v for frequency?

Bullshit, try writing that again. You put a speed instead of a distance, and got the units the wrong sides of the per. We may well quote km per litre somewhere, but I never do, since for some reason our road signs are still in miles. Miles per litre would be best for the UK, since the signs are miles and the pumps litres. But we only have mpg and lpkm (presumably).

You buy litres in America?

Only for beverages... When I used to go to Canada and buy gas by the liter between that and trying to do the currency conversion I always figured I was getting screwed. Back when they did Imperial gallons it was like getting a bonus.

Are you familiar with the concept of syllables?

After a weigh-in at the doctor's she looked at me and said "Do you have any concrete hidden in your pants?"

Says the person who multiplies 14 by 14 and gets 140.

I just found my supermarket with no oranges! Apparently, it's too hot to pick them in Spain. Dafuq? Surely those fields must be watered, so just use that water to spray any overheated workers.

I've only ever had chocolate, vanilla (which I always thought meant plain, but I think that's "manilla"), and strawberry. My sister ate mint which I detested.

We call that "ready salted" in the UK. I'm not aware of unsalted crisps. CRISPS. Chips are what yanks call fries. Is there no end to their ignorance?

"Salt'n'shake" they're called in the UK, I forget the manufacturer. My mum sent me to school with them in primary school, so I would not eat salt which she thought was bad for me. Of course I ignored her and used the salt. Without salt plain crisps taste like cardboard.

Pringles have it worked out. A solid tube to stop crushing.

Dafuq? How can they not know how to put salt on something? You sprinkle it on and shake it about, like you do with the blue packet ones.

I didn't. I divided 140 by 14 and got 10.

Weird, we buy petrol/diesel in litres and beer in pints.

What amazes me is how you let your shops advertise prices on the shelves without the sales tax. Since you all pay it, why not include it? It's actually making you more aware of how much money the government is stealing from you.

I said considerably. You also need to take account of how the syllables flow together quickly. Macaroni is similar to Macarena, go listen to that song and how fast it's sung.

Are you Homer Simpson? Have you seen the episode where his flab keeps bouncing, like a car with no dampers on the suspension?

Kinsey Doesn't Do Sums.

Mine is. Stones and kg.

In message <op.18mi88z9mvhs6z@ryzen>, Commander Kinsey snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com writes

Draught pub beer is indeed dispensed in imperial pints and half-pints. However, almost all bottled beer is in half-litres (500ml) or a third of a litre (330ml). It's a rare (and joyous) occasion when you find a real imperial pint (568ml). On an exceptionally rare occasion you might find a larger bottle - presumably 650ml, which I see is called a 'Bomber'.

Indeed.

Or it's the shops letting you know what the 'real' price is.

Not all beverages. Beer is typically sold in 12-ounce bottles or cans. Possibly a U.S. pint (0.47 litre) at a bar. Soda is often sold in 12-ounce cans. Of course a pour of hard liquor at a bar might be anything; the 1.5-ounce shot isn't mandated by law.

I bet you were thinking of hard liquor at 750 ml (down from the traditional fifth at 757 ml), or 2-liter bottles of soda.

If they just put the salt in the packet it would all fall to the bottom until they found a way to make it stick to the crisps. Then they started to put other flavoured coatings like cheese and onion.

About the same time they changed from bags made of greaseproof paper to plastic, and we had to learn how to open them (by pulling them apart or popping them) as you couldn't tear them open like the greaseproof paper ones.

I think the "salt and shake" ones with the separate blue bag of salt can in a few years later. I don't know why they chose to do that, but they definitely taste different - and, to me, better - from the ready salted.

Syllables "don't flow together". They are built up of phonemes which are the more basic units of speech, and the flowing together of phonemes is called co-articulation.

Phoneticians have actually published data that lists how all the forty-odd phonemes used in English - it varies as bit from dialect to dialect - sound in in the 1600-odd possible phoneme pair combinations. It's important in synthesising natural sounding speech, and in processing natural speech to work out what people are actually saying. At least for those people who can say things worth paying attention to - who don't include the Scottish wanker.

Local california german restaurant serves 0.5 liter beers, but yes, that's out of the ordinary in the US.