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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #135 on: November 04, 2003, 05:32:44 PM »
They can be a strange lot the Brits,LOL ;D
My hubby is still  ???,why us Yanks dont use a knife with all of our meals???Hehehehehehe
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #136 on: November 05, 2003, 12:32:13 PM »
I've been enjoying reading this thread!  Thought I'd throw in too...

My hubby looks at me funny after I've been on the phone talking to someone back home.  He says I sound "more Canadian" after I've been talking to a Canadian, but that at other times I have (apparently) started speaking with a British accent! :o :o :o  Gods forbid!

He thinks I'm nuts for trying to match up and fold all of his socks (without wrapping them up into little sock balls)... and he's right.  After two years of doing laundry and folding his socks, I've given in!   ::) :P

I think it was Vnice who wondered about Brits pointing with middle fingers?  Well, they do it a lot around here...  and not just because it's a rough area either!   ;D  My husband does it periodically, as do a few friends around here... they always wonder why I look so shocked!   ;D ;)  

Anything else that my hubby thinks is odd about me can be chalked up to the fact that I'm very fussy in how the house is, and that I'm very odd!!  LOL  

Cheers now!

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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #137 on: November 06, 2003, 04:20:17 AM »
Right, I've just asked Sean if he can think of anything that I do that strikes him as being particularly American or odd... I didn't expect his answers to be quite as numerous or readily available.  Anyway, here are a few ;)

The way I say "mirror" <-- "mir" as opposed to his "mirr-or"

Holding a door open for a person still 20 feet back from its entrance.

Waitresses saying "you're welcome" at restaurants.  Me:  Thank You
Waitress:  You're welcome
Sean:  Why do they always say that?

The fact that Americans will go out for a big meal, order the biggest, most fattening thing on the menu, then ask for a diet coke.

My love of dipping ALL foods in some sort of sauce (ranch, bbq, honey mustard, teriyaki, sweet and sour, ketchup).  He thinks it's being fussy.

Commercials after the opening scene on tv shows.

I'm sure there are other, more personal things I do that he finds odd, but those are probably my own strange tendencies, and not the traits of most Americans!  :P
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #138 on: November 06, 2003, 01:20:50 PM »
I don't remember if this was listed earlier, but my guy has a thing about Americans and thier WHITE socks...even worse is white socks with white shoes.

There are about a million others, but that is the one on my mind today...
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #139 on: November 06, 2003, 01:56:27 PM »
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WHITE socks


Isn't there a song (kinda rude one) about white socks?
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #140 on: November 06, 2003, 02:59:02 PM »
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I don't remember if this was listed earlier, but my guy has a thing about Americans and thier WHITE socks...even worse is white socks with white shoes.

There are about a million others, but that is the one on my mind today...


I have to say I am with your guy on this one!! Maybe it is a West Coast phenomenon. When I first met Stu he kept wearing white socks and I think he said it was a California thing when I protested - anyhow pleased to say he's grown out of that phase now! Having said that a friend of mine is going through the whole white socks/white trainers thing with her new ENGLISH boyfriend.
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #141 on: November 18, 2003, 09:37:50 PM »
UK half thinks it's INSANE that you can buy guns at Wal-Mart, and even more-so, that they're placed right next to the childrens' section.  I most definitely agree on this one.  :o
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« Reply #142 on: November 18, 2003, 09:43:24 PM »
 
 So do I Terinth.Buying guns period in a department store,UGGGG  ???/
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #143 on: November 19, 2003, 12:27:51 AM »
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I don't remember if this was listed earlier, but my guy has a thing about Americans and thier WHITE socks...even worse is white socks with white shoes.

I husband says you can always spot the American with their white shoes and socks.  Guess what?  I don't care.  I still wear my Keds and whites socks because I like them.
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #144 on: November 21, 2003, 04:53:59 AM »
  lol i think the heading for these posts should be "things that the brits know we're nuts for:

   1.   Attacking all food with just a fork.
   2.   Not being able to drink Tea hot (iced tea ugh)
   3.   Popcorn (salted with cheese on top)
   4.   Having cars that only do 14 miles to the gallon.
   5.   biscuits with gravy (ugh watered flour).
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #145 on: January 17, 2004, 04:08:56 AM »
I think everyone at work thought I was nuts because I couldnt bring myself to drink tea with milk in it. Yeeuch.

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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #146 on: February 18, 2004, 02:40:44 AM »
Wow, now I'll have to ask my DF what he thinks is too American of me!   I have been teased for running around barefoot all the time & running out to my car that way but I just explain that where I come from it's warm enough to do that all the time!
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #147 on: February 18, 2004, 05:40:51 AM »
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Wow, now I'll have to ask my DF what he thinks is too American of me!   I have been teased for running around barefoot all the time & running out to my car that way but I just explain that where I come from it's warm enough to do that all the time!


LOL,dont worry your not alone there,in the summer Id rather be in my barefeet around the house  :) ;D
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #148 on: February 19, 2004, 12:39:56 AM »
hmmm...how about christmas cookies.....my new family over here thought I had 3 heads when I suggested a christmas cookie exchange....and then there is Easter....my husband does not know about Easter baskets......could be just his family....but huh????
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Re: LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts f
« Reply #149 on: February 19, 2004, 01:19:39 PM »
No - Easter baskets were news to my husband, too.  He didn't realise that for my spoiled kids, Easter is like a mini-Christmas!  ;)
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