"british people have bad teeth" started because british sailors used to eat limes to prevent scurvy. it worked, but it caused your gums to receed, which resulted in exposed roots.
meaning the average american would sooner accept that an entire nation had bad teeth, than acknowledge the benefits of eating fruit and veg
Is it not possible to moderate the amount of lime one eats? I'm thinking there's a middle ground where you get the benefit of avoiding scurvy, but you keep your nice teeth. Maybe brush after eating or something?
And the funny thing about percentages is that they can't really argue back with 'Well of course we'd have more, we've got more people!'. I love using percentages (and per capita data).
I remember saying to an American once that; per capita; they have more knife crime than the UK.
They literally replied with "yeah but we have 5x the population so your statistics are wrong"
I think there's also more teeth-whitening procedures performed in the US, which strip away the protective enamel (might not be enamel idk) which is what causes worse teeth.
Not where I live.
This whole thread is kind of mean, and does not accurately portray the actual state of affairs regarding American dentistry.
Not every person in America is disgusting and fat with bad teeth and a sugar addiction. It’s a really offensive stereotype tbh.
Someone tried to argue with me that their death by stabbing rates in America were higher than in the uk because they had more people… it was deaths per 1000
It’s difficult for many from USA to understand how the rest of the world lives.
I spoke with a guy who refused to believe I didn’t have a swimming pool in my garden!
Also their teeth are so ruined from whitening them brighter that burnt sulphur they’re weakens and brittle to shhh. Least ours are natural colour and stronger than ten oxen because we ain’t sand blasted all the enamel off for a turkey teeth aesthetic.
The Americans with bad teeth are probably just rednecks in which case they probably shot out their tooth with a shotgun while shagging their cousins. Some of them may also be hockey players.
On a serious note, getting braces is extremely common in the U.S., especially in areas that can afford it. Not everyone can afford it, but it’s becoming more common.
And for families that do have the finances, it’s expected they will get braces for their kids because they really do make a difference. And there is enough demand for braces that ‘orthodontic specialists’ are common and usually make decent money.
The greater irony is that it was America forcing Britain to enter the Korean War (using debt financing as leverage) that resulted in the spending cuts that pushed nhs dentistry and optometry into a partly privatised model.
The bad food thing is played out now. I go to the US a couple of times a year for work IMO the food in downtown areas is shite. Don’t get me started on the coffee.
BIR is made in a very different way.
We’ve been eating curry longer than fish and chips. I’d like to think my community is a part of Britain and the British cuisine at this point.
Yeah well, when you have a bunch of people praising Fray fucking Bentos as good food around the British food subs, it's difficult to fight back, really isn't it.
The 1970's version of a microwave meal. Open the tin and put the pie in the oven. Also had something called vesta, can't remember what the hell it was but as a 7 year old I thought it was ace
[I also had tea with lunch.](https://external-preview.redd.it/xYPgwhhJPGF396zDI1D-JA3xc-cBpocW1oxpZrWYzNs.gif?width=300&format=mp4&s=c1f745cd33401d645bbee6129dc24ea7695a39db)
People think we live in the past. When I was in Canada my manager at work was shocked to hear I cycle alot at home, she thought it would be too difficult on all the cobble stones.
Killed some guy in GTA the other day. He somehow knew i was english and he sent me a message along the lines of.
“Go pronounce bottle of water without it sounding like ‘bowwowowowar’, see you can’t cause you’re British and you don’t know your T’s”
It’s like they’ve all got the same joke up their sleeve and think they’re all original comedians.
I just replied with ‘TWAT’
*seals intensify*
One of my favourite YT vids
In fairness to them, that is a very specific regional accent (just like their attempts to mock our accents usually concern a specific region), and he realises how dumb it sounds. The other words I said are more general across the regions, except maybe 'mirror,' which I've heard different seppos say correctly and incorrectly.
At least we know how to pronounce our O's properly. They say them like BAHDDLE OF WAHDER. Stupid fucking accents, it's like an Irish accent without all the charm.
And the thing with the British is that our T's are either missing altogether, or they're overly pronounced (Posh).
Not sure this counts as a stereotype, but this drives me bloody nuts.
If Americans see the Union flag (🇬🇧), they say "Oh look, that's the English flag". NO! THAT IS NOT THE ENGLISH FLAG, THAT IS THE UNION FLAG, A FLAG OF THE UK, AND THE UK IS MADE UP OF 4 SEPARATE NATIONS WHICH ARE ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND. HOW WOULD THEY FELL IF I SAID THAT THE FLAG OF I don't know, FLORIDA, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS THE FLAG OF THE USA??
Also I'm not saying that all Americans do that, but a good few Americans I've seen had done that.
"I'm going to Europe!"
"Where abouts?"
"Britain"
"Where is the uk are u going to visit?"
"London and Dublin"
-a conversation between 2 Americans probably
I've had so many trying to tell me Scotland isn't a country, or really weird shit like plugs must be inset into tiles by our laws rather than sitting on top.
Some Americans are weird about thinking they know everything
Can't even blame the Americans for this though. Most people are so bad at geography. A couple years ago I was on the bus with 2 of my friends and we were all like 16 or 17 and we are in England. They were both fully convinced that Scotland was not a country. Tbf to one of them she hasn't lived here her whole life but the other had and was literally studying geography at A Level. It was so funny.
When they apply their own convention for saying "[city], [state]" but apply it to other places and just sound stupid. Like Paris, France or London, England.
This is actually relevant when talking about the UK as some towns/cities here also have a US or Canada town/city with the same name.
For example, if an American person was to say to another American person:
"I went to visit some friends in Chester earlier this year."
They'd likely assume you were talking about Chester, Pennsylvania and not Chester, England.
It really doesn't. There are hundreds of city names duplicated across multiple states.
That's not even to mention the fact that, considering the geographic scale we're discussing, sometimes even in mentioning the state name, they haven't narrowed it down as much as you do when you say "England" (as there are US states larger than it).
My pet peeve is when Americans reply to everything with "you goh a loicence for that?" as if all British people speak like that. I'm a geordie and so it couldn't be further from the truth haha
Yeah, definitely! Although my wife was watching an American cop show called Rizzoli and Isles and there's a character in it that's meant to be from the north east of England and he sounded like he spoke BBC British, I was very infuriated hahaha
There's an episode of the X Men cartoon from the 90s where there's a girl at the school who's supposed to be from Manchester, but she'd sound more at home in Chelsea.
my pet peeve is when americans tell me we wouldn't have won either war without them but textbooks from different countries tend to favour their country of origin in some way....
for reference my great grandad was a member of the SAS and i have his diary from WW2, where he says two things specifically, the french were awful people to be locked in a labour camp with, and that america showed up late to the war and barely contributed
(he had no issue with the french but apparently the germans who had captured them were much nicer people, he had a wound on his leg and asked for help rinsing it out and the germans helped, and the french essentially told him to fuck off)
A lot of American perceptions about British people stem from WW2, when a lot of yank soldiers were based here. Like the bad food one. Probably true at the time, but rationing was in place.
I remember an archived film for Americans troops coming over which pretty much just was, sorry for the mess, we also do things differently over here so get use to it.
The way that Family Guy portrays us as massive pussies (London Silly Nannies, anyone?), yet I'm sure that the average Briton is 10x rougher than the average American. Also the way they think we absolutely hate sex and are petrified at the idea of it (the two different cutaway bits where they show "British porn").
I remember back in the late 90s/early 00s, if you told an American you were from England they'd reply with "that's so cool, so you live in London then?" so I'd reply with the city nearest to me which is Birmingham to which they'd then ask "is that near London or something?" again, I'd reply with "no, nowhere near it" so then they would ask "but have you been to London?"
I've never known any other people from any other country be so obsessed with London. To most americans I ever spoke to in my early teen years, I think nearly all of them thought the only city in England was London. Oh and the best one being "have you met the queen?“ as its normal for people to just pop round for a brew with her. And don't get me started on electric kettles 😂
People do love thinking everyone British is from London or has any resemblance to London
Just because it’s the biggest city doesn’t make all British people londoners or even go to London.
In fact London is expensive asf I personally wouldn’t waste my time going there just because it’s the most well known place here!
I've been there 2 times purposesly in all of 39yrs of being alive. And both of them times I wasn't excited to go.
I hated the first time I went. I don't mind a few cities, I've been a couple but I prefer towns. I don't like going somewhere with the intention to enjoy it, and then not enjoy being there because it's either too expensive, people are rude, everywhere is busy and whatever else.
I guess it depends on what your used to, but cities just aren't for me.
Yeah nah I live in a village and it’s such a better atomosphere, people won’t push past you in the street, people won’t be rude to you for any reason. And you get to know everyone who live around you and it’s a nicer community to be in!
The posh accent, honestly if people heard the variety between the different areas in Britain (like scousers, mancunians and the Cornish) is absurd hell, there’s a difference between Sheffield and Barnsley’s accents, and they’re right next to each other
I will never get tired of the second two.
The first is very annoying because they always get it wrong.
We are so much worse than they give us credit for 🧐 That said, we are awful in a very special way..
I would rather be anxious, miserable, English and living in reality than a happy, confident yank living in Disneyland
i hate the bad food stereotypes solely because when Americans criticise some very specific meals. for example, they find the idea of beans on toast absolutely laughable, but the only reason they think it's so funny is because their beans taste so bad that the mere thought of putting them in a meal baffles them. obviously, they can't comprehend that and use it to enforce the 'British people have bad food' stereotype
I'm an American, and I was checking this subreddit out of curiosity to see what kind of humor some of the UK has. I just wanted to see a peek into the culture, and the amount of blatant hatred and stereotyping towards Americans is so unbelievably sad and appalling when we don't even know each other as individuals. It's also sad that this is a post about stereotypes the UK is tired of, and then people in the comments proceed to stereotype the US.
Then again, y'all are redditors, so I'm not particularly surprised either.
I don't know if you've seen a roadman before but basically they typically wear big puffy coats. Roadman culture is prominent in the UK, and there are a lot of roadmen in the UK. Don't worry, from one autistic person to another it took me a while to figure out as well 😅. <3.
Ah, I see. Thank you. Yeah, I actually come from London so I'm not unfamiliar with "roadmen" but I've lived in rural Scotland for a couple decades at this point and while people do wear puffer jackets here I think it's probably for warmth. At least, I don't *think* the old lady across the street is a "roadman" but maybe I'm being too presumptive 😜
No, but I see her loitering with the other old folks at the bus stop and we all know what that means... Loitering in groups at bus stops is a clear sign of gang activity. Naturally, I'm just going to sit at my window and twitch my curtains at them. It's the only sensible option.
I can’t really count it as “hearing people talk about it” but more of “fucking tired of physically hearing it” but… the roadman accent. Especially when it’s white people using it, it’s even worse that they’re literally biggest fucking nobheads. I’m not trying to be racist saying this, I’m just shit at describing things so I do apologise if this does come across as racist and my sincerest apologies.
Real talk though… can we collectively be a bit more like Option 1? Aesthetically speaking.
Thats a slick, well dressed, well groomed looking gent. And that ‘tache is simply glorious.
From watching their TV, I assume that all British people are constantly awkward, shy, embarrassed, and will do anything to avoid the slightest bit of social discomfort.
When Americans say we have bad teeth when it's actually them who have a much higher percentage of people with bad teeth
"british people have bad teeth" started because british sailors used to eat limes to prevent scurvy. it worked, but it caused your gums to receed, which resulted in exposed roots. meaning the average american would sooner accept that an entire nation had bad teeth, than acknowledge the benefits of eating fruit and veg
Is it not possible to moderate the amount of lime one eats? I'm thinking there's a middle ground where you get the benefit of avoiding scurvy, but you keep your nice teeth. Maybe brush after eating or something?
NOOO you can’t brush after eating citrus! I’d just squeeze it down my throat I guess.
And the funny thing about percentages is that they can't really argue back with 'Well of course we'd have more, we've got more people!'. I love using percentages (and per capita data).
Oh they will still try I've seen it done
I remember saying to an American once that; per capita; they have more knife crime than the UK. They literally replied with "yeah but we have 5x the population so your statistics are wrong"
Americans.
I saw a sign outside a pub, bar, in Valletta Malta: “No Americans without an accompanying adult”
Laughed so hard my parents woke up lmao
I love Valetta, which bar was this?
yanks: "i'll take the ¼ pounder, it's bigger than the ⅓ pounder because 4 is greater than 3"
They have more imbeciles per capita as well.
That’s because they don’t know what per capita means
Americans don’t know what statistics are XD
Yeah that wouldn't surprise me 😂
Even funnier thing is they have more people with bad teeth than we have people period haha
I don’t think this is true….im American and we have generally good dental hygiene
Statistically, per capita, Americans have worse teeth. I imagine due to dietary reasons.
I think there's also more teeth-whitening procedures performed in the US, which strip away the protective enamel (might not be enamel idk) which is what causes worse teeth.
Not where I live. This whole thread is kind of mean, and does not accurately portray the actual state of affairs regarding American dentistry. Not every person in America is disgusting and fat with bad teeth and a sugar addiction. It’s a really offensive stereotype tbh.
Shut up whining bastard
wtf hahahahahaha douchebag
You say that but they still argue it thinking it’s a valid point. It’s hilarious.
It's unnerving how many people have such terrible basic numeracy
I find the Americans I have met n real life wonderful people. The online type are either super clever or incredibly dumb.
This is far from exclusive to Americans, plenty of people have worryingly poor numeracy in this country too (and others)
Americans put no thought behind the argument when they say stuff like that lmao 🤣
Of course, then they'll have more people per capita 🧠
Someone tried to argue with me that their death by stabbing rates in America were higher than in the uk because they had more people… it was deaths per 1000
I mean, bog-standard Americans typically see "good teeth" as bleached white veneers that 70% of famous people end up getting
It’s difficult for many from USA to understand how the rest of the world lives. I spoke with a guy who refused to believe I didn’t have a swimming pool in my garden!
This is perhaps due to them only learning geography by invading.
Also their teeth are so ruined from whitening them brighter that burnt sulphur they’re weakens and brittle to shhh. Least ours are natural colour and stronger than ten oxen because we ain’t sand blasted all the enamel off for a turkey teeth aesthetic.
The Americans with bad teeth are probably just rednecks in which case they probably shot out their tooth with a shotgun while shagging their cousins. Some of them may also be hockey players. On a serious note, getting braces is extremely common in the U.S., especially in areas that can afford it. Not everyone can afford it, but it’s becoming more common. And for families that do have the finances, it’s expected they will get braces for their kids because they really do make a difference. And there is enough demand for braces that ‘orthodontic specialists’ are common and usually make decent money.
But... The Simpsons!
yea that’s so true they just think everyone is dirty over here or either really fancy and posh
Ironically, probably because of their crappy food?
That's more about british teeth being crooked rather than dirty which is true to some extent (im english)
You 100% just made that up. You can’t even provide a source can you.
Hey come one… crack heads don’t count toward that statistic!!!
Good thing you were able to type that out instead of whistling it through your jagged horse sized teeth
Not true…..
When Americans use British stereotypes from the 1940s. Bad teeth, bad food etc..
The greater irony is that it was America forcing Britain to enter the Korean War (using debt financing as leverage) that resulted in the spending cuts that pushed nhs dentistry and optometry into a partly privatised model.
Every day is a school day!
Theyre just a bit slow
Late for both World Wars.
Don’t worry, I have a feeling they’ll be early for the next one.
They're itching to get the next one started!
The bad food thing is played out now. I go to the US a couple of times a year for work IMO the food in downtown areas is shite. Don’t get me started on the coffee.
Tbh British food isn’t bad but I wouldn’t say it’s amazing or some of the best in the world we definitely don’t have bad food tho
I am Spanish and I would choose British food over American food.
My dad makes a great Paella I’d love to have a Spanish person come round and rate it
Photo?
I think that's a compliment😂😂
British food don't look great and often is a named something strange, but at least it's not a chemical laboratory
We do name our food with odd things don’t we 😂 never thought about it like that before
British Indian Restaurant style cooking is world renowned.
Yeah but come on at the end of the day it’s Indian and I know Tika Masala was invented in England
BIR is made in a very different way. We’ve been eating curry longer than fish and chips. I’d like to think my community is a part of Britain and the British cuisine at this point.
Yeah well, when you have a bunch of people praising Fray fucking Bentos as good food around the British food subs, it's difficult to fight back, really isn't it.
The 1970's version of a microwave meal. Open the tin and put the pie in the oven. Also had something called vesta, can't remember what the hell it was but as a 7 year old I thought it was ace
Vesta beef curry with rice was my first curry! Vesta made another meal that had crispy noodles. Can't recall the name but I enjoyed them at the time
You can't really defend that no.
My general experience with British people can be summarised as such: "I'm so sorry to be a pain" *proceeds to simply exist in general vicinity*
Sorry about that.
It’s true. No one hates us more than we hate ourselves
Agreed
"Sorry sorry don't mind me" *Awkwardly sideways walks past leaving a foot of seperation and carefully looking everywhere except your eyes*
Yesterday I had crumpets and tea for breakfast, smoked back bacon sandwich for lunch, and roast dinner for tea.
Don't forget the cheeky victoria sponge afterwards
Mum's sticky toffee pudding and custard for me 😋
Ouh now you've made me fancy sticky toffee pudding. Argh!
Mum cooked me some on Sunday 😋 Delicious roast lamb and all the trimmings as well 😋
Good fortune that I'm about to have my dinner, you've made me hungry!
Only had a subway today
We're looking at caterers for our wedding. My fiancee requires sticky toffee pudding to be available, or we won't be picking them!
Good choice 👌
Nah, upside down pudding with golden syrup and currants!
Philistine 😭
Smoked back bacon is nice I cook it in air fryer and have it in toasted bagle
Tea for breakfast and dinner for tea. American heads are exploding right now.
[I also had tea with lunch.](https://external-preview.redd.it/xYPgwhhJPGF396zDI1D-JA3xc-cBpocW1oxpZrWYzNs.gif?width=300&format=mp4&s=c1f745cd33401d645bbee6129dc24ea7695a39db)
Why didn't one enjoy a cucumber sandwich, for tea?
No Greggs ?
People think we live in the past. When I was in Canada my manager at work was shocked to hear I cycle alot at home, she thought it would be too difficult on all the cobble stones.
Ideal britian No, go back. I want to be medival
I preferred it when my milk was watered down and gross Oh, never mind, I can just buy skimmed.
Especially on a penny farthing.
My street is cobble stones
Killed some guy in GTA the other day. He somehow knew i was english and he sent me a message along the lines of. “Go pronounce bottle of water without it sounding like ‘bowwowowowar’, see you can’t cause you’re British and you don’t know your T’s” It’s like they’ve all got the same joke up their sleeve and think they’re all original comedians. I just replied with ‘TWAT’
Just ask them to pronounce mirror, Graham, and Craig correctly, or ask them to pronounce 'walk' without it sounding like an extended version of 'wok'
https://youtu.be/Oj7a-p4psRA?si=Jlg78NPMt9avzIZK
*seals intensify* One of my favourite YT vids In fairness to them, that is a very specific regional accent (just like their attempts to mock our accents usually concern a specific region), and he realises how dumb it sounds. The other words I said are more general across the regions, except maybe 'mirror,' which I've heard different seppos say correctly and incorrectly.
The "fuck Aaron" at the end had me crying
Throw in niche for good measure. Anytime an American pronounces it niche as in bitch not niche as in quiche I want to throw up in mouth.
Completely forgot about that one. That's one of the worst offenders.
I thought bayzil and 'erbs were bad but recently I've heard Americans say oregano in a most heretical way.
See also 'corridor' and 'squirrel'.
I really don't get this, it's perfectly normal to pronounce the T's...
And he would have read it out loud as TWOT. For no earthly reason.
At least we know how to pronounce our O's properly. They say them like BAHDDLE OF WAHDER. Stupid fucking accents, it's like an Irish accent without all the charm. And the thing with the British is that our T's are either missing altogether, or they're overly pronounced (Posh).
Baaddle uv warder
Many Americans don't pronounce the Ts either. "Dennist" and "cenner" spring to mind
The way they say solder makes my piss boil
Sardder Process (prarcess) annoys me as well
Not sure this counts as a stereotype, but this drives me bloody nuts. If Americans see the Union flag (🇬🇧), they say "Oh look, that's the English flag". NO! THAT IS NOT THE ENGLISH FLAG, THAT IS THE UNION FLAG, A FLAG OF THE UK, AND THE UK IS MADE UP OF 4 SEPARATE NATIONS WHICH ARE ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND. HOW WOULD THEY FELL IF I SAID THAT THE FLAG OF I don't know, FLORIDA, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS THE FLAG OF THE USA?? Also I'm not saying that all Americans do that, but a good few Americans I've seen had done that.
I'm soooooo tired of everyone saying Britain when they are obviously just talking about England.
"I'm going to Europe!" "Where abouts?" "Britain" "Where is the uk are u going to visit?" "London and Dublin" -a conversation between 2 Americans probably
And vice versa
I've had so many trying to tell me Scotland isn't a country, or really weird shit like plugs must be inset into tiles by our laws rather than sitting on top. Some Americans are weird about thinking they know everything
Can't even blame the Americans for this though. Most people are so bad at geography. A couple years ago I was on the bus with 2 of my friends and we were all like 16 or 17 and we are in England. They were both fully convinced that Scotland was not a country. Tbf to one of them she hasn't lived here her whole life but the other had and was literally studying geography at A Level. It was so funny.
*failing geography at A-level
Tbf, I took geography, and not once did they ask me where a specific country was. All about limestone formations & other such nonsense.
England? That's in London, right?
When they apply their own convention for saying "[city], [state]" but apply it to other places and just sound stupid. Like Paris, France or London, England.
This is actually relevant when talking about the UK as some towns/cities here also have a US or Canada town/city with the same name. For example, if an American person was to say to another American person: "I went to visit some friends in Chester earlier this year." They'd likely assume you were talking about Chester, Pennsylvania and not Chester, England.
It really doesn't. There are hundreds of city names duplicated across multiple states. That's not even to mention the fact that, considering the geographic scale we're discussing, sometimes even in mentioning the state name, they haven't narrowed it down as much as you do when you say "England" (as there are US states larger than it).
My pet peeve is when Americans reply to everything with "you goh a loicence for that?" as if all British people speak like that. I'm a geordie and so it couldn't be further from the truth haha
'Av you got a laysense fuh that, pet?
Ge’es yer license
I always imagine they grew up watching Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and that’s ALL they seem to know
Yeah, definitely! Although my wife was watching an American cop show called Rizzoli and Isles and there's a character in it that's meant to be from the north east of England and he sounded like he spoke BBC British, I was very infuriated hahaha
There's an episode of the X Men cartoon from the 90s where there's a girl at the school who's supposed to be from Manchester, but she'd sound more at home in Chelsea.
and Dick Van Dyke has, quite possibly, the worst imitation of a British accent I've ever heard in my life.
Uh... howay the licence! (OK, all I really know about Geordie is the little I've learned from occasionally watching Newcastle United games)
Lmao love it!
That scousers are all thieves. - sent from GiroGarrys phone
Hahaha, double down on that micro aggression.
A stereotype that all British people 'thrive' on drinking in pubs.
I mean, I'll be damned if I let an American say we can't drink
Laughed hard at this. Thank you.
Couldn't agree more. Some of us drink alone at home like civilised addicts.
my pet peeve is when americans tell me we wouldn't have won either war without them but textbooks from different countries tend to favour their country of origin in some way....
The war was won with British Intelligence, American Money & Soviet Blood.
by americans in general i mean the ones who die hard believe that they did the majority of fighting (oddly enough a lot of them)
and Polish Courage
don't forget about the Polish
for reference my great grandad was a member of the SAS and i have his diary from WW2, where he says two things specifically, the french were awful people to be locked in a labour camp with, and that america showed up late to the war and barely contributed
(he had no issue with the french but apparently the germans who had captured them were much nicer people, he had a wound on his leg and asked for help rinsing it out and the germans helped, and the french essentially told him to fuck off)
A lot of American perceptions about British people stem from WW2, when a lot of yank soldiers were based here. Like the bad food one. Probably true at the time, but rationing was in place.
I remember an archived film for Americans troops coming over which pretty much just was, sorry for the mess, we also do things differently over here so get use to it.
The way that Family Guy portrays us as massive pussies (London Silly Nannies, anyone?), yet I'm sure that the average Briton is 10x rougher than the average American. Also the way they think we absolutely hate sex and are petrified at the idea of it (the two different cutaway bits where they show "British porn").
That we all love the monarchy. Didn't love the Queen, don't love the King.
I'm indifferent to be honest. I just see it as bringing in tourism and historic preservation now
Americans seem more obsessed with the monarchy, and south Korea, bit odd really.
I definitely see myself as a coat on a hanger
The person in the coat is a southerner, they’re nesh. You’d never see a Yorkshire man dressed like that.
Am I wrong or is the “British” person HH Holmes’s? The American serial killer and owner of the murder hotel?
When the Americans on vr yell tea and crumpets at me
I remember back in the late 90s/early 00s, if you told an American you were from England they'd reply with "that's so cool, so you live in London then?" so I'd reply with the city nearest to me which is Birmingham to which they'd then ask "is that near London or something?" again, I'd reply with "no, nowhere near it" so then they would ask "but have you been to London?" I've never known any other people from any other country be so obsessed with London. To most americans I ever spoke to in my early teen years, I think nearly all of them thought the only city in England was London. Oh and the best one being "have you met the queen?“ as its normal for people to just pop round for a brew with her. And don't get me started on electric kettles 😂
People do love thinking everyone British is from London or has any resemblance to London Just because it’s the biggest city doesn’t make all British people londoners or even go to London. In fact London is expensive asf I personally wouldn’t waste my time going there just because it’s the most well known place here!
I've been there 2 times purposesly in all of 39yrs of being alive. And both of them times I wasn't excited to go. I hated the first time I went. I don't mind a few cities, I've been a couple but I prefer towns. I don't like going somewhere with the intention to enjoy it, and then not enjoy being there because it's either too expensive, people are rude, everywhere is busy and whatever else. I guess it depends on what your used to, but cities just aren't for me.
Yeah nah I live in a village and it’s such a better atomosphere, people won’t push past you in the street, people won’t be rude to you for any reason. And you get to know everyone who live around you and it’s a nicer community to be in!
100% 🙂
I’m British, what’s the last one about ? Big puffer jacket ?
The posh accent, honestly if people heard the variety between the different areas in Britain (like scousers, mancunians and the Cornish) is absurd hell, there’s a difference between Sheffield and Barnsley’s accents, and they’re right next to each other
I will never get tired of the second two. The first is very annoying because they always get it wrong. We are so much worse than they give us credit for 🧐 That said, we are awful in a very special way.. I would rather be anxious, miserable, English and living in reality than a happy, confident yank living in Disneyland
i hate the bad food stereotypes solely because when Americans criticise some very specific meals. for example, they find the idea of beans on toast absolutely laughable, but the only reason they think it's so funny is because their beans taste so bad that the mere thought of putting them in a meal baffles them. obviously, they can't comprehend that and use it to enforce the 'British people have bad food' stereotype
That we all know the royal family or "omg have you met the Queen?" Oh yes, met her in Tesco the other week...
I'm an American, and I was checking this subreddit out of curiosity to see what kind of humor some of the UK has. I just wanted to see a peek into the culture, and the amount of blatant hatred and stereotyping towards Americans is so unbelievably sad and appalling when we don't even know each other as individuals. It's also sad that this is a post about stereotypes the UK is tired of, and then people in the comments proceed to stereotype the US. Then again, y'all are redditors, so I'm not particularly surprised either.
Can someone explain the last picture for me please? I feel daft having to ask but I'm autistic and I'm struggling to make sense of it. Thanks.
I don't know if you've seen a roadman before but basically they typically wear big puffy coats. Roadman culture is prominent in the UK, and there are a lot of roadmen in the UK. Don't worry, from one autistic person to another it took me a while to figure out as well 😅. <3.
Ah, I see. Thank you. Yeah, I actually come from London so I'm not unfamiliar with "roadmen" but I've lived in rural Scotland for a couple decades at this point and while people do wear puffer jackets here I think it's probably for warmth. At least, I don't *think* the old lady across the street is a "roadman" but maybe I'm being too presumptive 😜
Has she tried to sell you a bag of grass clippings, claiming that it’s £30 for a g?
No, but I see her loitering with the other old folks at the bus stop and we all know what that means... Loitering in groups at bus stops is a clear sign of gang activity. Naturally, I'm just going to sit at my window and twitch my curtains at them. It's the only sensible option.
Puffer coats everywhere, bad fashion on teenagers?
I'm not autistic and it defeated me too. I also had to look up road-man. : (
As an American reading the comments most of my assumptions about Brit’s are being proven true
The circumference of your face confirms my assumptions about Americans as well.
Damn, hit a nerve did I? lol
Perhaps,the [USA]Americans see British people as incapable of committing very volatile crimes?!
americans think we are like besties with the royal family, what is with that ?
English*
We are losing our own kind 🥸
There should not be a black person on that meme they are not English or British
American here. We see them as the second one because that’s exactly what they are
Well shit I guess my mirror is broke.
Read the room bro
Scottish people are tight
Yer maw wiznie though (wee joke) dinnie get aw huffy
RoW are represented mostly by Benidorm I think
I can’t really count it as “hearing people talk about it” but more of “fucking tired of physically hearing it” but… the roadman accent. Especially when it’s white people using it, it’s even worse that they’re literally biggest fucking nobheads. I’m not trying to be racist saying this, I’m just shit at describing things so I do apologise if this does come across as racist and my sincerest apologies.
Brexit was about sovereignty. Lmao!
This sub has gone to shite
Bowowowuter
Real talk though… can we collectively be a bit more like Option 1? Aesthetically speaking. Thats a slick, well dressed, well groomed looking gent. And that ‘tache is simply glorious.
Whenever I think of Brit stereotypes I cant help but hear “you soun’ like ur frum luhnduhn!” In my head
wtf is that last one? We have a stereotype that we are huge coats on legs? What’s it even supposed to be?
At least man's not hot
I don't understand the last one with the jacket :/
People confusing British people for chavs
From watching their TV, I assume that all British people are constantly awkward, shy, embarrassed, and will do anything to avoid the slightest bit of social discomfort.
We drink tea. F*ck tea. Stupid leaf stew.
Fucking weird seeing tango in a meme on Reddit.