My wife just informed me that in England sugar is poured on popcorn. The fuck is wrong with you people?
You wife is wrong... at least if she means its a common thing. Popcorn is normally salted or sweat (which means toffee or caramel normally). Ok those contain sugar but actually pooring pure sugar in it??? not that I have heard of.
Carpeted Garage - Only person ever I hear doing this was the guy in this thread
Carpeted bathroom - insanely rare. Not actually a thing.
Microwave water - never heard of before this thread but the electric kettle is a standard thing in the UK.
Some of the suggestions I heard in here are just plain crazy wrong opinions of what happens in the UK:
• Me rather than My. Only a few people do this and its lazy youth speech or certain regions only.
• Froat rather than Throat. Maybe some kids that cant be bothered to talk properly but its not a normal thing. Same with missing the T from water. Its not a UK thing. Its a lazy thing normally done by kids.
Infact a bunch of these things are all filtered into a few regions or lazy kid speak. A lot of the cockney stuff you see on TV is really not representative of the UK in general but that is what you guys prob see from the TV as that is a popular accent to use. When we watch programs like "the only way is Essex", people basically just laugh at how dumb everyone is and sounds. There is no other reason to watch it. Most people don't talk like those guys at all.
Personally I like that there are these differences as it makes for some interesting conversation and is fun to mock from both sides of the fence. However some are just plain strange to me. The date thing is very confusing. month / day / year has no logical order to it. The other big one is the saying "could care less" its clearly "couldn't care less" because the former implies that you at least care a little bit.
People arguing over things like the temperature is so funny. Its clearly the one you grew up with that sounds right, neither is really better, if you understand one and what temperature its numbers represent then that one is fine.
Also what is the thing about crapping standing up in the OP? the only place I have seen with that is France with the squat toilets which scared the crap out of me. We just sit on the toilet here. Just like you guys do. Although someone mentioned a bidet which again is not the norm at all over here. Certain European countries it is more common but not the UK.
Anyway its been a long read and a funny thread. Both sides have some strange spellings and words for things but its just a cultural thing for the most part that allows us to be different from each other.
Oh and our houses are embarrassingly small here. I have always seen american TV programs where people complain about there tiny house and just think "wtf are they on about?"
