53 Times Americans Were Surprised By British Things

Unless the kettle a boiling be, Ruined is the cup of tea

Lol, I love your nan!

It takes leather balls to play rugby!

A lot of Rugby players wear pads on their torso... Plus the rules on tackling are a lot stricter (high tackles, only tackling the ball carrier etc.)

Rugby is nothing like football. All that protective gear means you can hit a lot harder.

That canned c**p is a travesty

I think it was confirmed in an interview with the DHMIS creators.

Yes, british accent is awsome! They proud them.

Why thank you sir...

I live in the US and have never heard biweekly used to mean twice a week. It is said "twice a week" if that is what is meant. And most places pay biweekly, so no one is confused by that as everyone takes their pay checks very seriously. :)

Unfortunately it can mean every two weeks or twice a week. How is that for confusing. LOL.

Um no... Biweekly is ONLY every 2 weeks... if you wanted to say twice a week that's SEMIweekly (Like semiannually is twice a year) #EducateYourself

Biweekly does mean every 2 weeks, not twice a week.

There's only so much BBC the world can take.

We don't talk about bbc radio 5

There is a BBC Radio 5. It's sports and news

It's top secret, like the 5th floor in North Korea

Because it split into Radio 5 Live and Radio 5 Sports Extra, which technically means it's Radio 10.

I think BBC3 is also gone.

because bbc news 24

It's called 5 live, it's a sports one

We don't talk about bbc radio 5

there is

Now I'm scared!

(agh, length limit) or at least, as public as anything gets here, IE pay your annual £145 license then have free reign of it... well, a certain subset of it depending on how new your receiver is. My now-ancient TV can't show any of the MPG2 channels (HD, and some SD catchup / local public access type services) and lacks internet connection, as it was one of the first to have a built in receiver... its EPG keeps crashing from having too little memory to hold data for all the channels at once, too. The PVR next to it is a few years old and so can do MPG2 but, despite having a network socket and some "smart" services (mostly now closed down or lacking sufficiently updated apps to continue access), can't show any of the IP-assistant services (like, the transmitter sends a web address and a descramble code, and the box then pulls and decodes video from that address over a broadband link... yeah, sucks if you're in a mobile home and relying on wireless I guess, but they're all junk anyway..)

More worryingly, that kind of stuff is starting to happen here, too. Increasing number of channels I then delete from the list on my TV and PVR after the occasional re-scan of the waveband... just so I'm not annoyed at having to skip over them all the time and have their titles invade my brain. Cable is something we never had as a municipal thing, because we don't really have anywhere that suffers bad enough radio broadcast reception, either because of geography or architecture, to require it. It's always been more of a commercial venture. Still, the influence and competition from both that and satellite, particularly when the early cable services started going to digital IPTV and offering home broadband internet as a unicast sideline to the multicast AV mainline, did at least prompt the transition from the old rather congested 5-channel analogue not-quite-free to air setup to the modern digital setup ... first as a poorly run commercial venture, then when that failed a public one

Ikr

Think of it, at least for the BBC stations (including radio and interactive services) as the original equivalent of the "sign up for a paid membership to remove ads" thing that a lot of websites and particularly streaming services do now, with a cost of a little over £12 per month per household for everything. AND it means fewer ads on the commercial stations too, as the main networks get a little subsidy each from the license authority, and they don't have to pay as much for transmitter rental etc because a lot of the main network maintenance is covered by it (many of the main antenna sites being BBC property, by way of them claiming all the best hilltops years before the other stations even started)... Really, considering how much cable or satellite service charges here, and how it'd likely still come out of my pocket in taxes anyway (where does the money come from to run basic cable services in the US? as far as I know they're largely municipal utilities, so, tax?), it's an OK rate

What can we say? We're damn faithful to the eagle.

its called maths in Australia too :)

In spanish the correct term is Ciencias Matemáticas (mathenatical sciences). Plural! Jeez... Short version maths in english. It drives me insane that anyone thinks it's just one, singular. And also physics it's the same, there are several branches, so general term is plural. Simple af.

In the US the plural for Math is Math.

yeah, the term eagle f****r sounds funnier than when I was called a potato f****r back in school

Grammatically the singular is Math and plural Mathematics......Then again, I understand the US of A has no grammar.

Mathematics = maths. We do not say "mathematic." So there ya go lol MEOW

I didn't think the Britt's had the cacophonies to say that, shocked me and then LMAO.

There's more than one English (Lit., grammar, composition, etc) but we don't call it 'Englishes'...

In America we made the word math plural and singular. No big deal. Turned on your on fast Menendez.

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I am an engineer in the US, there is math, just one. The rest are geometry, trigonometry, algebra, calculus, differential equations, statics and dynamics.

How do you know? Maybe he meant to say "p**s-brained" and was only too polite :-P