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

Parkour is really taking off in the UK. They have been placing these on the PAVEMENTS to make the walk to work more interesting.

You just need to occasionally look up from your phone.

There's like 15 kilometers on the right side of the sidewalk where you can walk

Um. Bus shelter wall perhaps

It's to stop phone distracted pedestrians. Hence the cell phone advertisement.

They have em like like this in the US too.

I don’t know who cybermerlin2000 is, but I want to marry him. If 2000 is the year of his birth, and not his age, I want to adopt him.

There seems to be plenty of room to go around it - or are you just that "fat" American we hear so much about?

To catch as many people as possible that are on tneir phones and don’t look where they are going

OP's stupidity is what's actually dangerous.

Dangerous? Really? Must walk with ur head down, but most of us just walk around!

SPACE !! Also both we and our cars are MUCH smaller !!

We walk around them, plenty of space on either side. Rather than having them up high where drivers can have accidents because they stopped to stare at them while driving?

Do you use a white stick? If not, why are they dangerous?

We either climb over them or tunnel underneath.

Anti-skateboarding strategy. The phone is positioned so you can call an ambulance from the prone position. Also known as s Bangbus.

Hmmm and Guns aren't??????

Maybe the British are not obsessed with their phones and are able to walk down the street and watch where they are going instead of staring at a screen every second?

Dangerous? Its only dangerous for people staring at their phones and not looking where they walk.

They pay good taxes?

We look where we are going

If we're Disabled or blind, we hate them.

Look where your going and go round it you fool - often founded on the side of bus stops and to help shelter from crap weather

That's a bus stop...

Because they still fit between it and the road