This weeks joke

3C-Wayne said:
I thought this was a beer thread... never mind.. (beer)
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Ok beer jokes.

A man came to home from his workplace, put TV on, sat to his favourite armchair and said to his wife:
"Quick, bring me a beer before it starts!"
The wife was a littlebit amazed but brang a beer.

After drinking the beer, man said:
"Quick, bring me another beer! It will start soon!"
This time the wife looked irritated but brang second beer.

After the man drinked the another beer he said:
"Quick, bring me third before it starts!"

The wife shouted "That's enough! You bastard, you walk home like if you own the whole world,
flop to your armchair, don't even say hello and think you can treat me like a slave! Don't you understand I cook, clean, wash and iron laundry all days long!"

The man took a break and said: "Oh hell, now it started."

That's funny: Bring, brang, brung vs. bring, brought, brought.
 
Tyres for the english speaking world.
Tires for the american speaking world.
 
Gasoline.
But then they can't even spell Aluminium correctly.
Magnesium? Check.
Sodium? Check.
Titanium? Check.
But let's fuck about with Aluminium.

:-*
 
MotoJouni said:
Do they say aluminum?

And then there is alumina which is as far as I know AlO2 or Al2O3.
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Americans say Aluminum and Aluminum Oxide.

Aluminum Oxide can make Aluminium metal by releasing the Oxygen molecule in a smelter.

Making Alumina is a dangerous process, as the majority of it utilises hot caustic soda. Not nice if you get it in your eye!

When the Hydrate is dried in a Calciner it is at about 1300 oC.
We managed to burn a Ute (pickup) to the ground one day after hot Alumina escaped! Even the engine melted !!!!!!
 
Gasoline ...

Here's a tip for Americans driving cars or bikes in Italy.

I was on a bike tour in Italy back in 2005 (organised by the Ducati factory). There were about 50 of us in the group all on Ducatis provided by the factory. About half of the mob were yanks. On the first day two of the bikes failed to proceed. It turned out that both of the American riders had (independently) filled them with Diesel fuel. Apparently this is a common occurrence with Americans driving hire cars in Italy.

The fuel pump at the servo was labelled "gasolio" which the two Yanks assumed to be the correct stuff because the word looks like "gasoline". But gasolio is actually Diesel fuel. This type of thing in linguistics is called a false cognate.

Petrol (Gasoline) fuels are either "senza piombo" (unleaded) or "benzina".
 
To be fair to the Yanks, when the metallic element Aluminium was first described scientifically and given a name by a British chemist (Humphrey Davy) in 1808 , he spelt it first as alumium, then a year later as aluminum. The extra i was applied rapidly by European scientists who knew the metal existed but had been unable to refine it (serious electrolysis needed, which came along fairly quickly in the early 19th century). Aluminium metal was a lot more valuable than gold when it first appeared.
But anyway, aluminum is actually more correct (to a chemist, anyway) than aluminium. Although I teach my American students to use the English spelling.

Ken
 
The ore was first discovered at Les Baux de Provence, hence bauxite. Just in case anyone needed to know.  :-*
 
I like to know things like that Davo; like the origins of the term 'denim', as in 'toile de Nimes'. ;)
 
Legs said:
I like to know things like that Davo; like the origins of the term 'denim', as in 'toile de Nimes'. ;)
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Close but no cigar. "serge de Nimes", and jeans named because Genoa was where they were first worn. Bet you don't know who first "invented" jeans in the USA.
 
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