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[akira28]

we use central heating.

 

[AgentP]

Does America not have electric kettles?

Not really, but I've used them and they work great.

 

[ToxicAdam]

The only time I microwave water is when I am making hot chocolate for the kids. Otherwise I will just boil it on the stove.

How do Americans fill a Hot Water Bottle?

I don't think anyone under 70 years old uses these, but they make 'microwave safe' ones.

 

[Hari Seldon]

How do Americans fill a Hot Water Bottle?

Wtf is a hot water bottle? You mean a thermos?

 

[frankie_baby]

The kettle thing just comes down to if you drink tea or not. If you drink tea a kettle is probably infinitely more useful than if you don't drink tea.

a kettle is far more useful than just for making tea

 

[Zeppu]

Wtf is a hot water bottle? You mean a thermos?

Do Americans not have Google or Wikipedia either?

 

[frankie_baby]

Wtf is a hot water bottle? You mean a thermos?

rubber bottle you fill with hot water and take to bed with you

 

[Var]

The kettle thing just comes down to if you drink tea or not. If you drink tea a kettle is probably infinitely more useful than if you don't drink tea.

A kettle is great for making coffee as well.

 

[Aeriscloud]

I really enjoyed the BBC documentary series "Stephen Fry in America". Fun to see British people reacting to our US culture. This bit where he visits a big college football game is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4tTgPYuavk

Oh God, his face when the jets went over, it had a look of...

WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!

 

[Kitsunebaby]

How do Americans fill a Hot Water Bottle?

We don't. Who the hell still uses a hot water bottle? We have electric blankets if, for some reason, our rooms aren't properly heated.

A kettle is great for making coffee as well.

Except most of us have drip coffee makers.

 

[andycapps]

Do Americans say wolf as woof?

We have quite a few dialects in the US, you're going to have to zero in on one.

 

[Hari Seldon]

rubber bottle you fill with hot water and take to bed with you

Wait wait wait, what?

 

[Recon]

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.

That isn't really an American thing, it is an idiot thing. I cringe whenever I see or hear that, and I am American.

 

[Aeriscloud]

Double post.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Wait wait wait, what?

Don't ask what the auxiliary hole is for.

 

[Var]

We don't. Who the hell still uses a hot water bottle?



Except most of us have drip coffee makers.

True, but a kettle is still great for making coffee.

 

[Zeliard]

Microwave water, pour water into container.

A pot. Pour water in pot. Boil water. Pour. This is not rocket science.

lol

 

[dreamcastmaster]

I don't think anyone under 70 years old uses these, but they make 'microwave safe' ones.

Protip: If your girlfriend is on her period and is having pains give her a hot water bottle to put on her stomach, always helps and you get lots of good partner points.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Protip: If your girlfriend is on her period and is having pains give her a hot water bottle to put on her stomach, always helps and you get lots of good partner points.

My wife has large bean bags that serve the same function.

Spoiler

you microwave them to heat them up

 

[Hari Seldon]

Protip: If your girlfriend is on her period and is having pains give her a hot water bottle to put on her stomach, always helps and you get lots of good partner points.

We have electric heating pads.

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

Wait wait wait, what?

they are great. Elec blankets use power / cost money / fire risk (I guess)

Hot water bottle is just a kettle boils worth of power and stays warm all night. My wife loves em.

 

[Burt]

Dryers. You wish you used them. Nothing better than putting on a piece of clothing fresh out the dryer. Beats that clothesline stiffness any day of the week.

 

[ckohler]

They make hot and cold pads now. They contain a gelatin compound that can be heated or cooled and holds that temperature for longer than water. Can be quickly heated in a microwave and won't boil or cooled in a freezer and won't turn solid.

 

[Verdre]

lol

I purposely didn't mention the microwave because so many people are acting like there is literally no other option between microwave and kettle.

 

[strata8]

Dryers. You wish you used them. Nothing better than putting on a piece of clothing fresh out the dryer.

What country doesn't use dryers?

 

[Burt]

What country doesn't use dryers?

My friends from the UK say no one uses them over there. Granted, most of them were Scottish, but it is what it is.

 

[JeTmAn81]

I am an American, and I own an electric kettle. I use it to boil water for the teapot.

 

[apesh1t]

This thread has confirmed that UK people still live in the 1930s. Like a steampunk version the 30's with internet and MOE biles.

 

[Herne]

Negative.
Celcius weather is easy to understand. 20-29 is cool to comfortable. 30-39 is warm to hot. 40+ is "fuck this shit, I'm taking a day off work".

I'm Irish. 12 to 15 is pleasant, 15 to 20 is warm to hot, 20 to 30 is slightly too hot, 31 to 38 is uncomfortably hot, and 39+ is sweet Christ kill me now. I know this because our summers usually top out at around 23 degrees, and I spent three weeks in Budapest in May.

Three weeks of increasing temperatures and the intrepid band of red, skin-peeling Irish people found the weather becoming unbearable. Three weeks of re-acclimatising ourself to a different climate. And then, on the last day, it became too much. At 39 degrees, we were literally hopping from shade to shade.

We are not made for such temperatures, and damn global warming that has us gasping in the summer heat. As Billy Connolly said, we're a pale blue-skinned people. Takes us a week of sunbathing to get white.

 

[frankie_baby]

Dryers. You wish you used them. Nothing better than putting on a piece of clothing fresh out the dryer. Beats that clothesline stiffness any day of the week.

apart from my jeans almost none of my clothes are dryerable

 

[Acorn]

My friends from the UK say no one uses them over there. Granted, most of them were Scottish, but it is what it is.

UK kitchens are generally smaller. Some have them but it isn't as prevalent as the states.

 

[BertramCooper]

I can't believe we're having an argument on how to boil water.

I mean, for fuck's sake, there is absolutely no difference whatsoever in the end product. It's two different means to the exact same end.

 

[frankie_baby]

My friends from the UK say no one uses them over there. Granted, most of them were Scottish, but it is what it is.

plenty of people have dryers here though far from everybody

 

[Bazza]

My friends from the UK say no one uses them over there. Granted, most of them were Scottish, but it is what it is.

I would say your friend is the odd one out, everyone i know has a dryer, rains far to often i the UK to rely on line drying.

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

My friends from the UK say no one uses them over there. Granted, most of them were Scottish, but it is what it is.

DO you mean like tumble dryers?

we have them but our average house size is so small not many people have them. We have combi washing machines dryers which are terrible and don't dry anything unless you only use 2 items at leave it running for 3 hours. If you have a big house its more common to have a utility room which would have a separate washing machine and dryer.

We have laundrettes which have dryers if you want to use one.

 

[JeTmAn81]

apart from my jeans almost none of my clothes are dryerable

What makes an article of clothing "undryerable"?

 

[kitch9]

Does America not have electric kettles?

110v.

It would take ages.

 

[Zeppu]

What makes an article of clothing "undryerable"?

The last one.

 

[Bazza]

What makes an article of clothing "undryerable"?

certain materials will shrink if you put them in a tumble dryer, also anything with any kind of printing like t-shirts tend to get ruined as the print warms up then cools and it makes it crack.

 

[frankie_baby]

What makes an article of clothing "undryerable"?

materials and/or prints

 

[Kitsunebaby]

apart from my jeans almost none of my clothes are dryerable

I don't know what you wear, but the vast majority of clothes are "dryerable" if you have a decent dryer with various heat settings. Just like a number of clothes that say "dry-clean only" can be put in the washer.

 

[andycapps]

110v.

It would take ages.

Doesn't the amount of wattage matter moreso than the voltage?

 

[frankie_baby]

I don't know what you wear, but the vast majority of clothes are "dryerable" if you have a decent dryer with various heat settings. Just like a number of clothes that say "dry-clean only" can be put in the washer.

the amount of t-shirts ive ruined by putting in the dryer has tought me to respect the laundry instructions on clothes

 

[ToxicAdam]

I don't know what you wear, but the vast majority of clothes are "dryerable" if you have a decent dryer with various heat settings. Just like a number of clothes that say "dry-clean only" can be put in the washer.

I don't know about that. If any of my dry clean only clothes accidently make it into the wash, they are never the same again. Wool sweaters, silk shirts or even some of the clothes that are poly-blends (rayon + cotton). Sometimes even when I do them on very low settings.

 

[Dragnet]

My friends from the UK say no one uses them over there. Granted, most of them were Scottish, but it is what it is.

Everyone I know has a dryer. Everyone I knew at Uni had a dryer. Your primitive Scot friends know nothing about the UK!

 

[dab0ne]

We're so crazy we eat our birthday cake at the party.

 

[NekoFever]

Yeah, I'm British and I'm still wondering who the fuck still uses a hot water bottle. I think my grandparents used them after the war when their house didn't have all four walls.

i don't think american MLB teams like sending their big name players to these to avoid injury. People care about their home teams more

It's funny how un-American American sports are.

PATRIOTISM! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Play baseball for my country? Fuck no.

FREE MARKET! SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!
Oh, you came bottom of the league? You can stay and keep all that TV money. And you can have first pick of the best players next season so you can do better.

 

[jufonuk]

I didn't realise there was an actual baseball world championship. Why isn't it a big deal in America?

1984 winner: Cuba
1986 winner: Cuba
1988 winner: Cuba
1990 winner: Cuba
1994 winner: Cuba
1998 winner: Cuba
2001 winner: Cuba
2003 winner: Cuba
2005 winner: Cuba

Ah...

America and the UK share so much , like inventing a sport then getting their asses kicked at it

 

[JeTmAn81]

We're so crazy we eat our birthday cake at the party.

Whatever, Americans do that. But each guest receives their own full-sized cake. There are never any leftovers.

 

[frankie_baby]

Yeah, I'm British and I'm still wondering who the fuck still uses a hot water bottle. I think my grandparents used them after the war when their house didn't have all four walls.

you'll wish you had one when you're central heating packs up one day