21 British things that are hard to explain to people
12.
I’ve had to explain Argos to non-Brits.
Yeah so everything’s in the building, but you’re not allowed to see it. You can only look at things in a laminated book and write down the code.
baxty23
13.
Haggis.
As a Scot it’s odd how difficult haggis is to explain to someone and a lot of people assume we are leg pulling and it isn’t real.
LuckyCatty
14.
Honestly something like christmas crackers.
A segmented cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper with a prize in the centre, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper.
The cracker is pulled apart by two people, each holding an outer chamber, causing the cracker to split unevenly and leaving one person holding the central chamber and prize.
The split is accompanied by a mild bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a shock-sensitive, chemically impregnated card strip.
Contractor-Inquiries
15.
Dogging is not walking with a dog.
Dissidant
16.
The fact that when someone asks ‘how are you?’ they’re not actually asking how you are. Any response other than ‘yeah good, you?’ (or similar) will evoke sudden and acute panic.
OK-Bag3000
17.
The Shipping Forecast on Radio 4. Not the broadcast itself – a weather report for the seas around the UK makes sense – but the fact that so many of us listened to it as children, usually in bed, even though we didn’t live anywhere near the coast. Many people continue to listen to it as adults. It’s something of a cult radio programme.
Azzthom
18.
I live in rural Spain now. Trying to explain a pub quiz to my mates is impossible. “So you come into a pub, where everyone is talking and then start asking questions? With a microphone? And people give you money? Loco Ingles”
Stoofa69
19.
Naive-reach2007
Via
20.
Having been round a fair part of the world – queuing …
Weekly-District-153
21.
Dunking your hobnob.
jizzydiaper
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