American-British Q&A

[Scrubiii]

Oh, another question for Brits:
Are MacDonalds over there really more upscale eating establishments than they are here, or are they the same depressing shitholes full of obese poor people?

Also, is the Graham Norton show really popular? Cause I fucking love that guy.

And do you all find Gordon Ramsay as obnoxious as we do here? Or is he some kind of revered chef and we just get to see his stupid American-tailored persona?

Yeah, I watch a lot of BBC America.

Yes McDonalds is shit.
Yes the Graham Norton show is popular.
Yes everyone thinks Gordon Ramsey's a dick. The reason he went to the US is because we hated him out of Britain.

 

[beema]

Yes McDonalds is shit.
Yes the Graham Norton show is popular.
Yes everyone thinks Gordon Ramsey's a dick. The reason he went to the US is because we hated him out of Britain.

Hmm, we've got some obnoxious celebrities I'd LOVE to deport to your country.

 

[megajon]

Is it true americans think the queen governs england?

 

[beema]

Is it true americans think the queen governs england?

possibly those of us that are ignorant/uneducated in every other aspect of life (like if you're from Iowa ), but I think most people know that she doesn't actually do anything.

 

[Wadders]

Yes McDonalds is shit.
Yes the Graham Norton show is popular.
Yes everyone thinks Gordon Ramsey's a dick. The reason he went to the US is because we hated him out of Britain.

Hmm, we've got some obnoxious celebrities I'd LOVE to deport to your country.

No thanks, we've got enough useless famous idiots as it is

 

[orangeban]

A lot of Europe seem to care about the British royal family (apparently in Germany the wedding between Prince Willaim and Kate Middleton was announced and cheered) but does America care?

 

[beema]

No thanks, we've got enough useless famous idiots as it is

Well, we already gave you Madonna. I suppose that's enough punishment.

 

[DrOswald]

I'm an English-born American-living poster and I have a question for every American girl ever.

Why do you always have to ask me to "Do something British"? What do you expect me to do, oppress the poor? Or when they ask me to say [insert word here]. Tis annoying.

Well, I am not a girl, but my wife is so I know the answer. Many American women find the British sexy. I would guess that easily 3/4 of the girls who ask you to do something British are asking this because they find it incredibly sexy. The same goes for American men and British women. Very few things are as sexy as a woman with a British accent. I know a woman who has lived in the U.S.A. for 16 years, but she still maintains a heavy British accent because men find it attractive.

The remaining 1/4 most likely have never met someone from outside the U.S.A. and are just interested in your "exotic" culture (in their own ignorant way.)

I have a couple questions for the British:

1. What do the British think of the Australians?

2. Do you have any foreign accents that are considered sexy?

3. Is it alright to call the British brits? or is that offensive?

4. What do you call people from the U.S.A.? I feel like a pompous ass every time I call myself an American. After all, we are only a small part of the Americas.

5. Do people in your corner of the world have a good racial slur for white people? We got cracker over here, but it doesn't really come off as offensive, at least where I live. You don't need to actually tell me what it is, I am just wondering if it exists.

 

[thelonewolf266]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

Don't listen to his slanderous lies Haggis is amazing much better than spotted dick also I really only eat spotted dick with custard or ice cream or something like that makes it a lot better.

I never said Haggis was like Spotted Dick I said it was like Black Pudding. I also said in a later post that Spotted Dick is usually eaten with custard.

Yeah sorry I did mean to say Black pudding it was a mistype on my part.

 

[Jonabob87]

To Americans:

Why do American football players wear arseloads of armour, whereas Rugby players run around in shorts and a shirt?

American Football's rules for tackling are different. Usually rugby players just tackle the legs or waist, but in American Football you can pretty much tackle anywhere or how as long you dont kick, punch, or spear them as far as I'm aware. This can lead to some pretty brutal hits, often more so than Rugby.

Having said that, Rugby is obviously the better sport, and Rugby players are obviously hard as nails

Thanks that actually makes a lot of sense, I always did wonder.

 

[megajon]

Well, I am not a girl, but my wife is so I know the answer. Many American women find the British sexy. I would guess that easily 3/4 of the girls who ask you to do something British are asking this because they find it incredibly sexy. The same goes for American men and British women. Very few things are as sexy as a woman with a British accent. I know a woman who has lived in the U.S.A. for 16 years, but she still maintains a heavy British accent because men find it attractive.

The remaining 1/4 most likely have never met someone from outside the U.S.A. and are just interested in your "exotic" culture (in their own ignorant way.)

I have a couple questions for the British:

1. What do the British think of the Australians?

2. Do you have any foreign accents that are considered sexy?

3. Is it alright to call the British brits? or is that offensive?

4. What do you call people from the U.S.A.? I feel like a pompous ass every time I call myself an American. After all, we are only a small part of the Americas.

5. Do people in your corner of the world have a good racial slur for white people? We got cracker over here, but it doesn't really come off as offensive, at least where I live. You don't need to actually tell me what it is, I am just wondering if it exists.

1. most my friends and me freaking love Australians yes we did send our criminals over there but we do like it.

2. i would say france's accent and spainish accent girls go wild for the spanish one it explains why we english was always at war with both of them because they took our women.

3. We really don't care about being called brits but its better to address us as we are either scottish, english , or welsh because there the ones in britain and its better sounds like you actually know the difference between each.

4. we call you americans its that simple or we call you pompus assholes or stupid.

5. We don't have racial slurs for white people me being black i should know more so but not really since we are more integrated then in america like you will find black and whites quite mixed in most places and alot inter mixing.

 

[BlackStar42]

I'm an English-born American-living poster and I have a question for every American girl ever.

Why do you always have to ask me to "Do something British"? What do you expect me to do, oppress the poor? Or when they ask me to say [insert word here]. Tis annoying.

Well, I am not a girl, but my wife is so I know the answer. Many American women find the British sexy. I would guess that easily 3/4 of the girls who ask you to do something British are asking this because they find it incredibly sexy. The same goes for American men and British women. Very few things are as sexy as a woman with a British accent. I know a woman who has lived in the U.S.A. for 16 years, but she still maintains a heavy British accent because men find it attractive.

The remaining 1/4 most likely have never met someone from outside the U.S.A. and are just interested in your "exotic" culture (in their own ignorant way.)

I have a couple questions for the British:

1. What do the British think of the Australians?

2. Do you have any foreign accents that are considered sexy?

3. Is it alright to call the British brits? or is that offensive?

4. What do you call people from the U.S.A.? I feel like a pompous ass every time I call myself an American. After all, we are only a small part of the Americas.

5. Do people in your corner of the world have a good racial slur for white people? We got cracker over here, but it doesn't really come off as offensive, at least where I live. You don't need to actually tell me what it is, I am just wondering if it exists.

1) Well, having never been to Australia, the stereotype is that we're friendly rivals, minus the friendly when it comes to the Ashes.

2) Depends on the person. For me, French, Irish and Karen Gillan's off Dr. Who.

3) As long as we can call you lot Yanks, we'll let it slide

4)Americans. Or Yanks if you want to use the slang term.

5) Hmmm... not that I can think of off the top of my head.

Quick question: why is the drinking age 21 in the US, but 18 pretty much everywhere else? I've never understood that.

 

[orangeban]

I'm an English-born American-living poster and I have a question for every American girl ever.

Why do you always have to ask me to "Do something British"? What do you expect me to do, oppress the poor? Or when they ask me to say [insert word here]. Tis annoying.

Well, I am not a girl, but my wife is so I know the answer. Many American women find the British sexy. I would guess that easily 3/4 of the girls who ask you to do something British are asking this because they find it incredibly sexy. The same goes for American men and British women. Very few things are as sexy as a woman with a British accent. I know a woman who has lived in the U.S.A. for 16 years, but she still maintains a heavy British accent because men find it attractive.

The remaining 1/4 most likely have never met someone from outside the U.S.A. and are just interested in your "exotic" culture (in their own ignorant way.)

I have a couple questions for the British:

1. What do the British think of the Australians?

2. Do you have any foreign accents that are considered sexy?

3. Is it alright to call the British brits? or is that offensive?

4. What do you call people from the U.S.A.? I feel like a pompous ass every time I call myself an American. After all, we are only a small part of the Americas.

5. Do people in your corner of the world have a good racial slur for white people? We got cracker over here, but it doesn't really come off as offensive, at least where I live. You don't need to actually tell me what it is, I am just wondering if it exists.

1) Well, Australians have awesome accents and are generally well liked in a kind of slightly weird drunken friend sorta way.
2) Now, this might just be me but Russian/Eastern European accents seem to be considered sexy or just damn cool and as I've said Austrilian accents are considered kickass.
3) You may meet someone who demands to be called, say, Scots or Scottish rather than British but Brits isn't offensive.
4) Well, we say American because there isn't much else to call you.
5) No, not that I've heard. Also, and I may be wrong/not know about other areas of Britian but it seems that general racial hatred here is less black and white and more British and Foreigners. We have plenty of slurs for people from different countries.

 

[JDKJ]

Because your average white-bread American don't know too much of shit beyond their own culture. They aren't exactly "worldly." If they do travel, they stay at Club Med or Breezes or some similarly sanitized generic vacation spot for overweight, pasty-skinned Mid-Westerners, sit by the pool all day drinking piss-water American beer (e.g., Budweiser), while slowly turning lobster red.

That was unusually petty for a Brit, you're super sour about us Americans, huh?

For four long years, I had to work at a Club Med every summer to help pay for my college tuition, schlepping Budweisers across the pool deck to guests. It's an experience from which I've never fully recovered and am still bitter. Mea culpa, mea culpa.

 

[James Kane]

This pretty much. Having lived in both, it's a night and day difference imho. The people act different, they talk different, they value different things. For instance, the gun control thing, that's a southern thing. Most people in the north would rather them gone. Especially between north and south, and even east and west. Californians are much different than Virginians culturally.
Also, you consider Virginia the "deep" south? Where the hell is the regular southern middle then lol? I take it you're from New England/Great Lakes region since your profile just says you're American.

Hell, yeah, Virginia's the Deep South. Maybe not geographically, but certainly culturally and politically. Are you forgetting that it was the seat of the Confederacy? The home of General Lee? And one of the last states in the country to stop resisting the desegregation of its public schools? It's as "South" as the South can get.

Actually many of us Snowbirds (Northerners who move to the South) have changed the cultural and political landscape of VA quite a bit, especially in the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk/VA Beach). It's gotten a lot less "redneck-y" here.

With all of this Tea Talk I'm wondering why I have yet to see anyone mention that Americans do actually drink a lot of tea but mostly drink it cold. In the Northeast we called it Iced Tea but in the South it's usually just referred to as Tea and Sweet Tea. If you ask for some "tea" in a restaurant in Tennessee you will get it cold and without sugar/sweetener.

 

[JDKJ]

"Pool" is what the Brits call "billiards."

Actually, Pool and Billiards are two distinct (but similar) games. Also, I'm fully American and I call it Pool way more often than Billiards. Such as a "Pool Hall." In fact I don't think I've heard anyone I know refer to it as billiards.

That was a poorly constructed sentence. Forgive the ambiguity. It was meant to read as the Brits call it "billiards" and the Yanks call it "pool."

 

[DrOswald]

Quick question: why is the drinking age 21 in the US, but 18 pretty much everywhere else? I've never understood that.

Here is a link to an article by the American Medical Association on the issue.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/public-health/promoting-healthy-lifestyles/alcohol-other-drug-abuse/facts-about-youth-alcohol/minimum-legal-drinking-age.page

And a quote from said article:

Drinking and driving among youth may not be as great a problem in Europe as in the U.S. Compared to their American counterparts, European youth must be older to obtain their drivers' licenses, are less likely to have a car, and are more inclined to use public transportation (Wagenaar, 1993).

I don't know how accurate the information is, but the article is our stated reason for the 21 year old limit.

I personally believe it is because we look down on alcohol a lot more. I think it is because our culture has a history of idiotic and abusive drinkers, dating back to our expansion and pre prohibition era.

 

[JDKJ]

This pretty much. Having lived in both, it's a night and day difference imho. The people act different, they talk different, they value different things. For instance, the gun control thing, that's a southern thing. Most people in the north would rather them gone. Especially between north and south, and even east and west. Californians are much different than Virginians culturally.
Also, you consider Virginia the "deep" south? Where the hell is the regular southern middle then lol? I take it you're from New England/Great Lakes region since your profile just says you're American.

Hell, yeah, Virginia's the Deep South. Maybe not geographically, but certainly culturally and politically. Are you forgetting that it was the seat of the Confederacy? The home of General Lee? And one of the last states in the country to stop resisting the desegregation of its public schools? It's as "South" as the South can get.

Actually many of us Snowbirds (Northerners who move to the South) have changed the cultural and political landscape of VA quite a bit, especially in the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk/VA Beach). It's gotten a lot less "redneck-y" here.

With all of this Tea Talk I'm wondering why I have yet to see anyone mention that Americans do actually drink a lot of tea but mostly drink it cold. In the Northeast we called it Iced Tea but in the South it's usually just referred to as Tea and Sweet Tea. If you ask for some "tea" in a restaurant in Tennessee you will get it cold and without sugar/sweetener.

I remember when Virginia Beach was a popular spring break destination for Black college students from the many nearby black colleges until, one year, the Virginia Beach Police got tried of seeing all those black faces and got to whuppin' some black college ass indiscriminately and without mercy. Needless to say, Virginia Beach hasn't since been the popular destination it once was.

 

[JDKJ]

double-post

 

[thylasos]

"Pool" is what the Brits call "billiards."

Actually, Pool and Billiards are two distinct (but similar) games. Also, I'm fully American and I call it Pool way more often than Billiards. Such as a "Pool Hall." In fact I don't think I've heard anyone I know refer to it as billiards.

That was a poorly constructed sentence. Forgive the ambiguity. It was meant to read as the Brits call it "billiards" and the Yanks call it "pool."

To be fair, I've never heard of anyone actually playing billiards outside of one comedy sketch in the late 80s. We just play (English) Pool, but American Pool's available in some places, and snooker's a fairly big thing, but played far less often than pool, simply for the reason of it being more complex, requiring more skill and keeping track of the score.