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[Yes Boss!]

Pants aren't trousers, and sweaters ain't jumpers.

And sneakers are not "trainers."

 

[SquiddyCracker]

The class rings are awful, - 10 for the USA :

 

[ghst]

americans also do this weird thing where they keep addressing you by name even though there's only two of you there.

 

[teh_pwn]

boiling up water in the microwave. weird...
I use an electric kettle. i guess you guys don't have thoes there?

Obviously the weirdest americanism is them still using the imperial system. metric just makes sense. everything has 1000x unit increments.

1000 millimeters = 1 meter.
1000 meters = 1 kilometer.

makes so much sense.... as apposed to the nonsense the americans have.

Huh? I watch UK TV on Netflix. You crazies use miles too, and you use stones.

 

[Ace Harding]

Haha why is boiling water in the microwave confusing? Fill mug. Put in microwave. Push button. Wait like 60-90 seconds. Boom.

A kettle? For one mug? Inefficient.

 

[Zeliard]

boiling up water in the microwave. weird...
I use an electric kettle. i guess you guys don't have thoes there?

We certainly do have them. I've always owned a kettle of some sort.

 

[DrSlek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

"The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina.

Davy settled on aluminum by the time he published his 1812 book Chemical Philosophy: "This substance appears to contain a peculiar metal, but as yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state, though alloys of it with other metalline substances have been procured sufficiently distinct to indicate the probable nature of alumina."[65] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, in a review of Davy's book, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.""

Aluminum came before Aluminium, and both names are British.

Oh dear. I have been educated, thoroughly.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

Are the British the ones who have milk in a bag or is that Canadians?

WHAT....THEFUCK?!?

 

[Steamlord]

Pants aren't trousers, and sweaters ain't jumpers.

I vote we just go back to "pantaloons"

 

[Kitsunebaby]

I don't know why but American's think that this this gravy:

That sick mass is not gravy. This is gravy:

They're both gravy. They both start out with a roux but milk is added to the first one while stock/broth is added to the second.


Also, southern style biscuits are more glorious than scones (British or American) could ever hope to be.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Haha, how the hell did the definitions of cookie to biscuit to scones to whatever you want to call that triangular looking cake become so messed up between the USA and everyone else.

The brits are correct on this one.

/Australian

You're still under the thrall of the queen, your opinion can't be trusted and is therefore invalid.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

americans also do this weird thing where they keep addressing you by name even though there's only two of you there.

Yeah my cousin does this alot. I always ask him "do you think ive forgotten my own name?"

 

[Davidion]

The only thing I've learned from this thread is that the United Kingdom is a nation full of worthless savages.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

The class rings are awful, - 10 for the USA :

As an American I've always cringed at these. So low rent.

 

[Lissar]

The class rings are awful, - 10 for the USA :

I've never met a person with a class ring. Also, I don't know many meat heads.

americans also do this weird thing where they keep addressing you by name even though there's only two of you there.

I think they want to make you feel comfortable. I've heard that people feel happy if they are addressed by name. I don't know, it always makes me feel weird.

I certainly don't do it.

This is partially because I'm shit at remembering names.


Just heated up some water in the microwave for tea. Not bad.

 

[Piecake]

boiling up water in the microwave. weird...
I use an electric kettle. i guess you guys don't have thoes there?

Obviously the weirdest americanism is them still using the imperial system. metric just makes sense. everything has 1000x unit increments.

1000 millimeters = 1 meter.
1000 meters = 1 kilometer.

makes so much sense.... as apposed to the nonsense the americans have.

cough, stone, cough

 

[Zeliard]

Do both sides of the ocean agree on the great pie vs cake controversy?

 

[EleventhDoctor]

Our judges don't wear silly wigs to work.

 

[Metaphoreus]

Glorious victory for Kim Jong Ill.

Oh, and I forgot, if there's a tie, America wins. And by "America," I mean the United States thereof, not the vestigial parts.

 

[Codeblue]

Microwaves and electric kettles are not fit for tea. All of you are crazy.

 

[VanWinkle]

Conveniently, it contains no nuts, just chocolate, wafer and carmel.

Anyway, list of Americanisms that annoy me:
"could care less" (always, always used incorrectly)
disposing of vowels in words randomly (because let's screw with the English language 'cos MURICA)
calling their poor man version of scones "biscuits" (and then pouring white sauce [or as they call it, "gravy"] over it, which is several shades of wrong)
calling all biscuits "cookies" (which means when we start talk about actual cookies, things get confusing)
low to zero gun control
healthcare that charges you at point of service

Ugh, such terrible nationalism. Get over yourself. These are such pointless things to get annoyed about. Who cares whether somebody spells it "favorite" or "favourite"? It's the same concept; we all know what the person is saying. Little tip: your words for food are not correct. They're just your words for food.

 

[demon]

Our judges don't wear silly wigs to work.

But they do wear dresses.

 

[FootballFan]

Serious question:

If British people call this:

biscuits

Then what do they call this?

In New Zealand: Top ones are cookies and scones in the second picture. Biscuits here are what Americans call cookies I think.

I think people make too big of a deal about these sort of things. I do find wearing shoes inside weird though.

 

[weekend_warrior]

Next you'll tell me Americans wear shoes indoors.

That's because we all have giant McMansions not those dinky little UK apartments where you walk in the front door and you're already in the bedroom.

 

[Dice]

Conveniently, it contains no nuts, just chocolate, wafer and carmel.

well the rice crisp isn't in wafer form, but for all the same ingredients these babies are pretty good

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Do both sides of the ocean agree on the great pie vs cake controversy?

Knowing the English in this thread, they probably call cake pie, and pie something silly like bomfollite, pronounced bomb-fil-a

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Microwaves and electric kettles are not fit for tea. All of you are crazy.

Only the campfire and spit is fit for codeblue

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

cross-post

Movies in the US:

Movies in the UK:

 

[rodvik]

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

You know our weaknesses. Who are you?

Gotta admit BritGaf, noway back from that one.

 

[Josh7289]

Most of the 'Americanisms' in this thread are things I never experience in my daily life. So, don't put too much faith in what you see on the Internet.

 

[Raonak]

Huh? I watch UK TV on Netflix. You crazies use miles too, and you use stones.

Fair enough, I live in NZ, and we pretty much use metric for everything. Except Subway sandwiches (footlong/6inch), and sometimes a person's height.

For shame, brits. for shame

 

[t-ramp]

The class rings are awful, - 10 for the USA :
http://rep38.graduationproducts.net/UserMods/images/GradProdRings.JPG

My mom has a class ring, but I've never understood why people waste money on those things.

 

[teh_pwn]

That's because we all have giant McMansions not those dinky little UK apartments where you walk in the front door and you're already in the bedroom.

And also we walk on beautiful sidewalks in clean suburbia. Our shoes are always clean. Suck it.

 

[ghst]

cross-post

Movies in the US:

Movies in the UK:

+1000 uk.

actually, strike that. those two cunts second row back on the left of the are clearly whispering to each other. ship 'em off to the colonies for their faustian comeuppance.

 

[Yes Boss!]

I think people make too big of a deal about these sort of things. I do find wearing shoes inside weird though.

I understand that biscuit comes from the french for "twice cooked" but an american buttermilk biscuit is completely different than anything scone-ish. The american verison is a bread-like biscuit. Scones are a straight shortbread.

 

[DrSlek]

British people drive on the wrong side.

Aw heyl naw!

Historically, people drive/ride on the left because the majority of the population is right handed.

Try slashing at someone with your sword hand while passing them on the right side of the road!

 

[Yes Boss!]

well the rice crisp isn't in wafer form, but for all the same ingredients these babies are pretty good

I remember when Whachamacallits came without carmel...that was back in the seventies, though.

 

[lenovox1]

Haha, how the hell did the definitions of cookie to biscuit to scones to whatever you want to call that triangular looking cake become so messed up between the USA and everyone else.

The brits are correct on this one.

/Australian

Cookie derived from a Dutch word that we liked better.

(From my shallow research) Biscuit as American's use it first popped up in the early 1800s. We apparently added baking soda to the batter (“soda buscuits”), and the use of the word in that way stuck.

The triangle and the round scone are made in the same way, American coffee shops just throw a lot of sweet stuff in the triangle version.

 

[ckohler]

People are actually confused about boiling water in a microwave? Wtf?!

Why wouldn't you boil water in the microwave? It's faster. Of all the things to question... Wow.

 

[teh_pwn]

Aw heyl naw!

Historically, people drive/ride on the left because the majority of the population is right handed.

Try slashing at someone with your sword hand while passing them on the right side of the road!

That's why in 'Merica we have our wells fargo buddy take shotgun. Shotgun shoots left and right, brah.

 

[painey]

Heres a thing most people overlook, but I notice it a lot being English in America: Clothing with place names.

It seems EVERYONE here at University owns at least 5 different items of clothes with a big place name across the front, be it from my current Uni, their old high school or just some place they visit a lot.

It's very odd.

 

[Devolution]

People are actually confused about boiling water in a microwave? Wtf?!

Why wouldn't you boil water in the microwave? It's faster. Of all the things to question... Wow.

Excuse me I need properly boiled water for my cup of noodles.

 

[many places]

That's because we all have giant McMansions not those dinky little UK apartments where you walk in the front door and you're already in the bedroom.

lol!!

 

[Metaphoreus]

British people drive on the wrong side.

Of the Atlantic Ocean.

cross-post

Movies in the US:

Movies in the UK:

And if you reverse those, you have Parliament vs. Congress.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

People are actually confused about boiling water in a microwave? Wtf?!

Why wouldn't you boil water in the microwave? It's faster. Of all the things to question... Wow.

Apparently the tea won't taste right if the water wasn't prepared in a kettle even though its the same temperature.

 

[shadyspace]

Aw heyl naw!

Historically, people drive/ride on the left because the majority of the population is right handed.

Try slashing at someone with your sword hand while passing them on the right side of the road!

Most of the world drives on the right. Britain really has to do something about its sword crime.

 

[rodvik]

And also we walk on beautiful sidewalks in clean suburbia. Our shoes are always clean. Suck it.

Fake American post. Your reference to walking gave it away.

 

[ckohler]

Apparently the tea won't taste right if the water wasn't prepared in a kettle even though its the same temperature.

Does it also have to be boiled on a Tuesday? How about if there's a full moon?

 

[DrSlek]

Most of the world drives on the right. Britain really has to do something about its sword crime.

Clearly the left side of the road is the side for great warriors.

 

[Kitsunebaby]

Fair enough, I live in NZ, and we pretty much use metric for everything. Except Subway sandwiches (footlong/6inch), and sometimes a person's height.

For shame, brits. for shame

As an American, I'll readily accept that metric is superior. Except when it comes to temperature. It might make sense for freezing to be zero and boiling to be 100, but when metric users talk about the weather and say "it's in the 30s" that's a fucking huge range of temperatures. It's far too broad.