Wednesday, November 16, 2011

conversations

This is how you know you are dating someone from America; Southern California to be exact..

me: what do you do with the dog in the winter?
S: I don't know what your asking
me: do you take it to doggy daycare?
S: a kennel?
me: no, a 3000sqft daycare facility fully equipped with jungle gyms, toys, cameras so you can watch them from your warm home, and report cards at the end of the day.
S: you walk the dog in the winter.
me: I don't understand.


me: can we drive to the grocery store?
S: no babe
me: why?
S: because it is down the street
me: your point?

:in grocery store:
me: i need crackers
S: what are crackers? like biscuits*?
me: i am too hungry to try and come up with another word for cracker, take me to the crunchy food.

::in movie theatre::
me: where are the butter pumps?
S: what?
me: the pumps that pump out melted butter for the popcorn
S: that is wrong. You can only get salted or sweet here.
me: what is this place??

S: we need to get another veg for dinner
me: but your making chicken and broccoli casserole..
S: ya i know. but we need another veg for the side..
me: but there is veg IN the dish..
S: you have to have more then one veg with your meal.
me: why?

me: what is that?
S: fajita seasoning
me: but is says BBQ on it..
S: ya its BBQ fajita seasoning..
me: that is not right. not right at all.


*biscuits=cookies
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  3. Haha. I thought I had a language barrier with my husband trying to figure out what "pop" was. So cute though! :)

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  4. hahahahaha hilarious!!! seriously, I SO feel your pain :)

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  5. hahhaha you need to bring him to the states asap!!!!!!

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  6. hahahahaha I'm also the foreigner in my relationship. It's a lot more fun that way.

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  7. This had me CRACKING up! You are a riot! Seriously. Omg I think I fell in love with you even more after reading this! "Take me to the crunchy food" LoL

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  8. I remember debating with myself about whether I really needed milk for my cereal just because I didn't want to have to walk home in the rain with it.

    I also paid to ride the bus half a mile just because I didn't want to walk with the groceries.

    And according to my MIL, you need 2 veggies and a fruit with dinner. Fruit? Yay right. I am lucky to get A vegetable.

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  9. HAHA I love this! Please continue to do this it's hilarious. I love when Jenni Austria Germany did it too!

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  10. umm...BBQ fajita seasoning? sounds questionable. and movie theaters without extra fake butter??? that's just wrong!

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  11. This is really funny! You have to post more :)

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  12. hahaha! you two are the cutest Irish + American combo!

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  13. you look sooo happy!

    and i love the conversations. keep em coming.

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  14. hahahaha LOVE this!! who walks to the store?? weird!

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  15. haha that's awesome! And it might be a NW thing, but we walk to stores that are close too :)

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  16. Lol!!!! How adorable!!! I wish me & my man's convios were this entertaining lol

    Http://Nicolerenedesign.blogspot.com

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  17. This is my favorite post in the history of all Across the Pond posts. :) Haha!

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  19. oh i love this:) so cute! but you know what? on all the really important stuff, like love, it sounds like you guys totally get each other:) these are just little quirks that make it funny and fun!

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  20. HAHAHAHA. Wow. They are weird over there. Biscuits are cookies?!?!

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  21. My side is splitting.
    Oh Europe.
    I die.

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  22. Haha! These conversations are great! You must keep sharing these as they happen.

    Also, I have never walked to the grocery store a day in my life. Nor do I plan to. Besides, my car has to serve some kind of purpose!

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  23. haha.. this is so cute! you def have to keep sharing these!

    bbq fajita seasoning and no butter pumps?! that's just plain wrong!

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  25. i love this!! you two are adorable!

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  26. This is just wayy to cute to handle! :)

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  29. Haha! My husband is British and sometimes we end up with conversations like these.

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  30. holy heck I loved this post - laughed so effing hard in public. Speaking of language barriers, thanks for your twitter help with my little inappropriate language translations...'jammy dodger' belongs NO WHERE NEAR my professional perosona.

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  31. This is so great... I had several similar convos when I was studying in London... "what do you mean I have to walk half a mile in the rain to get to the store... I don't get it..."

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  33. i feel like i have conversations like this with my boyfriend too, except we're both american and instead of him not understanding what a butter pump is, he looks at me with judgment that i would even want to use liquified butter juice in the first place. oh, and don't get me started on the look of puzzlement on his face when i start yelling obscenities in traffic. it's literally like we speak two different languages: mine is crazy and his is embarrassment.

    CupcakesOMG!

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  34. Except for the last two, I can only agree haha. Boy and I have these odd conversations and cultural misunderstandings often as well - just in reversed roles !

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  35. LOL - this is UH-mazing!

    My newest one with Jurgen is taking a red-eye flight.

    Me: At least your flight is a red-eye so you can try and get some sleep?

    J: A red-eye what does this mean?

    Me: You don't know what a red-eye is? It's a flight that goes through the night. Ask any American and they will tell you that.

    J: hahaha But why do they call it a red-eye?

    Me: I don't know, maybe because your eyes are red after getting off the flight because you're tired...

    I digress...

    xoxo
    Jenna

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  36. take me to the crunchy food. I AM DYING

    i work with 2 scottish guys...hahah soo cute! use silly words like Bonnie and Lad and i just absolutely love it

    i hope your american-ness is rubbing off on Stephen!

    xoxox

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  37. I'm with him on the multiple veggies for dinner, but seriously, UK movie theaters confuse me (assigned seating anyone? what is that?) and BBQ and fajitas belong in their own encampments. Separate but equal.

    But mostly separate.

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  39. I like it. My favorite conversation went like this at a baked potato "bar" in SoHo:

    A: I'd like one of the baked potatoes please.
    Waitress: What would you like on it?
    A: Butter. Oh, and Cheese.
    W: And?
    A: And what?
    W: Do you want chicken salad on it? Broccoli? Avocado? Beans? Bacon? Tuna? Mayonnaise?
    A: Uh. Just butter and cheese, please??
    W: (weird look)

    This happened daily. I have a love affair with Mayonnaise, but not on a baked potato and DEFINITELY not British Mayo. eeesh.

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  41. bahaha you guys sound fun. let us double date!

    Oh wait...

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  42. hahahaha! If anything...life will be ulta-intersting for you two. ;)

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  44. I love this. These conversations made me crack up :)

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  45. No butter for the popcorn!? That's a dealbreaker.

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  46. ohhhh my gosh I am laughing out loud right now!! by myself! {well, Henry's here...} LOVED this!

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  48. Haha, this is great Meg! I love the differences....I always drive to the store. NO WALKING EVER. Life goal (:

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  49. "me: can we drive to the grocery store?
    S: no babe
    me: why?
    S: because it is down the street
    me: your point"

    I love this one! This could totally be a conversation with my boyfriend! Walking ten minutes to the next cinema? Whyyy?!

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  50. btw: this picture is beautiful!





    (...already know it from fb stalking *cough*....sry;))

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  51. This is fantastic! Can completely empathize on the biscuit and butter pumps. As for the veggie discussion, i'm pretty sure my response is the same - one is clearly enough ;)how did that bbq fajita seasoning turn out after all? i would definitely be skeptical.

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  52. Oh you poor, poor, dear. We must find a way to rescue that entire continent!

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  53. Meggie! This was hilarious, hahaha. I love you two. I loved with jenni used to write about the differences with p-man. I told stone I was going to pants him the other day. He did not know what that was...

    i know. I KNOW. WTF. So I just pantsed him. and now he knows. Even living in America. In the same STATE. We have these problems :)

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  54. haha! This reminds me of when I was in London and after getting out of a late show, STARVING, I went to KFC because it was the only thing open. When I asked if I could get a biscuit on the side they looked at me funny and said, "A biscuit? Like a cookie?" Me: Umm...no. Like a biscuit!

    btw--no biscuits (or cookies) at the KFC! :(

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  55. I heart you and your American-ness.

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  57. this is hilarious! i always say supermarket instead of groceries and boot instead of trunk! people look at me like i have two heads!

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  59. I can completely relate to all these conversations! Especially the crackers/biscuits confusion. Gotta love getting lost in translation with these Irish boys. Literally LOL'ed when reading this at work which totally gave away the fact that I'm hiding in my cubicle not working...

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  60. Ohhhh! I need to do this, A few things I can think of now that is particularly lost in translation... Argentines call the living room, the "living" and the shopping mall, the "shopping" in English and it sounds so out of context "tus llaves estan en el living" or "queres venir conmigo al shopping este finde?" "Lookearme" is a verb meaning to check oneself out in the mirror. And people from the US are "yanquis" as in yankees. Yeah.

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  63. Hahahahaha! Rich and I have convos like this daily and we had literally the exact same conversation at the movies- sorry, CINEMA- last night! I was like, " ok, so it's kettle corn" and the man was like "go back to America" and I thought "ok, I will on 11/29.....or should I say 29/11??????" siiiiigh.

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  64. Mmmmmm. Crunchy food. I could totally get down with their salty sweet popcorn deal though. Except that I'd get salty with sweet.

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  65. keep these coming!! i love stephen, and you too, but of course!!!

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  66. hahahah literally rolling on the floor right now. He needs to make a trip over here soon. He's eyes will be opened.

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  67. Ha this is great! You should start a series of these types of convos! You crack me up :)

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  68. Laughing through this entire post! Love it. I had the hardest time with understanding the term chip. Fries? Confusing.

    ~Jacqlyn

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  69. I just laughed so loud my dog woke up and started barking. Aka really freakin loud. This is amazing. BBQ AND FAJITA DO NOT MIX. I'm not sure how people survive in a country where those two things are the same.

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  70. haha I love this, all of the conversations have made me laugh!

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  71. Dang girl I just laughed myself off my chair! Soo funny, love it!

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  72. Ahhhhhh, Meg!! I seriously died over this post!!!! This is like my favorite ever!! Can you start doing this once a week?! Hahahaha.

    And seriously, don't walk. Don't let them peer pressure you to be more healthy.

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  73. haha. im pretty sure we are way worse here in so cal. the doggy daycare is the best!

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  74. hahaha this post seriously made my day... you are funny girlfriend ;)

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  75. Californians are weird. I know. I married one.

    He looks for a "park", instead of a parking space.
    He says you're "stoked on it", instead of excited about it.
    He was weirded out by warm evenings.
    He had never eaten at a Cracker Barrel.
    AND never eaten a funnel cake.

    Like I said. Weird.

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  76. hahaha that is hilarious. precious picture by the way.

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  77. This is hilarious! I love it!

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  78. Man, I know this feeling so well. Except for me it's East Coast American (me) and Australian (IC). Le sigh.

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  80. hahhahaha this had me laughing for a good 10 minutes and reminiscing all of my conversations w/ my norwegian boyfriend.

    i dont understand how there is no doggy daycare here either. we found this one place that 'said' they were doggy daycare and when i dropped the pup off there all day, it appeals KENNEL was the more appropriate word. imagine how pissed they were at me when i refused to pay them.

    dont even get me started on popcorn here. the 'butter' tastes like there is nothing on it. and i dont care what anyone says, caramel popcorn is not an option at a movie theater. it should only be 'movie theater butter'. and a butter pump AND different salt spices better be available if you want to call yourselves a movie theater concession stand.

    have a great rest of the week!

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  81. hahahaha. so funny.
    and what you SHOULDVE been saying in the movie theatre is:
    m: lets get it on.
    s: ok.

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  82. haha i agree with bridget. there's one area where it doesn't matter what country you're from: sexy time's the same in every language of love. bow chicka bow wow.

    and more than one veggie for din? i don't understand.

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  83. lmao this is hilarious! Oh man... I would DIE without buttered popcorn!

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  84. I love all of the discovery between the two of you. It's like ying and yang.

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  85. Ha! Good stuff...sounds like the neverending conversations in our house. After 5 years together I am convinced they never stop!

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  87. Hahahaha! That is too funny! I love it!

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  88. hahaha.
    foreign ways are so attractive though!!??
    right???

    ...
    ha ha don't ruin it for me. Just say Yes, Meg. Just say YES...


    the whole vegetable bit really earned him brownie points in CHECHE land...

    ♥CheChe

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  89. hahaha tooo funny! being from southern california and having lived in london i can agree with all of this.

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  90. pahaha. i love language barriers when you both speak english!

    no butter pumps at the movie theater????! thats what MAKES movie popcorn so good!

    conclusion: both come visit me. the end.

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  91. bbq on fajitas...oh good heavens. sick!!!

    could y'all be anymore beautiful?! babies need to be made...pronto.

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  92. please post more conversation posts.
    utterly entertaining.
    :) Anna

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  93. SOO funny!...only because I get the same types of conversations with my boyfriend.

    Ohhh the joys of being with a British man <3

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  95. you should not have been having any conversations in the threatre. you, bridge and me know why. #stilldisappointed

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  96. oh the culture shock. and love how it all really revolves around food. americans know how to do it! and any trip to the movie requires buttered popcorn.

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  98. BBQ fajita seasoning?!?! Blasphemyyyyyyyyy!

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  99. this is hilarious! "take me to the crunchy food" = best.line.ever.

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  100. The movie theater one is the best! I remember there being no butter pumps!

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  101. Ah life in a cold climate! I really don't miss that part of living in the UK. I am perfectly happy in my 30 degrees Celsius now that I think of it!

    Sal x

    http://danielandi.blogspot.com/

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  102. this is too much for me to handle. my old roommate is from Cork originally. we would have those moments all the time.

    ~em
    talesforkarina.blogspot.com

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  103. HAHA! This is everyday for me. I'm American and I live in Australia with an Australian boyfriend and our conversations are very much like this.

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  105. Just as amazing!! hahaha :)

    M x www.whatwegandidnext.com

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