You know you’ve studying abroad in the UK for a while when…

• You see semi-naked girls in the streets and boys wearing t-shirts with temperatures below zero.
• You wake up every morning knowing that it’s quite unlikely that you’re going to see the sun.
• You see people drunk in the streets at 8 pm.
• You are kicked out of a pub at 11.30 pm.
• You have seen naked women on the second (and first, and third) page of the daily newspapers.
• You see Tesco as an important social meeting point.
• You’ve thought more than ten times that the car you have just seen was driven by nobody.
• You have tried to destroy the fire alarm at least a couple of times.
• You have been in a pub next to a really drunk lady, that you think could even be your grandma.
• You are outside and don’t even notice it’s raining anymore, because it is just simply normal to you by now.
• You realise that any kind of food can be eaten with anything else, no matter how weird the combination is.
• You have six months of holidays in a year.
• In case you need to get your hands clean, you realise that you only have two options: boil your hands in water near to 90º or see how they become two beauty ice-cubes.
• Your house and surroundings are full of rubbish bags because rubbish is collected just once per week.
• You realize that being served alcohol in an academic seminar is completely normal.
• You have a fire exit in your house.
• “hello/hey, how are you?” is replaced by “you alright?”
• You don’t go out to go out, but to get drunk.
• You don’t mind the food anymore…
• You realize that British people are queuing politely everywhere except at the bar counter.
• You see your housemate ordering Chinese food or pizzas three times a week.
• You realize that you can get decent (dark, rye, healthy) bread in every European country except for the UK. And no, toast is not considered a proper kind of bread.
• You are certainly annoyed by their stupid sockets.
• You are addressed as ‘treacle’, ‘sugarplumb’, ‘darling’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘love’ (and all other versions of nicknames in that genre you normally only call your wife/lover) by the staff in supermarkets, pubs and restaurants.
• You are affected by CCTV paranoia.
• You have asked to borrow ten ‘quid’ instead of ten pounds from someone.

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