#7964

You may if seen this as it went viral . But it’s an American pointing out the differences between theUS and UK .

I was in England again a few weeks ago, mostly in small towns, but here’s some of what I noticed:

  • Almost everyone is very polite
  • The food is generally outstanding
  • There are no guns
  • There are too many narrow stairs
  • Everything is just a little bit different
  • The pubs close too early
  • The reason they drive on the left is because all their cars are built backwards
  • Pubs are not bars, they are community living rooms.
  • You’d better like peas, potatoes and sausage
  • Refrigerators and washing machines are very small
  • Everything is generally older, smaller and shorter
  • People don’t seem to be afraid of their neighbors or the government
  • Their paper money makes sense, the coins don’t
  • Everyone has a washing machine but driers are rare
  • Hot and cold water faucets. Remember them?
  • Pants are called “trousers”, underwear are “pants” and sweaters are “jumpers”
  • The bathroom light is a string hanging from the ceiling
  • “Fanny” is a naughty word, as is “shag”
  • All the signs are well designed with beautiful typography and written in full sentences with proper grammar.
  • There’s no dress code
  • Doors close by themselves, but they don’t always open
  • They eat with their forks upside down
  • The English are as crazy about their gardens as Americans are about cars
  • They don’t seem to use facecloths or napkins or maybe they’re just less messy than we are
  • The wall outlets all have switches, some don’t do anything
  • There are hardly any cops or police cars
  • 5,000 year ago, someone arranged a lot of rocks all over, but no one is sure why
  • When you do see police they seem to be in male & female pairs and often smiling
  • Black people are just people: they didn’t quite do slavery here
  • Everything comes with chips, which are French Fries. You put vinegar on them
  • Cookies are “biscuits” and potato chips are “crisps”
  • HP sauce is better then catsup
  • Obama is considered a hero, Bush is considered an idiot.
  • After fish and chips, curry is the most popular food
  • The water controls in showers need detailed instructions
  • They will boil anything
  • Folks don’t always lock their bikes
  • It’s not unusual to see people dressed different and speaking different languages
  • Your electronic devices will work fine with just a plug adapter
  • Nearly everyone is better educated then we are
  • If someone buys you a drink you must do the same
  • There are no guns
  • Look right, walk left. Again; look right, walk left. You’re welcome.
  • Avoid British wine and French beer
  • It’s not that hard to eat with the fork in your left hand with a little practice. If you don’t, everyone knows you’re an American
  • Many of the roads are the size of our sidewalks
  • There’s no AC
  • Instead of turning the heat up, you put on a jumper
  • Gas is “petrol”, it costs about $6 a gallon and is sold by the liter
  • If you speed on a motorway, you get a ticket. Period. Always
  • You don’t have to tip, really!
  • Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Cornwall really are different countries
  • Only 14% of Americans have a passport, almost everyone in the UK does
  • You pay the price marked on products because the taxes (VAT) are built in
  • Walking is the national pastime
  • Their TV looks and sounds much better then ours
  • They took the street signs down during WWII, but haven’t put them all back up yet
  • Everyone enjoys a good joke
  • There are no guns
  • Dogs are very well behaved and welcome everywhere
  • There are no window screens
  • You can get on a bus and end up in Paris
  • Everyone knows more about our history then we do
  • Radio is still a big deal. The BBC is quite good
  • The newspapers can be awful
  • Everything costs the same but our money is worth less so you have to add 50% to the price to figure what you’re paying
  • Beer comes in large, completely filled, actual pint glasses and the closer the brewery the better the beer
  • Butter and eggs aren’t refrigerated
  • The beer isn’t warm, each style is served at the proper temperature
  • Cider (alcoholic) is quite good.
  • Excess cider consumption can be very painful.
  • The universal greeting is “Cheers” (pronounced “cheeahz” unless you are from Cornwall, in which case it’s “chairz”)
  • The money is easy to understand: 1-2-5-10-20-50 pence, £1-£2 coins and £5-£10, etc bills. There are no quarters.
  • Their cash makes ours look like Monopoly money
  • Cars don’t have bumper stickers
  • Many doorknobs, buildings and tools are older than America
  • By law, there are no crappy, old cars
  • When the sign says something was built in 456, they didn’t lose the “1”
  • Cake is is pudding, ice cream is pudding, anything served for desert is pudding, even pudding
  • BBC 4 is NPR
  • Everything closes by 1800 (6pm)
  • Very few people smoke, those who do often roll their own
  • You’re defined by your accent
  • No one in Cornwall knows what the hell a Cornish Game Hen is
  • Football is a religion, religion is a sport
  • Europeans dress better then the British, we dress worse
  • The trains work: a three minute delay is regrettable
  • Drinks don’t come with ice
  • There are far fewer fat English people
  • There are a lot of healthy old folks around participating in life instead of hiding at home watching tv
  • If you’re over 60, you get free tv and bus and rail passes.
  • They don’t use Bose anything anywhere
  • Displaying your political or religious affiliation is considered very bad taste
  • Every pub seems to have a pet drunk
  • Their healthcare works, but they still bitch about it
  • Cake is one of the major food groups
  • Their coffee is mediocre but the tea is wonderful
  • There are still no guns
  • Towel warmers!
  • Cheers
#7965

First off thank you again for completely ignoring my post, it backs up my statements.

Hmm, well ive traveled quite a bit in the U.S, and i can say most people are polite.

My Mother and Uncle did visit London a long time ago and said everyone was rude to them.

Well i actually had a buddy who was born in England but their family moved here when he was little. Well he and his family moved back because of a dying relative, but he came back to the states.
He remarked how much better the fast food was in America.

Saw this several times. Unless this moron lived in Detroit or Chicago he didn’t fucking see guns all the time in America either. I have seen people open carry a total of twice in my life, and i live in a state with a lot of guns.

But in the U.K there are shit ton of stabbings and Muslims beheading people in broad day light.

Again is this guy living in Detroit or Chicago?

Cultural differences.

Again I’m convinced this fucker lived in Detroit. And yes he’s quite right they didn’t do slavery in the U.K unless you count the slave trade which they started, the complete enslavement of over 3/4s of the Irish, and Serfdom.

Yes Bush is an idiot, but Obama a hero? What in the fuck kind of news are you watching over there?

He definitely lives in Detroit. The way education systems are ranked globally is decided on a single test, which American students don’t even study for.
Furthermore most countries use their best students in these tests. So no, people in the U.S are on average not less educated than Brits.

Hmm maybe because the U.K is in close proximity to many other countries, and is part of the EU, and it is way cheaper to travel there.

Um, how?

Yeah so do people here.

Ive had to educate many brits on their own history.

Yes so can ours, we have the Enquirer.

My family members who traveled in Europe did say all the buildings looked like plastic when they got back to America.

False, the U.K obesity rate is actually just as high as Americas, but of course both nations use a flawed way of measuring this.

Yeah most senior citizens get free shit too.

Yeah, America has better healthcare than the U.K its just far more expensive here. You don’t have people from other countries paying out of pocket for treatment in the U.K do you?

#7966

@thedivineinfidel @sirwarriant

I always wondered where is the line when the general practitioner doesn’t sign off a person being fit for a gun license.

Good to know that losing an arm and a leg in a war still allows one to keep the license.

#7967

Ohh I read it I just didn’t have time to write a proper response . Which I still don’t . But rest assured I will reply .

Yes he is very anti gun , I got that off his facebook which is full of anti gun crap .

I will say some of them ain’t true .

Your other points I’m not in a position to go through individually at the moment , I will later

#7968

Huh, I’d see plenty of people open carrying rifles throughout my whole childhood during hunting season, but that was mostly because I lived in a rural area and large part of our municipality were woods and fields.


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#7969

Well I’d say you have a better healthcare only if everyone can rely that they will get the best healthcare if they need it.

That is not the case in US though.

It is like saying that Russia has the best healthcare because they have a handful of top notch clinics for millionaires in Moscow, where people come to pay out of pocket.

If I get a serious injury/illness I’ll have enough on my hands and not worrying about being bankrupted by it too is something I prefer over the option of living in a country where there are options I may never be able to afford.

#7970

@thedivineinfidel

What most Slovaks/Hungarians/Romanians/Bulgarians (aka Romanies) that come to UK come from.

#7971

Well most middle class jobs do provide some sort of health care benefits. My Mother as a teacher has quite a few, and I’m lucky that my father is wealthy so i get good health care, most middle class citizens are able to afford a visit to the doctor, or can afford insurance.

The issue is now a days, is too many Americans are not going to collage, and willing to settle for jobs like McDonalds, then they complain the job does not have enough benefits, and pays too low.

Most hospitals and doctors officers, in the U.S are top notch, it’s not hardly just a few.

They really have no way of making you pay it, and they don’t come after you too aggressively over it. And we don’t have the issue places like the U.K does. People waiting in line for months for simply surgery.

#7972

Yeah most of my state is rural as well, only a tiny portion is developed. But in recent years the State has turned significantly left wing which = anti gun in the U.S. So there may have been a time when open carry was socially acceptable. Ive been in around 8 U.S states mainly in the west and ive never seen open carry there. The one time i did see it was when a guy had just purchased a gun from a pawn shop and was taking his rifle to his car. I’m not even sure that counts as open carry.

So that guy is full of shit, unless he lives in a place like Detroit. People are not just wandering the streets with guns here.

#7973

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPsn17_a8-g Some bitch is suing the man who saved her life because she says he raped her by grabbing her and dragging her out of the water while she was unconscious.

#7974

i see people with sidearms, but rarely rifles.

#7975

Well here you can open carry only for hunting purposes, and you can’t hunt with sidearms. So pistols - for self defense, not for hunting - are always CCed. When you are walking towards hunting area, the gun must be “in a way not allowing immediate use”, so on my walks from home to school I’d usually see a couple of guys carrying with open bolt/barrel (at the area where I was mostly with double barrel shotguns - the road was by the river and they used to shoot ducks there, but on the road to my grandma which was about 30 minutes through woods also with scoped rifles).

#7976

in the town i live in you get some serious social backlash from open carrying anything, hippies and all.

#7977

That’s his point . In the UK irrelevent of your income , even if you have zero income . Healthcare is free and will be provided .

Ok it may not be the best in the world . But it’s certainly not shit . And also here most middle class jobs provide private healthcare package .

#7978

College and university are a waste of time . They are not needed to be well off . I know loads of people who went to university and earn less than a 5th of what I do when I left school at 15 .

The issue is people are lazy

#7979

jesus christ .

that one in the UK with the car just stopping is outrageous . thats on a 70mph limit road and silly cunt just stops

but fuck me can anyone in poland drive :slight_smile:

#7980

It’s technically provided here too its just not free. They can’t refuse you treatment.

Judging by who’s standards? The fact that people go to other countries for treatment is usually an indication of a poor health care system.

Here it’s not cheap, but you certainly get what you pay for.

Well, we have a rapidly shrinking middle class, thats the issue here.

Most high paying jobs require some form of collage education, i would say you are the exception and not the norm.

Well what careers did they pick? If they’re making poor money doing what they went to school for, they either picked a low paying career, or haven’t gotten the job that they went to school for.

Yes people are lazy. The high school drop out rate in the U.S is climbing higher and higher. It’s almost as if graduating high school is seen as a rare achievement now a days.

Anyway this might be due to where i go to school at.

#7981

so you have to pay end of . here we work off the basis everyone is by right entitled to health . you shouldnt have to pay for that .

as i say our issue is we have turned into a international health service . therefore our hospitals are over crowded by majority non British citizens . hence the massive waiting times . but i cant fault the actual treatment from my own personal experiences . admittedly if i needed an operation i would go private as ive done in the past .

[quote=“SirWarriant, post:7980, topic:21032”]
Judging by who’s standards? The fact that people go to other countries for treatment is usually an indication of a poor health care system.

Here it’s not cheap, but you certainly get what you pay for.
[/quote] from my own experience . ive never had an issue with the NHS apart from waiting times . ive used private and public . in terms of treatment , there wasnt much difference . where you see the difference is in the little things such as waiting times (none of any real length in private ) , the beds are a fuck ton better , food is better , and subtle things like that .

[quote=“SirWarriant, post:7980, topic:21032”]
Most high paying jobs require some form of collage education, i would say you are the exception and not the norm.
[/quote] no they dont , a common misperception . people always miss the "or relevant experience " part .
people have this stupid idea that you go to college/uni , come out and get 100k a year job within 2 weeks .

no way . in reality they come out . cant find a job , end up working in costa for 6 months . every employer gives them the same "you dont have any experience , im sorry we are not interested " then they go and work for free for another year .

they go back to an employer , and get offered a job around the pay range of £25k a year then spend the next 10 years working their way up to about 60k and above .

where as someone leaving school at 15/16 (thats when high school ends for us ) goes out gets a pretty low grade job in a company earning about £14k a year . but they’re learning and thats not bad for a 16 year old anyway . by 18 they are on about 20k a year and have 2 years experience . by the time they hit 20 they have 4 years experience in their chosen field .

they can then go to their employer and say "ok i want to do this , but i dont have uni qualifications , but i do have 4 years experience in a similar area . "

that individual with 4 years experience is a FAR FAR FAR better option to take on than some knob head thats wasted 6 years of their life at higher education . learning about some bollocks that has no relevance to the job in question .

so now the person who left school "early " can go into a higher tied job at 20 and have no debts and be 2 years ahead of a uni student (normally finish uni by about 22 ) and get picked for more promotions because they have more experience .

higher education is the biggest con being sold to kids these days . dont fucking bother get a job and learn the field and you will find so much more success than people that pick the natural , lazy option of staying with school . because all them nights out sound so much more appealing than work .

[quote=“SirWarriant, post:7980, topic:21032”]
Well what careers did they pick? If they’re making poor money doing what they went to school for, they either picked a low paying career, or haven’t gotten the job that they went to school for.
[/quote] i have 2 friends in the finance sector . they earn about 40k a year (29 years old ) one of my close friends works for the ministry of justice . earns about 50k ish also my age . and a few other of my friends just do regular office jobs for insurance companies etc they earn less than 40k . but they have been working for a fews now .

the average wage for someone who has just left uni here is 24k a year .

[quote=“SirWarriant, post:7980, topic:21032”]
haven’t gotten the job that they went to school for.
[/quote] this is the problem . most people go to university here with no fucking idea of what they want to do .

when someone goes . "i want to become a lawyer so im going to uni to study law " i can understand it . but when i hear people (the vast majority ) going "no idea what i want to do , just going to go to uni and do a maths course "

i just think "you fucking idiot ".

[quote=“SirWarriant, post:7980, topic:21032”]
Yes people are lazy. The high school drop out rate in the U.S is climbing higher and higher. It’s almost as if graduating high school is seen as a rare achievement now a days.
[/quote] that doesnt make people lazy . i think the lazy option is to carry on with school these days . in the UK a good 60% of people go to uni .

so when someone says "i went to university " well fucking done so did the other 2000 applicants . what do you offer they dont ?

#7982

Polish drivers are fucking ridiculous. They even have these special signs along main roads where there is written the number of people who were seriously injured and who died while on the given part of the road.

There are main roads that look like almost like highway where you can drive 110 KPH and then there is suddenly sign “50” and a zebra for people to cross the road.

When we drove to Auschwitz with my GF I was literally the only fucking one who slowed to 50. I mean I don’t mind to drive 130 on 110, but if there is a crossing or zebra, you do need to fucking slow down to what the limit is. NOBODY else even put a foot from gas pedal. I was just thinking it is inevitable to someone to crash into our back.

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/lobeug/sicko-ring-finger

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#7983

take that gypsy bastards :smile: