Exchanges with People that Make Your Brain Hurt

[Octavia]

One of my friends is taking an introductory class on how to use a computer. The class is online. And it requires the students to download the course materials, set up accounts on the class forum, etc. before the first session. Chapter 1 of the course starts with instruction on how to turn on the computer. 

[elephantschild]

This might make some people's brains hurt - in the UK, we have no comparable word for soda/pop/coke etc. Maybe 'fizzy drinks' or 'soft drinks' though the latter also covers stuff like juice, tea, etc. Soda means soda water, pop means a genre of music, and coke means coca cola exclusively. I do wonder why we don't have a word for that, actually.

Not quite true.  It may be a regional or an age thing, but as a child in the NE of England 40 years ago, I had pop.  It was the generic name for all soft drinks - cherryade, lemonade, coke.  I'll admit I haven't heard it since I moved away, so it may be completely regional.

Western New Yorkers say "pop" for anything carbonated.

I know it's used elsewhere in the U.S., but it's so pervasive here that when DH and I were at Walt Disney World 10 years ago, and he ordered a Coke at one restaurant by saying "a medium pop," the clerk looked at him and said, "You're from Buffalo, aren't you?"

[Luci45]

And, as an Ehellion, I have taken to saying 'a refreshing beverage'.

Too much Big Bang Theory? I've been tempted to use it, too. 

[Darcy]

This might make some people's brains hurt - in the UK, we have no comparable word for soda/pop/coke etc. Maybe 'fizzy drinks' or 'soft drinks' though the latter also covers stuff like juice, tea, etc. Soda means soda water, pop means a genre of music, and coke means coca cola exclusively. I do wonder why we don't have a word for that, actually.

It took me about three visits to the pub to finally realize that nobody was going to understand what "soda" was. But even after two full years in London I could never quite train myself to say "soft drinks", and just ended up asking if they had the particular brand of soda/soft drink I was looking for.

[Jocelyn]

And, as an Ehellion, I have taken to saying 'a refreshing beverage'.

Too much Big Bang Theory? I've been tempted to use it, too. 

I first saw it here in Ehell, but maybe the person using it had gotten it from BBT.

[emwithme]

I'm in the uk and pop as a term for cordials/squash and fizzy drinks is the norm in my region. In fact when I was a child the "Pop Man" would come round in a large open backed truck with creates and creates of different fizzy drinks. A bit like a milk man but with pop. You gave him back your old bottles and he gave you new ones filled with more carbonated heaven.
It's a midlands thing apparently. Family that live more in the north think Pop is a term only used for carbonated drinks. 

I have to go find some dandelion and burdock now.

Mr Chick is from the North West and remembers the Lemonade Lorry - and money back on the empty bottles. He will join you for a dandelion and burdock; his sister drank American Cream Soda. He thinks 'pop' is carbonated drinks, the ones that went 'pop!' when you opened the bottle, not squash.

Where I was born we had white lemonade and brown lemonade. As far as I know, the only difference was that brown lemonade had a little caramel colouring in it, but I certainly thought it tasted different and I liked it better. It did mean that once you got to the age of using lemonade as a mixer, you had to specify 'martini and white, please'.

Morrisons sell a lovely (own brand, but don't get the sugar free, it's vile) Dandelion and Burdock.  It's not quite as nice as the Pop Van Man's (we had Alpine AND Corona in Coventry - both came to our house as we preferred the Alpine D&B but the Corona Limeade). 

I miss the Pop Van Man.  That was *proper* recycling - the bottles were used repeatedly (as bottles) rather than taking up *More* energy breaking them and remaking the glass bits into something else. 

*goes on muttering about the Good Old Days*

[sunnygirl]

I kind of really want a Dandelion and Burdock now.

I have a brain-hurt that's sort of the counterpart to Octavia's.
When I was in my final year of university, I took a class on Online Journalism. It was aimed people who planned to, like, start up their own professional online magazines and stuff, and pretty much everyone in the class already ran their own blogs/webzines and suchlike. It was a final year class (at a university where every single class involved the use of computers), so you'd expect it to be fairly advanced.

The tutor seemed to think she was teaching a class called, "Intro to Computers." We spend one entire lesson just learning how to do a basic Google search. Then we spent another entire lesson learning how to open a jpg, reduce the file size, and save it. In Windows Paint.

[Iris]

One of my friends is taking an introductory class on how to use a computer. The class is online. And it requires the students to download the course materials, set up accounts on the class forum, etc. before the first session. Chapter 1 of the course starts with instruction on how to turn on the computer. 

When bureaucrats attack...

[Mental Magpie]

A teen posted on her Facebook (that showed up on my news feed), "I am making a bucket list for things to do before I graduate! I need help with ideas!"  I wanted to post, "I don't think you quite understand what a bucket list actually is...", but I refrained.  Instead, the Eagle and I had a good laugh at it.

[Piratelvr1121]

"I do not think it means what you think it means."

[Miss Tickle]

I'm in the uk and pop as a term for cordials/squash and fizzy drinks is the norm in my region. In fact when I was a child the "Pop Man" would come round in a large open backed truck with creates and creates of different fizzy drinks. A bit like a milk man but with pop. You gave him back your old bottles and he gave you new ones filled with more carbonated heaven.
It's a midlands thing apparently. Family that live more in the north think Pop is a term only used for carbonated drinks. 

I have to go find some dandelion and burdock now.

Mr Chick is from the North West and remembers the Lemonade Lorry - and money back on the empty bottles. He will join you for a dandelion and burdock; his sister drank American Cream Soda. He thinks 'pop' is carbonated drinks, the ones that went 'pop!' when you opened the bottle, not squash.

Where I was born we had white lemonade and brown lemonade. As far as I know, the only difference was that brown lemonade had a little caramel colouring in it, but I certainly thought it tasted different and I liked it better. It did mean that once you got to the age of using lemonade as a mixer, you had to specify 'martini and white, please'.

In Canada we had a company called the Pop Shoppe that was similar, they'd deliver all sorts of different flavours and pick up the empties.

What is squash?

[mbbored]

A teen posted on her Facebook (that showed up on my news feed), "I am making a bucket list for things to do before I graduate! I need help with ideas!"  I wanted to post, "I don't think you quite understand what a bucket list actually is...", but I refrained.  Instead, the Eagle and I had a good laugh at it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I've heard quite a few people refer to a list of things to do before a certain deadline as a bucket list. What other meaning does a bucket list have?

[violinp]

A teen posted on her Facebook (that showed up on my news feed), "I am making a bucket list for things to do before I graduate! I need help with ideas!"  I wanted to post, "I don't think you quite understand what a bucket list actually is...", but I refrained.  Instead, the Eagle and I had a good laugh at it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I've heard quite a few people refer to a list of things to do before a certain deadline as a bucket list. What other meaning does a bucket list have?

It means a list of things you want to accomplish before you "kick the bucket," aka die (thus the term bucket list).

[jedikaiti]

A teen posted on her Facebook (that showed up on my news feed), "I am making a bucket list for things to do before I graduate! I need help with ideas!"  I wanted to post, "I don't think you quite understand what a bucket list actually is...", but I refrained.  Instead, the Eagle and I had a good laugh at it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I've heard quite a few people refer to a list of things to do before a certain deadline as a bucket list. What other meaning does a bucket list have?

More literally, a "bucket list" is a list of things you want to do/accomplish before you kick the bucket - that is, before you die.

[Mental Magpie]

violinp and jedikaiti are right, it is a list of things to be done before one kicks the bucket, hence the term "bucket list".