American-British Q&A

[Jon Shannow]

Can Americans tell the difference between the different Scottish accents or like the one i met do you assume we all just sound like Sean Connery?

 

[DTWolfwood]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

 

[DTWolfwood]

Can Americans tell the difference between the different Scottish accents or like the one i met do you assume we all just sound like Sean Connery?

I think that should be a compliment to assume you all sound like Sean Connery. We americans hold him with high regard

Most would know your from the UK but the difference between a Scotish/English/Irish/Walsh would probably be lost to most americans. I'd be brave to say that a lot of americans can't tell the difference between the UK accents and the one from Australia.

Personally i can't tell if your scot or irish but the differences from English to Scots is pretty significant. It helps my clan has a lot of brits in them.

 

[Scrubiii]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

 

[Proverbial Jon]

The Americans have their equivalent: yanking your chain. It goes back to the days of gravity flush toilets that had a huge tank of water above the user's head and which were flushed by pulling on a chain. They flushed rather violently and were know to splash your ass with water if you were still seating on them. As a school prank, it was common to yank the chain while someone was still sitting on them, hence the expression: yanking your chain.

Now if only I had some actually useful information in my head, I'd be "sitting in high cotton" (a polite form of the traditional "shitting in high cotton" used to denote a beneficial situation).

Wow, I did not know that! We also use that expression, but it's not as widely used as some others. Also, we still have those toilets in some places over here, especially older buildings. Yeah, we're still stuck in the middle ages

 

[JDKJ]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

Why are you setting yourself up to be the butt of any number of spotted dick jokes? Why?

 

[Scrubiii]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

It is. Usually you have it with custard provide more flavour but even then it's pretty lame.

 

[JDKJ]

The Americans have their equivalent: yanking your chain. It goes back to the days of gravity flush toilets that had a huge tank of water above the user's head and which were flushed by pulling on a chain. They flushed rather violently and were know to splash your ass with water if you were still seating on them. As a school prank, it was common to yank the chain while someone was still sitting on them, hence the expression: yanking your chain.

Now if only I had some actually useful information in my head, I'd be "sitting in high cotton" (a polite form of the traditional "shitting in high cotton" used to denote a beneficial situation).

Wow, I did not know that! We also use that expression, but it's not as widely used as some others. Also, we still have those toilets in some places over here, especially older buildings. Yeah, we're still stuck in the middle ages

In the country where I'm originally from, we still have 'em, too. Mostly outside the major cities and in old properties, but you don't have to search too hard to find 'em.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

Why are you setting yourself up to be the butt of any number of spotted dick jokes? Why?

because its comical and the fact they have a food called Spotted Dick. i was hoping to get some of them comically lame puns! XD

 

[Flames66]

The Americans have their equivalent: yanking your chain. It goes back to the days of gravity flush toilets that had a huge tank of water above the user's head and which were flushed by pulling on a chain. They flushed rather violently and were know to splash your ass with water if you were still seating on them. As a school prank, it was common to yank the chain while someone was still sitting on them, hence the expression: yanking your chain.

Now if only I had some actually useful information in my head, I'd be "sitting in high cotton" (a polite form of the traditional "shitting in high cotton" used to denote a beneficial situation).

Wow, I did not know that! We also use that expression, but it's not as widely used as some others. Also, we still have those toilets in some places over here, especially older buildings. Yeah, we're still stuck in the middle ages

In the country where I'm originally from, we still have 'em, too. Mostly outside the major cities and in old properties, but you don't have to search too hard to find 'em.

South-west England here and we have several yanky chain toilets in this house.

 

[JDKJ]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

Why are you setting yourself up to be the butt of any number of spotted dick jokes? Why?

because its comical and the fact they have a food called Spotted Dick. i was hoping to get some of them comically lame puns! XD

I was about to tell you where you can taste some spicy spotted dick but thought better of it after careful consideration. LMAO!!

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I'm interested to find out just how much of an impact our little Island has on the USA in general.

I mean everywhere we look over here you can see America's influence, from the food we eat, the technology we use and the programs on TV as well. Even our actors seem to be starring in American shows and putting on American accents, most notably Hugh Laurie and Andrew Lincoln. It seems that a lot of America's culture has been accepted into our own without us really noticing. So yeah, I guess I'd like to know how much of the UK has seeped into the USA.

Of course we will always keep all our silly little eccentricities and we will continue to spell words like colour properly as well!

 

[IndianaJonny]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep, it's a classic scout-trip thing to do to take all the labels of the tinned desserts: Spotted Dick, Sticky Toffee Pudding etc. and essentially 'roulette' them out to people.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Do you brits actually like Spotted Dick and Blood Pudding?

Yep. "Blood Pudding" is actually called black pudding and the blood isn't liquid, it's congealed and solidified and tastes similar to haggis. Its also not a pudding, it's usually eaten for breakfast as a substitute for sausage. Spotted Dick is just dough or suet cooked with currents in it.

awe here i was willing to try Haggis until that >.< I've had the 'pudding' and no sir, i do not like!

Spotted Dick sounds really bland

Why are you setting yourself up to be the butt of any number of spotted dick jokes? Why?

because its comical and the fact they have a food called Spotted Dick. i was hoping to get some of them comically lame puns! XD

I was about to tell you where you can taste some spicy spotted dick but thought better of it after careful consideration. LMAO!!

lame! XD

 

[IndianaJonny]

how big is baseball in the UK?

Virtually non-existent. I don't know anyone who knows the rules or has ever played or watched a game in their life. Same with American Football.

The National Football League has been staging games in England for the past five seasons. They've prove immensely popular. One game at Wembley Stadium sold out 45,000 tickets, ranging in price from £45 through to £100, in 90 minutes. They've been forced to hold lotteries for the tickets because demand is so high. In one such recent lottery, 500,000 people signed up for a chance to buy tickets.

Much for the same reason WWE shows are popular in the UK: because it's the frickin' NFL, man! It doesn't mean that there's any American Football played in Europe outside of the aforementioned NFL shows. (Indeed, professional wrestling seems to be pretty non-existant in the UK outside of aforementioned shows such as the occasional WWE tour).

Same goes for the recent Raptors vs. Nets NBA game at the O2 Arena in London. Big league, held in the capital - course it's gonna do well. Shame our own BBA doesn't get much coverage, come on Mersey Tigers!

 

[ScoopMeister]

Also, a question for you americans, do you acknowledge that we are your ancestors?

Nope my ancestors are the Russian, Polish, Czechoslovakians, and the Hungarian. I don't have any ounce of British blood in my veins.

My question: what in the hell is Marmite and why do people in the UK go batshit for it?

How dare you! Marmite is the single most disgusting substance in the universe!
(mini-rant over)

 

[IndianaJonny]

As a kid, there were a lot of children's shows set around American schools/kids in general: Recess, Hey Arnold, Malcolm in the Middle etc.

Were/are there any shows based on life in the UK airing on US kid's TV?