IJAM: This picture of british terms.

ClockworkUniverse

^^Nope. 

Ninja'd.

Stormtroper

Chagen

I'm dissappointed that Britsh people don't call gubs "Rooty Tooty Point and Shooties"

That has to be the funniest name ever.

ClockworkUniverse

Really, it makes more sense than flashlight. A torch is something held in your hand to provide light. A flashlight, logically, would be...a light that flashes.

Stormtroper

Well, it does!

A flashlight it's not something you set on fire, therefore calling it a torch is wrong and sick.

ClockworkUniverse

And calling it a light that flashes isn't?

Stormtroper

Correct.

Chagen

I say we look up th emytology of "Flashlight", it's probably some Old English meaning of "Flash".

ClockworkUniverse

Hmmm...flashlight was coined in 1919, and "flash" started being used for the thing in cameras in 1913. The source I checked doesn't say, but that's probably the connection.

IanExMachina

Full name for the torch, electric torch.

However seeing as using flaming torches in the UK is next to useless unless you are filming or being a pyro, electric torch was inevitably shortened.

TheConductor

Some Scottish Translations of Those Words (In order):

Shortbread (not very common, but I know a good few (older) people who use shortbread for all biscuits and not just...shortbread) 

All of them are the same here till face, which we usually call "pus" or "coupon".

We (sometimes) call crisps "potato flakes".

and

Ice lollies are called ice poles.

SotiCoto

I'd laugh at all the americanisms, except I don't find them funny any more. Just stupid.
Stupid, stupid americans all derpy-derping around calling trousers "pants", calling pants other things, and calling a pavement a "sidewalk" despite their walking upright (and forwards) on it. Stupid americans who struggle with the letter "u", and have tried to rename a goodly portion of the period table because they couldn't understand it... including changing Caesium to Cesium (the entire Roman empire rolling in their graves). Stupid americans and their stupid northern cousins the Canadians who take 3+ seconds to pronounce the word "on" and make up for this by never shutting their damned mouths.

Alright.
Ok.
Done blowing everything out of proportion here.
I'm generally ok with yanks being yanks...  but when they start the "hurr hurr look at da english stuff" routine, I do feel rather obligated to mention just a small selection of the ridiculous things our transatlantic cousins do.

nohaynicklibre

Also they don't use metric. Seriously, it's quite funny seeing an American saying the Japanese culture is isolated and then go all "LOL MILES POUNDS AND INCHES"

glennmagusharvey

Can I call my flashlights/torches "luminators"?

Barring that, can I still say "Luminatio!" or "Vol Luminatio!" every time I whip on a flashlight/torch?

MadassAlex

You can, if I can hit you every time with an iron rod. 

MillerCross

Yer a wizard, Glenn.

glennmagusharvey

@MadassAlex: I need to learn backdash.

Crimson

@Metric: Okay this I agree with. The Imperial system is horrible and I don't know why the fuck we use it despite being taught metric at roughly the same time. Besides that we'd have to rewrite all our traffic signs.

Chagen

Imperial is superior.

"calling a pavement a "sidewalk" despite their walking upright (and forwards) on it."

Uh.....it's called that because it's on the side of the road.

Forzare

"Imperial is superior."

Imperial is unecessarily complicated.

Chagen

It's also better than Metric.

nohaynicklibre

"Imperial is superior"




You should give more reasons as why you think so. I like metric because is simpler as INUH said and is standard for the whole world

glennmagusharvey

I'm more used to imperial but prefer metric for its ease of computational usage.

Chagen

I'm trying to come up with a reason but all I can think of is "America uses it".

Also complaining about the month/day/year thing is goddamn petty.

nohaynicklibre

I can understand you liking it more simply because it's the one you are used to using,but you can't just say it's better than metric

Besides, I thought you loved European stuff

Yeah, the month/day/year thing is petty,but it was in the image and I was lazy to edit it out

glennmagusharvey

I use day/month/year because I can avoid writing a comma.

I also use 24-hour time.

IanExMachina

Surely most people use 24hr time?

Chagen

No, Americans don't. We only use 24-hour in the military--that's why we call it "Military Time".

IanExMachina

That is slightly silly.

Possibly especially so in a country that straddles many timezones.

Nyktos

I always forget that Europeans actually use 24-hour time.