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[Tired]

Hold on, people walk in malls for exercise? Haven't seen that before. Is it because of weather? They can avoid rain and such?

Some people are more interested into looking at shop than nature, so this is why they exercise like that, I know those people myself.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

Hold on, people walk in malls for exercise? Haven't seen that before. Is it because of weather? They can avoid rain and such?

Yeah rain, or when it gets too cold outside. Or other reasons, as Tired stated.

 

[Boogs]

They don't charge. The mall is its own entity, not selling anything. The mall space may open before any stores do, because it's common for people to walk malls for exercise, before they get too many shoppers.

Ok, it did sound rather an extreme element of capitalism!
I know America has something I guess may be called Mall-culture (not malculture!!!! ) so the idea they'd start charging entry to go shopping isn't so far fetched from my provincial little side of the world!

 

[Forest Cat]

Yeah rain, or when it gets too cold outside. Or other reasons, as Tired stated.

That makes sense. I haven't seen that here but that's probably because we don't have huge malls. If Americans saw our malls, they would say "Aw, a baby-mall, it's adorable!".

 

[Outdated]

Another word that confuses Americans when they come here for a holiday, the word Mall has a specific meaning here. It's a street that has been closed off to all except pedestrian traffic. Each of our major cities has at least one mall. If you're looking for a shopping centre don't ask for directions to a mall.

 

[Boogs]

If you hang around those areas, does that make you a malingerer?

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

They don't charge. The mall is its own entity, not selling anything. The mall space may open before any stores do, because it's common for people to walk malls for exercise, before they get too many shoppersis full of stores, restaurants, movie theatres, rides, etc, etc.

Disney Springs is full of retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters, rides. One has to specify the absence of fees for entrance and parking, because everything with the Disney name costs $$$.

This is a car that is also a boat.

 

[Forest Cat]

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This is a car that is also a boat.

I do believe that is an Amphicar Model 770, made in West-Germany between 1960 and 1965. 43 wild German horses under the hood. A cute little four-cylinder Triumph engine.

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

[AGXStarseed]

Learning that there's a hill/fell in the English Lake District known as "Great Cockup"

A 1996 episode of It'll Be Alright On The Night (an outtake show presented at the time by the late Dennis Norden) was filmed in the area (since "Cockup" is another word for "Blunder"), with Dennis making the following joke about the area while sat on top of the hill/fell:

"The name was given to it by the Vikings when their first longboat landed here in the 9th Century because...well, when your longboat lands on top of a hill, what else can you call that?"