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Coincidentally, my mother is coming home today from a trip ("vacation" in American English, "holiday" in British English?) to the UK. I know she explored some of England and Scotland -- she sent me a pic of Stonehenge. I can't wait to hear what she saw and learned. She has also been (in...

I've heard of scones, and I'm sure I've seen one sometime in my life, but I can't remember or imagine right now what they look like. Bullgrit

Coincidentally, I've just started listening to an Einstein biography on CD. Bullgrit

American biscuits: Grits: Breakfast gravies: Sawmill gravy (white, thick): Red eye gravy (red-brown, thin): As we would say, "This food will put hair on your chest." Bullgrit

Here, a continental breakfast is breads and pastries for breakfast. As opposed to an American breakfast which is eggs and meat. And a Southern breakfast would be an American breakfast plus grits, biscuits, and gravy. Bullgrit

Is tea time a real (modern) thing for the English? When I spent a week in Sweden, I learned fika is a real (modern) practice. In the US, we might have coffee and doughnuts in a meeting, (especially if first thing in the morning), but that is not an assumption, nor does the practice have a name...

Um... this sounds ... weird. I'm trying to find a way to understand this without people thinking I'm saying "scientists are stupid." This seems to say that if our calculations don't match observation, then we decide our observations are wrong or incomplete. Isn't this the definition of "bad...

Is there a major Marvel or DC superhero who hasn't ever been dead at some point? By "major," I mean one whose name most comic book fans would at least have heard of. And by "dead," I mean was accepted by the readers as having died, even if the writers brought them back and retconned the story...

Or "You've done the math." Singular; no "s". Bullgrit

But those squiggles were not placed by nature/god/accident, and the elements (hobbits, etc.) are not theoretical within the world so described. "Function" was a poor word, perhaps. Properties? Functional properties? A hill has functional properties (i.e. water will move from one high spot to a...

I guess I'm getting hung up on the idea that looking at the math, (which I'm picturing as multitudes of equations, each filling up an entire whiteboard :-), can give someone the concept of something as extremely specific as a wormhole. It's not like a wormhole is like dark matter (another...

Can you explain this? What does "something is allowed by the math" mean? Bullgrit

Can someone explain this? There is some equation about the universe where the answer is, "There must be essentially useless holes between points in space." Bullgrit

Going back to the first question in this thread: I never really understood what homecoming was, myself, and I've lived here all my life. Heck, I was even in the homecoming court my senior year of high school -- invited to escort one of the girls in the court. (I had to wear a suit and walk out...

Speaking of cricket and tennis: the kids in my neighborhood playing cricket use a heavy tennis ball. Looks like a tennis ball, but is heavier. Is this a cricket ball? I haven't played with them (no clue how), but I have picked up the ball a couple of times. Bullgrit

Is cricket still a big thing the UK? My neighborhood has several Indian families, and the kids play cricket in our cul de sac nearly every day. I know it's a major sport in India, but I haven't heard much of cricket in the UK in a long time. When I hear of sport in the UK, it's soccer/football...

I completely agree with this. Bullgrit

Well, without looking it up, I don't really know. They seem to be interchangeable, but there probably is some technical difference. Now to go look it up. Bullgrit

Dance or porn? You decide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l5pczCZw04 Bullgrit

Way, way back in the day, I met a girl from England who invited me to "come round and knock me up sometime." When I lived in a US port city, British military ships would port for a couple of days. The British sailors would flood the local nightlife. I remember they got a kick out some signs in...