2. When you start talking to someone about Doctor Who and they give you a blank look.
3. People who put on a fake British accent around you. Especially teachers. Then it gets kind of creepy.
4. People who beg you to say things like “tomato”. It gets annoying.
5. When people assume you’ve been to boarding school and you’ve lived in London.
6. When people actually ask you if you’re related to Keira Knightly or Harry Potter. No, not Daniel Radcliffe, HARRY POTTER!
7. No fish and chips:(
8. Being corrected on the pronunciation of herb, vitamin, and zebra, and most recently, via.
9. The times when someone asks you if they really have a holiday called Boxing Day in England and I reply “They don’t have that here?…” even after nine years of living in America.
10. When you get asked which you like more, England or America, and you have no idea what to say because you prefer England, but you don’t want to offend them by not saying America.
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The Harry Potter one is scarily true…
i think its so funny! do people really ask u stuff like that, and ask you to say tomato ! that sooooo weird !
I love this list! I can’t belive you they ask you things like that.
I still don’t know wat parliment is!
The Parliament is kinda like a government.
Kinda.
Parliament is the governing body of England, I know that, just not the specific details.
HARRY POTTER????
I never guessed people were so…um…stupid.
Yeah it is scarily true, that and on a few trips out there I get asked (very frequently)
“Oh my gosh! Are you Australian?”
The only reason I don’t turn and smack them in the face is because of my typically British stiff upper lip.
10 Bad Things about Being American in Britain:
1) Are you Canadian?
2) Being corrected all the time with words such as tomato, herb, vitamin, pita, zebra…etc
3) Assume that I love burgers and that every American eats burgers all the time
4) Assume all Americans are fat when there are over 300 million people and there are plenty of thin ones
5) Thinks all Americans are religious fanatics
6) Always asking me about the Southern accent (I’m from the North) just a little too facinated where they start talking to me in southern accents – funny
7) Expect me to know all about US Govt policies in Iraq and Afghanistan
9) Long a*s ques…. need I say more
10) Crap customer service and train delays
11) Royal Mail – I had to throw this in!