"Do Americans really have full rooms just for their laundry?"

I *so* wanted to reply to a couple of those, but it looks like you can only do it via Twitter, and I don't do Twitter. 

Like the idiots that asked 'is it true Americans dip their pizza in ranch'?  Ermmm... what's the difference between that and dipping in the garlic and herb dip they sell WITH your pizza at Dominos, dipshit? 

I have no idea what the red cup thing is all about.

Right? They eat pizza with TUNA AND CORN. Now that's a WTF moment.

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The fact that people in the UK think the red cups are so funny is really funny to me. People have actually asked me about them before. I had no idea they were such a cultural benchmark.

My first reaction when I attended a college party in the US was:
‘Oh my God, they actually have the red cups like in the movies!”

I also had the same reaction when I saw high school girls going to the mall after school in cheerleading outfits... until then, I’d thought that only happened in movies and TV shows .



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Do UK schools not have a giant room with tables for lunch?  I always thought they did.

Our school had 3 different lunch rooms which were just classrooms that were converted into canteens at lunchtime (they had hatches at the back and were linked to the kitchens). We had one lunch room for Year 7, one for Years 8 and 9, and one larger one for Years 10-13 (which was 2 English classrooms during the rest of the day).


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Ummm... how do Brits say it?  I can't say they've come up in conversation for me, so I don't know what I'm missing.

Same as we say due or dew:

Eeem-you


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Same as we say due or dew:

Eeem-you


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That's the only way I've ever heard it say.  Not e-mooooooooo.  hee hee hee.

Yes that list was funny my English hubby has bacon for breakfast everyday  he even prefers streaky bacon now and complains if he can’t have it for breakfast. He’s just gone and bought a ford ranger truck now I swear he’s becoming more American too funny !!

My favourite.

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I wouldn't let Mrs Jimbo buy a kettle

She needed your permission to buy a kettle??!!??

Uh, red cups.

There are some Universities (one that I know well I will not identify) where alcohol is a very serious problem on campus. As in several students to the ER with alcohol poisoning every weekend, many more so drunk they are passed out in public.

When said Universities mandated that on-campus parties that served alcohol do so in the red cups, the rate of hospitalizations decreased. Because you can't tell what's in the red cup. So you can be slurping away on one and your friends/co-students think you're having a beer, when you're having soda. It removes a lot of the peer-pressure thing.

So yea for red cups!

She needed your permission to buy a kettle??!!??

Not permission exactly, but agreement from me.  Just like I'm not gonna buy a bread machine to sit on the counter and take all the space and never get used unless I get agreement from her first.   I'm not a big fan of microwaves either, so getting one of those is enough.  And it heats water fine. 

Uh, red cups.

There are some Universities (one that I know well I will not identify) where alcohol is a very serious problem on campus. As in several students to the ER with alcohol poisoning every weekend, many more so drunk they are passed out in public.

When said Universities mandated that on-campus parties that served alcohol do so in the red cups, the rate of hospitalizations decreased. Because you can't tell what's in the red cup. So you can be slurping away on one and your friends/co-students think you're having a beer, when you're having soda. It removes a lot of the peer-pressure thing.

So yea for red cups!

I went to the worst school in the world for drinking.  The alcohol laws were strictly enforced and nobody ever had any fun.  If there was a keg party, the cops would show up , make everyone leave , then arrest people for drunk driving.  I don't know how cops got it in their heads that if you catch an underage person drinking, the best thing to do is make them get in their car and start driving. 

I'm blown away by schools here that have multiple pubs on campus, with a whole week to do nothing but drink at the start of every year. 

Not permission exactly, but agreement from me.  Just like I'm not gonna buy a bread machine to sit on the counter and take all the space and never get used unless I get agreement from her first.   I'm not a big fan of microwaves either, so getting one of those is enough.  And it heats water fine. 

I didn’t own a microwave or kettle in the UK my first year here.  I lived!

I went to the worst school in the world for drinking.  The alcohol laws were strictly enforced and nobody ever had any fun.  If there was a keg party, the cops would show up , make everyone leave , then arrest people for drunk driving.  I don't know how cops got it in their heads that if you catch an underage person drinking, the best thing to do is make them get in their car and start driving. 

I'm blown away by schools here that have multiple pubs on campus, with a whole week to do nothing but drink at the start of every year.

I went to a private university that was historically presbyterian.. we weren’t allowed to drink or have opposite sex in our dorms after 9pm.  Never mind that there was a strip of bars five minutes away and everybody got trashed I once almost got thrown out for being drunk on campus, I had to go to a proper disciplinarian hearing.. talk about nearly crapping your pants.

I constantly make a fool out of myself by pure ignorance. I called it jump roping to all of after school club not knowing they were “skipping”

Thankfully our kid had a Canadian teacher last year so she kind of just rolls with it. She’s been asking recently for an American accent

I didn’t own a microwave or kettle in the UK my first year here.  I lived!

How did you heat your hot water bottles?