Dolph:
On the language issue, guys is there a huge/big or minor difference between American and British English? How do you look at someone who speaks with American accent?
There are a few words and phrases which have different meanings in American English - but I think we’ve been exposed to enough US TV and films to quickly understand their meaning.
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Roymondo:
Dolph:
On the language issue, guys is there a huge/big or minor difference between American and British English? How do you look at someone who speaks with American accent?There are a few words and phrases which have different meanings in American English - but I think we’ve been exposed to enough US TV and films to quickly understand their meaning.
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Thanks.
Roymondo:
Dolph:
On the language issue, guys is there a huge/big or minor difference between American and British English? How do you look at someone who speaks with American accent?There are a few words and phrases which have different meanings in American English - but I think we’ve been exposed to enough US TV and films to quickly understand their meaning.
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Words like, freeway for motorway, sidewalk for pavement, fanny pack for man bag (scratch that its virtually the same thing anyway).
Older ones like ■■■■■■ for a homosexual when in England a ■■■■■■ is a tasty meat treat. 
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Dipper_Dave:
Roymondo:
Dolph:
On the language issue, guys is there a huge/big or minor difference between American and British English? How do you look at someone who speaks with American accent?There are a few words and phrases which have different meanings in American English - but I think we’ve been exposed to enough US TV and films to quickly understand their meaning.
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Words like, freeway for motorway, sidewalk for pavement, fanny pack for man bag (scratch that its virtually the same thing anyway).
Older ones like ■■■■■■ for a homosexual when in England a ■■■■■■ is a tasty meat treat.Sent from my Iphone 8 whilst holding my fanny pack.
Off topic
motorway is closer to interstate highway 
I asked because I find many many different words and its a bid hard to switch to new word, Im trying though. Artic, tipper, rigid etc…every country is differen, even English speaking. For example people here(BG) rarely say truck, everyone use TIR, its wrong but its what people use.
Also I found British cussing at each other(youtube videos of bicyclist and drivers)very often without any major result. When in US or EE there is going to be a fist/gun fight if you cuss at somebody.
I like the UK way: - I got you on tape mate, I calling police, I got you, I got you.
Are people in UK allowed to carry weapons in their vehicles? Guns are of the limit there, but what about knifes, baseball bats, hammers, wrenches, tire iron etc?
No weapons really in the UK, you can even be arrested for being in possession of an offensive wife.
Can’t really carry anything that could be considered a weapon without a good reason.
Dipper_Dave:
No weapons really in the UK, you can even be arrested for being in possession of an offensive wife.Can’t really carry anything that could be considered a weapon without a good reason.
Thanks.
Well everything can be use as a weapon by this logic, this excuse(by authorities) is idiotic. How a driver can defend themselves in case of a robbery, criminals are armed and don’t care of the laws?
Drivers can legitimately carry lots of stuff that can be explained away. But when faced with a baddy one must consider if any attempt at intervention is worth it.
Course my SBS and girl guides training can help in those situations.
Sometimes carrying a weapon can make things worse if your relieved of it then hit with your own weapon (not always a bad thing tbf).
Luckily all UK truckers are blackbelts in unarmed combat, it’s part of the test.
Dipper_Dave:
Drivers can legitimately carry lots of stuff that can be explained away. But when faced with a baddy one must consider if any attempt at intervention is worth it.Course my SBS and girl guides training can help in those situations.
Sometimes carrying a weapon can make things worse if your relieved of it then hit with your own weapon (not always a bad thing tbf).
Luckily all UK truckers are blackbelts in unarmed combat, it’s part of the test.
Yeah you are correct, I carried sledgehammer in the States, on my door storage compartment. Use it more often to retract the trailer rail locking pins when stuck then for anything else. Well Im happy to never needed it for self defense.
Dolph:
Dipper_Dave:
Drivers can legitimately carry lots of stuff that can be explained away. But when faced with a baddy one must consider if any attempt at intervention is worth it.Course my SBS and girl guides training can help in those situations.
Sometimes carrying a weapon can make things worse if your relieved of it then hit with your own weapon (not always a bad thing tbf).
Luckily all UK truckers are blackbelts in unarmed combat, it’s part of the test.
Yeah you are correct, I carried sledgehammer in the States, on my door storage compartment. Use it more often to retract the trailer rail locking pins when stuck then for anything else. Well Im happy to never needed it for self defense.
A sledge hammer, for self defence? Unless you are a trained Viking, you ain’t gonna swing that in anger to any real effect. Pool que is good, as are some broom handles.
the nodding donkey:
Dolph:
Dipper_Dave:
Drivers can legitimately carry lots of stuff that can be explained away. But when faced with a baddy one must consider if any attempt at intervention is worth it.Course my SBS and girl guides training can help in those situations.
Sometimes carrying a weapon can make things worse if your relieved of it then hit with your own weapon (not always a bad thing tbf).
Luckily all UK truckers are blackbelts in unarmed combat, it’s part of the test.
Yeah you are correct, I carried sledgehammer in the States, on my door storage compartment. Use it more often to retract the trailer rail locking pins when stuck then for anything else. Well Im happy to never needed it for self defense.
A sledge hammer, for self defence? Unless you are a trained Viking, you ain’t gonna swing that in anger to any real effect. Pool que is good, as are some broom handles.
It was something like 3-5 lb in weight, no problem of swinging it.
Are we still talking about weapons or are you flirting…
dieseldog999:
ok then smartipants.…if your Scandinavian,your not a flipflop…if your ee or anything remotely resembling it,then you are…or as mentioned before, Taliban.there might be some of them working over Scandinavia,but ive family in Sweden,with Swedish inlaws etc,and they are generally refreshingly racist.if your a brit/irish then your not deemed so bad as your pink,but the ee mob or non pinks tend to get the cold shoulder to put it mildly for employent and general attitudes.its frowned upon if you cant speak Swedish…if you go to work there,then you can sit a 6 month government course to learn the language and when you pass,they give you £3000…not too shabby.
good luck finding a swedish-speaking containerjockey in Sverige 
or someone who pulls unaccompanied trailers from the ports
Dolph:
the nodding donkey:
Dolph:
Dipper_Dave:
Drivers can legitimately carry lots of stuff that can be explained away. But when faced with a baddy one must consider if any attempt at intervention is worth it.Course my SBS and girl guides training can help in those situations.
Sometimes carrying a weapon can make things worse if your relieved of it then hit with your own weapon (not always a bad thing tbf).
Luckily all UK truckers are blackbelts in unarmed combat, it’s part of the test.
Yeah you are correct, I carried sledgehammer in the States, on my door storage compartment. Use it more often to retract the trailer rail locking pins when stuck then for anything else. Well Im happy to never needed it for self defense.
A sledge hammer, for self defence? Unless you are a trained Viking, you ain’t gonna swing that in anger to any real effect. Pool que is good, as are some broom handles.
It was something like 3-5 lb in weight, no problem of swinging it.
Ok, that’s not a sledge hammer, more a club hammer. I prefer a claw hammer myself.
Dipper_Dave:
Are we still talking about weapons or are you flirting…
It’s not the size that matters, but how you wield it…
The-Snowman:
I picked up a bit of German from watching old world war 2 films.
“Vot is yur name?”
“Ve hav vays of making you tok”
Don’t tell him Pike
Anyone remember the skip wars in London during the 60’s, ? sawn off shotguns concealed in the cab were not uncommon 
Roymondo:
Dolph:
On the language issue, guys is there a huge/big or minor difference between American and British English? How do you look at someone who speaks with American accent?There are a few words and phrases which have different meanings in American English - but I think we’ve been exposed to enough US TV and films to quickly understand their meaning.
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It doesn’t work the other way around though. Ask for a Tuna sandwich in Subway and get told they don’t sell Cheerios, sign in at a shipper and tell them you work for Paul Brandt Trucking and they make out the paperwork to Paw Print Trucking, I could go on for days, Americans do not understand the British accent at all. I have been out with a friend from Yorkshire, by the way, spellchecker tries to split York and Shire on an American device, anyway, I’m from SE London, he’s from Castleford, we were asked if we were brothers and which part of Australia we were from!
Now obviously I’m dealing with people at the shallow end of the gene pool, truckstop staff, fast food joints, goods in staff and truck drivers, but my overall impression of Americans is they are as thick as ■■■■.
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the nodding donkey:
Immigrant:
Flip=Flop is NetherlanderYou, are an idiot. Nederlanders don’t wear flip flops. We are known by our willow based footwear. … you on the other hand, are pretending to be a “flip flop”. And failing badly…
Most British call Dutch ‘Cloggys’. What name do the Dutch call the British??
Belgians call the British ‘Island Monkeys’.
10 minutes passed already … still looking … i can’t find the bloody “like” button ? Where the blokes put that ?
Geoffo:
the nodding donkey:
Immigrant:
Flip=Flop is NetherlanderYou, are an idiot. Nederlanders don’t wear flip flops. We are known by our willow based footwear. … you on the other hand, are pretending to be a “flip flop”. And failing badly…
Most British call Dutch ‘Cloggys’. What name do the Dutch call the British??
Belgians call the British ‘Island Monkeys’.
You’re getting mixed up with the Germans, they call us ‘Insellafes’ or Island apes.
Never been called anything derogatory by a Belgian, but was called a Rosbeef (roast beef) by a Frenchman once…, in a friendly way btw.