• davidagain@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    See - he’d be a disaster for international diplomacy, because this is guaranteed to make Englishmen tut or even shake their heads slightly.

    • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot

      • davidagain@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        That at least has the weight of tradition behind it.

        Wait, you do mean a stove kettle, don’t you? You don’t mean just a normal vegetables pot? You can’t mean that, surely?

        • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I do mean just a saucepan with some water in it. I ended up getting an electric kettle…

          • davidagain@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            Congratulations: civilisation has arrived in your home. We’ll talk no more of what happened before.