You know you're living in America and not the UK when...

[Jeraly 4]

... you hear an ad for a family law firm on the radio and their phone number is 1-800-DIVORCE.

... you flip through an English gossip magazine and have no idea who any of the people featured are.

[Toshtishtash 1]

You are asked on a regular, almost daily basis, if you have ever met Princess Diana or have ever had tea with the queen

[Jeraly 4]

:lol:

Good one!!!

... you're either told on a regular basis that you have a great accent OR asked if you're from Australia

[Toshtishtash 1]

You can draw money out of the bank, fill the car up with gas, buy beer, pick up your prescription and wash your car all without standing up.

[Ian + Anne 0]

..... you see the crappy way the adverts are done on TV (e.g they cut the advert before it's finished airing or you see a brief 1 - 3 second ad and then a full advert, seems to me that they recycle the tape without erazing it first, a classic case of poor editorial skills)

..... you attempt to get in the wrong side of the car to drive down the shops ! (yep, done it here ... opps)

..... you can not find your fav food in the shops (cream, double cream, thick double cream, weetabix.

..... you can not find an electrical screw driver in the hardware stores ! (all they sell are test probes, ####### !)

..... someone cuts you up on the road without using their indicators and mirrors just to be in front of you !

..... you have a tail gater ..... they tend to sit on your rear as if they are looking through the contents in the back of the car...... ####### .... sometimes I feel like stopping the car in the middle of the road and walking to the back and opening the boot and asking the driver if s/he wants anything from it !

[Toshtishtash 1]

..... you attempt to get in the wrong side of the car to drive down the shops ! (yep, done it here ... opps)

I always do that... I am hoping that one day it stops!

When watching a TV show... You have to suffer a 5 minute advert break every 7 and a half minutes (or more) and the final part of the show after the last break only lasts for about 25 seconds before it ends. What IS the point in that?

[Krikit 1,164]

..... you attempt to get in the wrong side of the car to drive down the shops ! (yep, done it here ... opps)

I always do that... I am hoping that one day it stops!

It won't! Because you'll finally get it right, and then you'll go home for a visit and do the same thing over there. So by the time you come back you'll have been retrained and you'll start doing it all over again.

[govols 0]

LOL All of the above and they called it soccer not football because they call a game where they throw the ball Football.

Tony

[Jeraly 4]

..... you see the crappy way the adverts are done on TV (e.g they cut the advert before it's finished airing or you see a brief 1 - 3 second ad and then a full advert, seems to me that they recycle the tape without erazing it first, a classic case of poor editorial skills)

... you are getting into a tv programme when the commercials cut in mid-way through a sentence

When watching a TV show... You have to suffer a 5 minute advert break every 7 and a half minutes (or more) and the final part of the show after the last break only lasts for about 25 seconds before it ends. What IS the point in that?

... you get a commercial break just before the credits of a show that has just ended... then after the credits stop rolling there is *another* commercial break

[Sal and Jay 2]

I had it said to me that I speak good english, duh I am english.lol

[Saffyre 0]

..... you see the crappy way the adverts are done on TV (e.g they cut the advert before it's finished airing or you see a brief 1 - 3 second ad and then a full advert, seems to me that they recycle the tape without erazing it first, a classic case of poor editorial skills)

... you are getting into a tv programme when the commercials cut in mid-way through a sentence

When watching a TV show... You have to suffer a 5 minute advert break every 7 and a half minutes (or more) and the final part of the show after the last break only lasts for about 25 seconds before it ends. What IS the point in that?

... you get a commercial break just before the credits of a show that has just ended... then after the credits stop rolling there is *another* commercial break

LOL too funny!

I saw a commercial for a pill to cure 'erectile disfunction' while I was visiting in February. I nearly feel off my chair laughing. My SO didn't see what was so funny until I told him that in no way would they ever show this in the UK, and certainly not at about 8 or 9pm in between regular tv viewing. The guy in the ad looked so pleased with himself too, hilarious!

[Mark&Steph 0]

I saw a commercial for a pill to cure 'erectile disfunction' while I was visiting in February. I nearly feel off my chair laughing. My SO didn't see what was so funny until I told him that in no way would they ever show this in the UK, and certainly not at about 8 or 9pm in between regular tv viewing. The guy in the ad looked so pleased with himself too, hilarious!

Not about that ad, but all the other medical adverts...

At the end, the voice over guy reads the list of possible side effects (or they are printed on screen), of which there are about 50, and all of them worse than the problem that the medicine cures.

When watching a TV show... You have to suffer a 5 minute advert break every 7 and a half minutes (or more) and the final part of the show after the last break only lasts for about 25 seconds before it ends. What IS the point in that?

I hate that... We'll be right back after this break... To tell you the show's over

How about when you're out somewhere and there's a loud short bang, and someone jokes that someone has just been shot.

[Chocolot 0]

..... you attempt to get in the wrong side of the car to drive down the shops ! (yep, done it here ... opps)

I always do that... I am hoping that one day it stops!  

and then looking round sheepishly to see if anyone noticed, so I learnt to check where the steering wheel is through the rear window, before getting in and activating the windscreen wipers instead of the indicators.

[catrocks 0]

..... you see a commercial for medication for genital herpes at 5pm

..... you're repeatedly asked to spell any word with an 'r' in it

..... when you order water in a restaurant you never know what you'll end up with!

[TracyTN 237]

..... you can not find an electrical screw driver in the hardware stores ! (all they sell are test probes, ####### !)

..... you have a tail gater ..... they tend to sit on your rear as if they are looking through the contents in the back of the car...... ####### .... sometimes I feel like stopping the car in the middle of the road and walking to the back and opening the boot and asking the driver if s/he wants anything from it !

Glad to hear this isn't just a Tennessee thing!! It drives me CRAZY!!!!!!

(I'm not sure why you can't find an electric screwdriver, though!)