What is socially acceptable in the U.S. that would be horrifying in the U.K.? 💭

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1. A dentist.

2. Shouting to your child “get your fanny over here”.

3. Having an unlicensed tv and actually watching it.

4. Being against purebred dogs.

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6. Greeting random people like you’ve known them forever. We do it all the time here and I thought nothing of it until I read and interesting thread about Europeans visiting the US and found out that they don’t do that.

7. Driving on the right

8. Probably the lack of public transport, the Size of the US is normally completely misunderstood or misrepresented to our neighbors across the pond. You might be able to travel through multiple countries where youre at within a few hours, here it might take you a day to go through 1-2 states

   Also you’ll notice areas of our country are completely different in their political climate and culture. Politics here are just… other worldly so you might be in a shock when seeing the red team vs. blue team throughout the entire country

9. Making tea by heating the water up in a mug, in the microwave. then filling up a third of the cup with milk. Then giving the tea bag a quick dunk in the mixture, and binning it.And finally, serving with no tea biscuit on the side.

   Philistines!

10. Buying a television without a permit.

11. Microwaving water for tea. I learned this really pisses off the Brits.

12. Lack of a royal family to bow down to.

13. Sub-20% income taxes.

14. Using car to drive a few blocks

15. The portion size of food

16. Open carry.

17. talking to strangers

18. Christians picketing events or setting up “protests” at the beach calling passerbys sinners and saying they’ll go to hell if they don’t change their ways.

    Was at Miami beach a few years ago and this was going on. There were about 15 of them with microphones yelling at people – super bizarre.

19. Circumcision and shootings

20. Owning an AR15

21. I bought a round of drinks for people at a bar that I just met in the UK (Wales). They were so flustered and embarrassed by it that one of them demanded to know my motivations. “Was I pulling her friend?” It took me an embarrassing amount of time to understand what that meant. I was backpacking alone and was just being friendly with new people. I wasn’t “pulling” anyone, I just didn’t want to drink alone!

22. Conversing in public by yelling.

23. Yelling “Yee-Haw” while walking down the street.

24. Like in the US folks enter their homes with shoes on; same ones they’ve been outside with. Not just the UK, in whole Europe, in most households thats totally unacceptable.

25. Ordering an ice cold sweet tea, do that in the U.K and you’ll probably be imprisoned for life

26. Bankruptcy over medical bills.

27. Gun laws.

28. Letting people die of treatable illnesses because they’re not rich.

29. Collegeball. The idea of a university sports team selling out a stadium is very bizarre to me, and it’s something that the UK really doesn’t have an answer to (except the boat race, or possibly Oxford v Cambridge at rugby? but even then…)

30. Being circumcised at birth.

    Edit: It seems there’s a lot of either unenlightened or ignorant circumcised people replying. I would like to point out that non-therapeutic circumcision is very much frowned upon in the western world (with the exception of the United States.) as it is rightfully seen as mutilation.

31. Saying anything other than “good thanks” when asked how you are

32. BBC means something different in the US.

33. Carrying guns in public.

34. Independence Day

35. Calling your parents sir or ma’am.

36. Guns

37. Carrying a firearm at all times.

38. When I met my British wife’s mom in a English supermarket, I commented on her fanny pack.

    In the UK, fanny means vagina.

39. Letting people die of treatable and/or preventable illness because they can’t afford it.

40. Medical bills.

41. Hot sauce on everything

42. Carrying a concealed 9mm in public

43. Golden Corral

44. Guns

45. Saying the word “spazz”, I recently discovered.

46. Owning semi automatic weapons

47. Guns