What STUMPS you still after coming to the US?

[heo luoi 206]

What STILL really bugs you // or stumps you // still can't get used to // and you can't figure out how / why, regardless how long you've been here?
You know not whining or b-ing. but just drives you nuts like when someone cuts their toenails at work? Or coughs incessantly.

What was it like in your native country if different?

That Sugar is pronounced Shoe-ger and not Sue Gar?

That some states have front license plates and other don't?

Why some interstate ON ramps, go up instead of down (where you are supposed to speed up to interstate speed on an incline)?

Why the NFL has so many many commercial breaks?

Why a Subway footlong is in fact not a foot long?

That you buy big ticket items and simply return them to the store (some weirdos return perishable food at costco...which bugs the ever living ####### out of me)?

[V24 21]

How everyone sues everyone for crazy ridiculous stuff! How is it legal I don't know

[AmAjjD 33]

My husband says the amount of commercials on TV drive him nuts

[heo luoi 206]

I know some UK channels are 'commercial'less but I know in VN theres just as much if not more loud, obnoxious commericals in VN. The dont seem to care about the volume barrage either unlike the states that finally put a law for that. Surely the UK isn't completly commercialless ? Is it just less, or less for sporting events?

My husband says the amount of commercials on TV drive him nuts

[heo luoi 206]

LOL realize some of my examples are exactly us specific but you all get my drift

[Shauneg 762]

I know some UK channels are 'commercial'less but I know in VN theres just as much if not more loud, obnoxious commericals in VN. The dont seem to care about the volume barrage either unlike the states that finally put a law for that. Surely the UK isn't completly commercialless ? Is it just less, or less for sporting events?

In the UK there are fewer commercial breaks but just longer when they have them. A hour tv might have three or four breaks but run longer.

[heo luoi 206]

Thanks shauneg...no stumps for you?

Ew longer breaks, thats worse...i hate the radio station that does that I always have to swap stations then.

In the UK there are fewer commercial breaks but just longer when they have them. A hour tv might have three or four breaks but run longer.

[Shauneg 762]

Thanks shauneg...no stumps for you?

Ew longer breaks, thats worse...i hate the radio station that does that I always have to swap stations then.

My career has taken me to many places overseas for many years at a time to live but....I'm from the states.

I don't know everyone sues each other for everything either!

I also don't understand the level entitlement some people have...but that's not isolated to here though it's prevalent.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

I also don't understand the level entitlement some people have...but that's not isolated to here though it's prevalent.

That's an interesting comment to me - I think the two othe countries I've spent the most time in,South Africa and the U.K., both have a much worse sense of entitlement pervasive in society, albeit manifested in quite different ways in each. I don't actually really get that sense at all here...quite the opposite, that people are prepared to work hard for what they want.

But definitely a +1 to the comments about suing. It's bizarre to me that anytime someone complains about the slightest thing there is invariably someone whose response is "sue them!"

And I can't get over why there is no long life milk here!!

PS to the first poster, I'm not aware of any English-speaking country where "sugar" is pronounced sue-gar and not a "sh" sound?

Edited October 13, 2015 by SusieQQQ

[Ontarkie 14,227]

And I can't get over why there is no long life milk here!!

It's in the baking section around here.

[heo luoi 206]

Yeah its more just a funny thing I remember my friends immigrant mother complaining about english in general how sugar wasn't spelled like it sounded at all. My examples werent great as I noted before

That's an interesting comment to me - I think the two othe countries I've spent the most time in,South Africa and the U.K., both have a much worse sense of entitlement pervasive in society, albeit manifested in quite different ways in each. I don't actually really get that sense at all here...quite the opposite, that people are prepared to work hard for what they want.

But definitely a +1 to the comments about suing. It's bizarre to me that anytime someone complains about the slightest thing there is invariably someone whose response is "sue them!"

And I can't get over why there is no long life milk here!!

PS to the first poster, I'm not aware of any English-speaking country where "sugar" is pronounced sue-gar and not a "sh" sound?

[Transborderwife 4,666]

The whole sugar thing is an odd English language thing. For example in French it's sucre. Sounds similar but no sh. Spanish azucar. Perhaps the sh comes with combining the two?

Milk is weird here to me. It turns so quickly! But then again I'm used to milk bags in canada

[JACo 8]

The amount of artificial stuff in things... If I want to eat strawberry whatever, I want REAL strawberry flavor, not artificial stuff!

Cool whip. I cannot understand why anybody buys that stuff... You want whipped cream and you eat vegetable oil that tastes horrible?!

How tv is full of joint lawsuits and you need to hurry up, because "offer ends soon".... "Victims of mesothelioma or their loved ones, call now!" Been going on for at least a year and it drives me nuts.

How tv is full of medicine commercials that can save your life, but oh wait, we gota tell you that this and that and these could be side effects, and you could actually also die if you take this.. Plus, on a small print that stays on the screen for a split second it reads that none of the claims are FDA approved. Can't belive they're alowed to sell all this stuff... And I also find it strange that they suggest that you as a patient should ask your doctor if you could benefit from this medicine. Where I com from, I go to the doctor and the doctor will tell me my options

How when watching tv, you have to turn up the volume to hear anything of the actual show, but then jump a foot in the air and get a mini heart attack every time the show goes on commercial break, bcause the commercials are significantly louder than the show.

How some people think brang is an actual word.

That pople call it homemade and baking when they bought a cake mix, added water and put it in the oven.

That people LIKE these "homemade" cakes

That Fanta doesn't taste the same, because it doesn't have real sugar in it.

Bill O'Reilly, but let's not go there...

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Brang is used all over North America...sadly!

Cool whip I'm ok with personally.

Technically mix of you make it at home is home made funny story. For an auction a friend didn't have time to make pies that she promised. She went to Costco buying uncooked frozen pies and pre baked them in her oven calling them 'home baked'. When the winner later asked about them she told the truth right away saying 'well I baked them at home didn't I?' It went over surprisingly well!

[JACo 8]

Yeah, I know, technically they are homemade.. It's just when somebody invites us over for a supper and tell me that there's going to be a homemade dessert, I keep thinking about goodies made from scratch and used to get really disappointed.. I think I've gotten used to it now though, but it still drives me a little nuts