muffin. (Not a sweet muffin, a savoury muffin.)

But you actually need a degree in Biscuitology to follow all that. @_@;;

[ladylight]

Um ... bootblack?

No. Way. *stops eating*