18. Choose A Seat Without Internally Panicking About It
Warner Bros.We've all done it: walked into a waiting room, train carriage, or a bench-strewn park, and faced down a wealth of available seats, our next move in life rich with options. But naturally, as with a lot of other decisions in our day-to-day existence, this seemingly harmless choice is capable of inspiring abject horror and paralysis in any Briton with a self-conscious disposition. Some options can be ruled out right away (e.g. sitting down within several feet of a total stranger is out of the question), but where we really lose it is in just making an arbitrary decision about something which we know we really shouldn't be getting this het up about. So after a few seconds of attempting to process the choices before us, we hastily make for the closest seat we can see, and then spend the next three minutes agonising over whether or not it was the right choice after all. Just as the grass looks greener on the other side, all other seats suddenly look like those luxury cinema chairs when we finally plop ourselves down after an embarrassing length of time.
17. Sound Sincere With Terms Of Endearment
Gifbin.comNothing makes a courtship as personal and heartfelt as inserting tried-and-tested words that aren't your own into everyday vernacular. Why find a new way to address your partner when you can save the time by just referring to the time-honoured word bank of endearing epithets? Trouble is, for Brits, it's an undertaking easier said than done. Darling, sweetheart, baby, "honey", "precious". Its easy to imagine such words slipping effortlessly into the day-to-day lingo of an American or European heartthrob, but in English accents, terms of endearment such as these just sound as stiff as our dating attire. Better to just remain silent and let the eyes do the work - though as mentioned, eye contact can be a bit of a hornet's nest as well... Still, at least theres always luv to fall back on, although if youre from a southern region, even this can be tricky to pull off convincingly.