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can anyone clear this up for me?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Right this is a bit random and I have no idea why or how it came into my head but...

Why do people say they're in the car when they are driving but say they're on a plane or train when they are inside of the plane and train I do it too but I don't know why? Haha

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I don't understand this question

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

Because you're not driving the train or piloting the plane?

Would need a train driver or pilot to confirm my theory, though...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

cos the car is their car and the only one available to them - whereas lots of planes and trains

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I'll try and reword it. When you unlock your car and open the door you get in the car. When the train pulls up at the station you get on the train why do people say they get on the train rather than in it which they actually do haha

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Because you're not driving the train or piloting the plane?

Would need a train driver or pilot to confirm my theory, though..."

But saying that if got a taxi you get in the taxi not on the taxi haha

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"I'll try and reword it. When you unlock your car and open the door you get in the car. When the train pulls up at the station you get on the train why do people say they get on the train rather than in it which they actually do haha "

Let Evel Knievel get ON the train!

I'm getting IN the train!

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall


"I'll try and reword it. When you unlock your car and open the door you get in the car. When the train pulls up at the station you get on the train why do people say they get on the train rather than in it which they actually do haha "

I'm 5'10"...I can walk on to a plane and walk on to a train.

I can only walk on a car if I'm on top of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll try and reword it. When you unlock your car and open the door you get in the car. When the train pulls up at the station you get on the train why do people say they get on the train rather than in it which they actually do haha "

Excellent question...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you tried googling it? I have no idea why! Haha

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By *lla_maiWoman
over a year ago

staffordshire

My thought is maybe because you can walk on a train/plane but not in a car

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'll try and reword it. When you unlock your car and open the door you get in the car. When the train pulls up at the station you get on the train why do people say they get on the train rather than in it which they actually do haha

I'm 5'10"...I can walk on to a plane and walk on to a train.

I can only walk on a car if I'm on top of it."

According to Google this man is correct! It's all about the ability to move around on the vehicle in question

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By *iforfun999Man
over a year ago

Haverfordwest

As long as you're either in or on any of those, you're fine. It's under you don't want to be,

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"As long as you're either in or on any of those, you're fine. It's under you don't want to be, "

Very good point haha!

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By *rMrs-Luv-ItCouple
over a year ago

cwmbranish

You get in and out of a car . You get on off a train/plane .

Him

That's my attempt

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall


"My thought is maybe because you can walk on a train/plane but not in a car"

Except on all fours...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought you'd vomited when i saw the thread title

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By *lla_maiWoman
over a year ago

staffordshire


"My thought is maybe because you can walk on a train/plane but not in a car

Except on all fours..."

That wouldnt be walking but crawling

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I thought you'd vomited when i saw the thread title"

Haha I can see where you got the idea from but not tonight I haven't had any jagerbombs

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall


"

That wouldnt be walking but crawling "

It wouldn't be crawling either, at least, not in my car...

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Does anyone really care?....

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By *iker BullMan
over a year ago

leeds

You spend time thinking if issues like this? Hmmm

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Perhaps because you physically have to climb up and onto a plane or train, but not an automobile

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"I don't understand this question"

Neither do I, but then again I struggled to roll a fag whilst doing 69 mph on the M1 on ma Z750

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shit! This is gonna bake my noodle all day now.

I'm in the train, I'm in a plane......just sounds shit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

nice post but difficult to w an k too, but i bet some Guys are

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By *axandbooCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

Not a pilot or train driver.

But it comes down to the perception of the words..

"I'm in the train" or "im in the plane" even saying it feels wrong in the mouth. Even though technically correct still feels wrong, but this could be down to social training.

However why would you be on the phone whilst ON a plane? Surely thats the more worrying statement lol

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

its monday morning..wheres another cup of tea?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For vehicles, anything considered to have a large floor space is ON and a small floor space is IN. Large floor spaces are considered platforms, small floors are considered containers.

Therefore it's in a car, in a small boat, in a helicopter, in a rocket, in a hot air balloon, in a small plane (think of a an old biplane).

But we say on a train, on a ship, on the space shuttle, etc.

When the platform has no walls (i.e. it is not an enclosure) we say on, too. So it's on a stage, on a table, on a horse, on a bike, on a skateboard. If we confuse on with in in these cases the visual image becomes very different: in a horse means you physically enter the horse's body, for example.

*Blatantly plagiarised with the help of google

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"its monday morning..wheres another cup of tea? "

Oh, I drink enough tea to sink a battleship in the morning. Blue top no sugar please

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside


"its monday morning..wheres another cup of tea?

Oh, I drink enough tea to sink a battleship in the morning. Blue top no sugar please "
its your turn... xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"For vehicles, anything considered to have a large floor space is ON and a small floor space is IN. Large floor spaces are considered platforms, small floors are considered containers.

Therefore it's in a car, in a small boat, in a helicopter, in a rocket, in a hot air balloon, in a small plane (think of a an old biplane).

But we say on a train, on a ship, on the space shuttle, etc.

When the platform has no walls (i.e. it is not an enclosure) we say on, too. So it's on a stage, on a table, on a horse, on a bike, on a skateboard. If we confuse on with in in these cases the visual image becomes very different: in a horse means you physically enter the horse's body, for example.

*Blatantly plagiarised with the help of google"

hmmm now id say onto a helipcopter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does anyone really care?...."

Yes,people who like to use their brains care.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You spend time thinking if issues like this? Hmmm"

Not everyone spends all day wanking and thinking of doughnuts.

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By *eesideMan
over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea


"Right this is a bit random and I have no idea why or how it came into my head but...

Why do people say they're in the car when they are driving but say they're on a plane or train when they are inside of the plane and train I do it too but I don't know why? Haha "

Im gessing its cos wen u r driving or a passenger u see it as in the car as its small and can probley go eneywear you want quit quikley.

But if your on a train/plane then u r travling on sumthing wear u your self has no control of wear it go's and how fast it go's.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire


"If we confuse 'on' with 'in' in these cases, the visual image becomes very different: in a horse means you physically enter the horse's body, for example"

I've been on Fab too long. All I can picture now is *that* documentary about Colombian donkeys

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good to see that people are still interested in finding the answers to the universe' big questions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It all stems from the term used "to board". You board a plane at the departure gate, you board a train at a station etc. IE you are on board a plane, boat or train. The word board stemming from when a person literally walked along a board/plank to enter the train carriage or from the dock to a boat (boarding plank etc) the term also came to include aircraft. It doesn't refer to being on top of.

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By *eesideMan
over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea


"Does anyone really care?....

Yes,people who like to use their brains care."

LOL

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"its monday morning..wheres another cup of tea?

Oh, I drink enough tea to sink a battleship in the morning. Blue top no sugar please its your turn... xx"

Bloody hell fire woman, you drive a hard bargain ffs

Ok. it's a deal as long as you wear those kinky little things that I bought you xx

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside


"its monday morning..wheres another cup of tea?

Oh, I drink enough tea to sink a battleship in the morning. Blue top no sugar please its your turn... xx

Bloody hell fire woman, you drive a hard bargain ffs

Ok. it's a deal as long as you wear those kinky little things that I bought you xx"
i'll do my best to please

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