I'm an American college student, and my mum is British. My gym teacher is, in my opinion, an amazing inadvertent comedian. She's teaching us to play tennis, and since we're so bad at it, we can't really hit the ball back and forth. So she tells us, "One of you is the hitter and the other is the tosser ( Read more... )

CNN posted this article on it's web site, but then thought the better of it and changed it to something more politically correct.  I think its funny though, so I'm sharing it with you, I hope you get a good laugh out of it and please don't take anything in it personally (I can't imagine you would, but CNN did).

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Hello! My name is Blogmella and on my website "Blogmella's Handbag Of Wisdom" I have a special page, devoted to teaching Americans all about life in Great Britain, our culture and our language.

My page for Americans

I deal with important issues, such as: What the word "Vest" means, what you should shout during a football match, where Cockneys used to ( Read more... )

So, after reading the prior post and the threads in which the importance of tea to the British self was..ahem...discussed, I have a question ( Read more... )

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" as someone once said but sometimes it is more dignified to admire something, or someone, without transforming yourself into a poor copy of what you love. "Wannabe" is an insult for a reason. Whilst it is lovely to see so many Americans on brits_americans expressing their love of my country and my culture, I do get a ( Read more... )

I figured I'd share this with you guys for the WTF factor.

So, this guy from Maryland says he has a legit claim to being king of the IOM ( Read more... )

Going along with the previous post, and driving stateside...The whole list, courtesy of dmv.org (who knew the dmv had a sense of humor):

Alabama

• It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.

• It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street as long as a lantern is attached to the front of your car.

• Driving barefoot is ( Read more... )

Found this amusing article in today's Daily Telegraph. The tea-shop proprietor obviously has control issues, but it's interesting to read for 'proper tea etiquette'.

A seaside tea room is throwing out customers if they commit that most cardinal of sins - dunking their biscuits.

Resting elbows on tables, clinking spoons on the sides of cups while ( Read more... )

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This 3 min. video clip from the Daily Show is worth posting to this community mainly for the horrid, horrid clips from Richard Quest, CNN's "royal watcher." I believe he's on CNN International and used to be on BBC, but this is the first I've heard of him, and I cannot believe this guy is a) on a legitimate news channel and b) an actual human being ( Read more... )