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Welcome to the land of the weird and the beautiful—the ancient sceptred isles, where people drink their beer by the pints, celebrate mysterious Bank Holidays that occur several times a year, and toss their trash out the first time they see a bin. Bins are holy there and the chance to do so comes very rarely, if ever.

But according to Jessica Rose, an American who’s been living in great Blighty for the past few decades, the list doesn’t end there.

Recently, Jessica listed all the “weird as hell things” Brits do in a thread that amassed 64.8K likes and went viral with people praising how spot-on it is. Let’s get ready for the quaint and quirky ride in the land of Britons.

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Bored Panda reached out to the author of this viral thread, Jessica Rose, a woman in her 30s who works in the technology industry. After 10 years, Jessica still lives in Birmingham, UK and says that she really likes most things about life in the UK.

When asked what British things Jessica really likes, she said that as an American, she finds the National Health Service “mind-bogglingly amazing.”

“I also really love the public transport here. And almost everything about Birmingham. Am I allowed to mention it's the best city in the UK? I don't think there's much I dislike about living here, some things are just still weird after 10 years.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's called courtesy. No harm in being polite, and it brightens the drivers day to know he is appreciated. Happy drivers are less likely to hit the curb

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But that doesn’t mean that Jessica doesn’t miss the American way of living. “It seems like a silly thing to miss, but as my days get really busy, I miss shops being open as late as they are in the states,” she told us.

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Jessica also believes that “a lot of the misconceptions of and stereotypes about the British mistakenly group all of the UK into a homogeneous lump while the UK is really a massively diverse group of people across our 4 countries (N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England).”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah many beaches in the north are mostly pebbles and yes......you will be mugged by seagulls for your watch, keys, wallet and finally your chips and there is nothing you can do about it and nobody can help.

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cassiushumanmother
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to have sand everywhere, especially if a kid play near me, i love it! (a person living near a beach with "rocks", AKA free of kids!)

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Mary Peace
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some British beaches have sand, how else would kids build sand-castles? And I used to love rock. Why is it disappointing? I want some rock, now!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You've clearly never been to Cornwall. The seagulls are still utter d***s but the beaches are gorgeous!

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cassiushumanmother
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seagulls are awesome and i live with them day and night...They make noise and they poop... You don't like seagulls? go to the city and deal with pigeons...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have some stunning white sand beaches with deceivingly turquoise blue water on some of the Scottish Isles (Isle of Harris, Iona, Orkney example)-- however, you may turn into a human icicle, but the scenery is beyond spectacular. Budleigh Salterton in East Devon, England is a wonderful beach to visit (there's both sand and amazing cliffs) and possibly swim during the summer.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a seaside town. Lovely sand here. Also a lot of mud.

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Leo Domitrix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

North America has those beaches. Why was this surprising to this person?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True, but we don't really treat them as a real "beaches" in the south. They're usually lacking sun bathers and usually empty.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the seagulls just want english dead granny to feed them

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get that it's not everyone's favorite holiday-location, but why is that "Weird"? If you don't have a sandy beach, you can't go there, so it's not weird to go to the rocky beach. 🤷‍♂️ (Also, there are people who LIKE rocky beaches! Those are the ones who go there because of the WATER and not the sand... Weird Amercian 😉 😄)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plus rocky beaches are sometimes great for fossil hunting! We have some amazing fossil hunting beaches.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wrong, beaches have sand, shores have pebbles, get your English right.

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Suzanne Haigh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds to me as if you should be on the next plane back to the only country in the world, America of course.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unrelated, but, I'm in Aus. And while I understand why, most of the dog friendly beaches near me (hour or so drive) are these kinds of beaches. It makes sense, less people, dogs make messes etc. But how is my dog meant to walk on all those rocks?? They're so big and so many. And are so far apart that I have to stretch to get over them, go around or go down and back up each one, Both my dogs have fallen into rock pools many times. (This is a malamute and kelpie cross btw, not some little jack russell or somethin) And while these kinds of dogs could probably easily get over most of the rocks, the kelpie cross is an older dog and has a bad leg. And the malamute will just outright refuse to climb them :/ (when I say 'climb' I mean walk up a short kinda steep rock). Sorry bout the rant but it does annoy me a bit.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have to share our beaches with the Germans. They dig large holes in the sand.

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Jonathan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So shall we somehow move our island to a different part of the earth so the beaches are more impressive for you?

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're pebbles with small patches of sand and the odd piece of seaweed. Unless it's in Hartlepool, where the beaches are literally just the cold Sahara with bits of black stuff around it.

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cassiushumanmother
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live with seagulls. If you are fooled by them, you deserve it! Tourists... lol

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, I grew up in a coastal town with these exact beaches, but we had lots of rocks to climb.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Disappointing candy sticks! They usually have the name of the resort written through them. And you can make a stick of rock last ages by not chomping it.

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Samantha Comerford
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

America has seagulls also . We have beautiful world renowned Sandy beaches .

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The state of UK beaches are why Brits flood into Spain and Florida for their holidays.

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Tabitha L
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is a matter of different terminology. Beach in the US usually means sand. Rocky areas are shores, shorelines, coastlines, rocky coasts. Unless in New Jersey and surrounding areas, in which case the shore means the beach. But I would say in most of the US, beach implies sand.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UK uses all those terms too but we can still have a pebble beach. Here's one that's part of the Jurassic Coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesil_Beach

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This is the case with the famous English breakfast. “For example, people from outside the UK often think of the English breakfast as something singularly British, while overlooking the (far superior) Scottish fryups,” Jessica said.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please, oh please, cure us of that one! (Not that you're much good at picking rulers,)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The difference is in the smell and sticking to your shoes intensity. Dpg poop is extremely disgusting. Horse poop not so much.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We go to the counter and let them know what is wrong. We very rarely have to ask for it to be corrected as the person behind the counter usually offers to fix it and offer options.

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Jessica didn't expect her Twitter thread to go as viral as it did. “I half hoped a few people would see it as I was quite proud of the phrase 'sugared houseplants.' I hope folks liked it!”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"After you." "No, after you." "No, dammit, I SAID AFTER YOU." "Look you little f***face, I said after you!!!"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The hot water supply comes from a tank in the loft, which could be contaminated. It was UK law to keep hot and cold separate to keep drinking water (cold) clean. now its just tradition.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the old-fashioned SWEET shops have some of the best sweets out there, tbh

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, This is an irish thing, Also a British thing but we will slam dunk you if you don't complete your round in ireland.

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Classical music played by classically trained musicians. Outdoor , elegance at its finest

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was actually introduced during the war when water could be cut off or there were many shortages. Filling up a bowl uses half the amount of your sink. People just carried on using them as saving water is always a good idea. Remember our tap water is our drinking water too.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are two types of people, those who put the milk in tea last and those who are wrong ;)

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