Americans! Please help me with tank tops!!!

[darnheather]

This is one of the best threads I've seen on Dis in a long time. Thanks for the chuckle.

 

[Stubbette]

Even better - we checked into a hotel that advertised "Shagging on the Riverwalk". When I joked about it to my husband the employee didn't get it and said, "We have lessons for adults and kids. We can teach the whole family to shag."

Oh that's priceless! Hope you didn't sign up!!!

Oooh, I remembered another one! One of our programmers told the girl from Microsoft he was just popping out of the office "to have a fag"... you should have seen her eyebrows raise! For the Americans - it's a slang term in the UK for a cigarette - so don't be concerned if you hear Brits saying they're dying for a fag or going out to buy some fags!!! Another 'wrong use' we had to have explained to us...

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

For years I passed up soda ( thinking it was soda water ) and asked for coke no wonder the server looked at me strange. Also cilantro I had no idea this was the herb ( it's funny how American's don't pronounce the H ) icoriander. I love coriander..

When my wife and I had our first trip in 98 we weren't use to being served anything before a meal. The server in Denny's would say 'soup or salad' we thought they were saying super salad so we would just say yes please. Then be confused each night by one bowl of soup and one bowl of salad... We thought this was a super salad lol. Eventually the penny landed.

 

[Leenies]

Years ago we were dining with another family at Jiko at AKL in WDW. The other dad and my son were both asked to go to the gift shop and buy tshirts because they werent allowed in wearing tank tops. They did but were annoyed because the women were wearing tank tops also! Nice material and covering all straps, but still tank tops! So, I take it to mean this rule is really only for men. Sorry guys!

 

[YayDisney]

I think this has to be directed at men. I am from Florida and my dinner dresses are halter top, spaghetti straps, strapless, or two inch straps like the second picture the OP posted. I don't actually own any dresses with "sleeves" except work type clothes. They are all really nice dresses and I wear them with heels or nice sandals. I never saw that dress code (or don't recall ever seeing it) and I have never in the last 3 DCL cruises felt even a bit out of place at dinner in the MDRs - many women wear dresses like this. I think that rule is probably to avoid people showing up in flip flops, cotton tank tops and shorts like if they were going to the beach.

Now that I know this, however, it occurs to me that I was planning on getting my DD and myself matching black tank tops with a skull and bones (and DS and DH matching t-shirts) for pirate night. All to be paired with nice jeans and bandanas/eye patches. . . Again, I think this is directed at maintaining a "nice" atmosphere at dinner and not having people wearing beach wear to the MDRs

 

[dclpluto]

I have no problem with a good looking lady with no arm pit hair wearing a tank top. Other

Years ago we were dining with another family at Jiko at AKL in WDW. The other dad and my son were both asked to go to the gift shop and buy tshirts because they werent allowed in wearing tank tops. They did but were annoyed because the women were wearing tank tops also! Nice material and covering all straps, but still tank tops! So, I take it to mean this rule is really only for men. Sorry guys!

Was it a guy that told the 2 males that tank tops wasn't allowed but let the ladies wear tank tops? To me I think only good looking ladies should wear tank tops in a restaurant everyone else no tank tops. A good looking lady with no arm pit hair. That's just my opinion. I know a lot of people is not going to like that.

 

[NS8VN]

Simple test for men and women: If you would work out in the clothing then it is not proper dinner attire.

 

[bcwife76]

@Stubbette in the pic you posted, is that the actress who plays Eva on Coronation Street?

 

[bumbershoot]

I wish they were more specific - is it a Disney hatred of shoulders? Have I been insulting Americans in the WDW resort restaurants for years?!?!?

They hate those shoulders!

I dealt with a school principal (like a headmaster, in case you aren't familiar with that word for the main person at a school) when I was around 10 years old who wouldn't let us wear "thongs", which was the '70s term for flip-flops. Who knows why she had that rule (our previous principal didn't); we decided she would lose control of herself if she saw hairy toes, so she couldn't let us wear those shoes. I lived in central California where it got HOT, and having to wear closed shoes was torture sometimes!

But it's just a "don't wear beach wear" thing. Both the sleeveless tops and my weird principal's no-uncovered-toes issue. Hey, maybe she's running DCL now?


Anyone who saw Austin Powers should know what "shag" means in England.

But then people go too far the other way. I worked customer service at amazon and got a huge rant from an American lady talking about how horrid Harry Potter was because the kids were SNOGGING. I had to let her know that that meant *kissing*, not what SHE thought it meant. I mean please, the books talk about snogging in the hallways! What the heck kind of place did she think Hogwarts was???? Which I suppose was her point, but come on, just a short internet search would have given her the info. Quicker than emailing us, that's for sure!



Waistpack, waistpack! Another dis'er has a tag fairy tag that describes the *other* word as being a "roodie doodie term for a lady's private bits" or something like that. I describe it as being the area that midwives and OBs deal with, LOL.

 

[Churchladychurchlady]

Thought of something else that might come up -- Shagging is dancing. I was rather surprised when I went to school in England and learned what you think it is.

Not sure where you're from, but here in the mid-Atlantic, shagging means (especially to teens and young adults) exactly what our British cousins mean. I made the mistake of asking one of the kids to "go shag her out of the bathroom, please" (back in my day, it meant "chase them out"). The look I got was priceless!! So, I guess, even within the US we have some very different meanings for words.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Another thing I had no idea until quite recently actually ( been coming to to US on vacation for 18 years ) that you guys don't wear white after Labor Day! My wife and I have been sporting white in the winter most years until we learnt we were commiting a social faux pas. A friend from Florida kindly told us. What a strange custom! We don't have anything strange of course in the UK lol ( like setting lite to a dummy on Guy Fawkes night to celebrate the catching of a man who almost blew up Parliament)

 

[phinz]

Another thing I had no idea until quite recently actually ( been coming to to US on vacation for 18 years ) that you guys don't wear white after Labor Day! My wife and I have been sporting white in the winter most years until we learnt we were commiting a social faux pas. A friend from Florida kindly told us. What a strange custom! We don't have anything strange of course in the UK lol ( like setting lite to a dummy on Guy Fawkes night to celebrate the catching of a man who almost blew up Parliament)

That tradition is so dead it's hanging out with Christopher Columbus and Cleopatra.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

That tradition is so dead it's hanging out with Christopher Columbus and Cleopatra.

Really so I can get out my cricket whites once more!

 

[gumbypee]

Not sure where you're from, but here in the mid-Atlantic, shagging means (especially to teens and young adults) exactly what our British cousins mean. I made the mistake of asking one of the kids to "go shag her out of the bathroom, please" (back in my day, it meant "chase them out"). The look I got was priceless!! So, I guess, even within the US we have some very different meanings for words.

I am not sure about the other poster but I know that Shag is a specific kind of dance. It is even taught in dance classes how to shag.

 

[kiford]

So I've got a couple of nice full-length skirts that I wear here with a smart black spaghetti strap top normally... so would that be taboo?

I frequently wear what might be considered as tank tops to the MDR. I do think it's meant to refer to men, not women. But I second the suggestion to bring a wrap or something. It can get cold. I find that, once I've acclimated it (and had a drink or two!) that I can be comfortable without the wrap but it's definitely chilly when you first go in. That's why I usually bring a wrap rather than a sweater or jacket - it's easier to slip off during dinner.

Also cilantro I had no idea this was the herb ( it's funny how American's don't pronounce the H ) icoriander. I love coriander..

Here in Canada, cilantro refers to the leaves, coriander refers to the seeds which are usually ground. Different texture, different flavours, different uses, same plant. I grow it in pots on the deck and keep trimming it to prevent the flowers from forming and producing seeds. At the end of the season I stop harvesting the leaves and let it go to seed then collect the seeds. Some I use to replant next season and some I dry and grind.

 

[Imahikergirl]

For me, growing up in Calgary (Canada), a shag was a right after school dance. If it was after supper, then it was called a dance.

I'd only ever heard white shoes were a no-no after Labour Day.

 

[ladyofthetramp]

This is one of the best threads I've seen on Dis in a long time. Thanks for the chuckle.

Me too! Enjoying the many variations of the English language!

 

[lizabu]

An example of a no

And an example of a yes

 

[phinz]

Really so I can get out my cricket whites once more!

Considering all the uber-wealthy of the Anglers Club and Ocean Reef in North Key Largo wear only white while playing Croquet, and they're there from November until April, I'm pretty sure you'd be just fine in white whenever. If the snobs don't care, nobody else will either.

 

[fritz1215]

This thread is great. My husband is from Northern England and laughs because the big fad around here (MN) now are "growlers" of beer. I can't hear someone ordering one now without giggling to myself.