Alight, you Brits are just making stuff up now...

Rickford · Post by **Rickford** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:45 pm

I'm more a fan of Brockian Ultra Cricket myself.

*Smacks Legostar and runs away*

sorry!

TellTaleHeart · Post by **TellTaleHeart** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:12 pm

I prefer to play 43-Man Squamish myself. It's even better than Three-Cornered Pitney.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:14 pm

Rickford wrote:I'm more a fan of Brockian Ultra Cricket myself.

*Smacks Legostar and runs away*

sorry!

you come back here!

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:20 pm

Baseball's no different. It's got a plethora of weird, unknown terms for the uninitiated. It's just that non-Americans generally know about baseball even if they don't play it yet Americans don't know about cricket.

I'd probably chalk it up to the same apparent reasoning behind American spelling, NTSC and driving on the right side of the road, which is "Hey, if we're going to be independant from England, lets make sure we never do anything like them again!"

- Joel Fagin

Col · Post by **Col** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:30 pm

"Cricket?!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!"

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:32 pm

At least we don't have the "retarded cousin" electrical sockets that the English have.

Rickford · Post by **Rickford** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:45 pm

Sah, I say Sah, I take offence at that. God bless the English plug socket! Any other kind is just plain wrong.

not that I know any other kind, having never been abroad...

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:30 pm

The Neko wrote:At least we don't have the "retarded cousin" electrical sockets that the English have.

Yeah, which put out a measly 110 volts. We more tha double that in Australia, mate.

Which is really cool if you have a power supply on your computer which has one of those inset red switches that changes it from one to the other. Plug a computer expecting 110v into a 240v socket and it gets fun.

- Joel Fagin

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:39 pm

Col wrote:"Cricket?!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!"

I love you on so many levels right now

C.w. · Post by **C.w.** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm

Not to defend Americans, but i'm bored and chock full of useless information.

Joel Fagin wrote:I'd probably chalk it up to the same apparent reasoning behind American spelling, NTSC and driving on the right side of the road, which is "Hey, if we're going to be independant from England, lets make sure we never do anything like them again!"

Alternate spellings - For a time there was a great push in america to simplify spelling, (which Mr. Twain so famously made a delightful satire of) some of which caught on (like colour being color) and some didn't.

NTSC was developed before PAL (according to the wiki articles - the rest is my useless information). My guess for why they never switched to the "better" PAL system is the same reason for why they never switched to metric - it would have been difficult, and a large dose of "who cares." The only real odd duck system is the french SECAM, and perhaps some of the japanese systems (although they actually were of much higher quality, unlike the debatable differences between PAL and NTSC.)

Driving on the right - i've looked quite a few places, and heard quite a few theories - i'm not about to affirm any one of them. The only thing i'll state (again according to wiki) is that a much greater percentage of the world drives on the right.

Oh, and as far as socket voltage, isn't there a international push for 45v as a standard?

As far as cricket goes, i'm no help. I find pretty much all sports incomprehensible.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:41 pm

I'll just make my usual point about driving on the right...

When you drive on the right, the gear stick is also on your right. That means that most people take their dominant hand off of the steering wheel in order to change gears. If you drive on the left, though, everything's reversed and you use your left hand to change gears.

I can thyink up a good argument for anything.

- Joel Fagin

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:11 am

Joel Fagin wrote:
The Neko wrote:At least we don't have the "retarded cousin" electrical sockets that the English have.
Yeah, which put out a measly 110 volts. We more tha double that in Australia, mate.

Which is really cool if you have a power supply on your computer which has one of those inset red switches that changes it from one to the other. Plug a computer expecting 110v into a 240v socket and it gets fun.

- Joel Fagin

Thank sweet motherfucking god you reminded me of that shit. I might have totally fucked my computer when I brought it back to Oz. GARGRGH.

TheBladeRoden · Post by **TheBladeRoden** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:40 am

I like the scones at least.

Malaika · Post by **Malaika** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:59 am

Joel, thats a good point. I like our Aussie way of doing it

And 'm not much of a sport fan, but I understood that perfectly. But then again, Australians have this habit of becoming obsessed with sports they're really good at. Did you notice the way we all just completely forgot about the soccer when we dropped out of the world cup?

I'm all for the traditional British way - I like it. Frankly (and I'm sorry for this) I get annoyed at American spelling. British spelling makes sense - there are RULES there that aren't immediately apparent. You can't just go fiddling with it.

And PAL is most definitely better than NTSC. It all relates to the way the frame-rate/audio etc all works... I can't remember really.

War · Post by **War** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:36 am

The Neko wrote:At least we don't have the "retarded cousin" electrical sockets that the English have.

The safest electrical sockets in the world.

Access can't be gained to the live or neutral sockets without inserting something into the earth socket to open the shutters. The coating that covers half of the live and neutral pins on plugs means it's impossible to touch either pin whilst they're still live. The fuses mean ours can be used for high current applications as they are. And the size and shape of it are intentional, it's to make it as hard as possible to pull it out by the flex.

Blackaby, all of Europe uses 230 volts. I think Joel was refering to the US, they're the ones who use 110 volts.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:46 am

So the European ones are all okay? I can remember my husband coming from America and nearly frying his computer - I kinda assumed that everyone else apart from Australia had the same low-electricity thing going on. But if Europe's all for the high-electricity too, I figure it's all good.

Thanks, War.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:47 am

Malaika wrote:But then again, Australians have this habit of becoming obsessed with sports they're really good at. Did you notice the way we all just completely forgot about the soccer when we dropped out of the world cup?

I must correct you...the way we all just completely forgot about the soccer when we WERE SHAFTED out of the world cup...we had those spaghettis by the short and curlies until they took up that aquatic sport of diving...

Malaika wrote:I get annoyed at American spelling. British spelling makes sense - there are RULES there that aren't immediately apparent.

The kids and I call them 'Simpsons' words because that's where they see the American spellings. And you're right...there actually are RULES concerning how to spell in English...and they're pretty easy once you know them.

Heh...like all secret codes, eh?

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:56 am

HEADPUNCH

Johndar · Post by **Johndar** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:22 am

Col wrote:"Cricket?!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!"

CorpAmis · Post by **CorpAmis** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:24 am

Johndar wrote:
Col wrote:"Cricket?!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!"