“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

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"!

For the same reason that we start selling Christmas items in September. It's just a teacake that has been exorcised.

These are hot cross buns and I'm sure it's New Yorkers who stole our idea.

You just wait until they bring the Mini Eggs out on Boxing Day!

My Grandmother just just a 360 in her grave 🙄

Best eaten warm, with good slice of salted butter.

You do realize there's a whole world outside of NYC, right? And some of us eat "hot cross buns" all year long!

Oh is this another cultural theft by America. Hot Cross Buns are British.

Hot cross buns used to be an Easter thing, but nowadays they're sold all year.

WE like them ALL the year round !

Are those one a penny or two a penny?

A 12th-century monk was the first person to mark the bun with a cross. This monk baked the buns on Good Friday, in honour of the upcoming Easter holiday, and they soon gained popularity around England as a symbol of the holiday weekend. So from this little piece of history, you can see that they have absolutely NOTHING to do with New York as the originator!

Wait till this guy discovers M&S Cheese and Marmite Hot Cross Buns.

No it is not. Hope I answered you question properely

Actually although we do call them Hot Cross buns here, not Easter buns, OP does have a point. They used to exclusively be eaten at Easter, on Good Friday in fact, that was still traditional in my childhood. But now just like everything else you can get them at any time of year.

The arrogance of Americans, thinking they came up with everything first.