The differences between British and Americans

Milly · Post by **Milly** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:38 pm

YouTube - The difference between the English and Americans

Aside from the obvious accent and word meanings, what differences do you find between the British and Americans?

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:49 pm

Alot of the Food I find is so different and sometimes havent a clue what a certain dish is they are talking about...also was surprised to learn that many have never eaten lamb.....mind you seeing a young lambs face in my mind as I typed that it don't seem such a bad idea.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:52 pm

The British have always had the abilty to send themselves up and mock their own culture.

Americans take an unbiased comment as a personal slight against them or their country. Not all American FG members do.. Just a few

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:54 pm

I find our American friends more upfront and straight talking. I find them very kind hearted and friendly. I think they are more patriotic and love their country.

I love em but cant eat a whole one:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Milly · Post by **Milly** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:59 pm

Having lived in America, I'd say our humour is very different for sure....

Americans are also much more open with their affections, I think we Brits are much more closed with our feelings....

I also found Americans to be so much more welcoming to strangers..... We tend to be wary of newcomers but I found they welcomed with open arms.....

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:03 pm

I have had to explain many words I use to many from America on here and see some use those words now lol but some words I use even the English have asked me what they mean so guess that dont mean nofing

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:07 pm

[QUOTE=Milly;1061174]

We tend to be wary of newcomers QUOTE]

I think the word you mean is... Frigid :yh_rotfl

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:10 pm

oscar;1061180 wrote: [QUOTE=Milly;1061174]

We tend to be wary of newcomers QUOTE]

I think the word you mean is... Frigid :yh_rotfl

And sticking with the F words ... :wah:

The Brits are always slightly shocked when the yanks call bum-bags ....... fanny bags! :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:35 pm

Tea. We like our tea in pitchers or big glasses with ice. Hot tea is disgusting.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:39 pm

hoppy;1061442 wrote: Tea. We like our tea in pitchers or big glasses with ice. Hot tea is disgusting.

Oh a lovely cup of tea with milk and two sugars.

The American's do home-made lemonade. I had that in New York. Wonderfull. :-6

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:10 pm

I lost a dear friend here in the FG due to the fact that they thought we were so different. That's so sad to me

We're not so different...just have different issues and different values...

Isn't it ok to be different

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:17 pm

yes Kathy, its okay.....:-4

I love learning about other cultures and the people that I have met from other the UK are absolutely wonderful people!! Yes, Dubsy, I'm talking about you too!!!

Its no secret...I love me some Dubs, he is so patient with this "merican" and has taught me so much....I'm waiting for him to complain about the comment about tea...its NOT supposed to be iced!!

Don't get me started on how much I love the Irish folks either please.

I love the differences personally....:-4

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:21 pm

WonderWendy3;1061464 wrote: yes Kathy, its okay.....:-4

I love learning about other cultures and the people that I have met from other the UK are absolutely wonderful people!! Yes, Dubsy, I'm talking about you too!!!

Its no secret...I love me some Dubs, he is so patient with this "merican" and has taught me so much....I'm waiting for him to complain about the comment about tea...its NOT supposed to be iced!!

Don't get me started on how much I love the Irish folks either please.

I love the differences personally....:-4

I miss you Wendy:-4:-4:-4;) and I love Dubsy too:-4:-4:-4;)

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:22 pm

WonderWendy3;1061464 wrote: yes Kathy, its okay.....:-4

I love learning about other cultures and the people that I have met from other the UK are absolutely wonderful people!! Yes, Dubsy, I'm talking about you too!!!

Its no secret...I love me some Dubs, he is so patient with this "merican" and has taught me so much....I'm waiting for him to complain about the comment about tea...its NOT supposed to be iced!!

Don't get me started on how much I love the Irish folks either please.

I love the differences personally....:-4

That's really nice to hear.. Thankyou. Have you tried real Turkish tea?? Lovely :-4

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:39 pm

The differences are what is fun to find out, different cultures in many ways, but very similar in other. But having loads of friends here from all sides, two step-sisters who are British, I think this is a great experience. And I can jump up and down for joy when MU wins, because it is my brother-in-laws home team.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:41 pm

chonsigirl;1061480 wrote: The differences are what is fun to find out, different cultures in many ways, but very similar in other. But having loads of friends here from all sides, two step-sisters who are British, I think this is a great experience. And I can jump up and down for joy when MU wins, because it is my brother-in-laws home team.

So he's the fan?? :yh_rotfl

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:43 pm

She's a smart sister like me, when the games go on, his wallet goes to the mall with her to go shopping.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:46 pm

chonsigirl;1061491 wrote: She's a smart sister like me, when the games go on, his wallet goes to the mall with her to go shopping.

Smart ladie's indeed. My hubby's best pal is a fanatic of Manchester United. I just bought him for christmas, a beautiful framed pic of the home ground in floodlight. I hated spending money on MU but i like to give gifts that please.

wildhorses · Post by **wildhorses** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:14 pm

oscar;1061170 wrote: The British have always had the abilty to send themselves up and mock their own culture.

Americans take an unbiased comment as a personal slight against them or their country. Not all American FG members do.. Just a few

Americans are extremely patriotic. They dont see their culture or government as separate entities from themselves. "We the People" are America and America is us. So if there is a negative comment about the government or culture we will jump to protect "We the People". We think of our fellow Americans as brothers and sisters. We do have our divisions...but if threatened we all know we would put it aside and pull together and stick together. I dont know how this started but I think it is the only country where the citizens think of themselves as being the country as opposed to inhabiting the country.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:25 pm

JAB;1061528 wrote: Very well put!

I loved my trips to America. I am really really hoping to have the funds soon to go to Georgia and visit 'Savannah'.

I found every American i met extremely friendly. I love the Deep South accent better than the New York twang.

I just wish British were as patriotic as America.

Funny, Mr Oscar and i had a conversation very recently about erecting a Union Jack in our garden as You do with your flag, but as he said quite rightly, we'd just get stoned by the Muslims.

:)

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:28 pm

hoppy;1061442 wrote: Tea. We like our tea in pitchers or big glasses with ice. Hot tea is disgusting.

Savages!..............

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:31 pm

JAB;1061488 wrote: The Brits play football with a round ball. :rolleyes: :p

No JAB! We play FOOTball, with our FEET!....:yh_rotfl

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:33 pm

Brits and Americans have a few things in common, including:

They don't have kangaroos hopping in their streets

They think Fosters is real Aussie beer - (it isn't)

They both have funny accents

They are both hemispherically upside down and seasonally challenged.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:43 pm

AussiePam;1061563 wrote: Brits and Americans have a few things in common, including:

They don't have kangaroos hopping in their streets

They think Fosters is real Aussie beer - (it isn't)

They both have funny accents

They are both hemispherically upside down and seasonally challenged.

I beg to differ Pam.

Many years ago, my eldest brother went home from a night out with his pals and told his wife that there was a Kangaroo hopping up the street. He was drunk of course. The next day, it was on tv and in the papers. The Roo had escaped from a nearby wildlife park.

In this country, our weather has got milder over the years and i know here in South Gloucestershire, we have wallaby's living wild where they have escaped and bred over the years. We also have colonie's of Paraqueets and American Harris Hawks.

We have regular sightings from the public of puma's and big cats, yet to be proved admitidly.

Foster's is no comparison to a pint of British ale.

We don't have a funny accent. We talk properly.

But, yes, we are all upside down :wah:

wildhorses · Post by **wildhorses** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:48 pm

AussiePam;1061563 wrote: Brits and Americans have a few things in common, including:

They don't have kangaroos hopping in their streets

They think Fosters is real Aussie beer - (it isn't)

They both have funny accents

They are both hemispherically upside down and seasonally challenged.

WHAT???? Foster's is not real Aussie beer?

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:49 pm

wildhorses;1061575 wrote: WHAT???? Foster's is not real Aussie beer?

No.. It's just greenhouse gas :yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:51 pm

AussiePam;1061563 wrote: Brits and Americans have a few things in common, including:

They don't have kangaroos hopping in their streets

They think Fosters is real Aussie beer - (it isn't)

They both have funny accents

They are both hemispherically upside down and seasonally challenged.

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http://www.nonnativespecies.org/01_Fact ... 0000189557

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dubs · Post by **dubs** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:57 pm

Pam it's generally known in the UK, that Fosters beer is like sex in a canoe.....:wah:

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:05 pm

dubs;1061583 wrote: Pam it's generally known in the UK, that Fosters beer is like sex in a canoe.....:wah:

Why? Because you always get wet?

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:08 pm

oscar;1061594 wrote: Why? Because you always get wet?

No...! Cos it's ********** close to water!.............:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:33 pm

dubs;1061597 wrote: No...! Cos it's ********** close to water!.............:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:55 pm

Don't knock sex in a canoe* till you've tried it, Dubs!!! As fer Fosters, it's something Aussies export possibly and allegedly because nobody actually in Oz will touch it.

After I saw gum trees (eucalypts) growing all over Spain and Portugal, I'll believe anything, Oscar!!

*In a kayak of course is a different matter, er so I'm told..

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:59 pm

AussiePam;1061627 wrote: Don't knock sex in a canoe* till you've tried it, Dubs!!! As fer Fosters, it's something Aussies export possibly and of course allegedly because nobody actually in Oz will touch it.

After I saw gum trees (eucalypts) growing all over Spain and Portugal, I'll believe anything, Oscar!!

*In a kayak of course is a different matter, er so I'm told..

I tell you Pam, Britain's becoming weird. Wallaby's bouncing up the road, giant cats prowling the countryside, large hawks breeding in the wild, it's getting scarey.

What exactly is the difference between a kayak and a canoe? I'm not a fan of water sports so i don't know.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:02 pm

A canoe is sort of open so if you capsize it you get quite wet, Oscar. You get into a kayak and sort of fill its hole, so to speak, so if you capsize you just drown without getting all that wet. Yes, I think that sums it up.

As fer Britain getting weirder, is this Mr Blair/Brown's fault(s), do you think? Just too sexy for the ecological balance.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:37 pm

AussiePam;1061631 wrote: A canoe is sort of open so if you capsize it you get quite wet, Oscar. You get into a kayak and sort of fill it's hole, so to speak, so if you capsize you just drown without getting all that wet. Yes, I think that sums it up.

As fer Britain getting weirder, is this Mr Blair/Brown's fault(s), do you think? Just too sexy for the ecological balance.

:yh_rotfl So you sort of fill it's hole do you?? :yh_rotfl

I think your Spot on there Pam. Gordon Brown is just far too sexy for us all to cope with. He's also Scottish which has upset the whole balance of life as we know it in Britain. He's in America at the moment being sexy as we speak. :yh_rotfl

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:27 am

dubs;1061550 wrote: Savages!..............

Sorry. I didn't mean to insult anyone with my tea remark. It's only my opinion. Hell, I even drink iced coffee in the summer.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:32 am

hoppy;1061756 wrote: Sorry. I didn't mean to insult anyone with my tea remark. It's only my opinion. Hell, I even drink iced coffee in the summer.

Yes, now your talking.. luvley jubbley

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:32 am

Molson Canadian and Molson Blue, sold only in Canada, pity.

beer me, eh?:yh_rotfl

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:00 am

Milly;1061157 wrote: YouTube - The difference between the English and Americans

Aside from the obvious accent and word meanings, what differences do you find between the British and Americans?

We're better looking, more intelligent, have a real sense of our own worth and feel sorry for foreigners who are well-foreign-and lack self confidence as a result. Especially americans who hide a massive inferiority complex behind an irritating bravado and over compensate other insecurities by driving bigger cars than normal and insist in their right to carry machine guns in case they get attacked by someone that wants to destroy their way of life. We're not just convinced we invented all the technology we take for granted we actually did invent most of it. Without us you would all still be living in log cabins using outside toilets. (we invented flushing toilets as well though I suspect an american invented soft toilet paper which I believe may be significant of omething I just can't think of anything funny enouh)

We're better educated, more liberal, can use words of more than one syllable and also spell them properly and our sense of humour is much more developed and sophisticated especially when it comes to taking the **** out of americans. An entertainment spoiled somewhat in that they can't tell you're doing it most of the time.

Course you do know that british and english are not the same thing and for years the scots have been secretly running the place but keep quiet about it because most english people are too thick to notice and too thick skinned to have an inferiority complex anyway.:sneaky:

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:11 am

Who farted?

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:19 am

gmc;1062089 wrote:

Course you do know that british and english are not the same thing and for years the scots have been secretly running the place but keep quiet about it because most english people are too thick to notice and too thick skinned to have an inferiority complex anyway.:sneaky:

:p:p:p:p:p thpttttt!

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:19 am

Carolly;1061169 wrote: Alot of the Food I find is so different and sometimes havent a clue what a certain dish is they are talking about...also was surprised to learn that many have never eaten lamb.....mind you seeing a young lambs face in my mind as I typed that it don't seem such a bad idea.

Alot of American's eat lamb but only for Easter. We have ham of course. What a pig has to do with Easter is anyone's guess. And Carolly of course has taught me all sorts of posh words.

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:50 am

qsducks;1062135 wrote: Alot of American's eat lamb but only for Easter. We have ham of course. What a pig has to do with Easter is anyone's guess. And Carolly of course has taught me all sorts of posh words.

I'm no critter hugger but, jeese Louise, I wouldn't eat a baby critter.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:53 am

gmc;1062089 wrote:

Course you do know that british and english are not the same thing and for years the scots have been secretly running the place but keep quiet about it because most english people are too thick to notice and too thick skinned to have an inferiority complex anyway.:sneaky:

Now look here you haggis bothering, sporran fiddling, bearded party of one.

Don't you go confusing our American friends with your celtic differences between English and British. They are only just getting over having Bush as President for 8 yrs and that's no laughing matter as well you know.

Us English people are not thick..Why do you think we let you house all those lovely American missiles instead of us??

Just watch it Braveheart or Uncle Gordon may just get re-voted in a by-election in Scotland.

Oh, I forgot, he just did. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Fyrenza · Post by **Fyrenza** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:05 pm

wildhorses;1061527 wrote: Americans are extremely patriotic. They dont see their culture or government as separate entities from themselves. "We the People" are America and America is us. So if there is a negative comment about the government or culture we will jump to protect "We the People". We think of our fellow Americans as brothers and sisters. We do have our divisions...but if threatened we all know we would put it aside and pull together and stick together. I dont know how this started but I think it is the only country where the citizens think of themselves as being the country as opposed to inhabiting the country.

EXACTLY!!!

i've lived all over the world ~ Morocco, Japan, Guam, Gibralter ~ and even started school in a french Moroccan parochial school, total immersion, like, into 1st grade. In Japan, i went to American schools, but a lot of folks were half Japanese and half American, so we had the best of BOTH worlds, and i was able to fit in because it was in '68 when we moved there, and all of the Japanese schools were teaching English to ALL of the students, so they wanted to practice on US! :yh_rotfl

Well, anyway, throughout all of that, and perhaps because my Dad was in the Navy (that's how i got to do any travelling!), i ALWAYS knew that i was American, and was proud to be one.

i also think of other Americans as my brothers and sisters, neices and nephews, in-laws and out-laws (

), and truly couldn't have said that any better than you did, WildHorses! :-4

Fyrenza · Post by **Fyrenza** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:12 pm

oscar;1062197 wrote: Now look here you haggis bothering, sporran fiddling, bearded party of one.

Don't you go confusing our American friends with your celtic differences between English and British. They are only just getting over having Bush as President for 8 yrs and that's no laughing matter as well you know.

Us English people are not thick..Why do you think we let you house all those lovely American missiles instead of us??

Just watch it Braveheart or Uncle Gordon may just get re-voted in a by-election in Scotland.

Oh, I forgot, he just did. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Hey, Oscar, i'm beginnin' to wonder...

Are you Gordon Brown's WIFE, by any chance?...

:yh_rotfl

Just kidding!