@Flatfish Some of us in UK actually use the hot tap, kept running at a slow trickle, to rinse the soap off the dishes after we've cleaned them. This is how we prevail over the limitation of a single sink. You know, I thought this was what everyone did until I picked up this thread... :-/
In many ways we're embodying our native isle rather wellI'm laughing my ass off reading @MisterBadger and @SmokeyJock fight back. Boiling Gatorade and Mountain Dew .... I'm dying
Also, these two fighting back, while simultaneously trading barbs themselves is rapidly making this my new favorite thread
Is there some sort of sink shortage over there? Hell, my wife wants a new sink every time she gets on pinterest, ha ha. I just installed a new one this last summer.
Nothing against Fuller's or Greene King (apart from the fact they're killing the English pub trade), but I promise you we can do pubs much better than these!
We used to have a nice distinction between brake lights and turn indicators. I must agree that I've noticed a bit of "blurring" between these lately, and it can be aggravating. As well as making some of the brake lights "blink" in association with an actual different light as a signal - VERY aggravating. Like wondering if there's an electrical short and whether or not that's REALLY a turn signal.....
This is probably more of a city thing than a British thing, but most of the kitchens in flats I've lived in have barely had enough room to get 2 people past each other, let alone a second sink... do you not have galley kitchens in the states?
We have boats. Is that what you mean?
We have a bath mat, and think that's maybe a bit effete.
Cosmic, I don't know what he means either. But then, he's Scottish.
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Absolutely. If this were a majority Brit forum, a thread like this would have started with the Scots and the English mocking each other, then the Welsh having a go at the English, then the North and the South of England mocking each other and being dismissive of Wales, then North and South Wales ditto with one another, then neighbouring counties casting mutual aspersions, and finally two adjacent towns being reciprocally rude about one another. And I can even think of a few English towns where different districts say uncomplimentary things about their neighbours.
One of my favourite Dundonian phrases from my grandad (which will likely go over the heads of everyone here who doesn't know Scottish geography) is "It taks a lang spoon tae sup wi a Fifer"
Maybe, I don’t think anything in America is standard, and I haven’t seen inside of most people’s homes. Looks like it might be one of those flat apartments you guys talk about.
There is a seaport on the south coast of England, divided in two parts by a river called the Itchen. The majority of the city is Southampton proper, and there's an addendum on the eastern side known as Woolston, where in better times there was a shipyard (where I once worked long ago). The good folk on the west bank used to say of those on the other side: "If you goes over Itchen, you comes back scratchin' ".
Of course the Aussie b*stards got rather good at cricket because in the penal colonies of New South Wales there was not much else to do, apart from abusing sheep.
