| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
What's the distinction between a jar and a bottle? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Bottles break more easily over the heads of people. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I think it's to do with the width of the neck. A bottle is generally just used for storing and decanting liquids, while a jar can be used for storing more solid foodstuffs, pickles and the like. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Jars generally contain the preserved corpses of feotal cojoined twins and sit on dusty shelves in forgotten pantries. Bottles usually have blood in them. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Ah yes. Sorry, that's the difference. Zed is right. It's to do with the various types of necrotic material you can store in them. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I think that's possibly the best possible answer to this question. Thank you zed. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.220 |
?I?... Is this a real question? Because in the States, there's no similarity: a bottle has a neck, a jar does not, simple as that. A bottle has a "top," or a "cap"; a jar has a "lid" mostly, only sometimes a "top." "Jar top" can be said, but you only say "lid" or "lid of the jar," never "jar lid" - occasionally "jar's lid." ... yeah, so, jars, bottles... meanwhile, what's new about the immanent THE STAND-ish end of all humanity? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
It's not an apocalypse or a unique 'year zero' event, Craig, it's one of many pandemics that have taken place in history. Thousands, perhaps millions, of people will die. The majority of them will be elderly, very young and/or have been chronically ill already. It's a crisis we need to get to grips with, and neither dramatic exaggeration nor solipsistic denial is going to help. What gets posted on the Internet won't make any difference. Availability of vaccines and other medical help will. Let's forget about disaster novel scenarios for a while, OK? The danger is both real and manageable. Humanity will survive but our parents and/or children may not, and we may not. That's what happens. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I blame the media for whipping everyone up into an apocalyptic frenzy. It's absurd. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Actually, several of the people who've died so far have been in the group that normally shrug these things off - the 20 - 45 year olds... i still don't think it's anything to be particularly worried about. The media is scare-storying to its usual extremes. when there's a (statistically) significant death toll I'll take it seriously. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
it's not a pandemic yet anyway (or even a hamdemic) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.220 |
I actually thought you were going to lambaste me for my erroneous use of "immanent," Joel....  One here in the States is confused, though. The VP Biden came out today, and said he would avoid all enclosed spaces and subways and such... Mexico is telling everyone to stay indoors for the next 5 days... we're only 1 week into this, and it's spread this widely... but put on corporate-owned news this morning, and you see relatively little about a first-ever Stage 5 pandemic anywhere... Fox might just be more concerned with their big movie opening this weekend, after all.... (When was the last time going to a lousy movie could kill you? Just sayin's, all.) Someone on the radio yesterday said: the Spanish Flu of 1918 came on strong in the spring, then disappeared over the summer... it returned in the fall, mutated, with a vengeance, and spread... just sayin's, all.... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I'm with Joel on this. A lot of utter bullshit has been spouted on the internet about apocalypse and it's really not helpful. It's also no way to live your life, constantly in fear. Be with the people you love, hang out with friends, drink wine, read novels, watch movies. This culture of 24/7 news really is not helping things either. Anyhew folks, it's Bank Holiday, the beer festival's on in Reading. I shall be drinking ale and snacking on pork scratchings. Sweet as fuck! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Continuing the theme of Bradbury stories from another thread - The Jar is one of his greatest... |