Must we differ on everything?

[aussiemel1]

I went to the supermarket today and bought cling wrap, used it tonight and found that it tears upward.  Really?   We're going to differ on that?  Because for the last 20 years I've been tearing downward.  That's what I'm used to.  In Aus we tear our cling wrap downward.

So many things are unnecessarily different over here.  Today, grocery shopping,

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[pdragon76]

LOL. You sound like me everytime I get a fic back from beta.

Grey/gray, living room/loungeroom, bin/trashcan, judges don't wear silly wigs. Noone says bloody over here unless they actually are bloody. Nobody will get the Tardis reference. Americans don't drink tea. Take that "a" out, put it here instead. Our gutters are taller than this, our roads don't do THAT. I have no clue what this perfectly ordinary Australian sentence means. What is this? I don't get that. -ize not -ise. Gotten, not got. Pepper not capsicum. Wtf is a lie-in? Elevator, not lift. Parking lot, Aussie, not car park. No one says "fortnight" unless they are eighty years old. Bills instead of notes. Our wallets don't have coin-holds...

HOMG, CAN I SCREW ANYTHING ELSE UP? *weeps in frustration* I mean, are we even living on the same PLANET?

Heeeee. I sympathiSe with you, Mel. I really do, cobber. *gives you the secret handshake, passes you a Tim Tam*

[aussiemel1]

There you go, you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Little nitpicky differences all over the place. Why? It is so annoyingly uneccessary. I've been trying to take it in stride but the cling wrap was the final straw. Man was I unco in tearing that stuff upward.

But on the upside, I delighted a group of Americans the other night by saying Crikey.

but but but

[kayto1]

we Americans coined the fabulous word "Y'all."

Surely that makes up in some small part for our clingwrap?

Re: but but but

[aussiemel1]

I must admit I am enjoying the y'alls. My son's teacher lets it slip often, so casually, and I smile every time.

But the cling wrap... *does beseeching hands*...the cling wrap.

I'm just amazed at the minor differences. For two countries that are essentially the same, there are a thousand minor differences (and yes, it's all part of the fun of living overseas, even if it is frustrating sometimes).

[blackbeltblondi]

Can you even tear clingfilm upwards? I wouldn't even know how to start....

Now you see, you go grocery shopping, we go food shopping, and when we are washing clothes, we say we are doing the washing not the laundry...

But tearing clingfilm upwards....that seriously got a massive WTF?? from me..