Americanism in England. Please explain.

Originally posted by Blackpoolmad
Thoughts please?

Quit bellyaching.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Quit bellyaching.

Blimey 😞

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Blimey 😞

unfunny...

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Blimey 😞

I remember that one from childhood, before American TV arrived we used a lot of pommy expressions here.

Why do hamburgers have no ham in them?

"switching gears"

arrrrrghhhh 😠

"I'm hanging out with my friends"

😲

And while we're on the subject, America is a nightmare of a place to drive in. What is the point of having street signs with just the name of the street and not where it leads to? What use is it when I'm at the lights of a very busy junction and I look up a see a sign with arrows pointing in both directions and it's labelled "Madison Street"? I mean what bloody use is that!

Originally posted by divegeester
And while we're on the subject, America is a nightmare of a place to drive in. What is the point of having street signs with just the name of the street and not where it leads to? What use is it when I'm at the lights of a very busy junction and I look up a see a sign with arrows pointing in both directions and it's labelled "Madison Street"? I mean what bloody use is that!

We just do it to annoy foreigners.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
We just do it to annoy foreigners.

Huh?
Oh I get it eh?

Why do "elevators" go down?

Originally posted by drdon
Why do "elevators" go down?

Because what goes up must come down. 🙂

Originally posted by Tabitha Marshall
Because what goes up must come down. 🙂

Love in an elevator.......
livin' it up when I'm goin' down.........


Americans say elevator. In Ireland we say lift.
Take the lift to the seventh floor.

Originally posted by Tabitha Marshall
Because what goes up must come down. 🙂

There's lots of "space junk" that went up but isn't coming down.