29 things the uk does that the usa should be doing !

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  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    Is one of them "Not get your continent invaded by ze Nazis"?
  • mperrott2205
    mperrott2205 Posts: 737 Member
    Is one of them "Not get your continent invaded by ze Nazis"?

    If only Europe was OUR continent... We'd sort everything out like when we owned you and the rest of the world.
  • Symonep
    Symonep Posts: 181 Member
    Personally, I love it. Though I'm not from the US and we know how pernickety and cranky they get with someone putting down their country, even in jest...LOL
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    Personally, I love it. Though I'm not from the US and we know how pernickety and cranky they get with someone putting down their country, even in jest...LOL

    Specially, when it's a former prisoners' colony!
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    Yorkshire puds and custard creams :heart:
  • PlayerHatinDogooder
    PlayerHatinDogooder Posts: 1,018 Member
    We cause disasters due to completely overlooking basic procedure pretty well.

    We're also great at going to work and doing absolutely nothing.

    We're extremely good at taking spices from all over the world and then somehow managing to make all of our food taste like a fried sponge.

    We're incredibly good at giving people parking tickets, installing speed cameras, and generally getting all fussy over inconsequential BS.

    Oh and let's not forget how great we are at completely neglecting customer service.
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    We're incredibly good at giving people parking tickets, installing speed cameras, and generally getting all fussy over inconsequential BS.

    Especially when you get a parking ticket for parking your car outside your own home and getting flashed by a speed camera for stopping at a traffic light when it was red :grumble:
  • LaLouve_RK
    LaLouve_RK Posts: 899 Member
    <---- Canadian enjoying this a lot!


    Well that shows us that we are a American/UK hybrid sometimes lol
  • weevil66
    weevil66 Posts: 600 Member
    This is funny stuff. My husband made the best triffle I ever had. Yummm
    Personally, I love it. Though I'm not from the US and we know how pernickety and cranky they get with someone putting down their cobeuntry, even in jest...LOL

    Specially, when it's a former prisoners' colony!

    It is actually shocking that some of us Yanks do not know there were British penal colonies here before the American Revolution. I got into a disagreement with a teacher and an Aussie over it with them failing to believe that there were British penal colonies here at one time.
  • krhn
    krhn Posts: 781 Member
    As a British citizen I fully support this! HAHAHHA :laugh:
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    i just cant do cider with beer. i dont like my beer or wine sweet. and i dont need to see donkeys on my beaches. and i mildly tolerate monty python.

    everything else is a wonderful idea. especially curry sauce on fries. i say curry sauce on EVERYTHING!
  • Lyndz_88
    Lyndz_88 Posts: 29
    We're not actually allowed to drink beer wherever we want like it say... we do, but we're not allowed lol
  • khall86790
    khall86790 Posts: 1,100 Member
    No to Greggs that place is an abomination to bakery hybrids.

    Donkey on the beach? If we wanted to spend time on a shltty beach, we would simply visit Jersey.

    Extra support for 21, 27, 28.

    Woah there.. what's your issue with Greggs? Greggs is a magical place.
  • khall86790
    khall86790 Posts: 1,100 Member
    We're not actually allowed to drink beer wherever we want like it say... we do, but we're not allowed lol

    ^ This. I LOVE that about England. So many rules nobody gives a **** to enforce.
  • Lesa_Sass
    Lesa_Sass Posts: 2,213 Member
    LOL! Well as a proud American I read it fully expecting to be offended.

    Sigh.....I agree with all of it.

    One thing it did not have on the list was they have several banned substances in the UK that companies in the US put IN OUR FOOD!

    Still a proud American though. :smile:
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    I didn't even read this and have no intention to. I just wanted to get IBTL.

    TFCIT

    NP.
  • EDollah
    EDollah Posts: 464 Member
    I'm a Yank and I agree with most of the list. #1 is way off, British beer is so good on its own, mixing it with cider is a travesty. #22 already happens in the US, at least the Boston train system has signs for commuters with expected wait time.

    I am 100% on board with #25. After living abroad, in a former British colony, I got used to dd/mm/yy date formats because it does make so much more sense.

    Using Beckham and saying "we could use a few of these in America". The dude lives here already, though I'm not sure where he's going post retirement.
  • SkyPixie
    SkyPixie Posts: 224
    Dear USA

    If you start doing even half of those food and drink related things you and I will fall out big time, we have some great food you can share but none of it was on that list !


    If I ever arrive and find myself face to face with a branch of Greggs I shall be getting on the next plane home and I won't be coming back !

    Believe me when I say you don't want 24 x 7 alcohol not unless you are prepared to master the art of slaloming around pavement pizza's (Google it !) on a Saturday morning nor do you want "laxer container laws" unless you want to travel everywhere with a clothes peg on your nose ( gotta love Eau de cheap beer and MacDonalds on the last train home at night !).


    However I will concede that you could use a little work on your understanding and appreciation of Monty Python :bigsmile:

    In short I love you just the way you are and thanks for giving us proper BBQ !!

    love and hugs

    SkyPixie
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    Dear USA

    If you start doing even half of those food and drink related things you and I will fall out big time, we have some great food you can share but none of it was on that list !


    If I ever arrive and find myself face to face with a branch of Greggs I shall be getting on the next plane home and I won't be coming back !

    Believe me when I say you don't want 24 x 7 alcohol not unless you are prepared to master the art of slaloming around pavement pizza's (Google it !) on a Saturday morning nor do you want "laxer container laws" unless you want to travel everywhere with a clothes peg on your nose ( gotta love Eau de cheap beer and MacDonalds on the last train home at night !).


    However I will concede that you could use a little work on your understanding and appreciation of Monty Python :bigsmile:

    In short I love you just the way you are and thanks for giving us proper BBQ !!

    love and hugs

    SkyPixie

    True story: I once quoted that Monty Python scene (the one in the GIF) in a research paper for one of my upper level university classes. "You're not the king because some watery tart threw a sword at you!" Hell, that's possibly the most succinct justification of popular sovereignty that I've ever heard. (I got an A!) :laugh:
  • BoomstickChick
    BoomstickChick Posts: 428 Member
    Personally, I love it. Though I'm not from the US and we know how pernickety and cranky they get with someone putting down their country, even in jest...LOL

    And Brits are okay with bashing?
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Eh, we stole Beckham for awhile, anyway.
  • Livingdeadgirl44
    Livingdeadgirl44 Posts: 264 Member
    Chips and curry sauce is good, but since moving up north its all about the chips and gravy :)
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Finally read the article. Agree with 22-28. David Beckham is not even cute so you guys can take him back any day now.
  • mrdexter1
    mrdexter1 Posts: 356 Member
    Personally, I love it. Though I'm not from the US and we know how pernickety and cranky they get with someone putting down their country, even in jest...LOL

    And Brits are okay with bashing?

    where are you going to start !!???

    we dont take ourselves too seriously and most flag waving is done around our queen rather than a daily /weekly "wave" !!!!!!
  • cristynfaye
    cristynfaye Posts: 88 Member
    My passport is American, but my heart is British. I'm not patriotic at all (which doesn't get me a lot of friends, living in a military town), and my sensibilities tend to lean more towards socialist democracies, like in much of Europe. If I could live in England again, or in Scandinavia, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I fully agree with pretty much everything on this list, and more. :smile:
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    someone please explain the donkey at the beach thing. why are barn yard animals and all their smells a good thing to have on the beach?

    or maybe your waters are cold and you cant go in so no swimming/jet skis/surfboards etc...so you have to conjure more land activities?

    enlighten me! :)
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    No to Greggs that place is an abomination to bakery hybrids.

    Donkey on the beach? If we wanted to spend time on a shltty beach, we would simply visit Jersey.

    Extra support for 21, 27, 28.

    Woah there.. what's your issue with Greggs? Greggs is a magical place.

    I went to it after looking up a bakery and needless to say the items were not that great. I figured maybe it was that Greggs but after visiting one in Soho and got the same quality baked goods that were nothing special.
  • glitterballv
    glitterballv Posts: 133 Member
    You know, the only thing I really agree with is 28. Education should be affordable for all... and yes I'm scottish.

    Which brings me onto the other thing, the UK is not just England and if there's one thing that gets me riled about other nationalities its referring to us all as English. We're not. Rant over...
  • BexyGotEaten
    BexyGotEaten Posts: 6
    someone please explain the donkey at the beach thing. why are barn yard animals and all their smells a good thing to have on the beach?

    or maybe your waters are cold and you cant go in so no swimming/jet skis/surfboards etc...so you have to conjure more land activities?

    enlighten me! :)

    Normally the donkeys are on the beach where the sea tends to be a nasty shade of brown. Thinking about it, I've only ever seen donkeys in places like Cleethorpes and Scarborough (where the sea is brown) but I can't remember ever seeing them in places like Newquay and just the whole of Cornwall, where the sea is a nice blue colour, how it should be :)

    Oh and It should be curry sauce on chips not fries. there's a big difference between the two in my opinion anyway.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member

    Normally the donkeys are on the beach where the sea tends to be a nasty shade of brown. Thinking about it, I've only ever seen donkeys in places like Cleethorpes and Scarborough (where the sea is brown) but I can't remember ever seeing them in places like Newquay and just the whole of Cornwall, where the sea is a nice blue colour, how it should be :)

    Oh and It should be curry sauce on chips not fries. there's a big difference between the two in my opinion anyway.

    i am very relieved to learn that you guys are not wasting time on donkeys when you are at proper beaches. :)

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