If Mr Blobby lived in the US he'd be considered a leading 2024 Presidential candidate...

@garypltn69

11 ай бұрын

yes

@atorthefightingeagle9813

11 ай бұрын

Blobby doesn't fall over as often as Slippy Joe.

@chrisshelley3027

11 ай бұрын

This is too funny but sadly true 😂

@JohnJames-kw5de

11 ай бұрын

But also has a canny likeliness to Boris Johnson though Blobby has more integrity….

@bobbybigboyyes

11 ай бұрын

But Mr Blobby has more brains than Trump, Biden and Boris Johnson combined!

The winning argument in the jaffa cake court case was that a biscuit goes soft when it gets stale while a cake goes hard. A stale jaffa cake is hard, therefore it is a cake.

@Rocket1377

11 ай бұрын

The baking process is also just like a cake. McVitie's even made a giant version to prove their case.

@dabe1971

11 ай бұрын

Indeed. The only properties shared by cakes and biscuits are that they are round.

@martineyles

11 ай бұрын

@@dabe1971 Not all cakes or biscuits are even round.

@Brian3989

11 ай бұрын

There are different flavour Jaffa cakes, original orange and now also cherry and blackcurrant.

@63mckenzie

11 ай бұрын

I worked for HMRC when this case was going on. Some people took it very seriously because there was a lot of tax money riding on it..

The TV license drama in our family was funny. The TV was in my dad's name but my grandmother got the TV license. The TV licensing people sent my dad a letter about getting a license and he ignored it. A month later another letter arrived with "please read" written on it. He wrote "have read" and sent it back. This went back and forth for a few months until my grandmother realised that all he wanted was to be taken to court over the TV license at which point he wanted to ask "did you check for licenses at the address?" She called them and got it all sorted out but denied my dad the chance to bicker with the licensing lawyers in court.

@solidflyer286

11 ай бұрын

I’ve spent 15 years trying to get them to take me to court 😂

@sugoruyo

11 ай бұрын

@@solidflyer286 yeah, they're all bark and no bite.

Countries that have a TV licence include the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Japan, India and Pakistan. It really is not very unusual.

@fredbear3915

11 ай бұрын

Something that a very simple web search would reveal, and should never have been included in a video entitled "Uniquely British Things"....

@WilliamEvans-py4gq

7 ай бұрын

There trying to scrap TV licence in uk

@Dionysos640

7 ай бұрын

@@WilliamEvans-py4gq No they aren't. Whoever 'they' is supposed to be. A few loons supporting such a move does not mean anyone is actively looking to scrap it. The BBC is a much loved institution, despite people trying to undermine it.

@DerekLangdon

Ай бұрын

Why should I fund the BBC if I’m not watching it? It’s nothing short of extortion.

@DeathKissMyFace

22 күн бұрын

​@DerekLangdon 1. That's not what extortion is, no one is forcing you to watch television. 2. Your taxes (assuming you pay taxes) help pay for thousands of projects, with a large percentage of them not affecting you at all. That's what a tax system should be for, to improve something for the whole and not just you as an individual. Not that the BBC licence is a tax though as you don't have to pay it, hence it's still not extortion.

Even more British than the jaffa cake court case was the Cuthbert the caterpillar cake court case 😂

@theyorkrose5274

11 ай бұрын

Honestly the ongoing banter about it on Aldi's socials is still incredible

@davebirch1976

11 ай бұрын

@@theyorkrose5274 my favourite at the time was "This isn't just a court case..... It's an M&S Court case" 😆😆😆

@chrissampson6861

11 ай бұрын

Free Cuthbert!

@solidflyer286

11 ай бұрын

M&S argument came down to either Our customers are stupid and don’t know the difference Or They’re the same except the price and we don’t want to admit it

@davebirch1976

11 ай бұрын

@@solidflyer286 the thing is, there are other stores also doing similar cakes, but Aldi were getting more exposure because of it, and therefore got free advertising at the expense of M&S, and I think that's what M&S didn't like.

We should always celebrate Guy Fawkes - the only person ever to enter parliament with honest intentions.

@craigpimlott204

11 ай бұрын

Certainly was ..

@alastairwallace6153

11 ай бұрын

no - the tories are royalists and so was guy fawkes - see the problem.

@paulwilson2651

11 ай бұрын

Wrong the SNP are the same.

@KaiXx751

11 ай бұрын

@@alastairwallace6153 And Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Parties and what they stand for can change over time...

@sophiejones8813

11 ай бұрын

Do you mean that you support terrorism , can I go to your government and plant a bomb ?

"...Yeah, she was knocked unconscious for a little bit of it...but she won!" That's the spirit! There's not many events in the Olympics that you can say that about. Love it.

The pilchards aren't staring at you, they're gazing at the stars!! 😂😂

@TCHorwood-xq7mw

11 ай бұрын

If they're gazing at Alanna then she must be a star.

@DerekLangdon

Ай бұрын

It’s actually called starrygazey pie!. And only the ship inn at mouse hole in Cornwall can commercially sell it. The dish which is not to my liking, contains a variety of fish not just pilchards.

@ianhill4585

Ай бұрын

Perhaps they've read Oscar Wilde .😁

@WolfricLupus

Ай бұрын

@@DerekLangdon Mousehole (one word) - It's not pronounced like "mouse - hole" but is pronounced - "Mow (like cow) - z'll" or "Maouz'll"

Yes we remember how you feel about Jaffa cakes. And you’re still wrong 😂

TV licences are paid for in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Germany. In Italy it's now included in the electricity charges. I France it was abolished last year. In Sweden it was changed into part of the general taxation a few years ago. And there are other countries too. So, yes, other countries do charge for TV viewing.

@MultiMidden

11 ай бұрын

Plus there's no such thing as free TV anyway as you indirectly pay for 'free' TV channels whenever you pay for goods/services that are advertised on TV.

@catherinebutler4819

11 ай бұрын

Also a very similar system in Japan.

@PastPresented

11 ай бұрын

Canada's one of the sneaky countries which pay their equivalent of the BBC from general taxation (and even more sneakily, also allow it to run some commercials, so it looks more like a "normal" broadcaster)

@bordersw1239

11 ай бұрын

It’s added to local taxes in France, not abolished.

@waynegray2284

11 ай бұрын

You only have to pay for a TV licences to watch or record anything what is live undstand

I’m a Canadian that’s been living in the U.K. for 36 years and I love Mr. Blobby! He’s quirky, like so many British things - British eccentricities are brilliant! I hate paying for a T.V. licence, because there’s advertising on independent television and the BBC has its own version of advertising too, so I don’t agree with that either. I think roundabouts make sense as when it’s not busy, you don’t have to wait for the traffic light to change, you simply move through. And they’re putting traffic lights on some roundabouts that are busy, so everyone has their turn. It just makes life easier. I guess living in Britain just takes some getting used to - and it certainly isn’t as ‘foreign’ now as it was when I moved here in 1986! Stick around, you’ll love it!

I LOVED Mr. Blobby! He was so funny as a kid, just turning up and wrecking everything. On a constant tear of destruction. It's basically just an extreme form of slapstick.

Alanna just said she's from Kent. She's finally gone native. We can claim her as one of us. Hooray!!!

@clivebrealey6795

11 ай бұрын

Not quite - not until she likes Jaffa cakes and Marmite!😄

@dcallan812

11 ай бұрын

@@clivebrealey6795 And Newcastle brown ale.🤣🤣😂😂

@anne-mariemarshall

11 ай бұрын

Peachy😂😂😂

Ive been in the uk since i moved from my native American Choctaw nation at the age of 13, and i love it , great education system great history and culture, great people , funny great sense of humour and banter

Ludicrous festivals and bizarre pastimes, followed by the pub. What's not to like? We know how to live. Keep up! 😂

On your picture of the Swindon Magic Roundabout, the building at the top left is the Wiltshire Fire Brigade HQ and 4 Engine Fire Station. The Magic Roundabout is at it's most exciting when a couple of Fire Engines suddenly burst onto it, sirens blaring...

If you're looking for festivals and celebrations then you'll have to include the Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations. They've now become so famous that they've started streaming them live on KZread.

@kathnunan641

11 ай бұрын

1 agree The biggest bonfire celebration in the world been there many times

@AfaqAhmadAhmad-fp2sy

11 ай бұрын

❤

@deja-view1017

Ай бұрын

I grew up there and still miss it but I'm not far from Ottery St Mary so I have second best.

As an American from Minnesota whom has lived in the UK for 20years now, everything you have brought up is definitely everything all my friends and family from home always question 🤣 especially the whole being too modest concept, you have to scream at brits to accept a gift or any kind of offering….unless it’s a cup of tea 🤣

@readingroomcafeproject

10 ай бұрын

too right! we'll never say no to a brew

@scobra5941

Ай бұрын

Oh yeaaaaah... gimme that bloody tea- gimme gimme gimme and do it yesterday.

Stargazy pie is very special to the seaside village of Mousehole and the legend of the fisherman who saved Mousehole. Lewes is the home of the bonfire celebrations

@funkyfender1

11 ай бұрын

I’m waiting to hear Alana attempt to pronounce ‘Mousehole’ !

@IamtherealDodger67

11 ай бұрын

​@@funkyfender1Don't be cruel. 😂😂😂

@chrisspere4836

9 ай бұрын

No explanation to "stargazy pie" so can't react.

@porthesia

9 ай бұрын

@@chrisspere4836 Its a pastry pie and the fish heads stick out of the crust. Never fancied it myself

The best bit about living in the UK in my opinion is that you often think you have seen the weirdest thing ever until you see something even weirder. I'm 43 and have been British all my life and I'm still finding something weirder than I thought possible at least once a year. P.S - When I was doing mobile djing Mr Blobby's song was big. I had to play that sodding thing at least twice a week (I was djing in my teens if anyone is wondering how the age and career can map up).

In Germany we have an equivalent thing to the TV license. It's called the GEZ. In recompense we get TV without adverts, high quality documentaries, dramas and Detective series, pretty unbiased news and informative children's programmes.

@eloquentlyemma

11 ай бұрын

Yes. That’s what the tv licence gives you in Britain, along with radio, as well.

@tangfastic7075

11 ай бұрын

​@@eloquentlyemmaThe BBC is not unbiased. Its very left wing. That's why the TV license is being phased out. It's very unfair that the BBC can't provide a balanced stance when they're taking everyone's money irrespective of whether the public watch or agree with their views.

@davedavids57

11 ай бұрын

We have a licence fee here in Austria too. GIS. It's like 380 euro for a tv with a tuner and about 80 euro for a radio (it's the most expensive in europe). Even if you don't use it you have to pay if you own it. It's changing in December when everyone will have to pay, no matter if you have a tv or not. Unfortunately OERF is rubbish.

@alangknowles

11 ай бұрын

The BBC is always advertising their upcoming shows. Currently they have a nonce programme following all their Peter Phyle employees. Schofield is considering it for his next job.

@dunebasher1971

11 ай бұрын

@@alangknowles Surely you understand the difference between trailers for other programmes, and commercial advertisements for products? And of course, the BBC only plays trailers *between* programmes, while commercial TV plays adverts *during* as well as between programmes. A one-hour show on commercial TV will actually be about 50 minutes, with 10 minutes of adverts, whereas on the BBC a one-hour show will run about 58 minutes.

Mentioning the Jaffa Cake court case, reminded me of Subway in Ireland. Due to the amount of sugar in the bread, the sandwiches are deemed to be a discretionary indulgences and not a staple foods so wasn't exempt from VAT

@KernowWarrior

11 ай бұрын

They also can't legally call it bread. It's technically cake.

@Veni_Vidi_Vortice

11 ай бұрын

Still selling indulgences huh? How very Catholic.

@BooBaddyBig

11 ай бұрын

@@KernowWarrior They can call it bread, it's just taxed as cake, it's not a big deal.

On the topic of festivals there's one that happens near me in the UK called a scarecrow festival where an entire village sets up scarecrows outside their houses... but not really at all to scare away any crows. Instead they are for decoration and some make them look like certain characters from tv/film/media, like an arts & crafts kinda thing! So when it happens you can drive through the village and see them all, i'll be honest i've only been once because I personally can't drive but it's nice to observe once or twice and people are very creative with it iirc. Ooohh and one other my family goes to more often that's a little less niche I think is a balloon festival where the main spectacle is a bunch of hot air balloons all taking off at once, all different colours and sizes, it's beautiful when the weather is nice and they're all spread across the sky :)

Hi Alanna, if you're looking for weird festivals you won't go wrong with "The World Gurning Championships" at Egremont Crab Fair celebrations. Started back in 1267. I guess it's what folks did before they needed a TV licence 😂

@raybenstead2548

Ай бұрын

Don't forget Bog Snorkelling.

Brilliant. Loved it. Makes me proud to be British. But the thing is that most of these weird and whacky things and traditions (except Blobby which was just an abomination invented for TV) are rooted in something quite normal or serious. It's always fun finding out.

I live less than 10 miles from Wigan. The thought of a Pie Barm used to repulse me. That was until my work colleagues persuaded me to try a steak pie barm. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. That became my treat whenever I worked Saturday mornings.

@ukfamilylife

11 ай бұрын

pasty barm is the best

@paulpaintshop103

11 ай бұрын

Beltin,👍👍

@Jinty92

11 ай бұрын

I know they're really popular in Blackpool and St. Anne's area. Makes me smile walking past a bakers on holiday seeing the sign outside advertising barm. We call them baps.

I can highly reccomend the Tewkesbury medieval Festival on the 8th and 9th July. I can absolutely guarantee you that you will love it. It is the biggest medieval festival in Europe.

@robertpetre9378

11 ай бұрын

Also, the Loxwood joust in West Sussex is really good

I'd be interested to know where you last saw stargazy pie on any menu anywhere in the UK. Lived here all my life and I've never ever seen it as an option on a menu anywhere. Travelled to most parts of the UK - seen copious scotch eggs, pork pies, pasties, fish dishes, delicious cakes, scones with clotted cream and jam - but never stargazypie 🤣😂

@tomclifton1607

11 ай бұрын

Never seen stargazy pie either, except on the internet. And this is the first time I've heard of a Wigan Kebab. I have heard of a pie butty, but never actually seen one.

@rodjones117

11 ай бұрын

I think it's traditional on a certain night of the year in Mousehole, Cornwall.

@paulpaintshop103

11 ай бұрын

​@@tomclifton1607Wigan kebabs are a real thing, believe me

@aloluk

11 ай бұрын

@@tomclifton1607 Wigan biscuits were covered on "Sorted food" channel

@tomclifton1607

11 ай бұрын

@@paulpaintshop103 that's good to know. Probably not well known outside Wigan though.

As a 58 year old Brit I`d never heard of the pie in a roll.

@raybenstead2548

Ай бұрын

I'm almost 80 and neither have I.

As an American living in the US, I've never heard of Mr. Blobby. I'm laughing out loud at your commentary of him 😅

@AdventuresAndNaps

11 ай бұрын

He's crazy 😂

@brianwhittington5086

11 ай бұрын

​@AdventuresAndNaps I know the feeling about avoiding Mr Blobby, that thing was everywhere in the 90s. An adult friend was obsessed with it, and all the Mr Blobby collectable merch back in the day. I wouldn't have revealed you don't like him, that's the cue for folks to dig out their dusty old Mr Blobby Christmas Annuals to send you. 🤣

@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765

11 ай бұрын

He used to beat up the guests on the show he was on....make them feel uncomfortable , funny shit in the 90s anyway

@Brian-om2hh

11 ай бұрын

You never heard of Mr Blobby? You have no idea how unbelievably lucky you are.....

@dannydorito9134

11 ай бұрын

Mr Blobby is from an old TV show in the 90s called Nole Edmonds House Party if I remember correctly

We have 'Pace egging' at Easter where people paint hard boiled eggs and roll them down a hill. The one that travels furthest wins the race!

An offer often is responded with "are you sure?", we seem to ask if the person offering is sure they want to give us a thing. It's probably similar to the Arabic thing of refusing things three times, but we're not aware we're doing it. :D

Two Sussex festivals spring to mind; Burning the Clocks in Brighton Lewes bonfire night Everywhere has bonfire night, but not everyone has LEWES bonfire night. Up Helly Ah in Shetland is great too! Very viking inspired due to the Norwegian influence in Shetland.

Also, there is Sausage Roll Baps, very popular in Belfast, two sausage rolls (from a local bakery, NOT GREGGS) between a buttered bap/bun. Most people have it with Ketchup or HP Sauce. God they're good!

@fayesouthall6604

11 ай бұрын

Sounds fantastic and a carbs overload.

@Elwaves2925

11 ай бұрын

I might have to try that. Are the sausage rolls usually hot or cold?

@fayesouthall6604

11 ай бұрын

@@Elwaves2925 I’d say hot/warm

@Elwaves2925

11 ай бұрын

@@fayesouthall6604 Thanks, I always go for the 'authentic' version first before trying variations.

@tiggerwood8899

11 ай бұрын

​ Hot, same for pies and pasties

A Stargazy pie was created in the South West of Britain in particular it originates from Mousehole in Cornwall, it is made using baked pilchards, with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. It is traditionally eaten during the festival of Tom Bawcock's Eve to celebrate his heroic catch during a very stormy winter! The heads and sometimes even the tails of the Pilchards (Sardines) protrude through the top of the pies Pastry Crust so they appear to be gazing at the stars, hence the name of the pie!

In June every year, South Petherton, a village in Somerset has a FolkFest (multi-day = festival, single day = fest) with the ceremony of "Clipping the Church" when the church clergy lead the village members to hold hands around the whole Church & bless the community for another year). There's also morris dancing, cider, hog roast, hay bale seats & all other Somerset 'things'.

I live in Wigan. We call the pie thing a ‘Slappy Butty.’ We had them occasionally as kids. Didn’t know people still ate them.

@scottlarrabee9527

11 ай бұрын

I thought that was called a Wigan kebab.

@primalengland

11 ай бұрын

@@scottlarrabee9527 Wigan is a place of many cultures, ideas, diverse opinions and idiots……… Lots of idiots. I now live on the very edge of Wigan, although I can still sense it. A bit like Mordor from Hobbiton.

@davidhurcombe6505

11 ай бұрын

There's another channel I watch regularly here on KZread called Sorted Food and they had been doing global food challenges by randomly picking countries beginning with A B C and so on and somehow it to E and when they spun the wheel it landed on England. They got the viewers to suggest a traditional English dish and the Wigan Slappy was what the audience chose for them to make.

@primalengland

11 ай бұрын

@@davidhurcombe6505 Just watched it. That was great. Thanks. And I subbed.

@katashworth41

11 ай бұрын

@@scottlarrabee9527 with a butter pie it’s a Preston Kebab.

I guess I loved Blobby and Noel’s House Party at the time. The Gotchas were hilarious at times, even pre-Blobby. EDMONDS! YOU ARE A DEAD MAN! This vid was a brilliant watch. Loved how you played out the biscuit dance 😂😂 Cheers, Alanna!

@AdventuresAndNaps

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is one of your best - really really enjoyed it. Mainly because although I have lived here all my life 4+ decades I have not heard or seen the Flaming Bowl event nor seen that Fish Head Pie, funny how one can live somewhere for so long and not know about traditions that happen every year.

Alanna - spot on about street names in Canada. My town in Ontario has a Main Street, King Street, Queen Street, Coronation Blvd (autocorrected to Coronavirus since 2020) and both a Concession Street and Road that are no where near each other.

BISCUIT = goes soft when stale. CAKE = goes hard when stale. Therefore, Jaffas are CAKES !

@Wabbit_Hunta

3 күн бұрын

Also cakes are sponge based, biscuits are not

There are so many little odd things here in the UK you could go on for hours about them. May be you could start the Great Naps festival or village fete that combines a load of weird things in one place like Jaffa cake throwing, The Big Train spot, The great biscuit bargaining event and racing Alanna to grab the last piece of cheese on the plate. It would become another great British Summer tradition. ☺

@docostler

11 ай бұрын

Sounds good. Of course being a summer event it will be a strict BYOB festival: Bring Your Own Brollie.

@thetragicyouth

11 ай бұрын

- and something involving the purple ones from a tin of Quality Street!

After watching your video and your comment on street names I decided to have a look at street names here in Germany. Top of the list is of cause Hauptstraße (Main street) 6,114 times. Germany has a total of 1,220,441 roads and looking through the list I noticed that the top 200 most used names are names of importent people as Bismarck, Goethe, or Trees, Birds or buildings as Schulstraße (School street) Kirchstraße (Church street) Bahnhofstraße (Station street, mainly train station).

Loved the video Alanna. Glad you enjoy sampling different aspects of British life. You should really take a look at at the Royal Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne, here in Derbyshire. It's like no other football match you've seen. It's last two days and spans the entire town. One gola post is at one end of Ashbourne and the other goal post is at the other end!

Royal Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne, Derbyshire is well worth Googleing .The fact that they board up the shop fronts where it is played gives some indication how wild things can get.

@chrisspere4836

9 ай бұрын

Funny reading this as the football in the sea was on TVs Points West just yesterday.

You will find Chip Butties in any Fish and Chip shop in Sheffield, not sure about the rest of the Country because I once asked for one in Oldham and it was like I was from Mars 😂

If I discovered him as an adult, I'd probably hate him too, but I adore Mr.Blobby as he brings back childhood memories/nostalgia. I love that he's an adult toy for kids like Barney the Dinosaur, but instead of being a loveable mascot, he's a maleovolent destroyer. I love the demented smile on his face as he plows into things. *Blobby blobby blobby* 😂😂😂

Near where I grew up we had a festival called “up the pole”. It was basically a Remembrance Day celebration but combined with a picnic and a hike. There’s a hill near were I grew up that’s just a big bit of geography. Unfortunately it meant that a lot of planes flew into it during the war. German, Polish, British, it doesn’t really matter, we just like to have a little ceremony to remember them all. They were just young men after all and it really doesn’t matter this side or that. We just like to remember them and celebrate that we’re not fighting now.

A few of the many festivals festivals you might like to look at are; Lewes Bonfire Night celebrations, the Furry Dance in Helston, the 'Obby 'Oss festival in Padstow, the Burryman's Parade in South Queensferry near Edinburgh...

@ftumschk

11 ай бұрын

The Padstow 'Obby 'Oss scares the bejeezus out of me, and I'm not afraid of admitting it!

There are traditions in Canada that definitely predate the Middle Ages, but depending on where you are - and what your exposure is, people may or not be aware of them. In the UK it is typical for schools to have special days - often described as 'open days' or ‘fêtes’ especially junior schools, these are planned well in advance and invitations are sent and responded to. This is the same in Canada, but in some areas - the school my ex-wife teaches at is a good example - these days take the form of potlatches. It is considered rude to invite people to a potlatch, or ask whether they can attend. The culture means that if you have heard it is happening, you are invited. Every year they used to have trouble with Fire Marshall’s etc, because they could never estimate how many people would be in attendance, an event in the area like a powwow or canoe racing could double the number of people in attendance.

In Mousehole (pronounced "mowzel") where Stargazy Pie originated, the local pub has made it a bit more palatable. It's a regular white fish pie with a few fish heads stuck into the pastry. Just macabre garnish, basically.

Hey Alanna! For your festivals episode you should take a look at Hasting's Jack in the Green festival that takes place every May.

UK is home to the biggest arts festival in the world (Edinburgh Fringe) and another worth checking out is Shetland's Up Helly Aa (The one where they set fire to Viking Longships).

@ftumschk

11 ай бұрын

Not forgetting the National Eisteddfod and Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Wales.

@typicalsomeone5073

11 ай бұрын

We also have a large morris dancing festival probably more drink then anywhere else

As you're a Kent resident, I can't believe that you didn't name the World Custard Pie Championships in your weird festivals - it must be your most local one!

@MichaelJones-ni5pb

11 ай бұрын

Also, is she a Kentish woman or a woman of Kent?

@Fizz-Pop

11 ай бұрын

I also live in Kent. I'm also part of Greater London. I'm only just starting to wonder what I missed. London life was all I heard. Frankly I wish I'd been deeper into Kent.

Come up North we love our unique ways Egg rolling on Good Friday..we love strong tea ( kettle is always on ) full English breakfast with black pudding ..and always talking about the weather.😊

Thank you! You too for sharing. Your videos. Have a great Day 👍

*Everyone not from the UK:* “Mr Blobby is terrifying, I hate it” *Me from the UK:* “Mr Blobby is an icon, he’s the moment, I’d take a bullet for that agent of chaos”

@atorthefightingeagle9813

11 ай бұрын

Me too!

@AlexanderLund

11 ай бұрын

He's a national treasure

@johnboy2562

11 ай бұрын

​@@AlexanderLund He's a treasure alright, he should be buried deeply in the ground.

@mickc7388

11 ай бұрын

Blobby, Blobby, Blobby the last funny thing on UK TV.

@johnboy2562

11 ай бұрын

@@mickc7388 You need to check your spelling, you missed out the 'e' in least.

If you think Mr Blobby is terrifying, then you won't like some of the kids TV shows from 70s & 80s. Some people still have nightmares. The original Bungle from Rainbow and Noseybonk from Jigsaw to name two. Both shows were apparently aimed at kids aged from 4 to 7.

@-Pol-

11 ай бұрын

Not forgetting that moth eaten Hartley Hare from Pipkins.

@paulguise698

11 ай бұрын

I used to like Zippy, I would love for Alanna to watch Rainbow, to see what she thinks of it

Wonderful video! So fun! Stuff I never knew but now I’m glad I do!😂

As you are in Kent, the Broadstairs Folk Week (festival) is great fun. Especially the parade with the Snapper/Dragon people. It also has lots of music and beer all week.

@concordep2504

11 ай бұрын

It’s great and the snappers as you call them are call Holden Horses

This for me was one of your best vlogs ever , made me laugh and so true...😂

@AdventuresAndNaps

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! ☺️

@glastonbury4304

11 ай бұрын

@@AdventuresAndNaps ...it was fun and definitely true, but moreover creative 👍😂💞

Over the river from Kent in Essex where I lived most of my life we have the same roundabout on the A13 for Canvey

Just discovered your channel love 💕 you’re videos thank you 🙏🏼 Tommy from Northern California

Swindon isn't the only town to have a 'Magic Roundabout'. There's also one in Hemel Hempstead, there's even one at Heathrow Airport outside Hatton Cross tube station. I think there may be others, too.

@davidhamm7909

11 ай бұрын

Yes, other town have these roundabouts (High Wycombe also has one) but Swindon’s is the only “Magic Roundabout”. They are easy to negotiate though. Just ignore the middle bit and treat each mini roundabout as a separate roundabout.

@andybaker2456

11 ай бұрын

@davidhamm7909 Those in Hemel, High Wycombe, and Colchester are also known as "Magic Roundabouts.". The others (such as at Heathrow) aren't.

@davidhamm7909

11 ай бұрын

@@andybaker2456 I used to live in High Wycombe and we never called it Magic Roundabout. That was about 35 years ago though so it might have changed.

@duncanreed2391

10 ай бұрын

I have always referred to the Colchester magic roundabout as ‘the magic roundabout’ can’t remember why. it’s about 15 mins away so go around it often, they are pretty easy.

I'm Australian. Decades ago I went to England to, among other things, attend the British Grand Prix. I bought a hand held TV from Argos which I then returned on Monday for a refund. Dodgy but a fun and effective bargain. Months later, back in Australia, mail was forwarded to me that I was being fined for not having a TV license. It was really threatening! I wasn't even in the country!!

@SimonWakefieldUK

11 ай бұрын

By hand held do you mean battery powered? Those battery powered hand held TV's you used to get back in the day before phones killed them off were actually exempt as so you shouldn't have got such a letter. Argos are required to inform the TVL company of all TV sales but they shouldn't have for that

@DerekArmsden

11 ай бұрын

@@SimonWakefieldUK That's what it was.... but they must have done so anyway. **Shrug** I actually sent back a reply explaining that I only owned it for a couple of days, returned it and had since left the country. Never heard back after that.

@chrisspere4836

9 ай бұрын

It is the BBC service we pay for and because that thing picks it up they'll chase ya for dosh.

@swanvictor887

Ай бұрын

....so that's why there's an arrest warrant for you waiting here ....! lol.@@DerekArmsden

Hi, my brother inlaw, he is a Brit, actually a very traditional man, but if I offer him a pint, I never have to ask twice....Nice show, please make a lot more of them! X

Omg🤯 can't believe you have been here 7 years and not had a chip buttie. Any good traditional fish n chip shop will serve chip butties. You won't regret trying one. We grow up making them at home too. plate of chips (home made are way better than frozen) and a couple of well buttered slices of bread on the side. Then make your buttie, the butter melts because of the hot chips. Mmmmm delicious😋😋😋

Hi Alana , loved the content. Mr Blobby was pretty tame when first in Noel's show but took on a life of its own , got pretty outrageous ! Couldn't eat anything that was looking at me ! I will avoid Swindon completely

@charliebrown1184

11 ай бұрын

I currently live in Swindon, and I promise you're not missing anything! 😂

@applejuice5272

11 ай бұрын

@@charliebrown1184 Except for living in Slough (I don't)

"Goth Weekend" at Whitby is kind of like a festival, where people dress up as goths or vampires for a day out. Also "dumb" means someone who can't speak, so it was probably a woman incapable of speech who used to live in a cottage down that road a few hundred years ago.

@-Pol-

11 ай бұрын

Likewise the Lincoln "Asylum" Steampunk weekend.

Local to you is the Green Man festival in Hastings. It is held on the 1st May. A man covered in Green Leaves is paraded though the town. You will find a lot of people in green face paint. Lots of drum bands and very edgy Morris dancers, it has a Wicca feel to it. He has all his leaves taken off at the end. The other half of the town has a huge motorbike meeting.

Our ridiculousness isn't limited to merely street names. In the North-East there are towns called Pity Me and No Place.

@simonh6371

11 ай бұрын

That's nothing, in the Midlands there's a village called Bell End.

@tonyjefferson3502

11 ай бұрын

part of Newcastle called spittal tongues

@applejuice5272

11 ай бұрын

@@simonh6371 Cocking too

@speleokeir

11 ай бұрын

In South Wales there's Three Cocks. It's near Lord Hereford's Knob and Fan Y Big.

@saxon-mt5by

11 ай бұрын

@@applejuice5272 Derbyshire has Clowne, and Lincolnshire has Mavis Enderby

Two other strange events you should look at are "Bog Snorkelling" and the Lewes Bonfire Societies.

i live close to Ottery st Mary and have gone to the tar barrels every year for the last 8 years, it's a great evening, they have children's, women's and men's events (obviously the barrels vary in size), and the barrels tend to be carried by a few families that have live in the town for many years.

You don't have to go all the way to Devon for a blazing Bonfire Night. Edenbridge in Kent where I'm from has a torch led parade and Lewes in East Sussex has one of the best in the country.

I agree with you about Brits never accepting a first offer except of course in a pub or anywhere else where alcohol is on offer 😊 Hope you are enjoying this little heat wave.

@Volkuth

11 ай бұрын

Well, you've never met me then. If it's offered, it's gone 😂

The first time I saw a friend of mine turn a meat pie into a sandwich I was very surprised! An alternative to your experience of Brits always needing to be offered something like cake at least two or three times is: some of my older family members used to say, ‘I know I shouldn’t, but…'

I enjoyed you video and commenting on your observations 👍😁

There's another "Magic Roundabout" that I know of in Hemel Hempstead, but that one has two-way traffic going around it.

I would love to have seen the look on your face if you'd ordered Stargazer Pie in a pub without knowing what it was, and then THAT turns up!🐟

@RevStickleback

11 ай бұрын

You would have a very hard job finding anywhere that serves it though.

Hey Alanna, you're opening a can of worms with the local traditional events, and weird street, or place names. You could do a whole series, as many towns and villages have them. On the subject of street names, I worked close to Conisbrough Castle in South Yorkshire for many years. Close by was the infamous Butt Hole Road, and we had a regular stream of American tourists asking directions to it. Residents got so fed up of the crowds taking photos with it, and the sign got stolen on occasions, that its name eventually got changed to Archers Way. If you didn't know, Butt's are the place where men in the Middle Ages were forced, by law, to do regular sessions of archery target practice.

@wessexdruid7598

11 ай бұрын

Many towns still have a road called 'The Butts'. Butts are part of a range, whether for archery or firearms.

@brianwhittington5086

11 ай бұрын

@wessexdruid7598 There was controversy over the name change to Archers Way with the one in Conisbrough. I think it centred around Doncaster Council's refusal to keep replacing the missing sign. Many residents now apparently want their original road name reinstated if reports are true.

@darrenhemingway7121

27 күн бұрын

For weird street names, Sheffield has its fair share, my personal favourite is that the South Yorkshire police have an operation centre based at Letsby Avenue.

Hi Allana, Lewes has the biggest bonfire celebration in the UK and is not far from Kent. (near Brighton) They used to roll a barrel of burning tar down the hill. I am not sure if they still do.

Bog snorkeling or caber tossing always look fun.

You've never seen a British person take something on the first offer.......unless it's alcohol or a cup of tea 😂

@AdventuresAndNaps

11 ай бұрын

😂

I absolutely loved Mr Blobby. He was a rebel without a cause. The naughty toddler. One of the best characters on tv.He used to make me laugh so much as a young teenager!

Lol, just recently found your channel, and I'm enjoying your perspectives on Britain and it's oddities, as you are doing a great job in pointing out the things we Brits do on the daily, which we take as completely normal, but when you take a step back and look at them are totally weird and crazy 🤪 PS i go to the tar barrel festival most years, and it's an awesome event that takes over the entire village, with stalls, a fun fair, people's homes turned into temporary pubs, etc, i would recommend you to try it out one year, cheers

There's a worm charming competition that happens in the UK, worth looking up for your festivals :)

Stargazy pie is from Cornwall, but really you don't have to have the fish heads - it's just for effect - originally it was to prove that there really was fish inside! Pilchards used to be a staple food in Cornwall, and they used to be caught in large numbers - not so much nowadays.

I said it at the time and I still think we should have entered Mr Blobby as our entry into Eurovision. Oh and as if it wasn't obvious, I love him.

@ravenmad9225

11 ай бұрын

He did have No.1 record in the singles charts.

@anne-mariemarshall

11 ай бұрын

Blobby blobby blobby😂😂😂

I used to live on Trollop street. There is also a Fanny Hands lane as well 🙂

Have you had the absolute delight of seeing our plane ✈️ spotters yet? You can find them near Gatwick Airport in a field nearby with cameras and tripods. I should imagine you can also find them at other airports too.

I've never seen a stargazey pie outside of youtube videos searching for 'quirky UK things' and a rare mention by specialist chefs like Rick Stein. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, lark's tongues and lamprey pie would be just as absurd.

@Dave.Thatcher1

11 ай бұрын

Ditto.

@SleepingWeasel67

11 ай бұрын

Stargazey Pie is a speciality of Mousehole (pronounced "Mow-zul") in Cornwall, so might not be that common outside the area. Blue Peter did a segment on it when I was a kid (in the '70s)

Many countries have tv licences but equally many have abandoned them - as the UK should do

@1jimbly1

11 ай бұрын

i would rather eat my own ear wax than abandon the tv licence ..sdverts make me want to punch the the screen

@tonys1636

11 ай бұрын

That would take away the independence of the BBC if a PLC or a dept of the Govt. We have a TV licence here in Ireland, it funds RTÉ News and the Irish language channel so can be independent but the channels still have adverts as the licence fee is not enough to fund the whole of the channels.

Good tip for roundabouts, as someone when a new driver struggled with: As you approach, prepare to stop well before the line, crawl to the line; this allows you to accelerate in, if possible. I still don't like roundabouts, and doesn't work in queues, but this piece of advice did allow me to have more successful roundabout experiences, which did ease my tension overall. Plus it operates as a distraction, i.e. your thinking about the current action rather than the impending one. Fellow roundabout survivor.

My uncle used do the cheese and Barrow race's. I still think morris dancing is weird. Even I was born here, done it at junior school , and know the history. But still fun to watch. 👍😊

Hello in Hastings we have a a whole weekend dedicated to the green man festival. It involves street parties and celebrations.

Many from North america seem to struggle with Jaffa Cakes, and orange/chocolate mixes in general. I've seen Stargazer Pie listed frequently in lists of unusual British foods, but you'll almost never find it. It turns out it's served in one pub, in one tiny village, on one day of the year, due to some local tradition.

@Ionabrodie69

11 ай бұрын

Yes the Ship inn in Mousehole..(or to aid pronunciation …Mowzel 😂) 🇬🇧

Those roundabouts are everywhere!

Yes great shout out to the Wigan Kebab! And thank you for bringing up the fact we call it a barm (or barmcake)

As a Scot, I thought you were sure to mention our Highland games with the Welly throwing contest and the Toss the Caber. A lot of Scots have emigrated to Canada so possibly took the weirdness with them.

Suggestion for festivals (races) are the annual Man vs Horse race and World Bog Snorkelling championships both held in the smallest town in the UK: Llanwrtyd Wells in mid Wales.