To ask overseas folk what British quirks they think are weird/funny?

[Burntmybiscuits]

Us Brits are always on our high horse, making light humour over the habits of other countries (particularly the U.S!), so I thought it would be funny to see what people overseas find 'unique' about us!

*unchallenged

@LoungingInParadise i should have been Caribbean!

@Theknacktoflying I love pub quizzes, had never comes across them before, but it is one of the things I like about England.
Yes to seeing a 2 hour car journey as an incredibly long journey. I never understand those threads like AIBU to decline a wedding invite that means a 2 hour drive there? I do not think of that as a long drive at all. Luckily I have educated my DP into my way of thinking and we will go on a day out with the children and drive there 2 hours and back 2 hours in the same day. It is not a big deal.

The chickens I buy in Aldi and Tesco clearly state "Do Not Wash"

@OmgThereAreNoPlanesAboveMeNow, no you can't, except in parts of Scotland, where I believe it is still legal to "wild camp".

Even in places like Dartmoor, where you can walk virtually anywhere, camping is forbidden. I think landowners would worry that if someone managed to camp in a forgotten corner, undetected, for long enough theymight acquire some sort of legal right over the land.

Glad you find it interesting though, I nearly deleted it all because I thought it was bit of a lecture.

I wonder why we don't have bidets in uk

There are pros and cons with every way of living. I think cultures with strong extended family binds are much harder for outsiders to integrate into unless you have married into one of the families. England is much easier to make friends.

At my school, we were taught map-reading as part of Geography in year 8 or 9. We were sent, in small groups, into the woods near our school and picked up at the other end, approx 2.5 miles away, armed only with a map and a compass. This was long before GPS and mobile phones, and I never heard of anyone getting lost.
We used to do that in summer camps (learning to read maps was doe at school though). And the night scare walk😂

@ OmgThereAreNoPlanesAboveMeNow Netherlands??

At my school we had to wear blindfolds, and were dropped off in the minibus and had to find our way back with a map.

Queueing. Apparently we are the only country in the world that forms queues to get on buses etc.

@LakieLady oh yes. The informal aquisition of land. That's quite unique too isn't it?
No. It was really interesting! Thank you!

@edgeware Czech

Oh god the heating. People fiddling with it constantly, on for an hour, then off, then on for half an hour, off again. Not putting heating on in the middle of the winter if you're home alone, because it's a waste, and sitting there with coats and gloves.
I've lived in 5 European countries - in all of them, heating goes on in autumn and off in spring.

@alloutoffucks : my husband once took a trip with his English cousins and with the frequent stops and tea breaks it took 3 times the amount of time it should have. Just get in the car and drive .... it just about killed him ..

also, So many cooking shows and chefs, yet most people don’t spend time cooking or just always eat the basic stuff ...

I’m just going to say that an awful lot of these things, I don’t think are generally the case here! I always rinse dishes. Everyone I know takes shoes off on the house. And some things I assume happen in others countries too, like chatting at work and strange sandwich combinations.

@alloutoffucks where did you go to school? FARC high?

Why DO you use a washing up bowl, btw?

Often there's only one sink, nd then you can pour dregs of tea etc down the side.
It uses less water.
Plastic bowls are softer than sinks and you're less likely to break things.

My American bil was horrified to see faggots on a menu in a Black Country pub!

Pudding
Why is it a pie, a sponge or a yorkshire pudding?!

Or a mousse, cheesecake, souffle, fool, posset, jelly, trifle, Charlotte, meringue, custard ... I

I wonder why we don't have bidets in uk

Often the bathrooms are too small even built on the back downstairs in terraced housing or with a separate toilet.

I think people like a separate shower here

@Santaclauswhosthat I amuse my kids by telling them what happened in my childhood. So much freedom.

@Theknacktoflying I am so glad my DP is converted to just driving somewhere. I wonder if this is why so many people seem to think a 2 hour driving journey is a long journey?

I haven’t seen carpet in a bathroom since 1995 or ever in a kitchen !

Most of these were fun and true but turned into a Brit bash quite quickly

We are both foreign so we take day trips with driving 2 hours somewhere and 2 hours back and never found it odd.

You have so much I love. The one thing I don't get is the wedding tier system.

Here in Australia if you are invited to a wedding you go to the ceremony and then the reception.