‘What ridiculous questions do people ask you abroad as a Brit?’ – 23 very strange misconceptions about the UK

13.

‘I’m American but live in the UK. An old work colleague who I hadn’t seen in 10+ years messaged me to say she was going to visit England for the first time and wanted to know ‘if the English still dress for dinner’. I just told her to dress normal, and it’s not just one big Downton Abbey set.’
–wine_n_mrbean

14.

‘Question I got asked once in the Middle East was why we let America have independence. All I could say is that we were fighting the French at the time and couldn’t be arsed keeping the colony as it wasn’t very important.’
–dwair

15.

‘I was talking about driving to visit a friend in France when I got back to the UK and an American acquaintance scoffed at me ‘Oh yeah, over that imaginary bridge from England to France?’

They were flabbergasted when I told them no, it’s a tunnel.’
–The__Groke

16.

‘We had a long chat with an Austrian guy while we were all enjoying a lovely beach in Crete. He had been incredibly surprised by how far the tide goes out in the UK. He’d always holidayed in the Med until the year before when he was in the UK and saw the tide rise and fall in Margate. We told him that was nothing, Try Weston Super Mare!’
–Foundation_Wrong

17.

‘I was once talking to a Russian guy who simply could not comprehend the fact I wasn’t interested in football.’
–Visible-Management63

18.

‘An American asked me if we refrigerate our milk in the UK. I said ‘No, we get it straight from the cow.”
–ewdwr

19.

‘Someone asked if Scotland was near New Zealand, which is probably the single furthest land mass from Scotland on the entire planet.’
–de_bussy69

20.

‘An American once very sincerely asked me if ‘You guys [were] all still really cut up about Diana’s death?’ in around 2008. I gently told her we were doing alright, thank you.’
–youandmevsmothra

21.

‘Reeling off places on a UK monopoly board and asking me if I lived there.’
–Brown_Pound

22.

‘Not me but a woman I used to work with went to Chicago to watch Wales play USA in rugby on a summer tour. An American family they met in the hotel bar the night before couldn’t get over the fact that WHALES can play rugby.

I wish this was made up but yeah for a short while they actually thought she was going to watch giant, water based mammals play sport.’
–hotdogs4T

23.

‘Americans baffled that we we don’t celebrate 4th July, President’s Day and Thanksgiving. Almost like the UK is a different country.’
–Fraggle987

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