Rant time...
Al mentioned above he'd had salt and vinegar French fries for lunch, which got me thinking. Twice recently I've seen adverts for crisps where they're referred to as 'chips'. One was for Kettle Chips (see, even in the product name) where they were extolling the virtues of hand made, simple chips, and Pringles, who advertise the number of chips they have in the new packets.

But wait a minute. This is Britain. These are actually crisps. Chips are also made from potatoes but are shaped as rectangular prisms and served in paper from a chip shop.

I have no problem with Americans, but this is going too far.

/Daily Mail
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:12, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

but this is going too fa except for the fact that they are fat stupid and warlike, but at least they aren't all criminals like the darkies, or smell like curry like the pakis or steal our jobs like the poles.

note to the mods - this is not intended seriously
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:15, Reply)

or drunks like the micks
or stabby gits like the Scots.
And don't even get me started on the Welsh.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:16, Reply)

And as for the English...
What can I say?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:19, Reply)

Gods own people
Apart from people from Cornwall
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:20, Reply)

You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 14:19, Reply)

All bastards

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:20, Reply)

Or thieving cunts like the scouse
Or stupid sounding idiots like the brums,
or rude cunts like the londoners,
or incapable of wearing more than a vest than the geordies.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:20, Reply)

Oh shit, I think I'm part Geordie
I'm only wearing a vest and jeans today. No wait, the central heating's on and I can hear people being arseholes outside. Must be London :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:23, Reply)

I agree
*waves union jack*
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:15, Reply)

Why do people care about shit like this?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:19, Reply)

I've noticed that, too
I like Americans, my father lives there and is married to a very nice one - it's not even their fault.

Companies emulate them in their ad copy because subconsciously people like the terminology as they've seen it in films, People who are cunts, that is.

Another big area for this is the post - or 'mail'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:20, Reply)

Pharmacy?
No, it's a FUCKING CHEMIST
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:22, Reply)

Yes
An Americanism which amuses me is 'drug store'.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:24, Reply)

So what is the person who doles out the drugs called?
Are they a chemist? NO THEY'RE FUCKING NOT ARE THEY, THEY'RE A FUCKING PHARMACIST!
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:25, Reply)

Damn you cunt, stealing my posts before I can write them.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:29, Reply)

Yes, thats as may-be,
but, the shop, sorry, 'the store', itself is called a Chemist. Boots the Chemist, for example.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:30, Reply)

Go down many high streets
and you will find Lloyds Pharmacy, as well as hundreds of smaller independent PHARMACIES. When you are in a hospital and the doctors want to drugs, they don't say "Nurse go to the Chemistry and get me 300cc's of morphine STAT!" They say "Get yourself to the Pharmacy".
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:32, Reply)

HEY MR PHARMACIST!
Can you help me out today?
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:35, Reply)

No
you're too much of a cunt, ask me tomorrow.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:41, Reply)

Teeee-une
It was covered by the Fall was it not?

The original is a personal favourite
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:41, Reply)

The Other Half,
recorded it originally, although i was weaned on The Fall version.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:47, Reply)

this is the truth
see also: pharmaceutical industry
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:39, Reply)

You are right,
it's a store where they sell drugs. ?Why call it a Chemist's Also, there are no "Chemists" in Drug stores; they’re all in university laboratories trying to make bombs for our holy crusade no, Righteous war on terror no: our waste of people’s lives.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 14:28, Reply)

Don't order chips in Spain

You'll get crisps, unless your on the South coast in which case you'll get a free egg on top and some curry sauce.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 13:20, Reply)