Quote Originally Posted by GTO
My one-liner would have been, "Too many Red Bulls?" (a popular energy drink here), but I wasn't sure if it is sold there and would translate.
I cannot say that I have ever had one, but we do have Red Bull here as well. I'm a London Pride kind of bloke.

Quote Originally Posted by GTO
BTW, I had to lookup up "saddo". It is funny how there can be so many variations or different terms in the same language but different locales. I found this: on-line dictionary
That is so, but it is in the UK where the language is richly developed, I am afraid your countrymen just seem to munge it, trying to treat nouns as though they were verbs, :

Quote Originally Posted by GTO
Maybe simple-minded of me, but it just seems awfully nifty the "things" we have available with such ease. Not only a definition, but with a click, one can hear the correct pronounciation? How cool! I even got to talk (telephonically) with Ted the other day! Not that one could not have called internationally when I was a child, but imagine what the rates would have been over hard lines?! Again, just "too cool!" in my opinion.
You are right, it is incredibly convenient, but I do think we have lost something along the way.

I look at people using SatNav, and wonder why they need such things; can they not read a map? It is getting to the stage where I know people who could drive from where I live to Edinburgh (about 500 miles through some very densely populated areas), but have absolutely no idea where Edinburgh is.

And again, we can find out everything about a place before we go there. I went to Lucca in Italy a couple of years ago and found a small hotel to stay at. But I googled it, then street-mapped the route from the hotel back to the city centre, and decided I would like a 'better' locale. OK, some might say it saved me from disappointment, but part of the reason for going to faraway places is to discover things, encounter some bad things, but revel in the good things. If ou know about it in detail before you go, why bother going?