US v UK

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  • chilli
    chilli Posts: 211 Member
    UK Wales
    Pop on occasionally to see who is doing what these days as I am not monitoring myself at the moment. This is a fabulous site though and I have seen the numbers swell over the years so we must all be doing something right!
    :drinker: :laugh:
  • Whiteweb80
    Whiteweb80 Posts: 7 Member
    :smile: UK. Kent. I was wondering the same thing! :smile:
  • I'm from the UK and my husband's from the USA. We have conversations like this:

    him: *knocks on bathroom door* Are you in the tub?
    me: no, I'm in the bath. The ice cream is in the tub in the freezer.

    me: do you like my new jumper?
    him: that's not a jumper, that's a sweater. This is a jumper: *jumps up and down*

    him: (mentions "sidewalk")
    me: that's not a sidewalk, that's a pavement. This is a sidewalk: *walks sideways*

    The best one though was when he laughed at me for using the word "skew-whiff" and refused to believe it was a word, then laughed even more when I showed him it in the dictionary. Then five minutes later he described something as being "kitty-corner". It was my turn to laugh and refuse to believe him that it was a word....

    and this is football: PfVPA.jpg

    :laugh:

    Rofl!
    And what on earth is kitty-corner? (UK in case you hadn't guessed :wink: )

    We Americans actually argue over whether it is kitty-corner or caddy-corner. I say caddy-corner. It essentially means one thing is diagonal from another thing.
  • roseymacdoo
    roseymacdoo Posts: 113 Member

    and this is football: PfVPA.jpg

    :laugh:

    Handegg!! Amazing!!

    I'm from the People's Republic of Yorkshire, UK ;^)
  • wiggywompus
    wiggywompus Posts: 65 Member
    Another one for the UK
  • Alohathin
    Alohathin Posts: 360 Member
    I'm from the UK and my husband's from the USA. We have conversations like this:

    him: *knocks on bathroom door* Are you in the tub?
    me: no, I'm in the bath. The ice cream is in the tub in the freezer.

    me: do you like my new jumper?
    him: that's not a jumper, that's a sweater. This is a jumper: *jumps up and down*

    him: (mentions "sidewalk")
    me: that's not a sidewalk, that's a pavement. This is a sidewalk: *walks sideways*

    The best one though was when he laughed at me for using the word "skew-whiff" and refused to believe it was a word, then laughed even more when I showed him it in the dictionary. Then five minutes later he described something as being "kitty-corner". It was my turn to laugh and refuse to believe him that it was a word....

    and this is football: PfVPA.jpg

    :laugh:

    Rofl!
    And what on earth is kitty-corner? (UK in case you hadn't guessed :wink: )

    We Americans actually argue over whether it is kitty-corner or caddy-corner. I say caddy-corner. It essentially means one thing is diagonal from another thing.

    The original word was "catercorner." Which became cattycorner and then kittycorner.
  • FitspoEm
    FitspoEm Posts: 94 Member
    UK here :D
  • FJMilner
    FJMilner Posts: 407
    UK - Yorkshire to be exact...tha knows! x
  • UK here! :)
  • Kyrosh
    Kyrosh Posts: 238
    I feel left out being from the Netherlands :(.

    Nooooooooo, I'm in the UK, but originally from Holland :)
  • Kyrosh
    Kyrosh Posts: 238
    I'm from the UK and my husband's from the USA. We have conversations like this:

    him: *knocks on bathroom door* Are you in the tub?
    me: no, I'm in the bath. The ice cream is in the tub in the freezer.

    me: do you like my new jumper?
    him: that's not a jumper, that's a sweater. This is a jumper: *jumps up and down*

    him: (mentions "sidewalk")
    me: that's not a sidewalk, that's a pavement. This is a sidewalk: *walks sideways*

    The best one though was when he laughed at me for using the word "skew-whiff" and refused to believe it was a word, then laughed even more when I showed him it in the dictionary. Then five minutes later he described something as being "kitty-corner". It was my turn to laugh and refuse to believe him that it was a word....

    and this is football: PfVPA.jpg

    :laugh:

    Especially that last one made me LOL!!! :laugh:
  • Americanpeanut
    Americanpeanut Posts: 17 Member
    American in London! :)
  • Jennieam
    Jennieam Posts: 300 Member
    Are we counting the Aussies yet? There are lots of us here, but we don't say much - we're the shy, retiring ones!!! LOL.
  • MommyPurl
    MommyPurl Posts: 12 Member
    Scotland UK now, but born in the USA! :)
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    Yorkshire, UK here! :)
  • kimmianne89
    kimmianne89 Posts: 428 Member
    UK :D
  • dawson55510
    dawson55510 Posts: 197 Member
    N.Ireland ( UK )
  • Sunny N.I. (UK)

    :bigsmile: x D
  • Agator82
    Agator82 Posts: 249 Member
    It has been too many hours without someone posting from the US so here goes:

    US here - Florida (Hot and Humid)

    Love the UK though, more the idea since I have never been. I have always been a sucker for old structures and being able to stand in places with history, something about know that the only thing that separates you from an event is time and not space. Of course I live in Florida where the oldest structures are about 100 years old so pretty young. Hopefully at some point I will be able to spend some time and live in the UK for a short stint.

    It does seem that a lot of the members on these forums are from the US, but it also seems that the UK people are very active as I see them a lot more often when I work through the forums. In fact I only have two MFP friends right now both in the UK.
  • sharonlouiset
    sharonlouiset Posts: 85 Member
    uk
  • UK( Merseyside) - But hopefully soon to be US ( MA)
  • Jigglebewie
    Jigglebewie Posts: 336 Member
    UK but want to be in the US preferably CA =]
  • KALMdown
    KALMdown Posts: 211 Member
    Originally from Hawaii, USA but currently living in JAPAN.
  • JeninBelgium
    JeninBelgium Posts: 804 Member
    BELGIUM ! (ok but I am from the US) just saying there are others on here as well :-)
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
    U.K. wooooooooooooooooot :bigsmile:
  • donna_glasgow
    donna_glasgow Posts: 869 Member
    Scotland in the UK here :)
  • webgeekstress
    webgeekstress Posts: 1 Member
    I'm an American, but I'm living in Turkey these days.
  • London all the way :)

    Although I was raised up in Miami xD

    Oh, how I miss the sun :)
  • writer77035
    writer77035 Posts: 6 Member
    U.S. here. TEXAS!
  • Canada :-)