Oh wait, no! She called the british gas about the boiler cover. I think her she can't pay for her car's boiler cover, whatever the hell that is. Aight I'm ballin now... Gotta luv the Brits

Boiler... the 'thing' in our homes that heats our water and radiators.

British Gas is an energy company. Boiler in this context is what you'd refer to as a hot water heater. Cover is insurance. And you are an idiot.

And the irony of this is that I typed euros instead of pounds. I fail.

should've just edited it=fail again

Was too late to edit by the time I realized I made the mistake.

Boiler cover is actually the insurance for the boiler or "hot water heater" as you'd call it. Basically you make the payments, your boiler breaks, they give you a new one. Simple as.

American's don't learn any other way than "zee", unfortunately. "zed" sounds sooo much cooler. But weird. XD

I've heard people use skint before.

General to who? America? Coz America is all that matters? I'm from New Zealand and I understood that just fine.

So everyone else has to dumb it down for America? Yeah, that's going to happen. I'm from Australia and know what those words mean...it isn't that hard.

Maybe so, but if someone used purely American words like "diaper" or "vacation," I doubt that anyone would care.

Is "diaper" purely an Americanism? Never knew that one. It doubt it'll ever be useful to me to know that since I doubt I'd travel that far with a child that young, but who knows. I'm a writer, so it may pop up in one story or another. I hate when I make cultural errors like that, but with some things it never occurs to me that it might be different. Diaper isn't one that I would have expected to be different.

I knew that 'diapers' was an Americanism, but I didn't realise til recently that they don't even know the meaning of the alternative word :P (Nappies, by the way)

Wait... Americans didn't know the meaning of nappies? I've heard plenty of people use that before. But then again, maybe it's the area I grew up in. I've also heard people use the word skint before, and scrolling down the page it appears that I'm the only American who has. Maybe my home town just uses a lot of Briticisms.

Wtf? No wonder people hate us Americans with people like you representing us...

If you need a translation service from English to English, you have serious issues... May I remind you that the English invented the language? They can call them chips or crisps or whatever the hell else they want, you don't need to respect them for it. In fact, just be quiet because you're making the rest of us look bad. Remove head from ass, North America is not the centre of the world.

I would like to think most of the US would be able to understand it, and that the only reason the comments say otherwise is because most of the people who understand it don't feel the need to comment on it..... At least I hope that's the case, but lately I've started seeing more and more stupid people around here, so who knows.

But what about when Americans use American culture things like IHOP, Wal Mart, Verizon, and we British people don't know what these are? Do we moan and bitch about it? If you've you never heard of it, JFGI; it's what we have to do if we don't "get" something

You have nothing against the English and yet you don't respect them for calling their chips "crisps?" I guess you don't respect them for calling soccer "football" right? Seeing how it's another country with a different culture than ours, there's no reason to disrespect it. You are welcome to your opinions, but they have their culture and ways while we have ours. They could say the exact same thing about us calling crisps "chips." I agree with Vitamin_C, stop making us look bad. They came up with the language and then we adapted it; not in a better or worse way.

What do Euros (€) have to do with anything? The only amount of money mentioned was £32, which is about $62 at time of writing.

I love how all the Yanks (that's right, I'll call you Yanks if you call us Brits) think that boiler cover is a cover for a boiler. It's insurance for ****'s sake.

I hate how they call it a boiler cover when it's not a cover for your boiler!

112, It's insurance that COVERS your BOILER. See how that works? I'm certainly no authority though. I'd never heard of a boiler cover until yesterday when I read this FML, and the explanation I used is based entirely on logic, as opposed to any research. The term could very easily have originated from something entirely different. Wish we had something like that over here in the states, but I've never heard of anything that serves a similar purpose. That would be really nice though. Boilers are expensive to replace.

Cover as in coverage, as in "Hey will my insurance cover this?"

Since when is "Brits" a derogatory term? I realize there are a lot of Americans being idiots...well, everywhere, but that's no reason to generalize and be totally abrasive.

It's not really derogatory, it just pisses me off. Especially since Americans will say a Scottish person is Scottish but call English people British.