Regional Humour

[Manuheleku]

Vegas...

 

[Judge]

LOL. I was going to say, "Thirty-seven degrees and they're wearing shorts. Definitely not foreigners."

Native-Nevadans. (Northern Nevadans)

 

[Mia]

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Very local humor. Based on - no matter how cold it gets
People from newcastle only ever wear T-Shirts

 

[Progster]

View attachment 42793 Vegas...

This one made no sense whatsoever until I realised that it means 60 degrees Fahrenheit, not 60 degrees Celsius.

 

[tree]

 

[Manuheleku]

LOL. I was going to say, "Thirty-seven degrees and they're wearing shorts. Definitely not foreigners."

Native-Nevadans. (Northern Nevadans)

Yup, Northern and Southern Nevada are two different worlds!

 

[Manuheleku]

I'll save this, my wife is a Michigander! A2!

 

[Gritches]

Setting the record straight from Minnesota:

It's called pop, dammit. Pop.

 

[Mia]

 

[tree]

The Pop vs. Soda Page
Nice map of USA pop/soda term usage.
Not meant as humor, though.

 

[Judge]

CHP officer: "How fast were you going?"

Me: "I know my rights."

CHP Officer: "Really? Maybe you should call the exterminator before you start giving them names."

 

[Manuheleku]

Setting the record straight from Minnesota:

It's called pop, dammit. Pop.

I'll have a coke!

 

[Streetwise]

Very local humor. Based on - no matter how cold it gets
People from newcastle only ever wear T-Shirts

that goes for the shivering specimens in sunderland !friday! night (neet in sunderland dialect)and saturday! as well year in year out .
going to the toon in newcastle dialect and to the town very guttural inflection for (like cowe) -soft e at the end in tow-n for Sunderland

 

[Streetwise]

Very local humor. Based on - no matter how cold it gets
People from newcastle only ever wear T-Shirts

I remember standing waiting for a lift outside the theatre Royal after going to the opera in winter in Newcastle and wearing a long wool coat,scarf -shivering.I had stood there for five minutes,I thought I would get hypothermia .
Born and bred in Sunderland .

 

[Streetwise]

I'll have a coke!

pop in the UK the only difference is soda water and tonic water .

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

pop in the UK the only difference is soda water and tonic water .

Dandelion and burdock

 

[Streetwise]

Dandelion and burdock

did you ever go to Lawes wholefood shop in gateshead? you could buy a glass of dandelion and burdock without gas in it !it was divine.
my mother asked was the sugar in it ?he said you can't believe how much sugar there is in it .

 

[xudo]

Setting the record straight from Minnesota:

It's called pop, dammit. Pop.

We call it pop in my part of the UK too

 

[WildCat]