Only in Britain...

Only in Britain... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Britain... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Britain... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a DIET coke.

Only in Britain... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Britain... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and put our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Britain... do we buy hot dogs in packs of ten and buns in packs of eight.

Only in Britain... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place. !

Only in Britain... are there handicapped parking places in front of a skating rink.

142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling accidents.

101 people since 1999 have had to have broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet.

18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.

5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of control Scalextric cars.

Most of that you could substitute the U.S. for Briton and be correct.

lol yeh

I you would have to add a few for the US like

"Only in the US can a woman order a coffee and sue the company after spilling it on herself and getting burned"

and

"Only in the US can a man try and scratch an itch in his nostril with a power drill and end up tearing his nose off and still attempt to sue the company claiming they had no warning on the packaging"

(this is post 666 so be a ware of the )

There's never a screwdriver around in my house put loads of knives...

Those green little army fiqures are awsome and are meant to be left on the floor

They should make the hole big enough so us somkers can enjoy our smoke while getting dressed

Done that very painfull.

All excellent and so true. Makes you proud to be british......not!!

Micah

lol I would love to see some of the stats for the US

Incidentally, the bits of broken toy from foot... thats the kids fault!!!

More evidence for the banning of knives from Britain.