Insignificant, 'why?', questions to very random things.

[BlueHammer85]

why do we say...
"in" a car?

everything else is "on"...
on a bus
on a train
on a boat
on a tram
on a plane
et catera

in point of fact,
grammatically, shouldn't they all be "in"?

Cars are smaller and more personal

 

[calumdown]

Cars are smaller and more personal

not nessa celery

"in a limo"



we also say in a truck/lorry/wagon

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

why do we say...
"in" a car?

everything else is "on"...
on a bus
on a train
on a boat
on a tram
on a plane
et catera

in point of fact,
grammatically, shouldn't they all be "in"?

I heard it’s on if you can stand up in the mode of transport. No idea if true!

 

[calumdown]

I heard it’s on if you can stand up in the mode of transport. No idea if true!

"in the back of a transit van" suggests not :)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

"in the back of a transit van" suggests not :)
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In transit. Whilst technically they could start upright, they’d be prostrate pretty quickly.

 

[BimboBob]

I've often nearly created a thread on this. Who looked at a banana and thought, i'll call that fucker a banana. Why isn't an orange a banana? If it was the dutch team would be known as the bananas. Who the fuck decided on this?!!!

Origins of it's name.

Banana means finger in Arabic.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Awaits the inevitable photo of a dwarf standing in a Skoda Roomster…

;-)

 

[calumdown]

In transit. Whilst technically they could start upright, they’d be prostrate pretty quickly.

i've been to raves where 20 people were stood up in the back of a transit van for the whole journey.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Why isn't a lemon, or banana, called a yellow if an orange is an orange!!

Oranges are green, when ripe, in tropical climates!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

i've been to raves where 20 people were stood up in the back of a transit van for the whole journey.

You’re a people trafficker, aren’t you…