... you hear an ad for a family law firm on the radio and their phone number is 1-800-DIVORCE.

... you flip through an English gossip magazine and have no idea who any of the people featured are.

You are asked on a regular, almost daily basis, if you have ever met Princess Diana or have ever had tea with the queen

Good one!!!

... you're either told on a regular basis that you have a great accent OR asked if you're from Australia

You can draw money out of the bank, fill the car up with gas, buy beer, pick up your prescription and wash your car all without standing up.

..... you see the crappy way the adverts are done on TV (e.g they cut the advert before it's finished airing or you see a brief 1 - 3 second ad and then a full advert, seems to me that they recycle the tape without erazing it first, a classic case of poor editorial skills)

..... you attempt to get in the wrong side of the car to drive down the shops ! (yep, done it here ... opps)

..... you can not find your fav food in the shops (cream, double cream, thick double cream, weetabix.

..... you can not find an electrical screw driver in the hardware stores ! (all they sell are test probes, wtf !)

..... someone cuts you up on the road without using their indicators and mirrors just to be in front of you !

..... you have a tail gater ..... they tend to sit on your rear as if they are looking through the contents in the back of the car...... wtf .... sometimes I feel like stopping the car in the middle of the road and walking to the back and opening the boot and asking the driver if s/he wants anything from it !

I always do that... I am hoping that one day it stops!



When watching a TV show... You have to suffer a 5 minute advert break every 7 and a half minutes (or more) and the final part of the show after the last break only lasts for about 25 seconds before it ends. What IS the point in that?

It won't! Because you'll finally get it right, and then you'll go home for a visit and do the same thing over there. So by the time you come back you'll have been retrained and you'll start doing it all over again.

LOL All of the above and they called it soccer not football because they call a game where they throw the ball Football.

Tony

... you are getting into a tv programme when the commercials cut in mid-way through a sentence



... you get a commercial break just before the credits of a show that has just ended... then after the credits stop rolling there is *another* commercial break

I had it said to me that I speak good english, duh I am english.lol

LOL too funny!

I saw a commercial for a pill to cure 'erectile disfunction' while I was visiting in February. I nearly feel off my chair laughing. My SO didn't see what was so funny until I told him that in no way would they ever show this in the UK, and certainly not at about 8 or 9pm in between regular tv viewing. The guy in the ad looked so pleased with himself too, hilarious!

Not about that ad, but all the other medical adverts...
At the end, the voice over guy reads the list of possible side effects (or they are printed on screen), of which there are about 50, and all of them worse than the problem that the medicine cures.


I hate that... We'll be right back after this break... To tell you the show's over


How about when you're out somewhere and there's a loud short bang, and someone jokes that someone has just been shot.

and then looking round sheepishly to see if anyone noticed, so I learnt to check where the steering wheel is through the rear window, before getting in and activating the windscreen wipers instead of the indicators.

..... you see a commercial for medication for genital herpes at 5pm

..... you're repeatedly asked to spell any word with an 'r' in it

..... when you order water in a restaurant you never know what you'll end up with!

Glad to hear this isn't just a Tennessee thing!! It drives me CRAZY!!!!!!

(I'm not sure why you can't find an electric screwdriver, though!)

It's an Ohio thing...... and a Michigan thing..... and a Utah thing..... oh and Idaho, Kentucky.... pretty much everywhere I've been here!

I understand it better now that I've taken the driving test and realized that a monkey could pass it.

Turning on a red light. Still trying to figure that one out lol.

...when someone says they are going to cut ON the lights.

How do you cut something on??

"WHEN THE WEATHERMAN SAYS WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LIGHT SNOW, BUT THAT TURNS OUT TO BE 14 INCHES"

God Help the UK if they ever got Snow like we get here..... the whole country would grind to a halt.....


Kez

If it's turning right lol get used to it. Unless the sign specifically says "No Turn On Red" it will happen

Lol it already grindes to a halt with 1 inch of snow or wrong kind of snow lol .

No!!! That's Belfast!!!

how about traffic lights hanging across the road, lol

LOL where are the lights suppose to be?

Ok, American guy here!

I don't get the soccer (football), When I was in school I played it all the time and I loved it. But to watch it being played is like watching paint dry. No one ever scores points!

How can this be enjoyable?

I have the same problem with hockey, but in this case I cannot see where the puck is most of the time. At least in Soccer (football) I know where the ball is.

Just my observation.

Here there are on the side of the road on a post, lol so it seems funny to have to look up in the sky to see them lol ask Kris lol

LOL I get annoyed having to look to the side.. perfer to go about my merry way and glance a sec up to see what color the light is LOL

I've never understood what's so exciting about American "football". Takes like an hour to get from one end of the field to the other!! I went and saw the Denver Broncos, never been so bored in all my life.

Yep its all about what your used to he he

I'm with you on this one! I keep trying but god it's SOOOOO dull!

LOL personally I don't like walking sports. Would rather grab a movie and my sweety and keep ourselves entertained!!!

Roundabouts. Where in the states do you get them, if any. I didnt see one roundabout in Louisiana. They would save money on traffic lights at least.

You get them in the northeast - MA especially. They are called rotaries.

There's actually one near where I live in LA - no one knows how to use it though - they just accelerate and hope for the best.

I've seen them in FL and CO too, though they're sporadic. And I agree.... no one knows how to use them.

It's called a soft right. My hubby thinks it's brilliant.



I never got into hockey until I started going to games. I agree it's hard to see the puck on TV (at least when you're still learning the sport), so it's difficult to get into it that way. Hubby is probably a bigger hockey fan than I am now -- going to games regularly is what did it for him.

Hehe, there's a few roundabouts in Iowa. I love how they're plastered with signposts to tell you exactly what to do, but folk still don't quite get it ><

Everyone should get sent to Milton Keynes for roundabout training.


Stu

Haha Milton Keynes was going through my head there. Think theres a roundabout every 100 yards there lol.

I had my roundabout training at Five Ways in Birmingham. Actually it was more of a reenactment of that scene in National Lampoons European Vacation only with less exciting landmarks

we have those turns on red in Aus too

of course, they're left turns there...

I THINK it started as 'with permission only' - there were signs saying 'left turn on red permitted after stopping', but then changed to 'permitted unless prohibited'
but of course, I haven't been driving there for almost four years, so I may not know what the hell I'm talking about

Big Ben... Parliament...

In Brum it was more like "look kids Bull Ring, BT Tower"

Our town square is basically a roundabout.

Love all the responses!!!!!

My other half is always having to stop me throwing cushions at the TV - the adverts (sorry - commercials!!!!) drive me NUTS - GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

And the other thing is the way they have commercials for the WEATHER forecast - and then the weather "teasers" - ie: "There may be rain next week - stay tuned for more details"!

Oh, and the drug advertisement epics during the news........................"Viva Via-gra..."

HAHAHA ... the Magic Roundabout springs to mind .... now that would be fun to see a USC navigate that .....

HEY...Have i killed us in a roundabout yet?????/

I think I remember you mentioning this before!!



I was going to say the exact same thing - we don't often get "extremes" so pretty much anything that comes out of the blue totally screws us up



My mum watched a match and said much the same thing - they keep stopping and a game that is made up of four quarters lasted like three hours!!!



I think Oregon has a couple...



Yeah - Bradley Stoke near where I live is pretty bad for roundabouts but nowhere near as bad as Milton Keynes

Yeah I live near Milton Keynes, good for tyre manufacturers lol

......... you no longer understand half the jokes on top gear, and they cut them off mid sentence for commercials!

......... people think Dick van Dyke has an incredible Cockney accent in Mary Poppins

There are roundabouts in Oregon - much to my horror. I still haven't decided if you give way to traffic from the left or right - or if it's like a 4 way stop or ... I just go if no one else is coming either way ... cue beeping of many horns.