I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
the bee population is in global decline, i imagine beekeeping must be pretty stressful
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
bees live in "tower blocks" in the UK
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:34 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think in british english they just call that a rash?
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Ha, that's right!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
A rash is different than hives. Hives ime are like individual welts whereas a rash is more diffuse and has more points of irritation (many small bumps, for example). You can get them both from contact with an irritant or from mental stressors, but they are not the same thing. ime.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
Maybe in BrE the technical term “urticaria” is in common parlance
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
(Australia has the skin version of hives too ftr. "Hickeys" started to take over from "love bites" in the '90s afaik, as with many other slang terms in Hollywood teen movies. no idea what #youths today call them)
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
We're lessy fussy about stuff like that over here. I'm sure there are regional names for hives, though I still don't really know what hives are... or is.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
I'm sure I have had a hive and I'm sure I just called it a rash!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
The NHS apparently calls them hives but I've never heard anyone use that word irl.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hives/
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
I suppose we should mention zits here as well.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
plukes
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Exactly.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
so this is a list of colloquial names for skin problems?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
i had a period of acute urticaria with some angioedema of the eyes and lips recently. lasted for about 4 weeks, responded to antihistamines, was (seemingly) idiopathic.
hive are not fun
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
(xp) American names for skin problems.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Why is the song "Please Mr. Postman" and not "Please Mr. Mailman"?
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Good question.
https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
why not "carn postie"
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
having A/C on 24/7 but keeping the butter in the fridge 24/7 anyway
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
People keep butter in the fridge? (Assuming you mean butter that is in the butter dish to be used soon, not backup butter)
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
oh yes!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
I don’t know if people who do that. It would make the butter hard to spread.
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
yes, yes it does!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
we keep butter in the fridge and I don't really know why. I personally never spread it on anything and only use it for cooking.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
I’m dumb
― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Well if you aren’t going to spread it keep it in the fridge. Put butter to spread on things on the counter. The Tao of butter.
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
In the Prime Grateful Dead doc, their british tour manager comments that Americans are unusually obsessed with defining "what america is" and I thought that was a good observation, although not much to do with butter
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.countrylanekitchens.net/images/products/thumb/butter_bell_antique_white_linen_2.jpg
I have one of these butter bells, a little bit of water in the bottom and it stays fresh and spreadable for weeks
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
I store butter in the refrigerator, but the dish of butter-in-use stays out on the counter, except during the hotter months of summer. i'mamericanbtw.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Steve Miller Band, "Greatest Hits 1974-1978"
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
somebody get me a cheeseburger
― Dan I., Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Lacrosse
― S-, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
Might want to google that one
― rob, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
La crosse, Wisconsin, maybe.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Is that different from (non-ice) Hockey? Seems massive here in Belgium.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
1. biscuits & gravy
... and I'm proud to be an American!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
Three Dog NightGrateful DeadCreedence Clearwater RevivalTom Petty & The HeartbreakersThe EaglesLynyrd SkynyrdBob Seger & the Silver Bullet BandKissBostonStevie Ray VaughanThe Doobie BrothersGrand Funk RailroadJohn FogertyJ Geils BandFoghatStyxCheap TrickREO SpeedwagonKansasGeorge Thorogood & the Destroyers
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
there's an odd one out in that list (although it still works cos nobody likes them in their home country)
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
which
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
Foghat are British
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
Foghat? Ohhh, they're British?
like, literally no one cares in the UK
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
(and I'll be honest and say I got most of those names (incl. Foghat) from a list of 'Greatest American Bands')
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
Lacrosse― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglinkMight want to google that one― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
What am I missing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America,
International lacrosseFurther information: List of national lacrosse organizations
Lacrosse has historically been played for the most part in Canada and the United States,
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 26 October 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link