Showing posts with label american living in the UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american living in the UK. Show all posts
Monday, April 22, 2013
That bloody ice cream man!
It's cold in Scotland, about 11 months out of the year. It'scold, and dark, and rainy or snowy, and yet no matter how cold or dark and miserable it is outside, without fail the bloody ice cream man drives slowly down our street BLASTING "Anchors Aweigh" about 15 minutes AFTER I have put my children in bed for the night. Does anyone buy ice cream from the ice cream man at 9:00 at night in the middle of winter?
Saturday, April 20, 2013
What's a Gallon?
In America, we know gallons.
We by gas by the gallon.
We buy milk by the gallon.
We get Gallon cans of paint.
We have 5 gallon buckets.
Ya know what you can by here by the gallon?
I really have no clue. In the last two years I have never purchased anything by the gallon.
We buy out PETROL by the litre.
The largest milk we can get:
That's six pints....I will do the math for you.
2 pints in a quart. 4 quarts in a gallon. 8 pints in a gallon.
So for whatever reason, they don't like to give you those 2 extra pints of milk... which when you have two kids drinking 8 cups of milk a day...you really wish you could by a gallon of milk.
I think, the reason they don't have bigger jugs of milk, is that it wouldn't fit in the normal refrigerators sold here.
Most homes don't have room for a full size fridge, they use the small college size fridges with a little ice box at the top.
Fridge Freezers such as this one:
like what we have are so much better, but still...not a lot of room for a gallon of milk as you can see, however, those skinny little milk jugs fit quite nicely in the door.
It takes a bit of practice to be able to pour from one though... for about a year I spilled milk every time I went to pour milk into a cup or bottle, and I feel like I'm a relatively graceful person having mastered the gross and fine motor skills some years ago...
We by gas by the gallon.
We buy milk by the gallon.
We get Gallon cans of paint.
We have 5 gallon buckets.
Ya know what you can by here by the gallon?
I really have no clue. In the last two years I have never purchased anything by the gallon.
We buy out PETROL by the litre.
The largest milk we can get:
That's six pints....I will do the math for you.
2 pints in a quart. 4 quarts in a gallon. 8 pints in a gallon.
So for whatever reason, they don't like to give you those 2 extra pints of milk... which when you have two kids drinking 8 cups of milk a day...you really wish you could by a gallon of milk.
I think, the reason they don't have bigger jugs of milk, is that it wouldn't fit in the normal refrigerators sold here.
Most homes don't have room for a full size fridge, they use the small college size fridges with a little ice box at the top.
Fridge Freezers such as this one:
like what we have are so much better, but still...not a lot of room for a gallon of milk as you can see, however, those skinny little milk jugs fit quite nicely in the door.
It takes a bit of practice to be able to pour from one though... for about a year I spilled milk every time I went to pour milk into a cup or bottle, and I feel like I'm a relatively graceful person having mastered the gross and fine motor skills some years ago...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Prepaid Gas and Electricity Meters
What is THAT?? Yep... exactly.
Someone had the audacity to say "Hey! We have prepaid phones and prepaid visa cards, lets make a prepaid gas meter! The home owner will have to have a key that they put an amount on and once that amount is used then the gas gets shut off and they don't have any heat or hot water or a way to cook until they add more money onto it! We will charge them extra for the key, and the meter and a few other taxes here and there as well so they will end up paying 10% more (according to the BBC) on their gas then they would if they had a normal bill, but this way there can never be any debt on the account. Nevermind if the family using the meter has two small children who rely on hot water to heat bottles and have baths and...oh yeah... STAY WARM! If the meter runs out of money at 9:30 at night when all the shops are closed, they can just go without for 12 hours. Let's only put it in poor districts too... nobody cares what the poor think if they complain and if an upper class family moves into the area on accident, because the wife is American who can't tell if a neighborhood is ghetto or not because all the houses are either hundreds of years old or look like the box a refrigerator came in covered in rocks, they can pay the £300 to have it removed, even though we installed it for free! Hey Hey! Lets do it with electricity too! We are gonna be RICH!"
Someone had the audacity to say "Hey! We have prepaid phones and prepaid visa cards, lets make a prepaid gas meter! The home owner will have to have a key that they put an amount on and once that amount is used then the gas gets shut off and they don't have any heat or hot water or a way to cook until they add more money onto it! We will charge them extra for the key, and the meter and a few other taxes here and there as well so they will end up paying 10% more (according to the BBC) on their gas then they would if they had a normal bill, but this way there can never be any debt on the account. Nevermind if the family using the meter has two small children who rely on hot water to heat bottles and have baths and...oh yeah... STAY WARM! If the meter runs out of money at 9:30 at night when all the shops are closed, they can just go without for 12 hours. Let's only put it in poor districts too... nobody cares what the poor think if they complain and if an upper class family moves into the area on accident, because the wife is American who can't tell if a neighborhood is ghetto or not because all the houses are either hundreds of years old or look like the box a refrigerator came in covered in rocks, they can pay the £300 to have it removed, even though we installed it for free! Hey Hey! Lets do it with electricity too! We are gonna be RICH!"
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