Trent Strong
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Most waiters make a lot more than minimum wage with tipping the way it is. Waiters in nice restaurants can make good money.
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Weird Americanisms (UK vs USA thread)
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Most waiters make a lot more than minimum wage with tipping the way it is. Waiters in nice restaurants can make good money.
Arjen
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I pass a million (give or take a few) roundabouts on my way to work everyday, it gets annoying really quik.
perfectchaos007
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Yeah in the big cities I guess. But I live in a small town with just a Chili's, Johnny Carinos, and IHOP. My friends who have worked there rarely came home with more than minimum wage, and many times they would come home with less, but chose not to report it to the manager for fear of being fired in some cases. Waiters that bring in less than $7.25 an hour in tips will be seen in the managers eyes as a bad waiter, even if they were unfortunately serving bad tippers. Going by reactions on my facebook feed, being a waiter is one of the most stressful occupations.
Trent Strong
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I guess it's different in a small town. I don't know what the solution is there.
You know, they have/had two years after they leave/left the job to report their missing wages to the Department of Labor.
Why are they 'weird'? Because they don't look like the US one?
Yard sales?
This makes no sense whatsoever. The garden is the area of land itself, you can't have a garden in a garden.
Here you get both, albeit tips will probably be less and most places have a common tip jar split.
shanshan310
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You mean a garage sale?
I used to think Americans wore bum bags on their fronts because they called them "fanny packs".
yeah brew.
fuckin' commies
Nihilistic Monk
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Here's mine that actually came up in a toaster oven thread & I never got a response.
Why do Americans have toaster ovens?
In the UK we just have grills on our ovens. Is it uncommon for US Ovens to come with Grills?
Why do Americans have toaster ovens?
In the UK we just have grills on our ovens. Is it uncommon for US Ovens to come with Grills?
shanshan310
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It sums up everything that is wrong with American English
As long as you weirdos keep saying "me" when you mean "my", you're not allowed to criticize American English.
Essentially.
And the only reason the other guys don't realize this is, well, they're weeeiiirdoooos
huh? You can't really judge us by the lowest common denominator.
My only experiences with British culture are The Office, Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz, and The Ricky Gervais podcast.
Trent Strong
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The British have a weird way of spelling fetus. It's like 'featous' or something.
Well at least you've watched the superior version of The Office! You should watch an idiot abroad if you haven't already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_-6Y69-8Q
Foetus.
Yo got a problem with me typin?
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
He said he watched the English version.
Addicting really bugs me.
Also, American date format. Day/Month/Year makes perfect sense, day out of month out of year.
Just don't mention the Fourth of July...
Don't have time to read the whole thread, but American beer has never been better. The mass market stuff is still trash, but so is English mass market beer. Both countries have thriving smaller breweries churning out the good stuff, though obviously the US is much later to the game. In my home state of Michigan alone we brew some of the highest rated beer in the entire world.
Actually, the US has the month and date the best way around, they just have the year in the wrong place. Most significant bits to the left, please.
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
Chavs do not represent greater Britain. Unless you all speak like rednecks?
100% of American Chavs are represented on the TV show Jersey Shore. They don't really exist here otherwise.
Delusibeta
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And another thing: Hershey's chocolate tastes like vomit. Literally.
Mobile phone, because its a phone that works whilst you are mobile. A home phone that is cordless is called a cordless phone.
Edit- I dislike the royals (most of them, William and Kate seem alright) but it has prevented us from having a President Thatcher, Blair and Cameron. So thats one upside.
whats a home phone?
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I want a cuppa
A nice hot CUPPA
A nice hot CUPPA
A phone. If its cordless its a cordless phone.
Nope, still a mobile because it works whilst you are mobile, you do not have to move around for it to become a mobile as it remains the main feature.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Yeah
Yes, its a landline.
NekoFever
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I agree that 'foetus' is etymologically incorrect, and an attempt to impose Greek spelling on a Latin word, like when people try to be clever and use 'octopi' as the plural of 'octopus'.
However, the American spelling of 'paedophile' is wrong, so we've got you there.
To make my own addition to the list, how about pledging allegiance in school every morning? For a country that puts such value on individual freedom, that's some creepy, totalitarian, 1984 shit.
It's a landline phone. I know you Americans are all cancelling your landlines so you can have mobile/VOIP only but over here in the backwards UK most of us need a landline to be able to have internet (ADSL requires you to have a landline). Cable doesn't require this, but often it's bizarrely cheaper to have it than not have it.
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