to think there is something wrong with Americans?

[TheBloodManCometh]

In Colorado, here for 5 weeks.

Why the HELL is there a half inch gap on either side of the door in all public toilets?? You can see everything going on!!!
This has been the case everywhere I've been in America?
AIBU to be both baffled and embarrassed

lighthearted btw. I don't really think there's something wrong with the Americans

I've been in public toilets with those dryers where the noise was so loud it was painful - in fact I'm a little surprised that they're allowed to be so loud in such a confined space.

I understand that the American's have no idea what a fortnight is.

Is this true?

Of course not, it's just not commonly used. It's thought of as very old-fashioned. We like to say two weeks.

Actually, when I posted the air blade, I meant it as something I saw here in the US - I didn't realize they were popular in the UK.

I think shoving your hands into a machine is terrifying!

I still want to know if your dryers are generally louder.

I think many Americans do know what it means, especially if they read British fiction, but no one uses it.

Actually, when I posted the air blade, I meant it as something I saw here in the US - I didn't realize they were popular in the UK.*

UK invention. James Dyson is English!

To be honest I never noticed the brand! I put in "dryers you stick your hands into" and used the first image google gave me!

A hand dryer is about as loud as a vacuum cleaner or hairdryer here. And our toilets are small so the sound echoes and sounds louder.

Some are very loud here too.

I know what a fortnight is but have never heard anyone say it. We don't say "school run" either. Or other things like "could do" or "might do". I remember reading I Don't Know How She Does It and an American character said (about dinner reservations) "they could do us a table in the corner". Americans would never say that.

Also jelly and pudding. Those are different. And vests!

Herms it dropped off mine too, I just saw it in Active.

And rubber. And most especially, fanny.

The HS the DCs attend has somewhere between 3,500 and 3,800 students. During the height of the baby boom the building accommodated over 6000 students and I have no idea where they put them all. Their elementary school had 450 give or take, students aged 5 to 13/14.

My secondary school in Ireland had 800 students aged 12 to 17/18.

Also jelly and pudding.

The pudding thing gets me. It's my understanding that British people use the word "pudding" in place of the word "dessert." Yet here in the US, pudding is a type of food, not a meal course. The first time I saw someone post they had cake for pudding, it made no sense to me.

can yo still get strawberry and kiwi philly?
those were my addiction amongst oreos when living.

On the subject of embarrassing naming of things I had no idea that a pair of braces are called suspenders in America.
That was a fun conversation with a small boy getting dressed for a smart meal out. .." Sorry what? You want to wear your new red suspenders"

( although to be honest I was just as appalled that braces were considered smart on a 3 yearbold).

Although I am aware of things being puddings, like sponge pudding, summer pudding, Yorkshire pudding and black pudding (all of which are very different things); the word pudding can be used in place of dessert or sweet as a course in a meal.

But then you risk get into the whole dinner/tea/supper debate.

Pudding in the US struck me as being like Angel Delight.

I thought sweet meant candy. Does it mean dessert too?

The best American dessert called pudding is banana pudding, a Southern specialty. I think you can see from this picture that it has British ancestry.

That's lovely kate. I didn't know that. I bloody love triffle.