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I'll never ask you if you'd like a beer then either!

SandRider wrote:is this some kind of European bullshit ?

it is...


Sorry.

Never asked a waitress or waiter (oh, excuse the fuck out of me, I meant "server"!) for "another water" for your table in a restaurant, eh, 'Rider?

Using a normally mass noun as a count instance isn't anything new in the language. It's just verbal shorthand. It's been going on for years.

Relax. The Apocalypse still hasn't popped up in my iCal.

I'll start building that shelter just in case

I often also say "a cup of coffee" but both ways are very common up here - it's like Chig said, it's just shorter to say "a coffee"... pretty sure this one's just a regular old English thing, not something we can blame on the Europeans!

Today I asked the nice lady at a food place for 'a regular chip'. She was foreign, and didn't realise that I only wanted one chip, not a full portion.

SadisticCynic wrote:Today I asked the nice lady at a food place for 'a regular chip'. She was foreign, and didn't realise that I only wanted one chip, not a full portion.

What the hell is a chip that you would order just 1 of them?

Sorry, was my attempt at sarcasm, with respect to the topic of the thread. I was ordering chips:



Make sense?

(Sometimes we might order 'a chip' as a portion of chips, like some might order 'a coffee' for instance. )

I figured that's what you meant by chip, I just didn't catch the sarcasm and couldn't figure out why you'd order only one!

Chips always stay plural here, and generally only call them that in British pubs or when ordering fish and chips. Otherwise it's usually "fries".

But never, EVER do we call them freedom fries.

SadisticCynic wrote:Sorry, was my attempt at sarcasm, with respect to the topic of the thread. I was ordering chips:



Make sense?

(Sometimes we might order 'a chip' as a portion of chips, like some might order 'a coffee' for instance. )

Those are fries....this is a chip:

Oops...I meant, "these are chips"....don't want to offend anyone

goddamn, what's with all the motherfucking discussion?
the "a coffee" horseshit was just a RANDOM-goddamn-RANT,
not a thread topic .... fuck me blind ... the TOPIC is
"Random Rants" ... and my second post was actually going
to be along the lines of :

And don't fucking respond to this, it's mother-fucking RHETORICAL -
I really donot give a shit whether or not "a coffee" is Correct English,
or it's motherfucking origin, it's just something that pissed me off
personally and I AM RANTING ABOUT IT ...

but ... by the time I back around to it, you assclowns were already out
of the chute and heading off the reservation ....

so anyway ... post your fucking Random Rants here, then shut the fuck up ....

Wait, shit that ain't a rant...

ummm, put Mithra back in Christmas already! What's with everyone making it all about this newfangled god Jesus? Crazy new religions!

SandRider wrote:goddamn, what's with all the motherfucking discussion?
the "a coffee" horseshit was just a RANDOM-goddamn-RANT,
not a thread topic .... fuck me blind ... the TOPIC is
"Random Rants" ...

looks like a Rant to me ... just not extended enough, maybe ....
but I think if you go over 500 words, that's actually a diatribe ...

SandRider wrote:

SandRider wrote:goddamn, what's with all the motherfucking discussion?
the "a coffee" horseshit was just a RANDOM-goddamn-RANT,
not a thread topic .... fuck me blind ... the TOPIC is
"Random Rants" ...

looks like a Rant to me ... just not extended enough, maybe ....
but I think if you go over 500 words, that's actually a diatribe ...

Oh no, I was saying that a laughing smiley wasn't a rant, so I added more on to my post.