I had no idea about this, thank you! I never look at the coolers cause I'm not into anything milk-y apart from all the lovely cheeses. The milk we use to cut our coffee is the kind I grab first, off the shelf. But I'll make a note to check it out today (and know I'll think, 'DUH! it's been there all the time and I…

I'm actually lactose-intolerant in a very small way: I cannot drink straight milk and that's it. So I've never tasted UHT since I only use it for coffee and White Russians (and now w/your 'distinctive tasting', I'm pleased I can't). :-)

Yes, thank you! I've only been in places like Waitrose and Sainsburys but never noticed refrigerated milk. We got over our surprise at H-milk in Germany and totally prefer it/UHT now.

As it turns out, we might actually be the crazy ones.

Bah. Worse yet (IMO) is they dubbed over the voices in Trainspotting just for American audiences. Irvine Welsh is a friend of friends of ours and I got the chance to first meet him at a signing. He was aghast; no one had told him. Each time we met after, he wanted to discuss it (in general, it wasn't too…

I have no idea how British people understand half the jokes in Family Guy because half of them reference American pop-culture.

When I was at film school in the 80s, one of the first things that taught us was 'Subtitles are death in America' and then we discussed why.

That's so funny! (No, really.) We were forced to take Lufthansa business to bring our kitty to Heathrow from Frankfurt in 2004. That was because they were the only DE airline who offered Pet-Air. Leaving from NYC in 2001 was the same but we were on Lufthansa's offshoot, Singapore Air (business class again, thanks to…

Then there's the hassle of going through security upon each visit. I've been through airport security in Germany post-9/11 and it's no less intrusive there than it is in America.

Welcome to my world.

I've dropped both my old Palms repeatedly but nothing ever happened; then again, one was in its hard case; the other wasn't. I loved them so much, my first is still sitting in its charger on the desk and my 2nd, (the one in colour), in its case under the first. It took awhile before iPhones were available in the UK so…

the standards taught all over the place have dropped to piss poor over the last 20 years

Right? My 3rd-grade teacher once accused me of having my parents do my HW since I'd had the audacity to use a hyphen. Her 'proof' was 'We don't teach that until next year'. So I told her the truth: I saw it in books when they split a word from one into syllables from one line to the next. She glared, not believing me,…

And coffee was just coffee - no need for words like 'cappuccino', 'machiatto', 'latte', etc

Right? Whenever a sentence ends w/an ellipsis, I'm all 'and?'

Patti Smith talked about Pasolini and 'Salo' in the olden days (late 1970s) so naturally, I had to see it, and did. Yup, 'Taxi Driver' is almost like children's pablum compared to 'Salo'. Almost.

THIS in its entirety, thank you!

+1/LOL. In truth, if I hadn't moved here, I'd have no idea what the hell you were saying. 'English — it's for frustrating those who aren't Brits.' ;-)