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that I am not of the worldMax, you said it, not I!  Yes, I'll concede that people where you live, and Bingley's office people TAKE tea breaks, but do they CALL them tea breaks? [raising chin, narrowing eyes, in an "I dare you to contradict me" posture] 
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Give it up, Jackie. This one you won't win!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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>Give it up, Jackie. This one you won't win!
I think that Jackie has already won. You just have to think about the language she is using. I think I posted a long time ago that I had heard that in the USA, irony had to be taught as a second language. Here you have a prime example of Jackie trying to speak in the new language that we have been trying to teach her all this time, just a little tweaking is needed and she'll be word perfect.
[gold]Gold star Jackie, go to the the top of the class. Keep chivvying away at it, you'll go far (maybe not where you'd like, but definitely far!)[/gold]
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Kudos to you, Jo--I tweaked 'em, all right! Every last one of their outraged-prideful little noses! Hah!
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"Smoko"???
And what the heck is sump oil--don't sump pumps take the same kind of oil as other machinery?
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And what the heck is sump oil--don't sump pumps take the same kind of oil as other machinery?Pretty much the same as snake oil in Luh'vil, ah reckons. 
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Love-ville: I like that, CK! Thanks! (You're so neat.)
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Oh deary me oh my!
I found it very confusing in Ireland -- about the use of "tea".
If I wanted just a cup of tea I learned to ask for "a cup in my hand"
The cousins gave the children an early meal (about 5 p.m.) that they called the "chidren's tea" but was what I would call dinner (meat, potato, veg etc followed by a dessert.)
When traveling thru the countryside I usually took myself to an early dinner (about 6 p.m.) and ordered from the "tea menu", again steak, potato, vegetable which is what I would have at home (USA) for main evening meal.
Then, I was once invited to "Tea" at 4 p.m.-ish by a very nice young couple I met and was served a variety of sandwiches from which to choose, both open face and regular, petit fours, a georgeous cake and of course, a variety of teas or coffee were offered. A real ceremony, all beautifully done with fabulous china, linen napkins, doilys on the plates and with a silver service and all. Phew! Now that was a "TEA!"
Is it about the same in UK?
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