highwaystar101 on 20 October 2009
| damkira said: Living in an area with a high concentration of British people and talking to them daily, there are a few things I've noticed which are very different between British and American people. I've always wondered why British men insist upon wearing capri pants? It looks silly and gay at that. I'm gay and it took me back a bit to find that all these people are not homosexuals but British tourists. Its also strange to me that British people call Sprite lemonade. I wonder if they don't have real lemonade in the UK? Its delicious and easy to make... but the only thing that really bugs me about British tourists is that they don't seem to know how to tip correctly.. I mean, if the service is terrible then a bad tip is fine but an 5% tip on excellent service is insulting. I'm sure British people could go on and on about the foibles of American tourists, too.. and the above post wasn't meant to insult anybody. |
Which British people wear Capri pants (Or 3/4 lengths as we call them)? I think it's an abroad thing we do because the weather in our country ranges from overcast to rain.
Yeah we don't tip 20%, service charges tend to be added onto bills in Britain and you give a couple of quid extra if you feel the service has been exceptional. So a 5% tip is probably because you have given excellent service, I wouldn't take it as an insult even though it is annoying, we get a little confused I think.
And we do call sprite lemonade, but we also have real Lemonade too, the name is interchangeable between Sprite/7up and real lemonade.
