question for those of you in the UK.

[DrWatson]

Also, to be stereotypically English, whenever you have to do something (not even considered rude or inconvenient) that may possibly get in the way of somebody else, add 'sorry' on the end. eg. 'can i just use this parking space as i have an incredibly bad back and cannot really travel further than this to get where i want to go without being in extreme agony - terribly sorry to bother you...'

[Feel_Good_inc.]

Yes, that's an english thing. To say sorry even when it's not your fault. "Oh you appear to have walked into me, sorry."
"Oh I'm sorry, you appear to have hit me with your car."

We're a funny lot.

[Buttons.]

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Originally Posted by Feel_Good_inc.

Yes, that's an english thing. To say sorry even when it's not your fault. "Oh you appear to have walked into me, sorry."
"Oh I'm sorry, you appear to have hit me with your car."

We're a funny lot.

This.

Also I may have gone mad, but don't American's hold their knife and fork in the opposite hands to us? As in we hold the fork in the left knife in the right, but in the USA it's the opposite way round?

[Feel_Good_inc.]

We love a queue. and a good moan.
Mostly about how long the queue is, how slow it's moving, and about all these bloody foreigners, coming over here, with no idea of what a decent bloody queue looks like ^_^

[Bellatrix]

^ And we talk about the weather at bus stops with strangers.

[Bellatrix]

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Originally Posted by Dreaming.

Ditto, Jodie. I so hope that we've talked once without realising it :)

That would be awesome. I didn't know you lived in london :)

[rockaroni]

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Originally Posted by You! Me! Dancing!

Also if you are down south, don't talk to people on public transport, people find it weird, but if you're in northern England, it's considered rude not to.

Really? I'm kind of as far south as you can get without getting wet (short of the isle of wight) and I get chatting to people on the bus all the time.

[sherlock holmes]

I think it's hilarious how Americans think we talk and behave. And that we must ALL know the Queen personally because our country is small.

I'm trying to think of as much slang as possible but my mind has gone blank apart from "S'up Bruv?" "That guy is hench!"

Oh if you want to know what a chav is: Not safe for work-language

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGgkUOsITMA"]Misfits- Kelly[/ame]

[Feel_Good_inc.]

We also have our own sense of humour, Americans have trouble getting it.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWP04p7Rig[/ame]

[Kitkat :)]

If you ever go into London, do not make eye contact with people. If you do make eye contact, do not make it extended.

A lot of people get riled up and angry over people looking at them.

Incidentally this causes a lot of people to just randomly stab or attack others.

I'm not being stereotypical, I'm a teenager living in South London and have seen it happen.

[Jefferson.Meriwether]

^^ pmsl I love it


ETA T'was replying to feel good inc; kitkat got her post in before me :)

[Bellatrix]

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Originally Posted by Kitkat :)

If you ever go into London, do not make eye contact with people. If you do make eye contact, do not make it extended.

A lot of people get riled up and angry over people looking at them.

Incidentally this causes a lot of people to just randomly stab or attack others.

I'm not being stereotypical, I'm a teenager living in South London and have seen it happen.

Never happened to me or anyone I know. I live in SE1. I talk to people often.

It's the gangs that are responsible for the violence, and aside from people getting caught in crossfire, they attack each other only.

[All I know is falling.]

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Originally Posted by Buttons.

This.

Also I may have gone mad, but don't American's hold their knife and fork in the opposite hands to us? As in we hold the fork in the left knife in the right, but in the USA it's the opposite way round?

Yeah, most people over here hold fork in right and knife in left.
I do not. I hold it with fork in left and knife in right (My grandma is from England, she taught me ;)

[DestroyMe]

I get British humor
though I have some trouble with it when I watch Monty Python :/
and I'm well aware that not all of you know the Queen :p
and for the person that asked if the US uses knife and fork opposite

uh....I'm left handed so my fork goes in my left hand if I'm eating
though I can't very well use my right hand for much of anything.
so when cutting food I hold the fork with my right.

but yeah..I guess people here do that opposite..I've never really paid attention
though I've been told by several family members that I hold my silverware "wrong"
but that's cause of my injury...I never really learned how to use eating utensils "properly" because my moter {spelled wrong I'm sure} skills are sh*t. and couldn't grasp a knife and fork the right way well enough to use it.
I've been told I eat with a fork and cut my food like a kid -eyeroll-

[Feel_Good_inc.]

you were one letter off, it's Mother. with an H in the middle.
Close though, real close.

[Dreaming.]

... I can't work out if you're joking or not, Adam.

[14MillionMiles]

Oh, spelling!!

English and American spellings are different; english grammar/spelling freaks (like myself) get angry if you suggest that the English way is the wrong way.

Rant over. Sorry!

[DrWatson]

British humour is the best type. Discuss:) Plus - Monty Python - what's not to love? :D

[Dreaming.]

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Originally Posted by 14MillionMiles

Oh, spelling!!

English and American spellings are different; english grammar/spelling freaks (like myself) get angry if you suggest that the English way is the wrong way.

And it's aluminium not aluminum, and pat-ronised, not pate-ronised. Haha.
tbf., I don't think anybody really cares enough to bother about it. It's just that there is a difference.

[14MillionMiles]

To quote the ever-fabulous Biffy Clyro

'I pronounce it aluminium, 'cause there's an I next to the U and M'

GrammAr, not grammer, coloUr not color

pAtronised means something TOTALLY different!