30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK

What’s totally acceptable and completely normal in one country might get you some funny looks elsewhere. Or, in other words, welcome to Planet Earth where there are loads of different countries and cultures that are bound to blow your mind when you travel.

This time, we’re looking at the differences between the United States and the United Kingdom. Even though both countries have a ‘special relationship’ (not to mention a rocky initial history together), far from everything is the same there. Hopping ‘over the pond’ means traveling a large distance both physically and culturally, too. Like you'd expect when going to any new country when you fly abroad.

Redditor TownImmediate9060 went on r/AskReddit and wanted to find out what’s socially acceptable in the US but would be horrifying in the UK. The thread went viral and the responses made us seriously realize the extent of the differences between the two allies. Check out some of the best answers below and remember to upvote your fave ones, dear Pandas.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Healthcare that bankrupts you

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ZeroHargreaves057 3 years ago

Mhm! Exactly!

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Roland 3 years ago

But hey... You earn so much money in the USA. You are paid like crazy. So you can afford expensive healthcare. Ironic mode off

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Josh Stuart 3 years ago

LOL Ahh... you can not live off minimum wage in the country or even double that. Most businesses don't pay well.

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Lorelei 3 years ago

I DONT WANNA START A POLITICAL DEBATE IN THE COMMENTS -upvote this if you think that healthcare EVERYWHERE should be free.

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*me* 3 years ago

WE NEED FREE HEALTHCARE. COME ON AMERICA, WAKE UP.

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Tim Haight 3 years ago

our government would rather piss money away to go to mars than give us affordable healthcare. If you are on welfare you can get medical free. Also if you are on medicare you have to buy another policy to get medice. Some medicines are very expensive. If you have insurance, everthing sent to them is inflated to cover the welfare bitches

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Covid Pan Demic 3 years ago

Say hello to OBAMACARE

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

This shocks anyone who has a brain, IMHO.

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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

Healthdontcare

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Mick McCrohon 3 years ago

Only in America. healthcare...a1-png.jpg

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Elin Calliel 3 years ago (edited)

Healthcare is a Human Right. All people should have access no matter who they are. Because every human life is precious.

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Id row 3 years ago

That's because we have a legalized system of bribery in politics and we give our politicians top level health insurance, so there's no incentive to change anything. Outlaw lobbying and make them pay for their own health care and watch how fast the system changes.

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James016 3 years ago

People should check out Wendell Potter on Twitter, he was a VP at an insurance company now a whistle-blower. What he posts is shocking.

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Jazzy Mc. Jaz 3 years ago

You should know this by now...

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Yeap yeap let's move that to #1 cause it's definitely the most horrifying!!

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Desiré Yen 3 years ago

Private health care in South Africa also burns holes in your pockets. It's ludicrous!

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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

As an American, I have no way of judging what happens in other countries. I do know that we do get quite a few Canadians here that cannot wait the long time for help there & are willing to come here & pay for it.

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Johnny Døpe 3 years ago

They should take the «care» out of the healthcare

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backatya 3 years ago

Yeah Americans feel the same way as do the UK

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Damon Hill 3 years ago

That's because most doctors and facilities are owned by large corporations whose only interest is bleeding every dime they can from the patient. And secondly due to understaffing to the point mistakes run rampant which leads to lawsuits which leads to high insurance for the doctors and facilities. It's a vicious circle that began when corporations began taking over. It's now cheaper to go in with no insurance and pay the bill which they give a discount for doing so, than it is to go in with insurance.

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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago

Yeah... that's big... you live but you're too broke to live. Kill me now.

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Garyths 3 years ago

Absolutely scandalous.

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Joyce Berman 3 years ago

We are not the UK or any other country. Our customs are our own and have developed in part from our country's history. When I go to another country, I don't expect them to do things the way we do. Why do you folks expect that?

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J 3 years ago

Ok, I have to ask, I hear horror stories about the UKs medical system continuously on all sorts of forms and blogs. Yes its free,but it takes for ever to get the correct appts , blotched surgeries, no recourse. take it or leave it type of care, unless your rich and pay for it. Can someone walk the dog on this? .

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Loraine D.G. MacGinness 3 years ago

BUT THEY SURVIVE ! and don't appear to mind very much ! It's just accepted. Shouldn't worry about it - they DON'T !

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Jeff Christensen 3 years ago

In an operating "room" not an operating "theatre" (or even "theater").

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Tim Haight 3 years ago

I hate that to not go bankrupt I have to pay a premium (mine is about $350 a month which I am told is cheap). There are copays, deductibles, max out of pocket limits, drug copays. Very confusing. And if you are on a tiere 3 drug, it can be expensive. My so called doctor want to put my on Ozempic. Its advertised with a s**t load of side effects by some fat guy who was on a tv show that was a 1/2 hour a week fat joke, and costs $1000 s month. No f*****g thanks.

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InfectedVoice 3 years ago

"Ahh but they pay more tax than us, it's socialism, why should I pay for other people's care". Yes we do gladly, obviously and that's what a good society does.

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John Baker 3 years ago

Those same idiots who whine about not wanting to pay for someone else's care can't grasp the idea that their health insurance premiums are already paying for other people's care. Or did they think their payments go into a box with their name on it, never to be touched unless they need it?

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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago

Sadly, we don't view it as "acceptable", just a fact of life.

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Martz Migraña 3 years ago

I used to think healthcare in Mexico was expensive (if you didn't have insurance or "seguro popular" back in the day) until I learnt how much would you have to pay in the USA!

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Gabriel Gomez 3 years ago

TRUE

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Anita Pickle 3 years ago

This has to change! I just paid 1,000 to have a small cut on my kids ear flushed with saline and sent home. No bandages, no stitches, no glue. And I already pay over 2k a month in insurance.

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J-A Laine 3 years ago

Having a child, for example, shouldn't cost 100's of thousands dollars.

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Debbie Lowe 3 years ago

This is the biggest shame currently. Just received a bill that, if we didn't have insurance, would have cost us $14,000. $14,000 is what a non insured person has to pay. BUT THEY ONLY RECEIVED $400 FROM INSURANCE COMPANY and call it paid! Why is that legal? It truly is disgusting that one person had to pay $14,000 for the same thing that the insurance company only has to pay$400.....

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InfectedVoice 3 years ago

I don't know why you're downvoted, you gave a great example of a wholly corrupt system that is only for the rich and the big businesses, it's a monster.

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Lsai Aeon 3 years ago

We don't like this one either

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McSydney 3 years ago

Amen !!

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Barbara Vandewalle 3 years ago

We also do not pay 50% taxes for something we may not need

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John Baker 3 years ago

No, you just pay a monthly fee for something you may not need. The tax increases needed to pay for universal health care would cost the vast majority of Americans less than they're paying now for health insurance.

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lara 3 years ago

Yeah, we get it. Your "healthcare" is free, as long as the bureaucrats ALLOW you to have the treatment, Good on you.

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J Sauires 3 years ago

You don't understand universal health care.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Paying more than the price you see on a price tag in a shop due to taxes. WTF just put how much it costs!

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Cashiers being forced to stand... give them a chair you masochists

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Britain continues to use soft power to spread its influence abroad. Its cultural impact is off the charts. Just consider how influential the Harry Potter books, musicians like Ed Sheeran, and football entities like the Premier League really are.

They’re known and respected globally. As such, the UK’s able to draw in plenty of tourists (global pandemic notwithstanding because it’s hit everyone badly) and students from abroad because it remains at the forefront of people’s minds.

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Politicians mentioning religion when campaigning

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New mothers going back to work almost immediately after giving birth, because they don’t have paid maternity leave

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK An $800, four-block ambulance ride.

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However, research shows that the confusion and uncertainty around the long-term effects that Brexit, the UK’s exit from the European Union, will have slightly dampened the country’s influence abroad.

Meanwhile, the British Council found that it’s actually culture, not politics, that deepens the ties between the UK and the US. And it’s culture that’s going to play a vital role in the future of both nations as well.

That whole thing where American kids pledge their allegiance to the flag. That is completely weird and scarily totalitarian to us Brits.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Overworking. It's rewarded and encouraged in the U.S., but during my time in the U.K. my colleagues were horrified by the long hours and lack of holidays that was the norm in the U.S.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Greeters in supermarkets. Just feels fake.

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“Culture and history were the two top rated factors contributing to the UK’s attractiveness among American respondents, with 43% identifying ‘cultural and historic attractions’ as a major draw and 42% identifying ‘history,’” the British Council explains what it discovered in its research.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Driving everywhere.

In the UK it's perfectly normal to have your kid walk to school and walking to the shops to do your shopping.

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#11

Offering full-time employees anything less than 28 days of paid holidays per year - it's not only socially unacceptable - it's illegal!

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#12

Bragging about how expensive something was.

In the US "this is a $100 shirt" ...smug face

In the UK "can you believe I got this whole suit for £25!" ...smug face

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Despite some of the more superficial cultural differences between the US and the UK, both nations appear to care about pretty much the same issues.

“The research showed a high degree of shared concern about global issues among young people in both countries with poverty, extremism/terrorism, and climate change as the top factors chosen by young people in both the US and UK,” the British Council found. “The research suggests the relationship between the two countries is at root a cultural as much as a political phenomenon, and viewed in those terms it is indeed special.”

#13

Labelling the winner of a sports tournament that only your country plays as ‘World Champions’

Calling Football ‘Soccer’

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK A rubber in England is not the same as a rubber in the US.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Gaps in bathroom stalls

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Ironically, the actual term ‘special relationship’ sees very little use in the US, primarily being a British way of categorizing the tight bonds between the two nations. However, this doesn’t change the fact that both countries are very much skipping along arm-in-arm, primarily admiring each other’s cultural output (leaving politics a secondary concern).

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Making tea in a microwave.

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#17

When my Brit friends were visiting, they were horrified when the waiter took their credit card to swipe back at the terminal. This made them REALLY uncomfortable.

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#18

Cutting lines for things, I’ve seen some people when going to Disney world trying to cut lines for random reasons. Queueing in the uk is like our national sport

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Redditor TownImmediate9060’s thread about the differences between the US and the UK was a roaring success. It got more than 67.7k upvotes in just over a week. What’s more, the thread got over 51k comments which just goes to show that the OP hit the nail on the head and chose a niche topic that plenty of folks were interested in.

The thread also got over 300 awards, proving that TownImmediate9060’s fellow Reddit users really appreciated them asking the question in the first place.

#19

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK My (British) partner & I (American) were in London, running late to meet our friends. Just as we get to the tube station, I see our train has just pulled in; we haul ass across platform and I yell, “HOLD THE DOOR.” Someone does, we make the train, I don’t see a problem. My partner, by contrast, is mortified. This was 4-5 years ago & he is still mortified. Apparently we were meant to just...let the train leave? Without us?? & wait for the next one???

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#20

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Asking new neighbors, "Have you found a church yet?"

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#21

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Huge portion sizes. Kids meal in U.S is like a adult meal in U.K.

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What’s your opinion about the relationship between the US and the UK, dear Readers? What, in your opinion, makes this relationship between the two special? What do you think are the main cultural differences between Americans and Brits? Let us know what you think in the comment section below. We’d absolutely love to get your take on this, especially if you’re currently living in the US or the UK.

#22

I was in Japan once and there was a vending machine selling beer outside my hotel room.

So, being British, I bought a can and went to the elevator where I shared an excruciating couple of minutes with two American business men. They were horrified at my early day drinking, and I at their willingness to express this.

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#23

As a Brit in the US, this is a fun one!

Pharmaceutical adverts on the TV are still weird af to me

The length and frequency of commercial breaks in general on TV is shocking

Low hanging fruit, but anything relating to child beauty pageants just makes me feel physically sick

Here's a nice one: taking 20+ minutes to help a complete stranger who is struggling with something. The amount of times a total stranger has stopped to assist me or someone I know? Y'all really make my heart melt!

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#24

Spray on cheese

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#25

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Addressing a stranger as ‘Sir’

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Responding to work emails while on leave/vacation.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK high fructose corn syrup

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#28

Chanting the acronym of your country at any given opportunity.

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#29

I don’t know how common it actually is there, but going fucking wild at the cinema during a hugely popular film like Avengers: Endgame or a Star Wars film. There’s a bunch of videos on YouTube of the audience reactions to various big franchise films and I don’t know how anybody lasts more than a few minutes in that room.

When I saw The Force Awakens, like two people half-heartedly cheered when the title screen came up and then someone immediately told them to shut up.

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#30

Refuse a drink to a grown-ass taxpaying 20 year old

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#31

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Telling me how much the tip is going to be.

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#32

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Not wanting to call for an ambulance if hurt

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#33

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Anything taking over an hour to get to being a "short trip"

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#34

Chatting with a stranger on the street. I do it all the time. My best friend is English. It horrifies him.

I said “how do you meet new people, like to date?”

“Oh, we get positively trashed in a pub and then it can happen.”

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Chatting casually at the lift.

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#36

Not pronouncing the 'h' in 'herbs'.

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#37

Not horrifying but pausing a show or event to ask members of the military to stand up for an applause would be weird over here.

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#38

The fake enthusiasm that everyone knows is fake but everyone buys into and plays along with.

I'm Irish but work for a company that has a very large UK client and a very large US client and I don't really see that fake enthusiasm coming from the Brits. You might get the odd person but everyone will just think they're a wanker where as with the yanks it's on a whole other level. Gets pretty dry when absolutely everything is "awesome".

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#39

Talking so loud that everyone within 100 meters can hear what you are saying.

Whooping. Just don't Chad, you aren't on a bucka-roo now.

Listing your positive qualities like you are in a job interview, but in a normal conversation. You must only speak ill of yourself.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Americans will ask 'How ya doing?' but not really expect an answer.

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#41

Naming your child Randy.

British people ITT: wait, people don't really name their child Randy, do they?

Americans: what's wrong with Randy?

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#42

As I found out is done in another thread the other day "eating sandwiches without butter on the bread" being from the UK this horrifies me.

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#43

Coming from the perspective of a British guy, your style of customer service. Not universally, but very commonly, it’s way too over the top for us.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK I’ve learned from my British friends that you have to be very careful giving peace signs. If you have your hand facing a certain way, it’s like a “f**k you” in the UK basically, whereas in the US it doesn’t matter which way it’s facing really. Several years ago I sent them a picture with me doing an “incorrect” peace sign and they were appalled

ETA: The offensive version is where your palm is facing inwards

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#45

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK When somebody says you should come to their house sometime, actually going by their house sometime.

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#46

Asking for a tour of their house. *SHUDDERS*

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Saying “hello” when you pass people.

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#48

Calling "Where's Wally" "Where's Waldo".

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#49

strangers asking "where" not if you go to church.

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#50

When someone says, 'make yourself at home' actually making yourself at home

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#51

A lot of ice in drinks. My grandfather visited Ireland and asked for ice in his drink. He said the people at the restaurant were confused and gave him two ice cubes.

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#52

30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK "Bum bag", not "fanny pack".

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#53

Saying someone has a lot of spunk

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#54

Talking about money. It's a bad habit of our never to discuss wages.

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#55

Looking around someone's house and complimenting things

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Tsk. Honestly did they not read the comments under the 'look at weird Americans" article from like 24 hours ago? Enough pls BP give us a break, or stagger them out. Not every day.

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Ren Karlej 3 years ago

Only just come onto BP today and came straight to the comments section instead of reading the article. ENOUGH ALREADY! Are we going from weekly to daily US bashing now Bored Panda? I downvoted the whole post and I rarely do that. Bored Panda - PACK IT IN.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Another 'ridiculous/bad/weird Americans' post. We are sick of them. How about making a post of nice things about the US for every time you have made a post of the opposite. It's enough already.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Here's an idea; Things the whole world thinks are weird about the UK! .... I'll start... Blood pudding.

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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

They could always do multiple posts on the fact the US has no decent wage, health & social services, gun laws. Also police offices killing children and having a shoot to kill mentality.

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Chenandoa 3 years ago

I'm an american...I am very interested about what others consider strange, or downright wrong here...I frequently agree with 'em

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noralin 3 years ago

Or how about making posts about other countries? Why is this one country always the center of attention?

2points

Dre Mosley 3 years ago

Bored Panda is a European site with a European writing staff, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

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Caroline 3 years ago

Well, the 1st good thing about the US is the good value of your beautiful houses. Sure, not all your houses, but most of the time, there're light, airy, big (even your small ones) and well thought of. 2nd: the space! It feels like there's plenty to breathe and no one would not know about claustrophobia. There are beautiful sceneries everywhere too. 3rd: your huge cars. How bada** you must feel driving them. 4th: you can stay in the US for a holiday and yet feel like you're in a totally different country. As a European, those are the cool things about the US that come straight into my mind.

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King Joffrey 3 years ago

Apart from criticising American healthcare (this is a very valid point), this is about how Americans do things differently without the implication that it is bad in any way... just different.

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danielw 3 years ago

or about a post bashing others, too. I wanna make fun of people, don't much care who they are! (er...)

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Rainbow Panda 3 years ago

That gives me a good idea. 💡

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Sanne H. 3 years ago (edited)

For me as a Dutch person with several Flemish acquaintances it’s funny to read about these differences. The habits of our two neighboring countries (Netherlands and Flanders) are more or less the same, but we have misunderstanding in expressions sometimes, like buitenwipper (Fl: bouncer, Du: someone having sex outside), aftrekker (Fl: Corkscrew, Du: someone who’s jerking off) and poepen (fl: having sex, du: to defecate), to name the three most shocking ones 😀

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

See this is great, I liked learning this ^-^ I wonder how the words came to have such different meanings between neighbouring countries

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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

My favourite is Fartkontrol for speed limits. Cracks me up every time!

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Allison Baker 3 years ago

I love that buitenwipper means bouncer - and made me think bootywhipper-> asswhipper!

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

Having visited the US of As I can share a positive. Americans are very generous. If you have an accent you will be bought drinks in a bar by those who claim to have ancestors from Scotland or Ireland.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

And almost everyone in the US has either Irish or Scottish ancestry, or thinks they do! :-D

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Not even going to read it.

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Julie C Rose 3 years ago

Same. Knock it off, BP (and I say this as a non-American myself.)

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Full of Giggles 3 years ago

STOP WITH THE AMERICA BASHING BULLSHIT!

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago

(unless it's last name is Trump)

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

This bullshit is so played out. I’m seriously considering leaving the site, it seems like for every entertaining article there’s 5 of these “aMeRiCa BaD” posts.

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Daphne Williams 3 years ago

Here's another list about how the different ways different cultures do things is horrifying and terrible. Please downvote this s**t. Upvote art, upvote kindness, upvote cute and funny animal, upvote comedy.

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Alex Bailey 3 years ago

I downvoted. I have been to the US a few times. Met many US people and most were lovely. Just how you'd expect in any country. A mixed bag but mostly fine. STOP picking on the US Bored Panda - and we KNOW you read the comments. FFS.

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Harlow 3 years ago

Do other countries have ridiculous insurance ads or is that just us?

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I think all countries have some ridiculous ads, just varies as to product, LOL.

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oddball0626 3 years ago

Are there any other countries to criticize? China? Russia? Anyone...?

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

I thought one a week was too much, but back to back days now? BP must really hate the US, sorry United States of America. Don’t want to use the abbreviation constantly since we apparently do that according to one of the posts.

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Virgil Sanders 3 years ago

i'm so tired of all the posts about america...ok we get it, you hate america, blah blah blah. give us something different to read please!

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Anony Mouse 3 years ago

FFS. Please stop posting the same article. It used to be every two weeks. Now it's daily. Did you not notice the entire comment section yesterday?

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

DEAR WORLD: From an American. Yes, we shock, horrify, and appall you. We know. Sometimes you do the same to others, too. We all have our cultural quirks. I hope the world is enjoying its schadenfreude. When you're done? Let the US know. Maybe we can hvae a discussion about how to solve problems? Peace out, An American

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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

I think Americans are great!

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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

According to these comments, everyone in the world thinks Americans are just horrible and with no manners. BUT, we still get people wanting to immigrate here, sneak over our borders....both North & South. If you don't like it, don't visit, don't live here.

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Really tired of these shitposts, BP. How would you feel if I habitually made fun of your culture and country whilst ignoring the amazing things, people, and experiences?

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Daniel Atkins 3 years ago

Apparently every staff writer must write one of these America Bad posts once a week every week. Man I miss the photo galleries of unusual places animals etc.

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Danieletc 3 years ago

Two America-bashing articles in two days. Go for three in three, you're heading that way-! (That's sarcasm, BP staff.)

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Honestly most of these are weird for the whole world not only for UK!

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Ricky Omo 3 years ago

This post was informative. I didn't realise Americans didn't use kettles..... Yeah this is very informative.

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Aria Whitaker 3 years ago (edited)

Of course we use Kettles. I have one on my stove as we speak. We carry both the electric and stovetop varieties. It was far from "informative" and more "I met two Americans and now think all 330 million are the same".....

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I pray you're being sarcastic. I prefer stovetop b/c I was raised with that. It's all about how we're used to things (or not used to them).

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Dre Mosley 3 years ago

But we do.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

How dare we not all comply with the UK version of everything! *gasp/faint*.... Seriously, for people who complain constantly that the US is too expectant that the world should be like the US, isn't the UK kinda doing the same? Everyone should do/know/speak the way they do in the UK? ...

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Isaac7lego 3 years ago

Wtf!!!! Did they not read the comments on "Americans are doing _____" article?????

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

ok but do people in the uk not talk to people at all i have never been but if that's the case it sounds a bit boring ]:

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

To chillchillpill: oh Jfc. Lol.

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Stargazer66 2 years ago

I agree with you on the pledge of allegiance. That's something fascists (hello Hitler) countries do (Hello Kim Jung).

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Tom Spade 3 years ago (edited)

Sensitive ass people. You don't even realize how indoctrinated some people are until they speak. Compared to many places, we are f****d up here. I'm from the Midwest, my fellow countryfolks, and even I can look around and see that we have huge issues here. No one else is getting butthurt over their countries being roasted, but here are some Americans, the most roastable people on earth, getting sensitive. Ok. You bunch of Richard Gere movie loving fucktards, show me your best sensitivity. I'll certainly use it as my first submission article for BP. Brothers and sisters, if our s**t was all that, we wouldn't be featured so heavily, now would we? Lighten the f**k up, people are just people, but true is true. No place or people are perfect, we're all messed up according to someone else. Take your s**t on the chin like the rest of us, and do feel free to have a sense of humor about it. If you'd like to stop showing up as a world meme, stop voting for divisive assholes. Biden and Trump...

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Sheree Hyde 3 years ago

Our differences are what makes life interesting! Nothing but interesting to me. My future son in law is Australian and my daughters ex boyfriend was British. Loved them both and yes, somethings they say or do was weird here in the US, but fun none the less. They found us equally entertaining !

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Si 3 years ago

The microwaved tea thing is horrifying though, I was genuinely shocked when I first heard of that. It’s like making wine out of lucozade or something.

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Kathy L 3 years ago

Damn, I wish I was British!

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

I actually do have Irish ancestry. My great grandmother moved to Detroit with her parents in 1920. From Dublin. Jfc. She still spoke with an Irish accent when she was in her 90s. So. Please stop.

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

Seriously BP. I love you , but it's getting old reading "let's s**t on America " posts. I'm bettering Americans are a big percentage of your readers . I'm honestly about to just delete the app. Every country has problems. We're not getting on here and making fun of other places

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W. 5 3 years ago

I love reading stuff like this because global thinking made us already know all our similarities but the differences are sometimes so amazing and interesting. I don't read it as a bashing. It's just fascinating that things I consider boringly normal are unknown or weird to other people.

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Aria Whitaker 3 years ago (edited)

It is not bashing when we get these things every so often...but they have these all the time now. And not for ANY other country but America. Can we see some for France vs Germany? Or Latvia VS Poland? Peru vs Australia? Sri Lanka vs Russia? When these are only posted to show how "weird" one country or culture is compared to the other 178 countries in the world...its past "fascinating" and into "bias".

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Big 3 years ago

Another day, another anti-American post. I'm tired of this constant xenophobia.

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ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago

We get, we suck. Now how about something entertaining about the US, Florida Man.

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maswartz 3 years ago

ENOUGH! Please stop with the "ha ha look how weird America is" articles DAILY!

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Paul Budhram 3 years ago

do another country or at least good things us, ok?

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Nga Wang 3 years ago

Trespassers will be shot.

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Gogubaci 3 years ago

I'll add not making eye conatct on the tube to the list, big faux pas in London

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Colin Matthews 3 years ago

F***y. Quite a different meaning in the USA vs many other places...

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Pungent Sauce 3 years ago

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Piet Puk 3 years ago

Parading children in padded bikinis and lipstick and have them judged.

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Elin Calliel 3 years ago

I am so glad I don't live in the US!

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

oh i didn't think of that let me tell more than a million people to what use butter on there bread or not talk to strangers got it all knowing one /s

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Tsk. Honestly did they not read the comments under the 'look at weird Americans" article from like 24 hours ago? Enough pls BP give us a break, or stagger them out. Not every day.

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Ren Karlej 3 years ago

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Another 'ridiculous/bad/weird Americans' post. We are sick of them. How about making a post of nice things about the US for every time you have made a post of the opposite. It's enough already.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Here's an idea; Things the whole world thinks are weird about the UK! .... I'll start... Blood pudding.

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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

They could always do multiple posts on the fact the US has no decent wage, health & social services, gun laws. Also police offices killing children and having a shoot to kill mentality.

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Chenandoa 3 years ago

I'm an american...I am very interested about what others consider strange, or downright wrong here...I frequently agree with 'em

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noralin 3 years ago

Or how about making posts about other countries? Why is this one country always the center of attention?

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Dre Mosley 3 years ago

Bored Panda is a European site with a European writing staff, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

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Caroline 3 years ago

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King Joffrey 3 years ago

Apart from criticising American healthcare (this is a very valid point), this is about how Americans do things differently without the implication that it is bad in any way... just different.

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danielw 3 years ago

or about a post bashing others, too. I wanna make fun of people, don't much care who they are! (er...)

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Rainbow Panda 3 years ago

That gives me a good idea. 💡

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Sanne H. 3 years ago (edited)

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

See this is great, I liked learning this ^-^ I wonder how the words came to have such different meanings between neighbouring countries

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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

My favourite is Fartkontrol for speed limits. Cracks me up every time!

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Allison Baker 3 years ago

I love that buitenwipper means bouncer - and made me think bootywhipper-> asswhipper!

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

And almost everyone in the US has either Irish or Scottish ancestry, or thinks they do! :-D

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Not even going to read it.

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Julie C Rose 3 years ago

Same. Knock it off, BP (and I say this as a non-American myself.)

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Full of Giggles 3 years ago

STOP WITH THE AMERICA BASHING BULLSHIT!

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago

(unless it's last name is Trump)

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

This bullshit is so played out. I’m seriously considering leaving the site, it seems like for every entertaining article there’s 5 of these “aMeRiCa BaD” posts.

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Daphne Williams 3 years ago

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Harlow 3 years ago

Do other countries have ridiculous insurance ads or is that just us?

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I think all countries have some ridiculous ads, just varies as to product, LOL.

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oddball0626 3 years ago

Are there any other countries to criticize? China? Russia? Anyone...?

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

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Virgil Sanders 3 years ago

i'm so tired of all the posts about america...ok we get it, you hate america, blah blah blah. give us something different to read please!

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Anony Mouse 3 years ago

FFS. Please stop posting the same article. It used to be every two weeks. Now it's daily. Did you not notice the entire comment section yesterday?

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

I think Americans are great!

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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Really tired of these shitposts, BP. How would you feel if I habitually made fun of your culture and country whilst ignoring the amazing things, people, and experiences?

1point

Daniel Atkins 3 years ago

Apparently every staff writer must write one of these America Bad posts once a week every week. Man I miss the photo galleries of unusual places animals etc.

1point

Danieletc 3 years ago

Two America-bashing articles in two days. Go for three in three, you're heading that way-! (That's sarcasm, BP staff.)

1point

Vicky Z 3 years ago

Honestly most of these are weird for the whole world not only for UK!

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Ricky Omo 3 years ago

This post was informative. I didn't realise Americans didn't use kettles..... Yeah this is very informative.

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Aria Whitaker 3 years ago (edited)

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I pray you're being sarcastic. I prefer stovetop b/c I was raised with that. It's all about how we're used to things (or not used to them).

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Dre Mosley 3 years ago

But we do.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Isaac7lego 3 years ago

Wtf!!!! Did they not read the comments on "Americans are doing _____" article?????

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

ok but do people in the uk not talk to people at all i have never been but if that's the case it sounds a bit boring ]:

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

To chillchillpill: oh Jfc. Lol.

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Stargazer66 2 years ago

I agree with you on the pledge of allegiance. That's something fascists (hello Hitler) countries do (Hello Kim Jung).

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Tom Spade 3 years ago (edited)

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Sheree Hyde 3 years ago

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Si 3 years ago

The microwaved tea thing is horrifying though, I was genuinely shocked when I first heard of that. It’s like making wine out of lucozade or something.

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Kathy L 3 years ago

Damn, I wish I was British!

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

I actually do have Irish ancestry. My great grandmother moved to Detroit with her parents in 1920. From Dublin. Jfc. She still spoke with an Irish accent when she was in her 90s. So. Please stop.

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

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W. 5 3 years ago

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Big 3 years ago

Another day, another anti-American post. I'm tired of this constant xenophobia.

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ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago

We get, we suck. Now how about something entertaining about the US, Florida Man.

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maswartz 3 years ago

ENOUGH! Please stop with the "ha ha look how weird America is" articles DAILY!

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Paul Budhram 3 years ago

do another country or at least good things us, ok?

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Nga Wang 3 years ago

Trespassers will be shot.

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Gogubaci 3 years ago

I'll add not making eye conatct on the tube to the list, big faux pas in London

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Colin Matthews 3 years ago

F***y. Quite a different meaning in the USA vs many other places...

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Pungent Sauce 3 years ago

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Piet Puk 3 years ago

Parading children in padded bikinis and lipstick and have them judged.

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Elin Calliel 3 years ago

I am so glad I don't live in the US!

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

oh i didn't think of that let me tell more than a million people to what use butter on there bread or not talk to strangers got it all knowing one /s

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