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- Crisps are called chips.
- "Crisps" don't come in
little bags, you can only buy huge ones
- Cars are a lot bigger and
they all look the same
- They don't have supermini cars
- Juice comes in cool super
huge containers
- There really are McDonalds
and Starbucks everywhere
- President Bush really
does look like a monkey
- They don't have Branston
Pickle, but they do have Heinz tomato ketchup
- Thanksgiving rules, it's
like an excuse for another little Christmas. This makes up for the fact
that:
- American christmas lacks mince pies, chocolate advent calanders, christmas
crackers or christmas pudding!
- Cheerleaders are really
tall
- Basketball players are
really tall
- Chipmunks are really small
- All news papers have loads
of pages of comic strips and they rule
- It's usually sunny
- All the houses are made of
timber frame
- They don't know the
meaning of "Taking the piss" or "Taking the mickey"
- There are adverts on TV
all the time
- There really are hundreds
of TV channels
- The telephones ring really
slowly, like
"brrrrring....................................................brrrrrring.................................."
- The country is really big
- People don't know what
Scotland or Wales are
- People talk to themselves
on the metro(American for underground) or in shops
- They don't say flat, they
say apartment
- Kick ass snow, and lots of
it
- Maryland is pronounced
marr-uuuh-lind
- Hyattsville is pronounced hi-its-ville
- Like, people say, like,
like at least, like, four times in a sentance.
- American indie chicks are
really cute
- Not being in a fraternity
or soriourity makes you feel rebellious
- Trainers are called
sneakers, even when people arent being sneaky
- You pronounce Z
"zeee"
- Everything is more spaced
out
- Lots of American flags and
bumper stickers
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