“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

It makes them look like a church with a church spire and clock, hence the weather vane on the top too. It's where we go to worship cheap food.

Many supermarkets took over old town halls, corn exchanges and churches that formerly had clock towers.

So we don't spend too long at the shops! They used to chime loudly on the hour so we would be aware of how long we were in the shop

They don't. Tesco do a lot but Sainsburys, Waitrose, ASDA? Nope.

They don't. My local Tesco doesn't

So people can see what time it is

Well, to tell the time, dûh...

To let you know when it's time to shop.

Same in many countries. Depends on local codes. Many of our local strip malls have these towers, some with clocks, some without.

So we can see how much time you’re wasting shopping in that particular store

That's a Tesco Extra pall, not just a store, it's an emporium

We have some of these in michigan

Because they like Big Ben

They're so you can see the time clearly as greedy land owners like to fine you stupid amounts of money for spending too long shopping

They don't.

So people quit asking for the time. More likely so you can't say to your boss your late he be why there was no clock tower nearby?

I believe they're left over from the original building. I've only seen a few

A clock tower is a tower with a clock

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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"!

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.