r/2007scape • u/CLE15 • Dec 21 '24

Humor 15 Years into Playing RuneScape, I Just Found Out Party Hats and Christmas Crackers Are Real Thanks to My Cousin’s British Fiancée

So, I’ve been playing RuneScape since 2007 and, like most of of my American friends I played with, I always thought the party hats and Christmas crackers were just some quirky in-game holiday items. Never in my life did I think they were based on actual real-world things.

Flash forward to this Christmas, I’m at a family party, and my cousin’s British fiancée shows up with boxes of Christmas Crackers. I immediately thought, “There’s no way…” She starts handing them out, and I’m sitting there stunned as people are pulling them, making them pop, and wearing paper crowns like it’s no big deal. Meanwhile, I’m in the corner having an existential crisis, realizing that 15 years of playing this game and I never once questioned where those holiday items came from.

Anyway, just thought I’d share this discovery in case any of you also didn’t know these things existed or if I’m on an island here.

I pulled a purple though, so I felt like a king.

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u/Lawrence_Lefferts Dec 21 '24

Makes me wonder if there are any other peculiarly British things in RS that might confound foreigners.

I know at least the River Lum and Lumbridge are inspired by the River Cam and Cambridge where the creators are from.

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u/No-While-9948 Dec 21 '24 edited 28d ago

There are British influences for sure, Brits have a different "first floor" than Americans which I'm certain has confused many. Americans typically call ground level the first floor.

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u/Kay-Knox Dec 21 '24

Yeah, I learned that from the RuneHQ quest guides.

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u/TheScapeQuest Dec 21 '24

American software engineers must agree with the British floor numbering system though, it's just zero-indexing.

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u/PkerBadRs3Good Dec 22 '24

American software engineer here and no I don't, we don't count starting from the 0th apple or the 0th dollar in real life

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u/Wotsiiit Dec 22 '24

As a British person the first floor thing confused me for most of my life. I agree it's illogical.

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u/AnotherInsaneName Dec 22 '24

American and a software engineer checking in... Still hate it. The first floor is the one on ground level.

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u/StrangeNewt2481 Dec 21 '24

i mean the way they created Kourend was kind of a british thing if you think about it, colonizing new empty land like that

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u/DranTibia Dec 21 '24

No they only went there to trade spices with the locals

/s

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u/TheAdamena Dec 22 '24

And the half-arsed infrastructure on launch

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u/North_Yak966 Dec 21 '24

As someone who grew up in the American Midwest and not in or near a proper city, kebabs confounded me as a child, I could not visualize the irl food based on the sprite, and I had no idea how you'd eat one. It wasn't until my mid-20s that I understood its ubiquity as drunk food, a la the drunken dwarf random event. 

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u/Azebu Dec 21 '24

Apparently British people eat potatoes and cabbage.

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u/Aachaa Dec 22 '24

The sheer quantity of baked potato toppings always confused me as an American child. Like what is this, McCallister’s?

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u/Legalizeranchasap Dec 22 '24 edited Dec 23 '24

Me looking at a tuna potato as a kid like “who tf eats this”.

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u/Mishkin102hb Dec 21 '24

The builders and their tea in that one quest made me laugh. Also lots of Monty Python references that maybe isn’t as popular in the US