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Favourite British Quirk
- Thread starter Gowans
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Passive aggressive sighing when you're trying to will something to happen like having the waiter come to your table, instead of actually calling them over
Ha, every time my wife does that I reply with "Isn't it".
I'm sure the divorce papers will be with me shortly.
There's a handle on each side but if the door is locked the handle doesn't work.
Oh. You mean interior handles don't unlock. Ok.
I think that's fairly universal, but I'm not sure.
It's more the same prevalence of security doors on modern housing where turning the key sends bolts at the top and bottom across too. It needs a key to unlock it if a key has been used to lock it.
Old doors had those lever things on the inside which could be opened without a key. But then if it shut without the latch on while you were outside without the key, you'd be locked out.
Thats why my parents would do things like give a key to a neighbour and hide one around the front garden/porch somewhere. Something that just seems alien to me now.
Weird taps. Not sure I love them as such, but I sure do hate them less than anyone not from the UK I've seen.
Positive equivalent:
British Plugs
Positive equivalent:
British Plugs
Yes!... I do that. I'm not mad after all.
Kissing gates anyone?.. went through one today, had to kiss my wife and son, or I'd feel bad.
Feeling worried we still have Christmas lights on after twelfth night?
Saying sorry when someone else gets in my way?
I'm so guilty of this one but I cannot get myself out of the habit.
As well as using the term "alright?" as you pass someone and them saying it back.
God, I love this thread because I'm so guilty of basically all of it.
If South Asian Brits count, the use of the word 'bhenchod' is almost as ubiquitous as the use of 'cunt' by white people.
Ah, but, only if they look working class, or lower... Otherwise it's "good morning" - "good afternoon" - "good evening"... or, "good day".
Joking of course. But I don't say "alright" to the older generations.
Small talk to randoms about the weather
Hanging bags of dog shit on tree branches - seems to be a new thing
tripping on uneven paving slabs - been a lot places and this doesn't happen to me anywhere else
When I was in NZ, my colleagues took the piss of how I say battery, its a "battrey" right?
"best make some tracks"
Hanging bags of dog shit on tree branches - seems to be a new thing
tripping on uneven paving slabs - been a lot places and this doesn't happen to me anywhere else
When I was in NZ, my colleagues took the piss of how I say battery, its a "battrey" right?
"best make some tracks"
I moved to the UK recently and it's taken me ages to not give an answer to "alright?" I constantly feel compelled to say, "good, how are you?" I did that many times and I could just feel the interaction completely break down.
I love the way British people say goodbye on the phone twenty times while their voice gets higher and higher. Similar to the cheers/bye already mentioned.
Hmm, I've lived in 'Devonshire' for most of my life, but I can't remember hearing this for a long time...Round ere like, most folk start (or end) each sentance with "to be fair"...
But, fucking hell, do not put your jam on your scone first, as you'll be thrown out of the county.
It is?!
That is surprising as I was never able to get it anywhere outside of Scotland. Drunkenly asking for it in London lead to heady mix of bafflement and terror.
I usually heard it from the older generation of Devon people when I lived there.
I thought curry was huge in Britain, that was going to be the thing I mentioned.
Must have been the first thing most people tried after lives of boiled meat and potatoes that it blew their damn minds.
I tried to explain this to some American colleagues in a bar in New York once, about the threatening barbs you get on words like "pal" and "mate" in the UK. One woman said "I call my son 'pal'," and I told her that if someone called me 'pal' in pretty much any part of the UK, I'd start slowly backing away from them. If they called me "cunt," though, I'd assume things were fine.
They didn't get it, but to my mind "pal" is one of the most loaded things you can be called over here. Hearing it instantly puts me on edge.
I've found myself doing this so much more frequently as I've got older. Literally whenever I get up off a chair and intend to do something in another room - even if it's just pouring a glass of water.
You're asking me to make a cream tea incorrectly and this I cannot abide. I will die on this hill.
I hate that I do this and I've never stepped foot in the UK. I worked with an English dude for almost 8 years and absorbed this mannerism.
You have my sword.
The "very British problems" social media accounts always post little nuggets of Brit-isms that I find highly relatable - always good for a sensible chuckle (such as a dramatic overexcitement for pancake day)
The magpie thing is something my SO introduced me to and I have found myself starting to desperately search for a minimum of two if I find myself faced with only one - I don't consider myself superstitious but something about this has snared me :-(
Try saying that nonsense in Cornwall and you'll only have yourself to blame for what happens to you.