You two are funnier than any comedy team I've seen In a long time.

Perhaps one day we can all go to a group seminar and you folks can be our entertainment!

Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy...

Eat your hearts out!

Not so much a nightmare, as an extra step.
1/16 = .0625 1/2 = .5
We get used to it with practice.

Actually, we call it parmesan.

And: "O"

"O" dear, I got an "O" wrong. Mea culpa, I shall now remember that it's parmigiano, and that parmigiana refers to dishes made of parmigiano.

Obviously got my masculine and feminine mixed up.

Nowt to do with "limey bastards" - just me spelling the word wrong.

Eh, dago?

Jane

PS It's a bit like being ambushed by praying mantis or venus fly trap. TVWG always sitting there in the shadows waiting to pounce the moment the ozzie/pom puts a foot wrong!

PPS Wow - that would be amazing - I thought the yanks already beat us to that!

Except that we have biscuits not bisquits.

Beat you to it? LOL... I've had pizza in G.B. and have eaten at an Ozzie owned Pizza joint in Asia. The best you guys can muster is something akin to Dominos (among the worst pizza ever).

The modern pizza was invented in New York City. The Deep Dish Pizza in Chicago. Everything else outside those two cities is a bastardization of what is known today as a pizza.

Now Italia has some the best pie in the world, but the modern pizza was not invented there. What they sell there (mostly to tourists) is their version of American pizza.

The real italian pizza (the peasant food that inspired "pizza") is missing some key ingredients the world associates with pizza, most importantly mozzarella cheese.

The bell has rung. Class is out.

PS - I don't pounce on you Jane. I watch and wait (usually not long) for you to pounce on America... Then I set you straight. Here's an idea... look inward for your fodder. Spit in your own backyard, not mine.

Nah!

No amount of bullying and brow beating from a wretch like you is going to divorce me from my point of view or opinions.

And you've just admitted it yourself - you sit and wait for me to have just a tiny, eeny, weeny little dig at yankee-land, and then you pounce like a primed venus fly trap. How very feminine!

And then you go on and on and on and on moralising and proselytising about your beloved america and how I shouldn't be down on it, and then you come out with racist comments like "freaking limey bastards".

So, go clean up your own backyard, get your own house in order before you start whining at me.

In short: stop being such a hypocrite.

And, I couldn't care less that some yankee arsehole invented pizza - it figures! And it pretty much is tomato soup on a piece of bread - biggest rip off ever. And, I really couldn't care less if you think the pizza here is rank. You probably can't make a good tom yum, and why would anyone expect you to, when it's not your native cuisine. Oh, except, what is your native cuisine? Bastardised italian ideas slapped on cheap bits of dough? Or perhaps mechanically reclaimed chicken with a tiny pit of pork made to look like like a dehydrated sausage in a sub-roll with mustard and maybe some cheese (geez - hope it's not cheddar - that might be tooooooooo english). Is osso-buco your national dish? How would you know what your indigenous cuisine was - when one minute you're italian and the next you're american? Must be hard on the old brain waves living with that level of confusion.

Jane

You are one venemous woman. You can't even look within. If you did, you'd see a black, ugly soul.

Oh, and you don't read very well. Might want to take a look back. I don't pounce when you poke tiny eeny fun at America. I pounce after you pounce. Maybe keep your views to yourself... Your mother never tell you that?

Oh, and please oh please show me how "limey bastard" is racist. Um... what "race" would that be derogatory to? Um... British is now a race? LOL

Open up that dark ugly heart of yours and see what you get back in return. You reap what you sow.

What we Yanks refer to as standard is "American Standard". Nobody here (at least that I have ever run into in the last 50 years) calls our measurement system "Imperial". We reserve that for term for the the system used in the Great Britain and possibly other parts of the UK.

Although I grew up using the American system of feet and inches, gallons, ounces, quarts, pints (16 fluid ounces), etc, we did learn the metric system in school.

In chemistry we measured everything in grams, ml, cm, etc. Doesn't really make any sense does it. And then we used a slide rule to calculate. Electronic calculators were just coming out when I was in high school and the teachers called that cheating.

After all a femtoliter by any other name is one quadrillionth of a liter.
Or is it a cubic micron? Anyway you slice it, that's the way we measure the mean corpuscular volume of the common erythrocyte. (Red blood cell)

So although I live in an American Standard world, I work in a metric one. We should have switched over years ago.

Of course we would be complaining about the cost of gas (petrol to you folks in the UK) per liter.

Speaking of pizza, as a typical American family so often does, we had dinner at a local pizzeria. I had a hot meatball sandwich, my wife a chef salad with feta (a type of cheese ) and the girls had pizza. It was much better than what we had in the land of Oz.

Haven't been to England so can't comment on the cuisine there. But in Australia they call ketchup dipping sauce and charge a 5, 10, or 20 for each small container about the same size as the ranch dressing you get at Carls Jr with the fried zucchini.

I don't know how the money works in Britain but in Australia there is no such thing as a penny or one cent piece. The smallest is a five, then 10, 20, 50, $1, and finally $2. Those one and two dollar coins are pretty handy. I like the paper money too. Each denomination a different size. Works for me.

And now that we have so thoroughly hijacked this thread, how would you go about monetizing a site such as tikibartv.

Another similar site I like is http://www.askaninja.com/

They are using adsense. Makes you wonder how much they pull in a month.

P.S. according to my calculations a British pint = 19.2 oz in the US.

P.P.S. It's like watching a brother and sister go at it. In my wife's family it's much worse than this though.

Ouch! You definitely know how to hit a man where it counts...

Right in the groin

Jane it could be worse!

At least you aren't called "Taffy" like us Welsh folks often hear

Yeah, except we already went through all this a few weeks ago, and it wasn't that enlightening the first time. It must be time for summer reruns.