What should every American know before traveling to the UK?

6. “Don’t talks about our NHS in a pub!” - good to know because Americans use their scant couple weeks’ vacation and spend thousand of dollars just to discuss the merits of healthcare systems in European countries when they go abroad for fun, especially when we want to go out for drinks. Do we know how to party or what?

It’s not so much different from home, really, but different enough that you will like it. In terms of traveling if one is a very green American who hasn’t been overseas, it’s the most novice level. Don’t judge by the cretins of Quora, most of them are pretty cool.

2. “Hahaha you cants brings your guns!”… thanks, chief. We get that. Most of us don’t own one anyway and most that do are OK with not taking them to places. You also can’t bring a gun with you to the airport for checked, stowaway luggage for domestic flights without prior clearance made and approved in advance. You could try it, of course, but you won’t be worried about the customs at Heathrow, you’ll be dragged into a room and interrogated and facing serious federal felonies before you ever board.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

7. “We aint fat like youse all is, our foods be well healthy and normal likes!” - Talk about throwing stones in a glass house - have these people seen their countrymen of late or maybe taken a look in the mirror or at their missus?

8. “You won’t get over how smarter we is!” - Yeah, no.

5. “We waits in queues here” - waiting in line? What a novel idea! Why, here in the US, you never see people form lines. And if they do, that’s pussy shit! If you’re bigger than someone, shove past ‘em! Step aside, grandma, I’m bigger and stronger than you. We have no conception of waiting our turn. It’s the law of the jungle here at the supermarket or theme park. Might makes right!

What is one thing nice you did for someone today or something they did for you?

Nevertheless, since some of our lovely British friends on Quora wanted to throw in their jabs, here’s what I find funny when they make certain points and think they’re being astute and witty.

9. “We respects peoples from other cultures!” - because diversity is so foreign to people from a country where 99% of the population is descended from immigrants from all over the world. I will be shocked being from a major metro area in the US at how multicultural Edinburgh is. And nothing says tolerance for one another like mobs of British freaking out about migrants, radicalized mosques, the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. You are so far ahead of us..

3. “Youse be amazed but we uses contactless cards! It be amazing technologies you ain’t got”… whoa what the fuck are those? Paying in card anyway is soo alien to us! I thought we could write cheques for everything like you think we do at home from toiletries to a pack of beer. Gee whiz. You guys are soo futuristic!

I see ugly guys dating gorgeous, "hot" women all the time. I, too, am not very attractive but I'm not doing well with the ladies. What's their secret?

“You septics needs a passports. You cant just come in ’ere likes and you’ll find that well hard way when you gets to ‘eafrow!” - yeaaa except we need to have already provided our passport number and the name must match when we booked our airline ticket and/or a tour. You also need to have it again to get your boarding pass at the airport and then again to get through security check and then again before you are allowed to board the flight to the destination. So, there wouldn’t be a scenario where some Yank found themselves at Gatwick or Heathrow or wherever befuddled they can’t proceed further because they wouldn’t have been able to leave the US in the first place without the passport…

10. “We walks places. It ain’t be a crime like in the US!” - You got me there. My neighbors don’t jog or walk in the morning around our block for exercise, we can’t take our dogs out for walks, the public parks are just there for show, with summer vacation we don’t see groups of kids just hanging around and walking about. My poor uncle - guy has never owned a car a day in his life and he walks everywhere. I keep warning him it’s only a matter of time before the cops decide to stop him and use him for target practice.