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[SquiddyCracker]

A spin off from the cinema thread. It seems to me that there are a ton of crazy/weird things our friends across the ocean are doing, such as:

Boiling water in the microwave
Tipping everyone for any service
Shouting, applauding, and hollering in the theatre

Aside from them mixing up biscuits with whatever, can you guys think of any other weird Americanisms?

 

[Croc]

Us Americans are perfectly normal it's everyone else that's the weirdos

 

[LuffyZoro]

British people drive on the wrong side.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

You barbarians don't boil water in the microwave?

 

[Orrichio]

we read books from left to right

 

[Avixph]

You barbarians don't boil water in the microwave?

Is that an American or British thing?

 

[Branduil]

What's wrong with boiling water in the microwave?

 

[lastplayed]

Does America not have electric kettles?

 

[Übermatik]

Tom-ayto.

What the fuck.

 

[way more]

We don't eat babies or drink our own pee.

 

[Magnus]

You can lump me in with my American brothers on most of these.

If I want a mug of hot water for something quick like tea or instant coffee, why not just pop the mug in and press 'Beverage'? Faster, easier, same result. The hell if I'm going to sit around for two or three+ minutes and wait for a slow boil.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

What's wrong with boiling water in the microwave?

WHY NOT USE THE KETTLE?!

 

[Log4Girlz]

We don't use squat toilets or have carpeted bathrooms.

 

[AntoneM]

These are biscuits.


What's up with zig-zags on your roads and you drive on the wrong side. Why do you measure mile per hour but are on the metric system? Does no one beat the crap out of Chavs when they are growing up? Y'all be crazy.

 

[Half and half]

Nothing weird in the OP.

edit:
On second thought...not tonight

 

[Dice]

I have an electric kettle, but if I only need one mug of hot water I will use the microwave.

 

[sn00zer]

We don't use squat toilets or have carpeted bathrooms.

What is this blasphemy?

 

[Avixph]

We don't eat babies or drink our own pee.

Which country does this? UK?

 

[Konka]

Lets have a vote for what is correct. US vs UK. Most votes wins.

Democracy.

 

[t-ramp]

Somehow a thread about microwaving a cockroach turned into a discussion of how weird it is that Americans microwave water.

Guilty as charged, I guess.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

WHY NOT USE THE KETTLE?!

Why use a kettle I have a microwave. It's the FUTURE

 

[lenovox1]

Does America not have electric kettles?

Of course we do, but only big tea drinkers would own something like that.

 

[idlewild_]

Wait, people boil water in the microwave over here? I don't think the whole 'Shouting, applauding, and hollering in the theatre' isn't really all that common over here, assuming you're talking about movie theaters.

 

[Switch Back 9]

The people in the applause thread sounded like insufferable, pretentious twats.
"Oh darling, some Americans are clapping and enjoying the movie, how uncouth"

 

[Kazerei]

Does America not have electric kettles?

I find it easier and faster to microwave a glass of water when I want a hot drink like Ovaltine. I can get it to the right temperature so that the powder dissolves but it's not too hot that it burns my tongue.

 

[Konka]

I find it easier and faster to microwave a glass of water when I want a hot drink like Ovaltine. I can get it to the right temperature so that the powder dissolves but it's not too hot that it burns my tongue.

I just use a kettle on the stove.

 

[jbueno]

This is sort of relevant.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Boiling water in the microwave
Tipping everyone for any service

Boiling water in the microwave? This is the first time I've ever heard of this.

We don't tip for just any service. Just waiters, barbers, and bellboys, at least that I know of.

 

[Piecake]

WHY NOT USE THE KETTLE?!

microwave uses less energy and is quicker

Stupid British, ruining the planet with their obsession with kettles.

 

[BertramCooper]

No Americanism is as weird as the British monarchy.

 

[Mik2121]

We don't clap on theaters either in Spain (where I'm from) nor Japan (where I live). Clapping in the theater just seems... meaningless. If it's at the end of the movie, that is. I assume nobody ever claps mid-movie, of course.

Clapping at the end of the movie would only make sense if the actors or directors or other staff is also attending and it's some sort of event or something.

 

[rudieboy77]

These are biscuits.


What's up with zig-zags on your roads and you drive on the wrong side. Why do you measure mile per hour but are on the metric system? Does no one beat the crap out of Chavs when they are growing up? Y'all be crazy.

No those are biscuits and gravy, they go with cheese grits and scrambled eggs with hot sauce.

 

[Half and half]

I bake potatoes in the microwave. I'm f'n nuts!

 

[way more]

Which country does this? UK?

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=104914

"I eat babies, I drink pee, we are French, French, French!"

 

[entremet]

You barbarians don't boil water in the microwave?

People do this lol?

American here btw.

 

[VALIS]

I prefer the stovetop myself but I'm pretty sure boiled water tastes the same however it arrived at that state.

 

[lastplayed]

Of course we do, but only big tea drinkers would own something like that.

Well yeah, microwaving tea is just wrong.

I do microwave hot chocolate though.

 

[Seance]

Tipping/Tax exclusive pricing
Forgetting to spell words with "u"
Pennies/Nickels/Dollar bills
Imperial measurements
"Biscuits" with gravy

 

[DrSlek]

Alooominum

 

[Half and half]

Buying and consuming wack ass chocolate and beer.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

This is sort of relevant.

lol

 

[Lissar]

Boiling water in the microwave
Tipping everyone for any service
Shouting, applauding, and hollering in the theatre

I don't do any of these things. I don't really know anyone who does these things either!


Not weird, but I appreciate the British obsession with offering me tea. In America you're lucky if you get offered a soda (which I don't drink.)

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Americans don't have two separate taps for hot and cold.

 

[Skunkers]

Does America not have electric kettles?

Tea is not remotely as popular here, I don't have accurate stats or anything but I would say 90%+ of all hot drinks in the US are coffee. And that's typically either bought from a shop/restaurant or brewed in a coffee maker. So kettles are much more rarely used.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

We don't clap on theaters either in Spain (where I'm from) nor Japan (where I live).

The Japanese don't clap or cheer for anything (that I know of). Silence is how they show respect.

 

[PJV3]

Calling biscuits 'cookies' just to be awkward.

 

[LQX]

I do none of those things. And who the fuck would put water in a microwave unless it is like tea or something? Weird.

 

[Half and half]

Coffee with a bowl of sugar added.

 

[alr1ght]

Americans don't have two separate taps for hot and cold.

no.

But a single one is infinitely better.

 

[brianjones]

This is sort of relevant.

"I'd have called em chazzwazzers"