I think we should introduce wolves back into the wild here in the uk, certainly add a bit of danger to a camping trip.
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Weird Americanisms (UK vs USA thread)
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I think we should introduce wolves back into the wild here in the uk, certainly add a bit of danger to a camping trip.
QuicheFontaine
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If you live near a pub, you know.
The_Hitcher89
Member
lol
shadyspace
Banned
I want a goddamn macrowave
Some people pronounce Joshua with three syllables in the States. I think that's more of a regional thing.
The proper way to pronounce "Jaguar" sounds smooth and bad ass, just like the (American) big cat. The wacked out Anglicized version sounds like a speech impediment. You know, deep down in your icy, icy heart, the truth.
.That pasty shop is so expensive but so good. Every time I go through New Street I try and resist but I end up wasting huge amounts of money on them.
I bet you bloody yanks don't even know what a Cornish Pasty is.
Silent_Bomber
Banned
I heard a few years back that Americans rarely text, true or false?
Also Chocolate Hobnobs are far superior to Digestives.
Also Chocolate Hobnobs are far superior to Digestives.
BertramCooper
Banned
I do because I ate tons of them.
And yes, I even knew how to correctly pronounce "pasty" before I ever set foot in the UK.
(For what it's worth, pasties are actually quite popular in certain parts of the Upper Midwestern U.S.)
The_Hitcher89
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Jag-ew-a sounds more angular and therefore bettah
ConfusingJazz
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I don't think anyone uses radio waves to cook food.
False.
You walk into a restaurant and 1/3 of the people are sitting there texting or reading email.
StopMakingSense
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edit: nm, read this wrong
Cerebral Assassin
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frankie_baby
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never heard of the beast of bodmin moor? the beast of exmoor?
the uk countryside is full of random big cats that shouldn't be there, wouldn't be surprised if there were a few lions around somewhere
BertramCooper
Banned
I remember seeing people drinking wine at a Pizza Hut. I think it was in Oxford.
I laughed and laughed and laughed. That blew my mind.
I laughed and laughed and laughed. That blew my mind.
frankie_baby
Member
am i right thinking texting didn't take off in america til years after the rest of the world cos you couldn't text cross network?
Before the iPhone, most people didn't have unlimited texting. Meaning you were charged for every text you sent and received. That's changed now.
Oh those silly people enjoying their wine.
frankie_baby
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BertramCooper
Banned
I wasn't laughing at the people - merely the fact that Pizza Hut offers wine.
I believe that we (the UK) was far quicker at uptaking texting, I imagine it is still a little more prevalent here.
I also hear that the US lags a lot with financial technology. E.g. Debit cards, chip&pin, contactless.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
I've just finished reading this entire thread, and, as an American, here's what I've learned:
- BritGAF has some bizarre misconceptions of what it is commonplace in America
- The Brits are annoyed/amused by how we pronounce things, but really its only our tendency us reading things the way they are fucking spelled, i.e. "Worcestershire" as "wooster-sher" instead of "worst-eh-shire". The letter "e" at the end means the "i" has a long sound. You can't make exceptions to your own language rules on account of your funny accents.
Boiling water in microwaves is for lazy college students, and I don't know of anyone who does it. We use kettles where I'm from. Not electric kettles mind you, I have never even seen one of those before and I had no idea they existed before this thread.
Microwaving water IS faster or just as fast as your electric kettles, however, for practical everyday things like getting the water hot enough for tea or for a cup of instant ramen noodles. For noodles my microwave can get the water hot enough between 1 and 1 1/2 minutes. For instant coffee or tea it takes even less time. And it makes all the sense in the world because heating water is the one and only thing microwaves are good at!
If I needed actual boiling, bubbling water (as opposed to really hot water) I and pretty much everyone else in the United States would heat it up on a stove.
Except for the hard and unsweetened part. Our biscuits are flaky--sometimes crumbly-- layered, and in the case of buttermilk biscuits, certainly sweetened.
Pictured: A standard soft, pillowy biscuit.
BritGAF should subtract points from itself every time they're way off the mark like this.
We don't "say" aluminium weird, we just have a different way of spelling it altogether because of the somewhat complicated history of the word: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
We say monastery that way because that's how its spelled. Funny thing that, pronouncing words the way they're spelled. Please tell me, from where does the "tree" come from in monastery?
American jam and jelly are two different, but similar things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam#Jelly
From BritGAF's bizarre misconceptions of American culture (That stupid bit in the OP about movie theaters--I can only recall two movies off the top of my head that I've seen in my entire life where the theater audience clapped, much less cheered) to the hypocritical finger pointing at how the US pronounces words, to their insane denial of the absolute shittiness of PAL compared to NTSC, this round goes to the US easily.
- BritGAF has some bizarre misconceptions of what it is commonplace in America
- The Brits are annoyed/amused by how we pronounce things, but really its only our tendency us reading things the way they are fucking spelled, i.e. "Worcestershire" as "wooster-sher" instead of "worst-eh-shire". The letter "e" at the end means the "i" has a long sound. You can't make exceptions to your own language rules on account of your funny accents.
Boiling water in microwaves is for lazy college students, and I don't know of anyone who does it. We use kettles where I'm from. Not electric kettles mind you, I have never even seen one of those before and I had no idea they existed before this thread.
Microwaving water IS faster or just as fast as your electric kettles, however, for practical everyday things like getting the water hot enough for tea or for a cup of instant ramen noodles. For noodles my microwave can get the water hot enough between 1 and 1 1/2 minutes. For instant coffee or tea it takes even less time. And it makes all the sense in the world because heating water is the one and only thing microwaves are good at!
If I needed actual boiling, bubbling water (as opposed to really hot water) I and pretty much everyone else in the United States would heat it up on a stove.
Except for the hard and unsweetened part. Our biscuits are flaky--sometimes crumbly-- layered, and in the case of buttermilk biscuits, certainly sweetened.
Pictured: A standard soft, pillowy biscuit.
BritGAF should subtract points from itself every time they're way off the mark like this.
We don't "say" aluminium weird, we just have a different way of spelling it altogether because of the somewhat complicated history of the word: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
We say monastery that way because that's how its spelled. Funny thing that, pronouncing words the way they're spelled. Please tell me, from where does the "tree" come from in monastery?
American jam and jelly are two different, but similar things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam#Jelly
From BritGAF's bizarre misconceptions of American culture (That stupid bit in the OP about movie theaters--I can only recall two movies off the top of my head that I've seen in my entire life where the theater audience clapped, much less cheered) to the hypocritical finger pointing at how the US pronounces words, to their insane denial of the absolute shittiness of PAL compared to NTSC, this round goes to the US easily.
frankie_baby
Member
why would pizza hut not?
Davey Cakes
Member
I don't boil water in the microwave. I'll heat it for cocoa and tea though.
All cooking involving actual boiling is done on the stove.
I'm American and I think it's weird when people microwave cook their eggs.
All cooking involving actual boiling is done on the stove.
I'm American and I think it's weird when people microwave cook their eggs.
frankie_baby
Member
I've just finished reading this entire thread, and, as an American, here's what I've learned:
- BritGAF has some bizarre misconceptions of what it is commonplace in America
- The Brits are annoyed/amused by how we pronounce things, but really its only our tendency us reading things the way they are fucking spelled, i.e. "Worcestershire" as "wooster-sher" instead of "worst-eh-shire". The letter "e" at the end means the "i" has a long sound. You can't make exceptions to your own language rules on account of your funny accents.
Boiling water in microwaves is for lazy college students, and I don't know of anyone who does it. We use kettles where I'm from. Not electric kettles mind you, I have never even seen one of those before and I had no idea they existed before this thread.
Microwaving water IS faster or just as fast as your electric kettles, however, for practical everyday things like getting the water hot enough for tea or for a cup of instant ramen noodles. For noodles my microwave can get the water hot enough between 1 and 1 1/2 minutes. For instant coffee or tea it takes even less time. And it makes all the sense in the world because heating water is the one and only thing microwaves are good at!
If I needed actual boiling, bubbling water (as opposed to really hot water) I and pretty much everyone else in the United States would heat it up on a stove.
Except for the hard and unsweetened part. Our biscuits are flaky--sometimes crumbly-- layered, and in the case of buttermilk biscuits, certainly sweetened.
Pictured: A standard soft, pillowy biscuit.
BritGAF should subtract points from itself every time they're way off the mark like this.
We don't "say" aluminium weird, we just have a different way of spelling it altogether because of the somewhat complicated history of the word: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
We say monastery that way because that's how its spelled. Funny thing that, pronouncing words the way they're spelled. Please tell me, from where does the "tree" come from in monastery?
American jam and jelly are two different, but similar things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam#Jelly
From BritGAF's bizarre misconceptions of American culture (That stupid bit in the OP about movie theaters--I can only recall two movies off the top of my head that I've seen in my entire life where the theater audience clapped, much less cheered) to the hypocritical finger pointing at how the US pronounces words, to their insane denial of the absolute shittiness of PAL compared to NTSC, this round goes to the US easily.
how can you 'know' microwaving water is as fast as an electric kettle if you didnt know they existed before this thread?
you really pick up on the weirdest things
EleventhDoctor
Banned
I saw someone in the office doing that the other day. Weird as fuck. Which means I'm sure this is an English delicacy.
Kitsunebaby
Member
Fast food chains in the US generally don't have liquor licenses.
For curious UKers, this is what a typical movie opening in America is like.
including the murder depending on which city you're in
BertramCooper
Banned
It would be like getting an Old Fashioned with your Big Mac at a McDonald's. Just really bizarre.
Pizza Huts in the U.S. are just plain putrid. Perhaps they're nicer in the UK; I have no idea.
Indeed I do. I'm just weirdly observant that way.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Because wine is the drink of celebration. Pizza Hut is the "restaurant" you go to a month before you jump off a bridge. It's where the hopes of good pizza goes to die and in that death, draw in all the madness, depression and angst of modern America. It's a black hole of despair - and wine, the nectar of the gods, holds no place there.
frankie_baby
Member
microwaving scrambled eggs is a remarkably easy way of doing it and if you know your timings perfectly is just as good as a pan
I'll take your word for it. I tried it once, and they turned out rubbery.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
Why don't you just use a kettle?
frankie_baby
Member
mcdonalds is fast food though, doubt anyone there sits down eating for more than 10 minutes, pizza hut is a restaurant you can sit down relax and enjoy your food so of course people want a drink with it, though as restaurants go pizza hut is pretty much bottom of the barrel these days
Bleh, no thanks. Eggs over easy or medium is the way to go anyway.
frankie_baby
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yeah easily done, just takes experience to perfect
frankie_baby
Member
large eggs are better than medium
Yeah, no. I don't know exact times but I would guess 30 seconds or less for coffee, maybe a bit more for noodles? Not to mention there is often already water in the kettle which saves time.
If it was in any way better to microwave water, everyone in the UK and the rest of the world, where we have both microwaves and electric kettles, would do that. But we don't.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Did you see the part where I said I read the whole thread? Now..do you suppose maybe at some point during the endless arguments about boiling water that took place earlier, someone might have mentioned how fast it is to heat water in an electric kettle?
I'm not going to dig up the quote, but someone said they could get their tea ready in a minute and half with an electric kettle. Now, I'm not an avid tea drinker but I know it will take at the most the same amount of time if I were to microwave a cup of water.
Cerebral Assassin
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So even though you had no idea that electric kettles existed you feel confident that they are slower than microwaves at heating water?
PAL was significantly better than NTSC, only games suffered because they weren't optimised to take into account the higher resolution, this is proven by any TV show that has been filmed in both formats(it is most noticeable in Wrestling PPVs, the ones shot in the UK had significantly higher IQ).
The only thing weird about America is not using the metric system.
Other than that it's all about AMERICAHHH!!!!!!
I cheer when the Avengers came on screen. I laugh when Hulk smashes Loki
I boil my soup in microwave sometimes, even my tea
I tip my barber and my waiter... usually generously
I don't call cookies biscuits
I don't call the trunk of a car the "boot"
I spell neighbor without a "u"
I call American football FOOTBALL and international football SOCCER
Other than that it's all about AMERICAHHH!!!!!!
I cheer when the Avengers came on screen. I laugh when Hulk smashes Loki
I boil my soup in microwave sometimes, even my tea
I tip my barber and my waiter... usually generously
I don't call cookies biscuits
I don't call the trunk of a car the "boot"
I spell neighbor without a "u"
I call American football FOOTBALL and international football SOCCER
frankie_baby
Member
i could do a cup's worth of water in about 30 seconds (if that) in a kettle
BertramCooper
Banned
To be fair, a lot of Pizza Huts do offer beer in the U.S. (Shitty, awful garbage beer.) But the idea of being able to drink wine - even what I'm sure was a terrible wine - at a Pizza Hut was kind of unfathomable for me.
Honestly, pairing wine and pizza just isn't very common in the U.S. Pizza is far more commonly paired with beer here.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Read the post above yours and also note that I said "or just as fast" based one person's account of tea taking between one and one and a half minutes.
EDIT: ...which I misunderstood, apparently. Alright, electric kettles are a little faster.
Yeah, except we were talking about PAL SNES vs. NTSC SNES, not television in general.
frankie_baby
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think last time i was at oxford pizza hut, the wine was the only bit of the experience that wasn't shit,
british people will drink wine with pretty much any meal
Sunny side up and over easy aren't the same. Sunny side up is when you don't flip them and the whites are still somewhat clear on top. Basically, it's really runny and a little slimy to me. Over easy is just that, you flip them and let them cook briefly to cook the whites, but the yolk is still very runny. Over medium is where you leave them a little longer. Still runny.
I don't know if you're joking or serious, but yes.
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