8. “You won’t get over how smarter we is!” - Yeah, no.
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.
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?
How would you define love?
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.
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!
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..
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
“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…
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?
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.
How do I run away? I'm 15 and live in Oklahoma.
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!
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.
