One difference that I have notice that is a little odd is the way that the heating works here. In the UK we have radiators and fires to warm everything up, whereas here they tend to have what they call “furnaces” and “heating ducts”. When the heating does come on it is more like switching on the car blowers than say the “tap tap tap” of water filled radiator warming up. The most frustrating thing about this is that you will be watching TV and it will kick in. It is so load that you have to turn the volume of the TV up a bit to hear over it. When it switched off the TV is blaring out whatever commercial happens to be on at the time… “HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY” shhhhhhhh be quiet!
I guess the reason why they make them like this is that these double up as air conditioning in the summer. Let’s face it, most of the UK don’t really need this as it never really gets massively hot for long periods of time.
At work there is a similar system, but for whatever reason the heating in the men’s toilets is broken. You can go in there sometimes and it can be like what is termed as a “meat locker” but sometimes it can be like a sauna.
“Are you putting more water on the hot stones?... no, I’m just peeing on the urinal mints.”
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