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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.
 
Cat Milk Supreme said:
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.
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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.
 
Diesel 11 said:
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.
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So if you need diesel you would say "I require some diesel, yo" amma right?
Yax said:
Did you find this out the hard way? :D
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I think this is a cert.
 
Cat Milk Supreme said:
So if you need diesel you would say "I require some diesel, yo" amma right?

I think this is a cert.
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Couldn't tell you that part as I've never had a diesel-powered car, but, I'd imagine? :D

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.
 
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Flaming Blimp Crash said:
Couldn't tell you that part as I've never had a diesel-powered car, but, I'd imagine? :D

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.
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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.

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.
 
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.
 
Onhell said:
I've said it once and I'll say it again. USSR/Russian propaganda is straight forward and blunt. The government owns "official" news outlets. In the U.S it is subversive, subtle. The government doesn't own news outlets. Instead billionaires do.
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Speaking of which.
So far there are at least 4 US aircrafts downed, 3 by "friendly fire", the 4th just magically crashed by itself. USS Henry Ford just caught fire, again by itself and USS Lincoln's rumours to be hit by missiles are barely mentioned. Nevertheless she is leaving now and will be replaced by USS Bush. There are hardly any pictures or even mentions in the media of Isreal being hit daily by missiles.

And I don't mean the US and Israeli media, it's logic that there's a censoring in case of Isreal and covering in case of US.
But even the western mainstream media follow the same patterns as if they were an extension of US.
 
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