I hate

Oh, do fuck off...

nah it's puddin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql0Hh90WHv0

I saw those guys at a May Day festival in Oxford, Mississippi back in the late 90s... Had never heard of them, the guy was playing an OG TV yellow Les Paul Junior, they were very entertaining... Thanks for the re-memory...

Crisps

yeah they're a bit... college educated kids doing white trash cosplay, but they do it well.

sweet dan' action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7SVAQ0dZU

yeah they're a bit... college educated kids doing white trash cosplay, but they do it well

So they are fixeh fakengers?

Yeah. Now you're getting the hang of it.

Hose Pipe ban is another British thing I don't get. A hose is a pipe. Did it stem from someone writing "hose/pipe ban" or what? Makes no sense, which is why the clever country call them "water restrictions".

You wouldn't get that 'pudding' shit where you live now. Integrate you filthy forrun!

It's hosepipe. It's what they're called and what the have been called for several hundred years. Hose is just the shortened version.

hosepipe

Not according to any of the online etymology sites

https://www.etymonline.com/word/hose

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pipe?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_16365

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hosepipe

Hose and Pipe are basically the same thing. So combing them is stupid.

Or short for pantyhose...

Hence the hilarious Two Ronnies sketch about dead parrots or somesuch.

Interesting. As in any dessert? Could be fruit salad and still be referred to as pudding?

Yeah, they're mental.

Er, um ... wasn't a hose a hose because it was made of woven fabric? See those things the Fire Brigade use that roll up flat. And a hosepipe is definitely what you water the garden with.

So a hose ban would cover the Fire Brigade (is there such a thing any more?) as well as gardening. The etymology may be skewed but the meaning is clear enough. See 'English Language, The'.

Pedants corner >>>>> I know!

I assumed a hose was a flexible pipe and that the compound ‘hosepipe’ was one of those instances where there’s a sort of tautological, hierarchical nomenclature such as ‘humpback whale’. You’re calling it a ‘hose’ to differentiate it from other types of pipe, then including the suffix ‘pipe’ to differentiate it from, for instance, an insect or frozen sausage.

I literally just took an Oxford dictionary off the shelf and looked it up. Hosepipe is a word that has been used since the 1800s.

At a guess id suggest that hose refers to the use or action of the pipe e.g hosing something down.

Given:
Not all hose is a pipe.
Not all pipe is a hose.
Hosepipe excludes hose which is not a pipe (e.g. stockings) and pipe which is not a hose (e.g. tobacco pipe, steel pipe).

The words "hose" and "pipe" were both around long before the 1800s so I maintain this "hosepipe" contraction makes no sense.

"Old English hosa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoos ‘stocking, water hose’ and German Hosen ‘trousers’. Originally singular, the term denoted a covering for the leg, sometimes including the foot but sometimes reaching only to the ankle."
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hose

Old English pīpe ‘musical tube’, pīpian ‘play a pipe’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijp and German Pfeife, based on Latin pipare ‘to peep, chirp’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French piper ‘to chirp, squeak’.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pipe

Which makes "water restriction" seem even morer betterer.

We win this round.

Ok, so you hate the word. Not that it exists and that it actually makes sense. Fair enough.

Automated checkout in Sainsburys that scans something twice and then provides no way to remove the duplicate. Que me storming off in a huff throwing my definitely winning pack of Trebor into the impulse aisle.

Hate leads to fear
Fear leads to hosepipes

"makes sense" = preventing your confusion over a possible ban on lederhosen yeah?

Also, if you want to get picky about it making sense the ban does not even apply to your mythical hosepipe creature. You can still use "hosepipes" because it's only their use to water your lawn, etc that is banned. There's not some squad coming around inspecting brew kits and removing lengths of "hosepipe". A "hosepipe" ban would prevent anyone filling their car with petrol. So it's still wrong.

These so-called speed bumps are a joke - if anything, they slow you down! Etc., etc..