Things I think are true about America based on Tv and Film

[PennyHasNoSurname]

People sort of pick at their food with just a fork - putting it on, scraping it off, moving it round the plate before putting it back on again and eating half of whats on the fork. Food must be stone cold by the end.

Nobody says goodbye on the phone. Now I know us Brits are painfully polite to a fault but "see you later" or "bye" is basic?

Everyone eats out of packets / dried goods. Of which they have 3000 of in their basement

School finishes at about 11am. University is called School (isnt that confusing?!)

[BarbaraofSeville]

The cap must be a really popular method of contraception, because the women always make a point of popping to the bathroom during foreplay.

[EricNorthmanSucks]

There are loads if serial killers.

And they like to have a theme; killing their victims by the zodiac or placing in the bodies in semaphore positions.

This is very helpful to the cops who are relying on catching a serial killer ( having worked out his theme) to chase away the demons of having not caught the last one ( having worked out his theme to late).

[ClaraLane]

They always have at least a dozen pillows on the bed that they have to take off before they can actually get into it.
Americans never pull the curtains or shut the blinds in their bedrooms.
Lamps are turned on via a switch on the wall and rooms don't have a "main" light in the middle of the ceiling (although I think this is actually true as I've read about a few families on blogs who had to have a light fixture installed on the ceiling).
Despite not getting much annual leave everyone always has time to meet their friends for coffee.

[squoosh]

Nobody has a recycling bin.

[officebairn]

This is hilarious, wish we could read a British version (i.e. a bunch of american mums sitting round talking about what they think things are like over here)

[gwenneh]

Lots of places don't recycle. Archaic, I know -- but where we lived before we moved, there was no recycling.

[squoosh]

No one has a garden shed either.

[squoosh]

No Christmas crackers.

I'm sad for crackerless Crimbo dinners.

[iluvnettletea]

You can take just stroll through the New Orleans French quarter, find a little bar, sit down at one of the empty tables near the front by the fantastic jazz singer.

[EricNorthmanSucks]

nettletea bit you should anticipate being killed by vampires in due course.

[EricNorthmanSucks]

Beautiful women in their early twenties routinely fall for men in their late forties!

[gwenneh]

squoosh my parents are totally enchanted by Christmas crackers and when we are there for Christmas that's always our contribution.

Yes, calling parents "sir" or "ma'am" was a thing when we were in trouble.

nettle, I've done that in New Orleans. Walk in to random smoky little bar, sit by the musician, it's amazing.

[BarbaraofSeville]

There is always somewhere to park right outside wherever you are going and no-one ever seems to pay for parking, even in the middle of big cities.

[TheSecondViola]

There are no internal doors in houses. Seriously huge houses, but only archways, never any doors.

[squoosh]

I'm glad Christmas crackers are breaking through gwenneh!

[PaleBlueDottie]

If a CTU agent says I promise to keep you alive then most likely you will die.

If he gives you his word however, you may well live to see another attack day

[squoosh]

District attorneys are always gorgeous.

[ChampaleSocialist]

Literally everyone can sing in tune, even plants. And there are hundreds of different kinds of monster and zombie that no one seems that surprised about.

[PantsOfGold]

When confronted with unusual surroundings, it is routine to stop, gasp, gaze around in wonder and declare "what IS this place?"

[squoosh]

School football is more important than life or death. For everyone in the town, not just the people playing.

[gwenneh]

squoosh, it is. Particularly if your team is well-placed in the state/national rankings. Ours wasn't but the whole town turned out for games, no exceptions.

[SquinkiesRule]

ROFLOL Office I was thinking the same thing.
I can answer some as we lived there just about all my adult life until the last two years.
Metal detectors are usually found in inner city schools, ours was rural and kids still had gun racks in the backs of their pick up trucks, sometimes still had the gun in.
Houses aren't always massive, my boys shared a room, it was 10ftx12ft plus a big built in closet.
No one does seem to have recycle bins, you use your own bins to recycle and then drive it all to the recycle center, mainly because it all has a value and you get money for it.
University, college and school is all called school. true. I still call the local college here in UK where Ds goes school He corrects me every time.
See ya later or laters, or see you soon, talk to you later, are all acceptable sign off on the phone.
Last day of the school year is a huge deal, some places get 3 months off, kids cry. The school buses all honk their horns as the drive off campus, and all the cars in line for pick up honk back. The kids are all hanging out the windows and waving, it's like a movie. Chances are they don't see that many friends over summer, lots of camps (bible, sports etc) and visiting relatives all over the place, or where we were families had cabins up at the lakes and went for weeks at a time. We used to borrow a friends place and go for a couple of weeks.
Our first house had plugs that turned on with the wall switch, so those plugs had lamps in (no ceiling lights except the kitchen ad bathroom) So flip a switch and the lamps came on.
No one needs a garden shed, they have a mahoosive garage to store all the junk in.

[AskingForAPal]

Every Mayor is corrupt.

People really, really care and are interested about whether 15, 16,17, 18 year olds (even older) are having sex. And if they are, it is shameful. Unless they are boys, then it is high fives all round. Unless it is with other boys, then it is shameful again. Obvs.