20-year-old woman druinks gasoline

[Namikaze]

The weirdest thing I have ever eaten is tuna and mayo, on sour dough, with cheese, bacon, tomatoes and Doritos crushed inside. That is all.

 

[Deckerd]

Petroleum spirit is what Americans call gasoline.

I’m American, and I’ve never heard anyone call it that. We call it gasoline, frequently (and somewhat confusingly) shortened to “gas.” Petroleum means natural crude oil as it’s pumped from the ground. “Petroleum spirit” sounds like something from the 1890s.

Higher than your usual standard of gibberish. Well done.

 

[scotpens]

Higher than your usual standard of gibberish. Well done.

That’s your response to a perfectly clear and cogent statement? Did someone piss in your cornflakes this morning?

Oh, I checked the definition of “petroleum spirit” and this is what I came up with:

A volatile liquid obtained in the distillation of crude petroleum at a temperature of 170°F or below. The term is rather loosely applied to a considerable range of products, including benzine and ligroin. The terms petroleum ether, and naphtha, are sometimes applied to the still more volatile products, including rhigolene, gasoline, cymogene, etc.

So, while the term may be in use today, it doesn’t apply to gasoline.

 

[Deckerd]

Because English is only spoken in the USA and the whole rest of the world speaks USA English, of course.

 

[Pingfah]

Deckerd is right, Petroleum Spirit is used as another term for petrol in the UK, AKA gasoline.

Although it is somewhat outdated now, people just say Petrol.

 

[scotpens]

^^ Sorry, I misunderstood. When Deckerd wrote, “Petroleum spirit is what Americans call gasoline,” I thought he meant Americans call the stuff petroleum spirit. The sentence is ambiguous, you know.

I’m quite aware that gasoline is called petrol in the UK.

Peace?

 

[Deckerd]

Pingfah, it's in the the signage at every petrol station you go to. You know when they tell you that what you're sloshing around the forecourt might be a tad volatile? They still have that bar through the mobile phones though, even all though Mythbusters did everything they could to blow up a petrol pump. And failed.

 

[M'Sharak]

Pingfah, it's in the the signage at every petrol station you go to. You know when they tell you that what you're sloshing around the forecourt might be a tad volatile?

This one?

 

[Pingfah]

Surely true, I merely meant that hardly anybody actually refers to it as that. Nobody says they are going to fill up their car with Petroleum Spirit at the Petroleum Spirit Filling Station

 

[Deckerd]

blah blah blah

 

[Pingfah]

Christ, I was 90% agreeing with you

It's not my fault you speak like an old fogey

 

[Deckerd]

I'll have you know I am an old fogey young man.

ooh young man! young man!

now I'll have to go and see if it's on YT

 

[Pingfah]

I know I should know what you are talking about, it's sort of lurking in my brain somewhere, but I don't.

Is it Fast Show, or some Enfield character?

 

[Deckerd]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2hgAsi8Ae4&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Gov Kodos]

Old like '2000 Year Old Man' old?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLMXoQDbEQ&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Pingfah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2hgAsi8Ae4&feature=player_embedded

Haha, now I remember yes, great stuff. Still a very funny man Enfield, this is one of the funniest sketches of recent years IMO:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YraQZ9lYl24&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Deckerd]

That's the first time I've ever seen Enfield corpsing.

 

[Paulcpick]

back to topic for a second here:
Maybe there could be something good out of this, Get the Gas Girl and Car poker together. She likes gas(like a car) and he likes the things that drink gas. I see great TV there!

all kidding aside, if thats real, thats nuts. If you want to diddle your car, or your sex doll and call it love, thats one kind of crazy, but drink gas, or sniff talcom powder. man those people are wackadoodles.

 

[scotpens]

^^ Who the hell sniffs talcum powder?

 

[Lonemagpie]

^^ Who the hell sniffs talcum powder?

Incompetent junkies, or customers of out-of-stock drug dealers?