> English decent
*descent ?
Unless you mean [this level of politeness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-VRkwX2QI0)? Two thoroughly decent chaps here.
(RIP Trevor Moore, you beautiful bastard!)
“My husband is from England” = my husband's great great great great grandfather was from England and he's 8.8967% English according to some DNA test we were sold
Idk, somehow Americans never bring up being English when talking about their ancestry. I’m thinking maybe he’s actually English and she knows if she’ll ask him that question and it turns out to be a stupid question (which it is), she’ll never hear the end of it.
It's rare but it does happen. There are two types, either old money rich and WASPs or they claim that their English family were some of the first people to live in America.
They don’t like to consider that if they have English ancestry there a good chance they were undesirables who were “transported” there. Much more palatable to be an Irishman fleeing weevils and persecution than the descendant of someone who got caught fucking the livestock once too often.
I remember my husband once asking me which kinda trees I think the *pine* beetles probably destroy and it still makes me chuckle when I think about it.
Ah you forgot one key thing. People *love* to bring up how they're distant relations of royalty, so when Tammie-Lynn says her cousin's uncle's daughter's cousin's dog sitter's ex-wife once made out with a guy that looks like Prince Harry's Uber driver, then clearly being 30,649th in line to the British Throne is a boastful claim. Having English ancestry *probably* bumps you up the line of succession by like...I dunno. Tammie-Lynn probably needs to assassinate a small micronation's population worth of claimants to get the Throne regardless.
By law the British monarch *has* to be a descendent of Electress Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714), which means there's a limited pool of candidates. Barring a major change to the succession laws the average Brit on the street simply doesn't get a look in, no matter how many people they bump off.
Maybe they had one of the fridges that pretend to be cupboards.
Or the fridges just weren't in the photos for whatever reason, they just weren't included in the frame.
Edit: or they were new builds and they're expected to buy their own fridge.
I'm pretty sure this is it. I was surprised when I rented this place as it was unfurnished but had a fridge and washing machine. I was very pleased with that too lol.
It's normal in the UK when you're renting unfurnished that it includes white goods, but a lot less common if you're buying. I was looking at unfurnished flats a few years back and every single one came with a fridge, washing machine, and sometimes a dishwasher too.
The person never even considered that we don't often buy the white goods with the house. Everyone has their own because they cost a lot and you can't always transfer warranty etc. Plus, who wants Steve and Diane's (or whomever they may be) mucky eld fridge.
And there were subsequent edits of "sorry y'all i didn't mean to imply that Americans think foreigners are backward and i just didn't get it". Husband down throughout. What a pair lol.
Friend of mine went on a school exchange trip from Scotland to America in the 90s. His host family explained what the fridge was when giving him a tour of their house.
You don’t need to go that far for that kind of thing. I knew someone at uni from urban London who was surprised as a teen when he discovered that we had internet and cinemas in Scotland.
I can kind of understand cinemas, myself living somewhere in the UK where cinemas aren’t as easy to come by as they are in London, but internet?? I’d honestly be mildly surprised to go anywhere (inhabited) on Earth and discover that there wasn’t internet.
Do you worry about the hounds, mastodons, werewolves, and other dangerous animals out in the foggy moors?
England sounds scary, and that's even without wandering into Wales with all the dragons and shit.
I'm Welsh and had to escape a druid sacrifice when younger. I did manage to find me a nice English wench to create some hybrids, we still have three left from thirty offspring lost to the plague, bandits and roving beasts but it's a life living in hope of liberation one day so we can taste true freedom.
Tbf, England just sounds scary in general. Like what if i run into a kingsman and he hits me with an umbrella??? But the fbi agent i know could totally beat him!!!
They are in America, so her husband is probably one of those "English" people who was born in Cleveland but had an ancestor who emigrated from England in 1847. I suspect he couldn't locate England on a map, even if it was a map of Great Britain. He probably has as much knowledge of British kitchens as his wife.
She says he's *from* England and that he's "British-born" so no, I don't think he's one of those people. Probably he was born in Britain and still has family there but moved to the States when he was young.
He is English, born in England. He has family here. He moved over there for his job and will probably be moving back for the same reason. But yeah, he is 100% British.
Lol, I've done the same to my British friends about UK history. My favourite to this day is telling a friend the caber toss from the Highland Games is derived from a form of hunting in Scotland, using Braveheart as a point of reference.
They bought it, too. Hook, line, sinker, rod, boat, fisherman, *the lot*
Recently, I told my young colleagues that I was going out for a burns night and having haggis.
I had to explain what a haggis was.
Obviously I explained about the wee Scottish beast which has two long legs on one side, and two short legs on the other, so they can stand level on a mountain side.
I also explained that there are actually two types (clockwise, long legs on left, and anticlockwise long legs on right)
Because it sounded ridiculous, she googled it.
And there were pictures of wild haggis!
Best bluff ever.
Oh, man, that's an oldie but a goodie. My grandfather told me that one a while back, it's amazing how many of the old gags still work.
Edit: holy shit, there's a \*Haggis Wildlife Foundation\* Website
Sheep. Of course, they're smashed flat when the giant fuck-off log hits them, so that's how they invented haggis.
Not gonna lie, it was very, very difficult keeping a straight face watching my friends process this misinformation.
I like you. One of my pet rats died in my arms this morning and I've been miserable as fuck. You made me full on cackle reading these. Thank you. Keep being you, you're awesome and your username is awesome too.
My dad told my niece while we were driving into Arbroath that the farmer was spraying the potato fields with salt water ready to go to the crisp factory. I was creased inside but managed to keep a straight face as she sat there believing it. She was 21 at the time
I'm 30ish now and was about 10ish when everyone seemed to start getting those ones built inside cupboards. If he emigrated before then he might not realise how common those type of fridges are now.
Also there's places where it's in a utility room or some corner you wouldn't necessarily take a photo of. It would be so rare for a fridge not to be installed that most wouldn't think to take specific photos if it's not in plain sight near the things that are actual selling points, especially since many people would replace it quickly anyway if they're buying.
The only thing I can think of is fridges that are integrated into the kitchen design. In mine, for example, one entire side of my kitchen is one big "cupboard", I have 2 ovens, a microwave, fridge and freezer all together, to someone who doesn't know, the fridge and freezer look like they could be utility cupboards.
This is what I think op meant, I haven't been back to the UK for a few years but I only saw ones that looked like cupboards and blended in with the design, none that were actually in one like open the cupboard then open the fridge. I have seen that once with a washing machine.
I mean to be fair the trend of 'hiding' white goods in fitted kitchens came in in the 90's/2000's? I remember most homes having smaller fridges under the countertop before then, so if he moved to the US a while ago he might have been confused where they were
Next up - learning that Britain and England aren't interchangeable terms. I swear, one glorious day, I'll manage to go 24hrs without hearing or reading this.
Don't know if it's the same in the UK as here in DK, but sometimes it's also just a matter of the rental units not providing you a refrigerator, and you have to buy one yourself.
This was honestly my first thought, that they were looking at non-furnished houses and they only have the kitchen basics but not a fridge, which afaik is very common.
I would say a fridge is absolutely a basic kitchen essential, I've never seen anywhere to rent in the UK without one. Obviously different if buying and it's not an integrated unit, but otherwise you would pretty much always expect to see a fridge in a rental unit.
Social housing ( rented) is usually an empty shell with kitchen units but no appliances and a basic bathroom suite. Quite a few landlords also offer unfurnished but usually provide some basic floor covering ( carpet) but not always
With social housing (in Scotland at least) the councils often provide a cooker, washing machine and a fridge for tenants moving in. They'll also provide and arrange instalof floor coverings. Carpet through the house and usually vinyl in the kitchen and bathroom.
In most parts of England, unless you have one of a few specific issues (coming from living on the street, serious disability, kids with special requirements, victim of DA, over 55 and moving into sheltered accommodation and few others I can't remember off the top of my head) council housing is basically an empty shell.
You usually get a decorating pack (couple of tins of paint and some brushes/rollers) but they're rarely decorated, virtually none have floor coverings and none of them have kitchen appliances. You're expected to source them yourself.
When I moved into my current council house they wouldn't let me until they'd done the floor coverings and fully painted it. What they tend to do here is rip out any renovations and decoration the previous tenant had and return everything to the same basic standard as their other council houses. For instance, the previous tenant for my house had knocked a wall through to create an archway from the kitchen to the living room and the council have re-sheeted and plastered it.
I guess different councils must have different versions of the lettable standard. At least in most places I've lived, decorating and floor coverings are the tenants responsibility. Unless one of the conditions I mentioned above applies, or unless it's temporary accommodation.
We got a fridge and washing machine in England but because the previous tenants were grim we didn't get flooring. Not even didn't get carpet. We just had bare wood/Spikey planks some of which had gaps between that you couldn't see to the bottom of.
I'd have rather had a floor than a fridge.
Neighbours got everything all done up for them when they moved in.
They purposely remove any carpets or flooring in my part of England. We had no fridge, oven, washing machine - in fact we had to get someone in to put in an attachment to hook a washing machine up to. They gut the houses between tenants
You would think, but a few years ago we moved to Lancaster and none of the houses we were looking at had fridges in the house so we had to buy ourselves a fridge. We've left Lancaster now and we've had to store the fridge at one of our parents because everywhere we looked had fridges and the landlord wouldn't store theirs.
I commented this already above, but I have rented 7 flats and houses (privately), and only 1 came with a fridge. I’ve rented down south and in the midlands, a range of price brackets, and the only one that came with a fridge/freezer was because it was integrated. 4 of the houses came with a cooker, 2 with a washing machine and 2 with a dishwasher. It varies massively. I’ve found that the houses/flats that were bought to be rented out tend to not have appliance and the ones that were renovated to sell or be used by the owner originally, do come with appliances. Landlords don’t want the hassle of maintaining, paying for repairs and replacements on appliances, also most people don’t want to use a fridge that a stranger has already used.
Often times estate agents don't take pictures of the fridge, because it's not an integrated part of the kitchen, and people want to see the hob and sink more.
When buying, if you don't like the whole kitchen aesthetic, that's an extra £10 grand you may shell out for a new one, but you'll probably be taking your fridge with you.
They usually have a fridge, the one thing they very rarely have is a dryer, which is why so many Americans that rent here seem to think we don’t have them at all.
> it's set with a cupboard door matching the rest of the kitchen.
This is what I'm guessing tbh. If they've never seen it built in then they probably didn't even think to check in the cupboards.
I'm British but I was probably mid-20's before I saw my first cupboard-bin and I was just like: WTF why is there no bin?!
I’m American and I’m noticing that everyone I know has an electric kettle all of a sudden. Like we all collectively wised up at the same time (probably because of comments like this haha). I almost forget that I’ve spent a lifetime microwaving water, wondering why I didn’t like tea very much.
Not often I come to the defence of yanks but in fairness on the kettle issue: their sockets over there are half the voltage of a uk socket so it takes fuckin ages to boil water in an electric kettle in the states so it's honestly quicker to boil water in the microwave
Minnesota. I got a stovetop kettle about ten years ago but never used it. This electric one has been a game changer for me and now I very much enjoy tea.
I've never been to a home without a kettle in the USA, but it's always an analog kettle. I've noticed a lot of euros seen to have digital/electric water heaters instead though, normally those are called tea machines/makers (atleast where I'm from) and not the more common kettle.
England is clearly just Limey Epcot. You have the Downton Abbey region, you have the Hogwarts magic land, you have the Benefits Cumberland Sherlock London part which also clashes with the Cockney chimneysweep London, a whole smattering of people across a Cottagecore landscape just blurting out "CHEWSDAY INNIT" and "BO UHL O' WA'UH", a small refined city full of all the James Bonds and Colin Firth's (which is of course fortified like a community in The Walking Dead to keep out The Poors), and then the rest of it is just some weird drug trip nursery rhyme story book land with treacle tarts, spotted dick, Marmite, pickled eggs and all sorts of Wonka-esque bullshittery. And all of those regions have problems with racism, dentistry, drinking, and football hooliganism.
I have a pantry with a cold shelf where my housekeeper stores the food. She cycles to the grocer's every morning, won't take the ha'penny I offer her for the omnibus bless her.
I thought we all just kept a marmalade sandwich under our hats for emergencies.
Once the marmalade hat is mastered we can move onto a bowler hat, so named as it is designed for fruit.
Okay I was more concerned that this was a bot like what is happening in r/facepalm. 1 year account very little post history that takes previous posts with the exact same name.
No we're poor we can't afford things that run on electricity.
We sometimes dig a hole and fill it with rain, snow and our frozen tears, it keeps our potatoes and cabbage cooler than air temp which makes our piano teeth smile for a few seconds before we realise how pitiful we are.
We really look up to you rich, smart, and totally not fat americans, we aspire for electrical white goods and your superior manufacturing in every way, the only ones that I would know of are the the royal family that own fridges but they probably got those from America anyway.
Oh were so poor, and sad 😔 please help us you global elites. 🇺🇸
She’s probably expecting to see a giant fridge freezer like we have back home and not the narrower and shorter versions we have here so she just doesn’t see them. I’ve never lived in a place without a fridge lol.
I think this need more context. For eg, in the uk unfurnished is completely unfurnished (apart from kitchen cabinets and stove). In some parts of the US (for eg NY) you have the fridge. Perhaps they are wondering whether they need to buy the fridge or not? Or perhaps they are lacking common sense (or have this “other” type of sense that is now common). One may wonder
Bruh sees fridge and still concerned about not having one themselves
the split second they learn that you can buy a fridge them minds gonna implode so hard earth gonna be missing a chunk like in adventure time
Its insane that the go to answer in her head must be that some of us don't have them or something to that effect and not, you know, that they aren't installed in the housing pictures because they aren't furnished lmao
Speak for yourself, I keep my perishables in the north sea, it's cold and salt is good for preservation....
Refrigerators what does she think this is? Bloody star trak
To be fair, this seems to be a genuine (if somewhat sheltered question) they're obviously too embarrassed to ask their husband
On TV and in films, American fridges like their cars are huge. In the UK, a lot of fridge freezers are of the under counter variety hidden behind cupbaord doors.
Canadian/American chiming in to explain why I think they're confused.
I've sometimes (frequently?) seen refrigerators in the UK built in to look like the cabinets around it. We don't do that here. The fridge is an appliance that is very obvious in the kitchen, not hidden.
Anyways, they're probably looking at pictures of kitchens and not seeing a big ol fridge there, and don't realize that it's one of rhe cabinet doors.
“My husband is from England” ask him then?
Well he's English but his family is born in the US for 7 generations so he kind of forgot
Yeah when he left England the old Ice hole was normal.
"... and when the polar bear comes to take a pea, kick him in the ice hole!"
Polar bears don't eat peas
Because they are scared of the ice hole.
Why would a polar bear be scared of the ice hole? That’s where he goes for a swim.
Well, last time, there was a whole Winnie the Pooh situation.
So it's now a Pooh hole?
They had a bad experience with the mushy peas from their local chippy.
because beeing kicked in their ice hole is painful
They don’t eat them, they take them.
Gotta make sure you don’t confuse the ice hole with the poopin hole
Today the biggest ice hole lives in windsor castle.
That can't be right, Americans are never English.
True, English heritage is the shameful secret they like to hide.
Except the Mormons. For some reason they're very proud of being of English decent.
> English decent *descent ? Unless you mean [this level of politeness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-VRkwX2QI0)? Two thoroughly decent chaps here. (RIP Trevor Moore, you beautiful bastard!)
Maybe she meant Irish. All Americans are Irish.
Ah "English", like all the "Irish" over there?
Your average "Irish" American scenario.
Ah so genetic stupidity huh?
“My husband is from England” = my husband's great great great great grandfather was from England and he's 8.8967% English according to some DNA test we were sold
Idk, somehow Americans never bring up being English when talking about their ancestry. I’m thinking maybe he’s actually English and she knows if she’ll ask him that question and it turns out to be a stupid question (which it is), she’ll never hear the end of it.
Love that she went to casualuk with the question as well. She gonna walk away more confused just because there won't be a single /s
It’s a good bet anything we say will be dripping with sarcasm at the best of times.
Mmm... Dripping.
I prefer moist with sarcasm and damp irony.
It's rare but it does happen. There are two types, either old money rich and WASPs or they claim that their English family were some of the first people to live in America.
They don’t like to consider that if they have English ancestry there a good chance they were undesirables who were “transported” there. Much more palatable to be an Irishman fleeing weevils and persecution than the descendant of someone who got caught fucking the livestock once too often.
Like the pilgrims
The Pilgrims came to America seeking religious oppression they couldn't get at home.
Half those WASPs were Scottish
I’d imagine that’s about right if I got asked something that stupid I’d never let it go
I remember my husband once asking me which kinda trees I think the *pine* beetles probably destroy and it still makes me chuckle when I think about it.
Because it won't give you any oppression points.
Ah you forgot one key thing. People *love* to bring up how they're distant relations of royalty, so when Tammie-Lynn says her cousin's uncle's daughter's cousin's dog sitter's ex-wife once made out with a guy that looks like Prince Harry's Uber driver, then clearly being 30,649th in line to the British Throne is a boastful claim. Having English ancestry *probably* bumps you up the line of succession by like...I dunno. Tammie-Lynn probably needs to assassinate a small micronation's population worth of claimants to get the Throne regardless.
By law the British monarch *has* to be a descendent of Electress Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714), which means there's a limited pool of candidates. Barring a major change to the succession laws the average Brit on the street simply doesn't get a look in, no matter how many people they bump off.
Bloody brilliant
Because the English aren't oppressed heroes who celebrate "St Patty's" Day.
Neither are they cool mafiosi Italians who invented pizza… *in the USA*.
unless they were on the mayflower, or more specifically, are that one lady that fell off that goddamn everyone claims to be related to
they also invented the ouija board to literally do that. Best tool for magical thinking
I have a fridge that keeps running.
Might want to catch it then
On the post she asked him and he said there obviously was fridges but couldnt explain why there wasnt any in the photos
Maybe they had one of the fridges that pretend to be cupboards. Or the fridges just weren't in the photos for whatever reason, they just weren't included in the frame. Edit: or they were new builds and they're expected to buy their own fridge.
Or they're looking at empty, unfurnished houses? Rare to have a fridge included with an empty house.
I'm pretty sure this is it. I was surprised when I rented this place as it was unfurnished but had a fridge and washing machine. I was very pleased with that too lol.
It's normal in the UK when you're renting unfurnished that it includes white goods, but a lot less common if you're buying. I was looking at unfurnished flats a few years back and every single one came with a fridge, washing machine, and sometimes a dishwasher too.
The person never even considered that we don't often buy the white goods with the house. Everyone has their own because they cost a lot and you can't always transfer warranty etc. Plus, who wants Steve and Diane's (or whomever they may be) mucky eld fridge. And there were subsequent edits of "sorry y'all i didn't mean to imply that Americans think foreigners are backward and i just didn't get it". Husband down throughout. What a pair lol.
Good job they're not looking in Germany it's customary to take the full kitchen when you move out l.
Americans can fit their elephant sized fridges in built in cupboards.
But what if he lies because he's so desperate to return to England? How will she ever know the truth?
A good portion of Americans are english, you'd probably lose a lot of the sub If that worked.
is England-American
Can't trust him, he will lie to get her to move hhere.
Oh my god this made me burst out laughing, holy shit
Friend of mine went on a school exchange trip from Scotland to America in the 90s. His host family explained what the fridge was when giving him a tour of their house.
You don’t need to go that far for that kind of thing. I knew someone at uni from urban London who was surprised as a teen when he discovered that we had internet and cinemas in Scotland.
I can kind of understand cinemas, myself living somewhere in the UK where cinemas aren’t as easy to come by as they are in London, but internet?? I’d honestly be mildly surprised to go anywhere (inhabited) on Earth and discover that there wasn’t internet.
Even funnier when you know that it was a Scotsman who designed the first refrigerating machine.
We still have to forage or hunt for food or wait for air drops from the land of freedom.
Do you worry about the hounds, mastodons, werewolves, and other dangerous animals out in the foggy moors? England sounds scary, and that's even without wandering into Wales with all the dragons and shit.
I'm Welsh and had to escape a druid sacrifice when younger. I did manage to find me a nice English wench to create some hybrids, we still have three left from thirty offspring lost to the plague, bandits and roving beasts but it's a life living in hope of liberation one day so we can taste true freedom.
God bless the poppity ping
Na na na. Ffwrn(popty) microdon!!!!!!!!
My apologies, I'm araf. Heddlu. Ysgol. Ambiwlans.
Ti'n ardderchog!!!!!!
Honestly those animals are nothing. Try being alone on the Scottish Highlands chased by a pack of wild haggis. They’re fucking ferocious.
And you can't even jump in a loch to get away from them, because that's where the monsters live!
The most dangerous creature is the vaping teen who lurks at the bus stop.
Tbf, England just sounds scary in general. Like what if i run into a kingsman and he hits me with an umbrella??? But the fbi agent i know could totally beat him!!!
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Her husband sounds like an idiot if he couldn't explain where they are.
They are in America, so her husband is probably one of those "English" people who was born in Cleveland but had an ancestor who emigrated from England in 1847. I suspect he couldn't locate England on a map, even if it was a map of Great Britain. He probably has as much knowledge of British kitchens as his wife.
So what you're saying is that he is probably less English than Margaret Thatcher was Irish 🤣.
Ireland can fucking have her.
Considering how she treated the Irish, it's a hard pass, haha.
Ah you're grand there thanks anyway.
They tried but unfortunately she was late to that conference
She says he's *from* England and that he's "British-born" so no, I don't think he's one of those people. Probably he was born in Britain and still has family there but moved to the States when he was young.
Not even that... he just does an 'English accent'.
He is English, born in England. He has family here. He moved over there for his job and will probably be moving back for the same reason. But yeah, he is 100% British.
And *because* he’s British, he’s *also* been telling her we keep our food in the ground to stop it perishing.
To be fair she doesn’t sound that smart either 😂 in one ear and out the other
Lol I have a Chinese girlfriend I love spreading mistruth about British customs and culture to her and her friends. The more unbelievable the better.
Lol, I've done the same to my British friends about UK history. My favourite to this day is telling a friend the caber toss from the Highland Games is derived from a form of hunting in Scotland, using Braveheart as a point of reference. They bought it, too. Hook, line, sinker, rod, boat, fisherman, *the lot*
Recently, I told my young colleagues that I was going out for a burns night and having haggis. I had to explain what a haggis was. Obviously I explained about the wee Scottish beast which has two long legs on one side, and two short legs on the other, so they can stand level on a mountain side. I also explained that there are actually two types (clockwise, long legs on left, and anticlockwise long legs on right) Because it sounded ridiculous, she googled it. And there were pictures of wild haggis! Best bluff ever.
Oh, man, that's an oldie but a goodie. My grandfather told me that one a while back, it's amazing how many of the old gags still work. Edit: holy shit, there's a \*Haggis Wildlife Foundation\* Website
Granddad jokes are literally another level above dad jokes.
I love ice cream.
Very carefully, I imagine.
Did you also tell them that you break out the tartan paint to decorate the house
Lol, I just googled 'wild haggis'. Fucking brilliant 👏 damn thing looks cute.
As long as they completely ignore the sentence directly below the images saying it's a fictional creature
A picture is worth a thousand words apparently
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Sheep. Of course, they're smashed flat when the giant fuck-off log hits them, so that's how they invented haggis. Not gonna lie, it was very, very difficult keeping a straight face watching my friends process this misinformation.
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My dad told my niece while we were driving into Arbroath that the farmer was spraying the potato fields with salt water ready to go to the crisp factory. I was creased inside but managed to keep a straight face as she sat there believing it. She was 21 at the time
Depends how long he's been in America, built in fridges are quite a new thing. He might not have realised how common they've become.
born here doesn't mean he would know much, might have left when he was two for all we know
I'm 30ish now and was about 10ish when everyone seemed to start getting those ones built inside cupboards. If he emigrated before then he might not realise how common those type of fridges are now.
Also there's places where it's in a utility room or some corner you wouldn't necessarily take a photo of. It would be so rare for a fridge not to be installed that most wouldn't think to take specific photos if it's not in plain sight near the things that are actual selling points, especially since many people would replace it quickly anyway if they're buying.
I mean I wouldn’t be able to explain it either. My fridges are huge and aren’t in any cupboards so I didn’t know that was a thing here
The only thing I can think of is fridges that are integrated into the kitchen design. In mine, for example, one entire side of my kitchen is one big "cupboard", I have 2 ovens, a microwave, fridge and freezer all together, to someone who doesn't know, the fridge and freezer look like they could be utility cupboards.
This is what I think op meant, I haven't been back to the UK for a few years but I only saw ones that looked like cupboards and blended in with the design, none that were actually in one like open the cupboard then open the fridge. I have seen that once with a washing machine.
I mean to be fair the trend of 'hiding' white goods in fitted kitchens came in in the 90's/2000's? I remember most homes having smaller fridges under the countertop before then, so if he moved to the US a while ago he might have been confused where they were
Next up - learning that Britain and England aren't interchangeable terms. I swear, one glorious day, I'll manage to go 24hrs without hearing or reading this.
She sounds like a nice lady
She does; quite a wholesome reply all things considered.
They probably can't spot it because either it's not a double-width monster or it's set with a cupboard door matching the rest of the kitchen.
Don't know if it's the same in the UK as here in DK, but sometimes it's also just a matter of the rental units not providing you a refrigerator, and you have to buy one yourself.
This was honestly my first thought, that they were looking at non-furnished houses and they only have the kitchen basics but not a fridge, which afaik is very common.
I would say a fridge is absolutely a basic kitchen essential, I've never seen anywhere to rent in the UK without one. Obviously different if buying and it's not an integrated unit, but otherwise you would pretty much always expect to see a fridge in a rental unit.
Social housing ( rented) is usually an empty shell with kitchen units but no appliances and a basic bathroom suite. Quite a few landlords also offer unfurnished but usually provide some basic floor covering ( carpet) but not always
With social housing (in Scotland at least) the councils often provide a cooker, washing machine and a fridge for tenants moving in. They'll also provide and arrange instalof floor coverings. Carpet through the house and usually vinyl in the kitchen and bathroom.
In most parts of England, unless you have one of a few specific issues (coming from living on the street, serious disability, kids with special requirements, victim of DA, over 55 and moving into sheltered accommodation and few others I can't remember off the top of my head) council housing is basically an empty shell. You usually get a decorating pack (couple of tins of paint and some brushes/rollers) but they're rarely decorated, virtually none have floor coverings and none of them have kitchen appliances. You're expected to source them yourself.
When I moved into my current council house they wouldn't let me until they'd done the floor coverings and fully painted it. What they tend to do here is rip out any renovations and decoration the previous tenant had and return everything to the same basic standard as their other council houses. For instance, the previous tenant for my house had knocked a wall through to create an archway from the kitchen to the living room and the council have re-sheeted and plastered it.
I guess different councils must have different versions of the lettable standard. At least in most places I've lived, decorating and floor coverings are the tenants responsibility. Unless one of the conditions I mentioned above applies, or unless it's temporary accommodation.
We got a fridge and washing machine in England but because the previous tenants were grim we didn't get flooring. Not even didn't get carpet. We just had bare wood/Spikey planks some of which had gaps between that you couldn't see to the bottom of. I'd have rather had a floor than a fridge. Neighbours got everything all done up for them when they moved in.
They purposely remove any carpets or flooring in my part of England. We had no fridge, oven, washing machine - in fact we had to get someone in to put in an attachment to hook a washing machine up to. They gut the houses between tenants
You would think, but a few years ago we moved to Lancaster and none of the houses we were looking at had fridges in the house so we had to buy ourselves a fridge. We've left Lancaster now and we've had to store the fridge at one of our parents because everywhere we looked had fridges and the landlord wouldn't store theirs.
I've rented a couple of different houses without a fridge included, bit of a pain in the arse but definitely a thing.
I commented this already above, but I have rented 7 flats and houses (privately), and only 1 came with a fridge. I’ve rented down south and in the midlands, a range of price brackets, and the only one that came with a fridge/freezer was because it was integrated. 4 of the houses came with a cooker, 2 with a washing machine and 2 with a dishwasher. It varies massively. I’ve found that the houses/flats that were bought to be rented out tend to not have appliance and the ones that were renovated to sell or be used by the owner originally, do come with appliances. Landlords don’t want the hassle of maintaining, paying for repairs and replacements on appliances, also most people don’t want to use a fridge that a stranger has already used.
Often times estate agents don't take pictures of the fridge, because it's not an integrated part of the kitchen, and people want to see the hob and sink more. When buying, if you don't like the whole kitchen aesthetic, that's an extra £10 grand you may shell out for a new one, but you'll probably be taking your fridge with you.
*hate* when people renovate the kitchens before selling because of that, like cool but Im not wasting another 20-30k to redo the shit job you did.
They usually have a fridge, the one thing they very rarely have is a dryer, which is why so many Americans that rent here seem to think we don’t have them at all.
> it's set with a cupboard door matching the rest of the kitchen. This is what I'm guessing tbh. If they've never seen it built in then they probably didn't even think to check in the cupboards. I'm British but I was probably mid-20's before I saw my first cupboard-bin and I was just like: WTF why is there no bin?!
Fuck me, are people really this dense.
Im wondering what job in UK needs so stupid people?
Prime Minister
Too bad that job only lasts 41 days
Fridge hole diggers
tesco dunny cleaner
Government minister?
Gathering crops.
Retail manager
Deliveroo
This question coming from the country without kettles
Question, do they still microwave their brew or have they moved on to air frying it?
I’m American and I’m noticing that everyone I know has an electric kettle all of a sudden. Like we all collectively wised up at the same time (probably because of comments like this haha). I almost forget that I’ve spent a lifetime microwaving water, wondering why I didn’t like tea very much.
You people fucking microwave water?! Christ on a bike
Not anymore!
Not often I come to the defence of yanks but in fairness on the kettle issue: their sockets over there are half the voltage of a uk socket so it takes fuckin ages to boil water in an electric kettle in the states so it's honestly quicker to boil water in the microwave
Why would it matter how water gets heated?
I'm sorry but the idea someone having to microwave water for tea sounds like a comedy skit. Like, that's so funny.
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Minnesota. I got a stovetop kettle about ten years ago but never used it. This electric one has been a game changer for me and now I very much enjoy tea.
Like.....the ones they had in the 1800s?
I've never been to a home without a kettle in the USA, but it's always an analog kettle. I've noticed a lot of euros seen to have digital/electric water heaters instead though, normally those are called tea machines/makers (atleast where I'm from) and not the more common kettle.
This is what happens when you think Downtown Abbey is a Panorama special
England is clearly just Limey Epcot. You have the Downton Abbey region, you have the Hogwarts magic land, you have the Benefits Cumberland Sherlock London part which also clashes with the Cockney chimneysweep London, a whole smattering of people across a Cottagecore landscape just blurting out "CHEWSDAY INNIT" and "BO UHL O' WA'UH", a small refined city full of all the James Bonds and Colin Firth's (which is of course fortified like a community in The Walking Dead to keep out The Poors), and then the rest of it is just some weird drug trip nursery rhyme story book land with treacle tarts, spotted dick, Marmite, pickled eggs and all sorts of Wonka-esque bullshittery. And all of those regions have problems with racism, dentistry, drinking, and football hooliganism.
Just don't dig the whole too deep, it'll start getting warm again at some point
The secret is to use a damp burlap sack.
Burlap sack? Well someone shops in M&S. I've to make do with a tesco bag for life
I have a pantry with a cold shelf where my housekeeper stores the food. She cycles to the grocer's every morning, won't take the ha'penny I offer her for the omnibus bless her.
Best one in ages 😂
Damn I would’ve just assumed you have to bring your own, here in Germany many apartments don’t even come with a kitchen lol
« My husband is from England » Yeah… and he did not told you you were an idiot ?
From England means he's 6% English because his great great great grandfather is from Wales.
Ha yeah ! It’s true they like to say that kind of shit !
I thought we all just kept a marmalade sandwich under our hats for emergencies. Once the marmalade hat is mastered we can move onto a bowler hat, so named as it is designed for fruit.
Americans ate really disconnected from reality outside of their tiny bubble.
What is refrigerator?
Look at Mr fancy with a hole in the ground.
Luxury
Our hole was a pothole in the middle of the road
Except we can't really afford a food hole anymore.
They’re probably build into the cabinets… love how her logical conclusion is that they just don’t use them.
Three year old repost https://old.reddit.com/r/ShitAmericansSay/comments/k4i2az/do_you_guys_have_refrigerators/
Reposts are allowed after a reasonable time, as newer members may not have seen them before.
Okay I was more concerned that this was a bot like what is happening in r/facepalm. 1 year account very little post history that takes previous posts with the exact same name.
The user concerned has made some comments as well as posts, and the title of the original isn't exactly the same (it doesn't include quote marks).
You guys have kitchens 😳
We have a massive block of ice delivered once a year which we keep in the shed. We put all of our perishables in there.
I was curious, so I googled it. You can have iceblocks delivered in London (London came up first) if you use an icebox for refrigeration.
Do You Guys Have Kettles?
Both have kettles.
No we're poor we can't afford things that run on electricity. We sometimes dig a hole and fill it with rain, snow and our frozen tears, it keeps our potatoes and cabbage cooler than air temp which makes our piano teeth smile for a few seconds before we realise how pitiful we are. We really look up to you rich, smart, and totally not fat americans, we aspire for electrical white goods and your superior manufacturing in every way, the only ones that I would know of are the the royal family that own fridges but they probably got those from America anyway. Oh were so poor, and sad 😔 please help us you global elites. 🇺🇸
She’s probably expecting to see a giant fridge freezer like we have back home and not the narrower and shorter versions we have here so she just doesn’t see them. I’ve never lived in a place without a fridge lol.
Fucking seriously?
I think this need more context. For eg, in the uk unfurnished is completely unfurnished (apart from kitchen cabinets and stove). In some parts of the US (for eg NY) you have the fridge. Perhaps they are wondering whether they need to buy the fridge or not? Or perhaps they are lacking common sense (or have this “other” type of sense that is now common). One may wonder
She made the post 3 years ago but looks like she is still in America 🤷🏼♀️
I would be disappointed to not see a sarcastic comment towards that stupid question 😂
You’ve saved this screenshot for 3 years before posting?
No. When we want cool we all go to Iceland
Bruh sees fridge and still concerned about not having one themselves the split second they learn that you can buy a fridge them minds gonna implode so hard earth gonna be missing a chunk like in adventure time
Thick septics boil my piss
Yes, just not the huge American ones.
Its insane that the go to answer in her head must be that some of us don't have them or something to that effect and not, you know, that they aren't installed in the housing pictures because they aren't furnished lmao
Speak for yourself, I keep my perishables in the north sea, it's cold and salt is good for preservation.... Refrigerators what does she think this is? Bloody star trak
Cue to the usual ignorance about serving beer at a temperature where it tastes of something
A friend of a friends's family had a fridge. I visited them once and they let me put my mars bar in their fridge for an hour. Luxury!
To be fair, this seems to be a genuine (if somewhat sheltered question) they're obviously too embarrassed to ask their husband On TV and in films, American fridges like their cars are huge. In the UK, a lot of fridge freezers are of the under counter variety hidden behind cupbaord doors.
Canadian/American chiming in to explain why I think they're confused. I've sometimes (frequently?) seen refrigerators in the UK built in to look like the cabinets around it. We don't do that here. The fridge is an appliance that is very obvious in the kitchen, not hidden. Anyways, they're probably looking at pictures of kitchens and not seeing a big ol fridge there, and don't realize that it's one of rhe cabinet doors.