i don't even know what else i would use a microwave for if i wasn't doing this. there are a dozen unique ways to make microwave coffee nowadays. they even have tea bags filled with coffee that you can microwave
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Weird Americanisms (UK vs USA thread)
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i don't even know what else i would use a microwave for if i wasn't doing this. there are a dozen unique ways to make microwave coffee nowadays. they even have tea bags filled with coffee that you can microwave
Nah,
It is to heat up a cup for single cup of tea (with a tea bag). Or maybe to mix in some cocoa or (shudders) instant coffee, cup-o-ramen.
America has electric countertop kettles. They are sold everywhere. I use it for tea or to heat water for my pour-over coffee maker.
Nobody heats significant amount of water in the microwave...we take it to a stove-top kettle (whistle kind) or pan with a lid.
WTF is a kettle? Seems like something primitive from the 40s.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
why in the name of all that is holy would you have a tea or coffee bag in the microwave with your water? the microwave destroys the oils and thus the flavor.
Clone Outcast
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I don't know why but American's think that this this gravy:
That sick mass is not gravy. This is gravy:
That sick mass is not gravy. This is gravy:
Oh, if I've got to heat up a significant amount of water, I put the water in a big pot and boil it on the stove. I think everybody does that.
Digestives are buttery and crumbly. None of this wafer madness.
We do have those as well though
Scotland's finest.
This is what americans call a Nutty Bar.
You Are Viewtiful
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Brits pronounce kettle like ke'ul.
CarpeDeezNutz
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They were popular back when you could get 40 rods to the Hog's head.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Nutty Bars don't have caramel.
There is beef gravy, chicken or turkey gravy, and cream gravy
not our fault you have a limited selection
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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urgh.
What happened to water, a pot and a bit of seasoning?
Microwave anything is flavourless to me. Its a device to reheat, not cook IMO.
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The amount you'd put in a kettle, though. That's why they exist!
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Digestives are buttery and crumbly. None of this wafer madness.
We do have those as well though
Scotland's finest.
What an unfortunate name for a sweet. Sounds more like medicine for indigestion.
lastplayed
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When instant coffee isn't instant enough.
The kettle serves most of my hot liquid needs. Fill it up, get it boiling and it can serves many people and reboils within seconds. Hardly use the microwave at all.
many places
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I don't know why buy American's think that this this gravy:
That sick mass is not gravy. This is gravy:
They both are. One is white gravy used on biscuits and gravy, mashed potatoes, dipping "sauce" for chicken tenders.
The other goes good with mashed potatoes as well and also fried chicken.
They're both made in a similar way, they're both gravies, but you add milk in the first one. Delicious.
Wait, what is this? More examples beyond aluminum.
Maybe we just say some vowels deeper because of waves of German immigrants.
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.
SquiddyCracker
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Oh god, these are also weird.
We have both of these gravies though.
Willy Wanka
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Clone Outcast
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Candeldandel
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American here. This thread. Killin' me. SCONE WARS! Scones (to me) are the hard, crumbly triangular bread-y deals with shit like candied lemon and cranberries in them. Biscuits are soft and warm and flaky. Fuck, now I want some 
Also, who the hell hasn't had a breakfast sandwich with an English muffin?? That one should be obvious.
I guess I'll admit to heating up water in the microwave... but only when there's absolutely no other option. However, we don't even have a microwave in the house these days. So that's out.
And seriously, people, the fuck at carpeted bathrooms!! That is just asking for a bad time. Gross.
Also, who the hell hasn't had a breakfast sandwich with an English muffin?? That one should be obvious.I guess I'll admit to heating up water in the microwave... but only when there's absolutely no other option. However, we don't even have a microwave in the house these days. So that's out.
And seriously, people, the fuck at carpeted bathrooms!! That is just asking for a bad time. Gross.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Sauce? But it is made from meat stock, starch, and flour. That is gravy.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Nah ill give the Americans this one.
Much better than our stupid practice of writing on each others uniform on the last day.
Sauce
ConfusingJazz
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I don't know why buy American's think that this this gravy:
That sick mass is not gravy. This is gravy:
One is sausage gravy, the other is a bad meat based gravy. Basically two different ways to mix flour and excess fat. Sorry for the variety.
It's like refusing to call tomato soup a soup because it doesn't have broth in it.
And let's not forget, UK.
Willy Wanka
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It's the best kind of medicine. Unless you have diabetes in which case they are quite counter-productive.
RumblingRosco
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You know what? To hell with your English muffins. They're God damned American muffins now, and I'm going to eat them along side my Freedom Fries. Also, you guys speak a really weird version of American over there in the UK.
I pronounce UK as "uck" as in "uck, GROSS."
I pronounce UK as "uck" as in "uck, GROSS."
We have the tradition of writing in each other's yearbook. Kinda stupid, but a lot better than your uniform thing
Dark Stalkers
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feels gr8 m8
Point taken. Another reason US wins...they replaced it with peanut butter.
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Delusibeta
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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
ElectricBlue187
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I thought they said this wasn't really a thing
Origami Superman
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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
The brits are correct on this one.
/Australian
Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
Clearly what's needed is an objective criterion to determine which nation is better. I think I have one on which we can all agree: regardless of the many differences between any two nations, and regardless of any advantages that either has over the other, if one of the nations can turn the other into a nuclear wasteland, while the other nation couldn't do likewise to the first, then the first is objectively the superior nation.
Now that we've all come to an agreement on the standard to be employed, I await the necessary statistics to settle this dispute.
Now that we've all come to an agreement on the standard to be employed, I await the necessary statistics to settle this dispute.
Yeah, they are weird. But equally weird is the US tendency to put shitty Alumni license plate frames on their cars. Actually more obnoxious than weird.
Colleges are essentially a minor sports league in the US.
ConfusingJazz
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I am thinking you're just jealous, because it's fucking delicious and you can't have any.
SuperSonic1305
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Next you'll tell me Americans wear shoes indoors.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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No that makes sense. you could reasonably keep a Yearbook for a lifetime.
Who wants to keep an old school shirt thats full of sweat (Last day is beginning of summer) that you cant wash because you will wash all your friend signatures away? The thing is rank. I threw mine out after a month.
Yes, that too.
Here in America, we don't let our R's cut in line.
Oh, I'm sorry, "queue."
I'm not sorry.
Glorious victory for Kim Jong Ill.
Raonak
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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.
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.
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