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Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
Genuine, important and on topic question, in America when you say 'gas' does that cover diesel and petrol? And what do you call actual gas, like natural gas that would heat homes, for example?
Round my way (Ireland) gas for heating homes is called gas and we differentiate between petrol and diesel when filling up the car.
No shade, just a genuine and long held anthropological query.
Round my way (Ireland) gas for heating homes is called gas and we differentiate between petrol and diesel when filling up the car.
No shade, just a genuine and long held anthropological query.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
When you say “gas” it depends on the context. If you’re talking about it in the context of the vehicle, then it’s short for “gasoline” (petrol). If you’re talking about it in the terms of cooking and heating, then it’s natural gas. Sorta like how we also differentiate with context between pepper and pepper, black pepper or the pepper fruits/vegetables instead of calling them something like “capsicum”.
I would not refer to diesel as “gas” for the reason that “gas” is just short for “gasoline”. Also because if you fill up your diesel engine with gas you’re gonna see some serious shit.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
Did you find this out the hard way?
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
So if you need diesel you would say "I require some diesel, yo" amma right?
I think this is a cert.Did you find this out the hard way?
Flaming Blimp Crash
Ancient Mariner
Couldn't tell you that part as I've never had a diesel-powered car, but, I'd imagine?
But in terms of the term 'gas', I think it's easy to pick apart what the context is. "I'm going to go fill up on gas" easily implies gasoline for the car, but "Just got the gas bill, it's exorbitant" would imply something about the natural gas to the house.
Don't get me started on soda vs pop vs cola. Now those will be fighting words.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
Don’t you mean soft drinks?
No lol, but a long time ago I watched a rerun of Emergency with my grandpa where some idiot filled a car ferry’s diesel tank with gasoline, and ever since then I have been paranoid about never making that mistake myself lmao.Did you find this out the hard way?
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
Yah, I get the contextualisation of the matter, I was more just wondering what Diesel called diesel and if there was a different name for gas(oline) and natural gas. Like, on the tv I've heard American folk differentiate between propane and butane etc. Here we just call it all gas. For my camping stove? Gas. For my mother's kitchen cooker? Gas. For the central heating in my house? Gas. The context differentiates.Couldn't tell you that part as I've never had a diesel-powered car, but, I'd imagine?
But in terms of the term 'gas', I think it's easy to pick apart what the context is. "I'm going to go fill up on gas" easily implies gasoline for the car, but "Just got the gas bill, it's exorbitant" would imply something about the natural gas to the house.
Don't get me started on soda vs pop vs cola. Now those will be fighting words.
Re the beverages, ooooh, this is a new one on me. Like I just assumed it was personal preference, I wasn't aware of any linguistic battle lines being drawn. If someone said soda or pop to me I would take it to mean the genre of beverage that we call fizzy drinks or mineral which can be any carbonated soft drink. Cola is cola and we only really use that word to talk about cola flavoured things like confectionery or ice lollies.
____no5
Free Man
Trump yesterday said that he stopped 8 wars (yeah right) and there's a ninth (Iran!) to come.
With his logic the moment he pulls out of Iran, an unprovoked war that he started he would had stopped another war!!
I have no words.
**Note that one of those "eight" wars was the Iran -Isreal conflict in June!!
Two other (Democratic Republic of the Congo – Rwanda & Thailand – Cambodia) restarted, Egypt -Ethiopia was never a war, Israel -Hamas "peace" is a travesty anyway, India -Pakistan peace was not really brokered by the US.
So there's only Armenia – Azerbaijan and Serbia – Kosovo, except that the latter was never a war.
With his logic the moment he pulls out of Iran, an unprovoked war that he started he would had stopped another war!!
I have no words.
**Note that one of those "eight" wars was the Iran -Isreal conflict in June!!
Two other (Democratic Republic of the Congo – Rwanda & Thailand – Cambodia) restarted, Egypt -Ethiopia was never a war, Israel -Hamas "peace" is a travesty anyway, India -Pakistan peace was not really brokered by the US.
So there's only Armenia – Azerbaijan and Serbia – Kosovo, except that the latter was never a war.