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Irritating American names for things

  • 01-11-2020 10:53PM
    #1
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    What are the perfectly good names of things that the Americans have, for some reason, decided to call completely different things that annoy you.

    I'll open the bidding with them calling Fruit & Vegetables Produce (and pronouncing it "pro-juice").


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Comments

  • #2
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Fanny

    Yank: She has a nice fanny on her, hasn't she?
    Me: I wish I knew.

    WTF :pac:


  • #3
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    fatbhoy wrote: »
    Fanny

    Beat me up it.


  • #4
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,069 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Vitamins


    It's VIT-a-min

    It's not VITE-a-min.


    Useless sack of fcuking Yankee doodle dandy sh1te.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Repressive strong armed and excessive policing



    Freedom


  • #6
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Restroom.


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  • #7
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Candy


  • #8
    SineadSpears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,168 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    Chips, for crisps.
    I don't mind fries for chips, but I hate chips for crisps

    ....…

    SNUGGLE SEASON



  • #9
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Catsup


  • #10
    Ikozma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Ikozma


    Sidewalk, cookies, trunk(BOOT) jelly(jam)


  • #11
    Arthur Helpless Dart
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Arthur Helpless Dart


    St. Patty's Day.


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  • #12
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Zucchini

    Eggplant

    Yams


  • #13
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,069 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Path / sidewalk

    Lift / elevator

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #14
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Missile, pronounced miss-ill.
    Aloominum for aluminium.


  • #15
    Hatshepsut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭Hatshepsut


    Kerb for footpath

    Garbage for rubbish

    Candy for sweets

    Mail for post

    Hood for bonnet


  • #16
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,149 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Bathroom... when someone just wants to sit on the pot. They are so ridiculous about that.

    But that's their way.


  • #17
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Aluminum


  • #18
    Bicyclette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Bicyclette


    Eatery


  • #19
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Faucet.


  • #20
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,988 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Shots for injections

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #21
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,149 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Elsa May Jayzee. Or something. Some of the names they bestow on their poor kids is amazing.


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  • #22
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,988 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Fun instead of craic.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #23
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Trailer (caravan)


  • #24
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Aloominum


  • #25
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,149 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Feisar wrote: »
    Fun instead of craic.

    I don't think they do fun, they do something else and call it fun.


  • #26
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,499 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    Vitamins


    It's VIT-a-min

    It's not VITE-a-min.


    Useless sack of fcuking Yankee doodle dandy sh1te.

    Vitamins are vital in a good diet.


  • #27
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,149 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Trump is great, Ta se mahogany gaspipes. Not long to go now.


  • #28
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    Cilantro.


  • #29
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,313 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Gas, for a flammable liquid that isn't a gas.


  • #30
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,149 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    They think everyone else is a Redneck.


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  • #31
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭screamer


    Trash can
    Diaper
    Va frigging cation
    Getting the check when you need the bill

    I could go on and on. I work with Americans and have for years, and I always have to click into Americaneese when talking to them or I just get rabbit in the headlight looks.


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