What's socially acceptable in the US that would be horrifying in the UK? - Ask Reddit
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Published 2021-05-02
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All Comments (21)
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Imma make a community video based on this one so comment away!
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If a waiter ever takes my credit card out of my sight, I would assume I was being robbed lol
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the religion thing I find so weird because we literally don't have separation of church and state in the uk, technically every school is Christian unless stated other wise AND YET we don't include religion in our politics ever
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When my (British) parents were living in the states, they knew someone named Randy Balls. They thought it was hilarious, and even funnier that no one else thought anything of it.
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As a Brit, I have no issue with iced tea itself. I do however have an issue with it being referred to as simply 'tea', or mentioning tea, and someone assuming somehow it must be iced.
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The waiter taking your card is not about convenience its about security. When the waiter takes your card away out of your sight you don't know if they are swiping the details from it. That's why in the UK they bring the payment terminal to the table.
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You know what's weirder than calling random people sir? When I see American kids calling their parents Sir and Ma'am. It's weird. They're your parents!
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Watching this as an Australian was kinda funny. I swear, we’re the secret love child of these two countries.
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With the train one shouting "hold the door" YES. You're absolutely supposed to wait for another train. Don't screw other people over by making them wait just because YOU were late
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A friend of mine worked in a primary school. All the kids called him 'Miss' because he was the only male teacher and they thought 'Miss' is what you called teachers. After the first six months, he gave up trying to correct them.
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I've always used the word Dinky to mean something small, I even named my cat Dinky, many, many years ago. So I looked it up. Dinky: attractively small and neat. "a dinky little restaurant"
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During my visit to the US, I was consistently uncomfortable with how in-your-face people working in customer service would be.. It's was very weird not being allowed to just enter a store and do my thing without someone basically following me trying to push stuff on me.
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It's even more convenient when the waiter brings the card reader to your table, like it's done in most countries!
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I am a Scandinavian who lived in England for a year, and I thought shop clerks and servers were way too nice. I had no idea if they were being genuine, doing their job or if they were flirting with me... If they are even friendlier in America I don't think I could handle it!
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the most you will ever get in a British cinema is the occasional laugh at a joke, nothing more
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Im from Scandinavia and Im with the brits on the whole ”butter on bread” thing. First thing that goes on the bread when making a sandwich is butter.
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“Wouldn’t that be nice in a fictitious world where I actually want you at my house.” Is so exactly how I feel about company, I feel seen.
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As a brit being called Sir in the US makes me feel incredibly important and fancy, it’s almost unnecessarily polite
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The "Miss" thing is probably a leftover from when most female teachers were unmarried. Female nurses and teachers were expected to leave the job when they got married.
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The "How much sugar is added to US food vs UK food" makes me a bit scared. I have a friend who studied in the UK for a while, and she told us that everything in the UK tasted so damn sweet, she told us that UK yogurt tasted like dessert, UK cereals tasted like dessert, and so on. And if that's the case when comparing UK to Sweden, and US is worse than the UK, then I don't want to know how bad it is in the US.
