- Watch out for buses.  The side mirrors are dangerous.
 - British people really do like to queue.
 - "Mince."  Thanks, Ramona!
 - Mock the Week, the bizarre love-child of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? and Royal Canadian Air Farce (Jon Stewart, for you Americans)
 - Vital wheat gluten is almost unheard-of here
 - British people hate Bic mechanical pencils.  Or at least, they don't like stocking them and they charge a lot for them.
 - There are indeed a lot of ducks on campus.
 - Ugly campus art is universal.
 - "Salad cream" is gross and proper salad dressing is tough to find.
 - The peanut butter sucks.
 
I'm sure I will add more to this as time goes on.
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OK - for your salad dressings, you need to get yourself to an Asda. They're a local chain here owned by Walmart.
You've probably already found a Dixons or Curry's for electronics (similar to Future Shop/Radio Shack).
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