22 “Culture Shocks” This Brit Experienced After Moving To The USA

Oh gods, please don't! If I walk into a store and immediately some staff member comes up to me being all pushy, in my face, wanting to make a sale, I would be out of there in about 2 seconds and would never ever return. I'm not a degenerate, I can read signs avout a sale, I know what I need better than you do, leave me the f**k alone unless I ask you something Nasty, nasty habit. I'm so glad that's a US only thing and normal people in the rest of the world don't do this

This is one of the things that I hated about the US and Canada. I once stayed at a hotel that didn't want to tell me how much the total for the room was after tax, even though I explained to them that my debit card has a safety limit and therefore I needed to know how much it cost in total, to make sure that it's below the limit. Surprise surprise, the card was rejected because there was 26% more tax and they thought that I as a foreigner should know how much the tax was and calculate it in my head...

Honestly, Americans need to know how little Brits care about this. Any reference to throwing tea into water, even those who understand the joke, really, really don't care.

Why this f** huge gap??

Eggplants~ 🍆🍆

After seeing The Gruffalo movie, my kid thought I was saying the wrong words when I read him the book. The movie’s narrator has a British accent and I’m American. My kid was young enough that he thought I was just saying different words, since he didn’t yet know what an accent is.

Are you, americains, really this friendly, or is it just a myth?

Brit to American: Rubber = Eraser. American to Brit: Rubber = Condom.

You can get large jugs of tap water free in most places - just ask.

American tea is minging as well

In our village we have a competition to make the best effigy of a 'guy'

The Americans hate this too, big time.

In Germany, a big menu is a sure sign that they are going to serve you frozen pre-made food if you take anything other than fast food classics. That doesn't count for restaurants with Indian or Chinese food, though. If they have such a big menu they are probably just swapping the sauce for each dish.

Oh please! It's like he's forgotten Guy Fawkes starts in mid-October!

Oooh I love steak n kidney pies..... hungry now lol

A question I do wonder - why do American baked beans have so much sugar in them? Was chatting with an American mate and they apparently have like twice the sugar, but I don't know why.

We get those here too. Including diet cherry cola, yum ^^

Pants = underwear in this Brit's mind

Lol reverse this and substitute cricket for Americans , so I hear ^-^

Bacon and Eggs to us would only come one sunny side up soft yolk, unless you specify scrambled or something else, to be asked how we want our eggs would be unusual here in Oz as well.

Yeah, like borrowing an eraser is an common occurrence.

eh, close enough.