What's with the Facebook/Table gamet graphics with limited palette in nearly all games nowadays?
Wasn't like that only a couple of years ago.

Just this week, I had to explain what I meant when I told someone that my phone didn't work because it was 'off the hook'!

Dammit!

That reminds me.

Back in the days I could walk around with in the city with an AG3 (semi-automatic rifle) when I was In the Norwegian "Home Guard" without being harassed.
Nowadays hysterical call the police when they see Home Guard soldiers with weapons.

Back in the days I could take my airgun with me and do some practice shooting in the woods behind the house.
Nowadays a SWAT team would probably descend upon me within a short time due to some hysterical neighbour seeing a man with an "item that looks like a weapon".

Well, I assume that any spelling repeatedly used on official US signs has to be at least generally accepted.

It's just a shortening, not really a completely "accepted" word. More just used in branding and informalities, or when "through" is too long to use.

Actually, hiccough is the newest way of spelling it, not the oldest. Learn your own language ;-)

What is interesting about it is that the reason the spelling of the word was changed to "hiccough" rather than "hiccup" was that people mistakenly thought it must be derived from "cough" and therefore ought to be spelled the same way.

zeogold's right about "thru". Much like "nite"/"tonite", "donut", "lite", and probably quite a few others, from what I recall, those spellings originated in advertising back in the '50s or earlier. Some still linger today (I'd guess I've seen "donut" almost as often as "doughnut"), many probably died out, but most are not in any way seen as acceptable spellings in anything much more formal than a tweet.
And regarding "rough" and "enough" -- in my neck of the woods (and probably across much of the county), the -ough part of each is pronounced the same ("ruhf enuhf").

It'll be interesting to see if UK really leaves EU (I hope you do, from my point of view I don't like UK getting all kinds of privileges and reliefs already now that other EU countries don't get, and still complaining), but somehow I fear that will not happen.

Either Cameron finds some loophole not to let UK leave EU regardless of what the votes say, or Brits simply don't vote for leaving EU, no matter what the polls said. It wouldn't be the first time people say things in polls that then in the actual vote don't materialize. Maybe people are afraid of voting for a change, so either they don't vote at all, or have a last minute change of heart and decide to vote for staying anyway, just to keep status quo.

A bit how Syriza in Greece kept suggesting they will not take more support packages from EU/IMF (but rather take matters in their own hands, even by leaving Euro if necessary)... yet they do, over and over again.

Or how was it with Scotland leaving UK, that didn't happen either, did it? Too bad about that, but I guess people involved were too afraid of change, no matter what the polls said. Sorry i don¨t recall exactly what happened there, I presume there was a vote and it seemed even probable "leave UK" will win, but then it just kinda fizzled.

Or in Finland, when the EU critic party (Perussuomalaiset) got into power, suddenly they weren't that EU critic anymore (including the Greek situation). They just keep passing the buck now, saying that their hands are tied due to decisions made by the earlier governments. Also it seems they didn't want to take those positions in the government where they'd have more control over things that people voted them for (like Minister of the Interior (which is responsible also for immigration), or Minister of Economy (regarding e.g. bail-out packages to Greece)). No, they left those positions to another party, and wanted nicer positions like Foreign Minister (whose job seems to be mostly just traveling around meeting people, and is partly divided by the president) and Defense Secretary.

BTW, In Finnish I think it goes

miljoona = 10^6 (million)
miljardi = 10^9 (milliard? billion?)
biljardi = a pool table (billiards)
tsiljardi = this is just baby talk, meaning some extraordinarily high number, much bigger than you could ever imagine
etc.

I prefer calling it monopoly money.

Thought I might just leave this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9v18Y7LxGo&t=0m40s


It's really only marginally related to the topic at hand, but I simply love those guys and wish to share (plus, they are kind of old, and kind of ranting, so I suppose that counts?).

And everyone else is goin, f**k that's expensive, can has some?

I see you have a Zimbabwe bank account

http://cavemancircus.com/2011/07/28/100-billion-dollars-for-3-eggs-holy-jebus-the-inflation-in-zimbabwe-really-sucks/

Yeah.
NOBODY SAYS IT LIKE THAT OR SPELLS IT LIKE THAT!

hey now
dont insult monopoly money
..eh pretty much
thats why i dont like the euro the prize tags stayed the same they just changed the sign from fl to E