Why not just read the numbers on all four corners of the bill?
What is unusual about this? How do hunters in your country do it?
Huh, a thread back from the dead. And to quote moi?
BTW, my last sentence in Quintas’s quote above originally sat below a quote from another poster. The nested quote was removed; I made more sense the first time. 
I wouldn’t be terrified of a handgun per se, but the circumstances in which I saw that particular handgun where somewhat unusual.
Besides, guns aren’t exactly common around here. Ordinary people in the suburbs just don’t own guns. Country people may own rifles and the such, but handguns in particular are decidedly rare.
(FWIW, there is currently moves in Australia to ban the possession of all handguns not in the possession of competition shooters.)
I was surprised the first time I saw alcohol in the supermarket. I grew up in New Jersey. You can’t get anything except in a liquor store. In New York you can get beer in groceries but nothing else. In New Hampshire you can get beer and wine. In California I think you can get everything. (That’s all the states I’ve lived in so far.)
Alcohol, like guns, is another thing you can’t generalize about in America.
The stupidly large portions of food, unfortuately, seem to be everywhere.
A good few are quite familiar with the AK47 
Last year I was meant to go to a gun range in Cambodia to have a go of a M-16, AK47 and a rocket launcher which you could used to blow up a cow BTW :eek: but indulged in the local weed a bit to much the night before and couldn’t make it. I was this close to being able to answer your question about m-16’s with “Me for one”
Born in UK - lived in California for 6 years.
Some random things I found strange but loved;
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Good (actually great more often than not) service
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Space. Lots of it.
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Very few coins. In the UK we have so many coins that your pockets are always weighed down with the damn things.
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Pancakes for breakfast
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101 questions when ordering a sandwich (bread, mayo, pickles etc.)
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Basketball and Football
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Las Vegas (if it was a prioritized list this would be #1 :D)
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Getting on a plane and not needing a passport (for an internal flight). UK isn’t big enough to do that so this struck me as strange first time I did it.
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The “leave a penny-take a penny” thing in most convenience stores. Great idea!
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The ability to run a tab in virtually any bar you walk into. Also, the ability to leave money on the bar and have it still be there when you come back
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Very friendly people.
Some random things I found strange and didn’t like; -
Sales Tax not included in the price
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No gambling in California.
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21 age restriction to buy alcohol
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All bars close at 2:00am in CA. Period. No excpetions. Ever.
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Baseball and Ice Hockey
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Why did everyone think I was Australian?
On the guns thing - only guns I saw in 6 years were at a firing range.
On the size of the portions thing - definitely too big but at least it is better than being too small
Drive through ATMs with instructions in Braille!!!
The signs at offices and bars saying you are not allowed to carry unlicensed, concealed weapons on the premises.
Having to become a “member” of a restaurant to have a drink in a dry county
Being asked to prove my age in a bar when I am more than twice the age limit ( I took this as a compliment )
People being astonished when I said I was an atheist (“A friend of mine used to know one of those”)
People paying $5 for valet parking instead of walking 100m.
A restaurant every 100m - but 90% have identical menus.
There is good american beer
Putting ice cubes in Budweiser straight from the freezer and in a frozen glass
People really are so friendly
I’ve tried S&K pie at our local British-expat-owned pub, The King’s Head, and thought it was great! Only thing is, instead of being in a real pie it was just a sort of stew with a large airy pastry put on top. Is that how it’s normally served?
You know, I’m damn glad somone’s picked up on that. As an American who’s spent several of the last years outside of the country, I’m always a touch put off when people equate American beer to Bud and only Bud. There’s loads of different brews in the states and in my experience, there’s also a wider selection in the states than many other countires.
Mmmmmm, pancakes and bacon.
We’ve beat this issue around and around several times here. Non-Americans have also often mentioned the the fact that our paper money all looks the same. But don’t any of you visitors find it odd that in order to buy anything above the newspaper level you have to use bills, and then the change even includes smaller bills?
I don’t want to hijack this thread, I just really want to know if non-Americans have been struck by this difference in our money systems?
So, I presume that is where the gag on Late Night With D.L. comes from, where he gives canned hams to people in the audience.
I always wondered if there was some meaning behind that, or if giving out canned hams was just some random idea that popped into Dave’s mind.
I also have noticed the use of the football field as a unit of measurement. I guess it is just assumed that enough of us Americans can relate to how big a football field is.
It may be worth pointing out that I’m an American and I have no idea how big a football field is.
Yup. The real classic British dish isn’t steak & kidney pie, though – it’s steak & kidney pudding. Same filling, but encased in a suet pastry pudding.
Try that next time.
As a slight nitpick, to WotNot’s comment, S&K pie is traditionally a normal pie with a full pastry casing, but these days the ones you get in pubs, restaurants etc. seem to come in little casserole dishes with just a flaky pastry top. It you bought one in a fish & chip shop it would be like a regular pie.
He’s right about the s&k pudding, though. (They’re made in a cup-shaped mould and are served upside down like a little flat-topped dome full of meat and gravy.)
I have been to N. Irleand a couple of times and had a couple of my Irish cousins come over and a few things they thought was different:
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Ice and cold beverages. When I wanted a Coke in a bar in Dungannon, they just pulled a bottle off the shelf. I wanted ice, got three little cubes. Here in the US, half the drink is ice.
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Even though English is spoken here and there, the words mean entirely something else. Asking where to get good “crack” (craic) in Philly is going to get you something else entirely that what you really want. And “The Bull” may be Schlitz Malt liquour here, but my cousins tell me it means something else entirely there.
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They thought it weird that we drink “iced” tea.
The switches are for the things you plug in to the outlets.
Shut up. That’s why!
My car gets two gedickets to the Waffle House and that’s the way I likes it!
The foriegners who don’t get having pancakes on the same plate as bacon and eggs:
I refuse to let my chilluns’ grow up in a world where my sausage was not drenched in maple syrup, my egg yolks not crispy and fattening, my pancakes must be buttermilk; or if butter is deficient, then margarine will do, and if milk is lacking, then butter will do, my plate must be greasy, my donuts stale and greasier still, and I must have my CORNBREAD. And I’ll fight ter keep it!
So… who saved who’s ass in the World Wars? And what currency did they use? American. What color? Green, white, and black. Damn straight. None of that fruity’ red, orange, blue, and yellow crap with cathedral windows for US!
A football field is 50 yards wide, with 100 yards on it in length and at each side there’s about 5 (10?) yards of N-zone (where the touchdowns happen).
A football field is technically 120 yards long, with 10 yards in each endzone. The expression generally refers to 100 yards.