>>>>BTW, for dessert, a split banana, with slices of refrigerated Mars Bar inside, and wrapped in alu foil (and stuck on the barbie, of course). - E poi mori!
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>>>I like how you sidestepped the perennial issue by saying "alu foil".
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>>Actually we usually call it tin foil, silver foil or brand-nameise it as baco-foil (One of the top brands in UK)
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>>We "hoover" the carpet, stick a package by "sellotaping" it, write with a "biro", et al
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>>>And then you talk about dead peas. Go figure.
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>>Oops! I missed the "u" out of "muori" - typo (my eyesight is right bleary today)
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>>poi = then
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>>There is a saying in Italy that goes "Vedi Napoli e poi muori". (See Naples and then die)
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>I saw that on a menu in a pizzeria when I was younger. We thought it was hilarious. I'm pretty sure that the
menu didn't include 'then'. Just "See Naples and die". I never believed any city could be that horrible. ;)

Not sure you meant then but not now, but the expression means the opposite, as a measure of civic pride; they think their city is so beautiful that once you've seen it, you've seen perfection and can die a happy man, nothing more to fulfil in your life.

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>When I worked for another company, I worked with an English guy, and he once asked me to borrow a biro.

I think the french say "le bic"? Biro is the man who invented the ball-point.

>I had no idea what he was talking about. Of course, we do the same thing here. 'Saran wrap' means any plastic food wrap.

For us it's cling-film

>'Kleenex' means any facial tissue. 'Scotch tape' is any cellophane tape.

I knew that, and you xerox whereas we photcopy.

>'Hoover' is sometimes the same here, but depends probably on what you were raised with. In our family, we 'Electro-luxed' the floor.

The mechanical, quick-go-over m/c, like an enclosed lawn-mower, was a eubank.