“Can Someone Please Tell Me”: American Says They Are “Confused” By These 30 Things In Britain

Cos mousies need homes with fancy schmancy front doors. In the UK the mice don't live like peasants. They be fancy AF. And it's cute.

Local planning laws - it is designed to break the roof line in non urban sites

Here in Holland they are giant concrete balls and here they are meant to deter motorists from driving on the sidewalks. So I guess same but with metal cones?

There used to a window tax, the more windows you had, the more tax you paid. These are bricked up windows to so the home owner at the time paid less tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

Many buildings had a lot of large windows for things like factory work before electric lighting was standard. Now the inside can be lit safely and relatively cheaply the high maintenance for windows (from cleaning to the risk of a brick getting thrown through them) can't be justified and they are bricked up. Surely this happens in other countries too?

I am waiting for the day when Bored Panda makes a post "20 Things That Are F$#*kd Up About Lithuania". Lietuva you can do it.

Old buildings that were renovated do this all the time. Everywhere.

In the UK we often still build houses in the mock Georgian style and this can include blocked up windows.

Window tax: Also rumoured to be the origin of the phrase "daylight robbery"

The window tax reason is probably not applicable here. The tax (introduced in 1696) was abolished in 1851, and this building looks newer. Fake windows were added for aesthetic reasons, to balance the look of the building or make it look less industrial.

Don't forget Britain is very, very old and steeped in tradition.

King James?

Hence the term "daylight robbery"

Window taxes are a thing?!

This is in some US older cities, too, usually when they didn't feel like replacing windows. Brick it up, oh well.

Even new homes have them ad a design feature. Mine does

Much older buildings have windows bricked in because at one time there was a Wndow tax - yes, believe it or not. A tax for allowing light into your home. So - people bricked 'em up.

Statues dedicated to the Covid nose swab.

True story, America did try to adopt them by pretending they invented them and calling them something like pastry dogs only to be called out globally for their bullsh*t

Jesus - is this a joke......????

They are Karen traps. If you annoy shopkeeper or pub landlord, they open these so that you fall into the hole as you leave. This is why we don't have as many Karens in the UK.

Salt is stored in them for when the roads are icy and the grit trucks come out

The school one is two children

Because many of our homes were built before we had proper roads. There wouldn't have been any cars when that house was built.

Can someone tell me why Americans pour milk over candy, and eat it with spoons at breakfast?

Because most of us don't live in big a** mansion with laundry room ? And very normal in Europe ?!

Because they were often houses or shops that were converted to be restaurants by the look of it.

These are very unusual: possibly 2 on the country. The one in the town of Slough is known as the "magic roundabout".

So the cars can watch Top Gear

we dont make fridges in the UK

Sometimes the crime rate is so high that the courts just put a tag on the whole town to save time

Just eat it and you might stop posting this nonsense.

Those are for kids? We have those too in the Netherlands

Feudal Realty. The seller chooses as many realty companies as they like and the best champions are chosen to represent them in the arena and fight to the death until either one survives or the house gets sold

Because we aren't as fat so we actually fit in. Plus most toilets aren't this small

One is hot. The plumber who installed this ran out of hot labeled taps.

We climb over them. It's part of a street based assault course

cheddar is never orange - you mean red leicester - American Cheese is not something anyone from Europe recognises as 'cheese'

because that isnt mayo - its salad cream, a totally different sauce!

THAT IS NOT A BISCUIT

Stop calling things "dangerous" that you don't understand! The top bit is metal so that it IS safe

"New York Easter buns", dude? Those are called "hot cross buns"!

We in europe don't wash the eggs the way the US does. So the layer that is naturally on the egg to prevent infection isn't broken and its safe to keep them out if you want.

*facepalm*

Population control, a result of the Darwinian Act of 1873