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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by gazz21
(Post 10604571)
HA - sorry I didn't mean it like that!
What I meant was the come kicking out time - fighting in the street, peeing in the street ect |
Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by WhoFan63
(Post 10602453)
I did think about that too...and doesn't Hulu have a monthly fee similar to Netflix???
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by ElizabethK
(Post 10602534)
I signed up to Hulu a while back and other than Doc Martin I couldn't find anything British on there. I was desperately trying to find QI on there and couldn't ?
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by lgabriel73
(Post 10604662)
Hulu plus has a fee but the basic Hulu is free and thats where I watch coronation street and sad to say also had to watch desperate scousewives:o
Unfortunately, you can only watch a few program episodes on ITV because of this new pay-per-view feature. Only a few programs offer free episodes and even then you can only watch them if they are under 7 days old. Beyond that, you have to register. I chose not to register in case they detect my foreign IP address which is in every email. I watch NO American shows on either ITV or BBC - and I don't have American TV/cable service either because I don't watch - by choice - any of it. |
Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by Bud the Wiser
(Post 10602337)
Chip and Pin
Press the red button Oyster cards Trying to sort out change. "Oh look at all the different types of Kit Kat/ Galaxy/ etc." - together with an odd look from the shopkeeper, because you still have a Brit accent. Using 'American English' - 'Trash cans' for example. press the red button? :unsure: |
Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by ElizabethK
(Post 10602528)
I can never understand why the pay at the pump petrol has not seemed to have caught on in UK. It takes forever to put it in, then go inside and queue up to pay for it. That's going to be annoying to begin with.
Originally Posted by ElizabethK
(Post 10602528)
Shops, if not in an out of town shopping centre, still close at 5:30pm.
Originally Posted by ElizabethK
(Post 10602528)
Supermarkets - despite a lot of them being open 24hours, don't tend to stock their shelves throughout the day, so it's quite common for them to run out of bread or other essentials if you go after work.
Chip and PIN confuses the hell out of me, I always put the card in the wrong way and pull it out too quickly. Checkout assistants sitting down also seems odd now, I don't think they're allowed to sit in USA certainly where I live they all have to stand up. |
Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by tomkent45
(Post 10610574)
press the red button? :unsure:
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Oh, yes, that red button! Does it give you I player or something? It does sound like it might start WW3.
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by Bud the Wiser
(Post 10602337)
Chip and Pin
Press the red button Oyster cards Trying to sort out change. "Oh look at all the different types of Kit Kat/ Galaxy/ etc." - together with an odd look from the shopkeeper, because you still have a Brit accent. Using 'American English' - 'Trash cans' for example. What throws me off though, is not knowing who anyone is. I was pretty rubbish with celebrities and things in the States, but I hardly know anyone here! And it's the same with constantly bringing up shows and celebrities that are only famous in the US (like Dr. Oz) and getting blank looks as people have no idea who I'm talking about! |
Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by Tel8
(Post 10614662)
This is so amazing to me- as I've never known England without these things! Whenever I visited in the summer, Oyster cards, red buttons on the remote and all the kitkat and Galaxy were all the same as they are now, I honestly can't imagine traveling around London without an oyster card- it blew my mind the other day when a family of tourists got on the bus and started counting out change. I was staring at them like they'd lost it because I couldn't understand why they were hunting around for coins instead of getting their cards out! It took me a full minute to work it out and then I just felt a bit dim :eek:
What throws me off though, is not knowing who anyone is. I was pretty rubbish with celebrities and things in the States, but I hardly know anyone here! And it's the same with constantly bringing up shows and celebrities that are only famous in the US (like Dr. Oz) and getting blank looks as people have no idea who I'm talking about! I know how you feel :) When I was in London last year I would have been lost without my Oyster card, although I'm used to some form of bus/train pass from my time in Australia, so even before I left the US to head to the UK I did research on the underground and the buses and found out more about it. I guess those tourists you mentioned hadn't found out more information first..lol. I'm rubbish when it comes to celebrities too :) Although i guess we can always learn more from the paper and the telly so we can keep up with the rest of the UK..lol :D |
Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by WhoFan63
(Post 10614673)
I know how you feel :) When I was in London last year I would have been lost without my Oyster card...
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 10614925)
Dare I ask? :confused:
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
(Post 10614925)
Dare I ask? :confused:
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 10614957)
Tube card, it's all new to me too.
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Re: Reverse Culture Shock
Congestion charge.
Measured distance speed traps ( not sure of the correct terminology ) Gambling adverts on TV. 'xxx' adverts on TV |
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