Just soooooo cruel!!

My American son-in-law said "I'll just go and wash up". I was about to offer to help when I thought "but he has a dishwasher" so fortunately didn't. "Wash up" in America means "take a shower"!

When I was a child l used to think Bill Stickers (ie Bill Stickers will be prosecuted ) was a man. ........

SueDonim

The U.S. 'Fanny Pack' has a whole different meaning in the UK think 'prolapse' not 'bum bag'

We once had dinner with some well-to-do Americans. After the meal both Dh and I nearly choked on our coffee when our hostess proposed we move to more comfortable chairs because she now had 'fanny fatigue'!

There's a large sign says HIDDEN DIP on the road a few miles away . Always makes me smile when I drive past...

A new sign appeared near my daughters home last week,she lives between the nuclear bases on the west coast .The sign says NO DRONES ALLOWED ,her friends husband is a piper he and his pal took a photo of themselves beside it with pipes .They captioned it "you may take our lives but you wont stop our drones" ( a drone is an integarl part of bagpipes)

'Fanny bag' reminded me of a novel I once read, which had evidently not been carefully enough 'translated' from US to U.K. English.
'He patted her fanny as he went past,' was one little gem that escaped the net!

or"icing on road" not ice always icing..is it fondant or royal all nicely piped?

Whilst on a honeymoon cruise we took part in a quiz. I wrote an answer in pencil but decided it was wrong.... so I called out "does anyone have a rubber".... The terminology I should have used was ERASER, our American friends were horrified!!!!

OOmamOO I would have thought lavatory was also from the French - Laver =To wash, hence 'washroom' maybe!

Here's a picture I collected on a visit to the UK. Sorry it's a bit blurred.

https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/201904/medium-474256-shovel.jpg https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/201904/medium-684405-spade.jpg https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/201904/medium-312873-plant-crossing.jpg

Jalima1108

I may cause a trans-Tasman riot here but spades and shovels are entirely different, even bloody ones.

And used for different purposes.

paddyann
Picture is for you.

Cats buried up to their eye balls

I had a friend who thought that a turf accountant was somebody who sold grass.

We passed a farm advertising ‘ free range sausages’ cue lovely pictures of chipolatas gambolling ( no not cards!) in the fields. ?

Difficult to describe this - it's to do with the intonation. Traffic reports are sometimes about a 'shed load'. I picture a huge lorry full of sheds.

Non-U means not upper class as from Nancy Mitford's 1950's Noblesse Oblige,
It was funny at the time. Not to be taken too seriously.

I like the stickmen in peril signs.

The ' men at work's sign always looks like an umbrella and reminds me of Singing in the Rain.

Jalima1108 What does non-U mean?

There was a 'cats eyes removed' sign here to which and some clown had added '£5 a time'.

I always feel sad for disabled toilets and disabled parking spaces. Who disabled them? and why? ... and as for people being wheelchair bound, well, maybe they like a bit of bondage

I live in Yorkshire so when I see signs warning of a Blind Summit I always feel like correcting it to Blind Something.
Also with Hidden Dips I think of cunningly concealed ketchup etc

Apparently the upper classes do not use French sounding words, i.e. toilet, so they say lavatory which I think sounds course. I wonder if they have bidets? Perhaps they call them ‘bumwashers’.

Great thread kateykrunch

I've always hoped to see a big yucca plant crossing the road,still living in hope.Better still Men at work?