Just for Impossible. Not the other ones.

[Impossible]

I never got this whole soft drink thign, whats wrong with just saying soda?

Soda is acceptable, pop is not. Soft drink is the real, aka European (presumably) and Australian, word.

[CJ]

There's different names for heaps of stuff.

like a Pickup Truck. We call 'em Utes.
Daipers, we call Nappies.
Jello, we call Jelly and Jelly we call Jam.
Soda, we call Softdrink.
SUVs, we call 4-wheel drives.
ATVs, we call Quad-Bikes.

and there are probably heaps of others but I couldn't be fucked thinking them all up.

[Impossible]

Hold on... They call jam "jelly"? Okay, now, that's kind of fucked up.

[Ultimate Halo Sticker]

sandles = thongs

[Impossible]

Erm... No... They're different things.

[Squiggy]

sandles = thongs

daniel, please if you don't have any thing intellegant to say (which is more often than not) just don't say anything at all.

[Forerunner]

... *raises eyebrow* intellegant?... someone made a booboo. LMAO.

[Porter]

Soda is acceptable, pop is not. Soft drink is the real, aka European (presumably) and Australian, word.

If it's a European word, it definatly made its way over to Australia.

[Glenn47]

There's different names for heaps of stuff.

like a Pickup Truck. We call 'em Utes.
Daipers, we call Nappies.
Jello, we call Jelly and Jelly we call Jam.
Soda, we call Softdrink.
SUVs, we call 4-wheel drives.
ATVs, we call Quad-Bikes.

and there are probably heaps of others but I couldn't be fucked thinking them all up.

Nappies? Wow, that's the lamest thing I've ever heard.
I'm pretty sure Jello is a common acceptance of the wrong term, similar to everyone saying Band-Aids, when that was originally just a brand of bandages. Also, Jam is a more difficult form of Jelly when it comes to spreading it on the bread. We have Grape Jelly and Grape Jam from the same companies sometimes.
Softdrink...I want a hard drink. We in Minnesota call it Pop, but I actually edge away from the term, knowing that I like saying soda more, and knowing I'll get some "wtf"'s from friends by saying it. So I say, "Do you have anything to drink? Maybe some Mountain Dew?"
Quad Bikes....no comment.
4-wheel drives? That is found on almost every new car available right now. Are other cars called 2-wheel drives?

English is too messed up. There needs to be a universal English that everybody uses. We'll use Jello, Jelly, and Jam as three things, soda...if you want, and now that I think about it, I'm just picking out US English words. So there.

[CJ]

Both Nappies and Daipers sound whack.

Also, Cotton Candy, we call it Fairy Floss.
And those mcdonalds supersized meals were never available here, NEVER.

And yes I also agree that there should be a Universal English.
We shall call it UE, and it shall replace every form of English on the face of the earth.

Also I heard that the Americans hate the most delicious substance on earth....VEGEMITE.

Vegemite is the best. better than any other spread you can imagine.

[Glenn47]

We "Americans" don't hate Vegemite. That's like saying that all Australians hate credit cards. It makes no sense. I'd like to try it though, I've heard about it.

Fairy Floss? That seems like a fun way to say it. Cotton Candy works too. Someday I'm gonna go to a CC vender and ask for FF.

[Burning_Flame]

I remember this one time where some brittish guy walks up to me and asked me if i'm hard. I just started to back away. It was later that I realised when a brittish person askes you if your hard, it if your strong...not the other thing

[CJ]

We "Americans" don't hate Vegemite. That's like saying that all Australians hate credit cards. It makes no sense. I'd like to try it though, I've heard about it.

Fairy Floss? That seems like a fun way to say it. Cotton Candy works too. Someday I'm gonna go to a CC vender and ask for FF.

Yeah you should try it.
C'mon It's good. It's only made from used brewer's yeast, onions, celery, sea salt and some other nutritious crap.

They do sell it don't they it should look like this:



But you probably already knew that.

[OverlordBill]

My mother once bought some of that stuff. It killed the neighbors. House + 1.

[Forerunner]

LMAO.
Australians liking vegemite is a stereotype..... I hate the shit. Except on crumpets for some reason...