1. A detached house is a luxury, and most people live in terraced houses.
Look, we live on a small island, so we can't all have the luxury of not sharing walls with neighbours.
2. And those terraced houses are also tiny.
i am honestly so offended right now
The already-small Victorian terraced homes are often split into several flats.
3. We have separate taps for hot and cold water.
4. And the toilet isn't always in the same room as the rest of the bathroom.
Delivery guy: Could I use your toilet? Me: Yes sure it's the door under the stairs. Delivery guy: Which one? Me: Er… https://t.co/GOtRgbkxsd
5. We actually have kettles.
[British detective enters hotel room, sees tea kettle unplugged, hair dryer plugged in in its place] "So we know they were Americans."
We use freshly boiled water to make our tea, rather than microwaving room-temperature water like savages.
6. We keep the washing machine in the kitchen.
I find it extremely weird that Americans find it extremely weird (and disgusting) that ppl put their washing machines in the kitchen..
You may think it's weird, but surely it's a lot weirder to haul all your dirty underwear out of your house and into a public space, where you have to pay to watch said dirty underwear be washed in front of strangers?
7. We also don't have dryers, so we use the magic that is the atmosphere to dry our clothing.
8. If a home is in a block, it's called a "flat", not an "apartment".
9. Every house has central heating and all radiators are strange and terrifying.
10. Many of our buildings are older than the USA itself.
11. We don't have separate little tiny homes for our mail in front of our houses.
12. Our plugs are huge and therefore even more painful if you step on them.
13. But they're a lot safer because they actually have an on and off switch!
Wait a minute American plug sockets don't have an on/off switch...?
Why don't American sockets have off buttons?? Do you all just have a death wish???
14. The light switch in the bathroom is on a string.
I keep reaching for a light switch...then I realize I'm in London and I have to pull the string thingy
A lot of the design and architecture in the UK seems to be centred around not being electrocuted.
15. We don't have air conditioning, because it only gets hot enough to warrant it once a year, at best.
16. Very few people have cellars.
