Cultural Learnings Of United Kingdom To Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Hungary

[DGuller]

It's what keeps us from tearing each other apart in another Civil War.  I believe it was part of the terms at Appomattox.

Europe, on the other hand, is a continent full of sullen 15 year olds in the back of Mom's minivan.

The funny part is I found it just as exhausting putting up with people being so moody all the time.  When I say hello just smile and say hello back you crazy Euros!  Is that not what civilization demands?

No. 

[Brazen]

-"how are you" "how are you doing", plus casual quick conversation by cashiers and such: YOU DON`T REALLY CARE!!! STOP ASKING! I have seen some occasion of people dropping that casually and moving on without waiting for the answer. A Hungarian friend once tried dropping "Quite bad actually" as an answer to enjoy the confusion and meltdown which followed.
Hungarians are whiny and moody, being all cheerful and friendly all the time is EXHAUSTING

Just consider it a way of saying hello, like the Chinese greeting "Have you eaten yet?" It's not actually a question, just a greeting. The expected response is "fine".

-"m8" see above. First time you have seen me was 2 seconds ago when we entered the same lift. I am not your mate, mate. That said, I find myself using it more and more involuntarily 

Again, it's just punctuating a conversation with a stranger, like Sir would have been used years ago.

-All the spitting - OMG WTF

That's down to all the Eastern Europeans. It's just been banned in my town.

-separate cold and hot water taps for the sink: RLY, SRSLY?

Who'd want to brush their teeth with water out of the same tap the hot water comes out of? I've been to a half-dozen countries this year and they all had separate taps in the bathroom.

-charity and the environment: I am happy that I would give electricity to an entire Bangladesh household but I still don`t want that £5 T-shirt. And people should not parachute jump for charity. Give money to charity, AND jump out of an airplane for fun. You don`t need to repent for having fun.

I only sponsor people if they do stuff that's going to hurt and not be fun. Marathon yes, pay for your holiday to Machu Picchu, no. I went to a wedding where the couple asked for charity donations instead of presents. I didn't even get any food out of it. I don't like being forced to support a cause I wouldn't otherwise have donated to.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I hate mixer taps; cost me a small fortune to get separate hot and cold taps when I had a new bathroom installed a few years back 

[garbon]

I'll admit that was one of my least favorite things about England. I wasn't in for getting scalded on one part and frozen on the other.

[Valmy]

I, of course, meant this:

Ok that is freaking nuts.  I might consider moving back to Hungary just to get some warm water.

[Tamas]

I hate mixer taps; cost me a small fortune to get separate hot and cold taps when I had a new bathroom installed a few years back 

[Tamas]

I, of course, meant this:

Ok that is freaking nuts.  I might consider moving back to Hungary just to get some warm water.

Actually my flat has proper mixer taps. But I have seen that at other places and I dread the possibility of having to move to a place once which goes full Brit on taps.

[Ed Anger]

At least you don't have to deal with German toilets.

[Syt]

It's what keeps us from tearing each other apart in another Civil War.  I believe it was part of the terms at Appomattox.

Europe, on the other hand, is a continent full of sullen 15 year olds in the back of Mom's minivan.

The funny part is I found it just as exhausting putting up with people being so moody all the time.  When I say hello just smile and say hello back you crazy Euros!  Is that not what civilization demands?

No. 

I read a blog post from a Russian the other day explaining that Russians smile so little on pictures because that's something they only do towards friends and people they actually know and like, not to strangers.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Herodotus said that "custom is king of all" and I agree with him. I find mixer taps distasteful and degenerate and the warm water they put out gives me the creeps..........which, I will concede, is a more or less insane position 

[Valmy]

I read a blog post from a Russian the other day explaining that Russians smile so little on pictures because that's something they only do towards friends and people they actually know and like, not to strangers.

To a Texan that just seems like being a petty douchebag.

But don't most people usually take pictures of friends and people they actually know and like?

[The Brain]

I read a blog post from a Russian the other day explaining that Russians smile so little on pictures because that's something they only do towards friends and people they actually know and like, not to strangers.

To a Texan that just seems like being a petty douchebag.

But don't most people usually take pictures of friends and people they actually know and like?

Once the white devil has captured your soul in a "picture", he can show it to anyone. Shocking, I know.

[Admiral Yi]

  You Brits do understand that if you only want cold water you just turn on the cold faucet, right?

[alfred russel]

You Brits do understand that if you only want cold water you just turn on the cold faucet, right?

But in a lot of places the hot water isn't as clean.

[Brazen]

But in a lot of places the hot water isn't as clean.

We tend to heat water for a limited period of the day and keep it in insulated immersion heaters, so even if it's not unhygienic per se, it's a bit stagnant.