I don't like IHOP, but I do like Cracker Barrel for brekkers. Except for those nasty baked apples. eeew

They do most excellent salads too. My hubby likes the meatloaf. Well, he did until he read the calorific content. Now he doesn't like it anymore.

Oooooooooh. They have the most amazing caramel corn with pecans there. *drool* In the shop, not on the menu.

When the word "fcuk" is always censored on TV..... but you can watch the demon doll chucky slice and dice any time of day.

Why on earth did you tell me that?

I'm going to have to buy an extra seat next time I fly back to England and i'm going to hold you 100% responsible

This is slightly OT but my friend is from Michigan and still has her Michigan license. We went out a while ago to the bar we always go to and they had a new door man on that night. Well, he saw her license and wouldn't let her in! He'd never seen a Michigan license before and thought it was fake! She was like.... Michigan is the next state to Ohio! There are tons of people from Michigan here. He had to go check with his supervisor and we waited 5 mins to be let in on her "fake" license.

I was glad I had my Ohio license and not my UK one!

little babies 'bum cracks' are blurred out

WHAT?!!

Tell me about it... I am so joining a gym when I move...



Yeah - that really annoys me - I mean it's not like you don't know what they are saying anyway...

We got an electric kettle from walmart. It wasn't the greatest but at least it boiled water for Tea

Its been along time since I've been asked for proof ( I'm 49 years old) of age but here we have to show our driving license when we go into a bar LOL

This is a great thread. I love all of the responses and it will help me get ready for things that will surely irritate Phil.

The roundabout stories are so funny. When I went to England for a visit - that baffled me the most. And one of the bigger differences between the UK and USA are the toilets. I did not like the UK toilets at all.

when you turn on the TV and scary movies are played at 12 in the afternoon

when you use the term adverts and people look at you like you're talking chinese

when you can drive to a fast food joint in less than 5 minutes from your home

when public transport sucks in non-major cities

when asked if you like george bush

when asked if you like americans

when asked if people in England drink ... LOL

when you turn on the TV and there are commercials for "girls in your area" wtf? o.o

Hey Mags,

I do the hot water bottle trick in winter too! I brought my first electric kettle with me. After a while, it died. We found a second one at an estate sale and used it for quite a while. It died. I looked all over for an electric kettle - Sears here didn't have any - nor did Walmart or Target. I finally found one in Brandsmart USA - and they only had one style. Apparently they used to be quite common, friends tell me, but once microwaves became so popular they just seemed to disappear from stores.

Doesnt matter where you go, at some point of the day you see someone in there army uniform.

You turn the channel over and its the weather. You turn over again and its the weather. ( Is the weather channel the most watched station in the US lol? )

I went into Home Depot in Louisiana and asked about bathroom taps, they hadnt a clue what i was talking about. The same about silicone, WTF. They call it faucets and caulking............Strange lol

We got our kettle at Target. I was surprised, it's actually not bad. The one we had before it was also from Target but if you wanted to make more than 2 cups of tea you'd have to boil it twice because it was so small!

Now that the duvet discussion has been had, y'all have now moved on to kettles. WHERE'S ALLAN?!? He is a man of many opinions on the subject of kettles.


The one I bought from Target is very comparable to a UK kettle (though I'm sure the all serene badger would disagree)

I'm bringing my UK kettle, and my clever fiance has found out a way to make it run normally

You can get them at Benny's if you guys have that store in your state. We have one, has worked perfectly for a while now.

Here is the website for you guys, if anyone wants a kettle or other products!

http://www.proctorsilex.ca/products/products2_en.html

Actually scratch what I said about the kettle. This morning it wouldn't turn off and is now clearly broken. Hubs can't believe it is of such shoddy quality and has used it as chance to get on his soap box about "this country." Apparently kettles never break in the UK.

Oooh, a kettle conspiracy! Don't diss the kettle....

Hubby doesn't drink regular black tea but if he has herbal tea - he boils water on the stove instead of microwaving it. I find it amusing.

OMG I know - I came back from the US and felt really grossed out having to pull a flush!!

What are you guys talking about?

I am guessing they are talking about those chains you have to yank.

Also - UK toilet stalls are too small!

Us brits have smaller bums

Make sure he doesn't mess up the electrics in his home. Kettle aren't expensive here anyway. We only paid a tiny sum for our Wal-Mart one. 18 months later it still works really well.




Oh no! Now you're for it!

I'm guessing with a name like "William Wallace" you have never had to negotiate sitting down without knocking over the sanitary towel container

Oh how I wish that was the case

PMSL i will give you that one

Oh I HATE that!!! In fact there is a pub near me where you have to actually straddle the toilet bowl to get the door shut...

lol too funny

the thing that boggles my mind with that is when the door JUST clears the toilet, so you have to flatten yourself against the wall of the stall to open or close it, but there's another six feet of room from the stalls to the basins
it's like that at my workplace... I just don't get why they couldn't have moved things forward even a foot

US toilets ARE nice, but they use far too much water... even without the 'save-water-we're-having-a-six-year-drought' sensibilities carved into me from living in Australia, that's just not good... I wish there was better use of grey water, too (US, UK, Aus, I'm not distinguishing with that one) - the fact that we flush our toilets with water cleaner than half the world's population has to drink never ceases to make me extremely uncomfortable

i love the Cracker Barrel First place im going when i get back is either perkins cracker barrel for brekky or Applebees for wings.

Being asked fifteen times if i would like pie at perkins not a slice the whole damned thing.

Being in a queue at walmart and the guy infront is buying guns and ammo

Omg I so love Cracker Barrell, I go to thier website every now and again just to remind me.

I agree - they need to do away with self-flushing toilets here (the ones that flush when you merely shift your weight) and introduce those "half flush/full flush" buttons (or whatever they are called) like you get in Oz

I still remember hubby's first experience at Walmart where he saw the guns and ammo for sale. He about croaked!

I felt like a proper tourist when I was in the US for the first time and just had to take this photo:

I leant forward on a loo at a highway services once and it triggered the automatic flush. The suction noise was so loud and sudden that it made me leap off the loo in fright. I felt like a right prat.


Stu

when did flushing the toilet become so cumbersome that it had to be automated?

I am a fan of the automatic seat covers you get in some places

I don't trust that they are actually new covers...

LMAO!!!

I always thought to myself ...if I was an actress, would I really want to be the face of genital herpes? Just a hypothetical question...

LMAO... I sometimes wonder that too!!!

Also...

... you see "lube" shops on every street corner

... you need to go to "liquor stores" and "smoke shops" to get cigarettes and alcohol (yeah yeah, I know you get them in grocery stores too but still )

I used to work at a sporting goods store (Scheel's for all you upper Midwesterners) and I worked in the "gift lodge" which sold rustic home furnishings and such. We had a wedding registry that mainly was for people who wanted to decorate their home "rustic style." However, one day I had a guy come in and ask to sign up for the registry...which was unusual since it was usually a woman or couples that did that.

Anyways, after an hour he came back with his registry. I kid you not, the registry was mainly guns, ammo and fishing gear LMAO!!!

And don't get me started on my stories of working at the Cabela's call center. I remember I had a paraplegic guy call once and during the order he told me the story of how he liked to take pot shots at squirrels from his back deck since he couldn't use a tree stand anymore!

Maybe her contract for massengil ran out.


does anyone remember this ad? (some of you may be too young) This is a conversation I often have with my mother when we go sailing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N91XsdrBqUY...feature=related

I have some instances of an "Aunt Fanny" in the family tree...

I found a pleasant little restaurant in Newcastle near St. Jame's Park that had me in stitches with it's name:

Ahh genius... the world of Engrish

I used to know a girl called Amy Ho in college - she was in the same sorority as Jennifer Slutzsky

Well, there was a guest here at the hotel the other day called Mike Hunt. Seriously. Do Mothers not think before naming their kids?

There was a story in the paper about someone who named their son Drew... There last name is Peacock...