The more of these videos I see the more amazed I am that such a tiny little island has had such a major influence on the world. Rule Britannia

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

Thats because the Brits have a higher IQ and contrubute more than usa to science papers research ect

@flowersthewizard9336

Жыл бұрын

Even more amazing is how the isles has kept its regional culture very well the celts especially

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

And that big huge country of USA.. (not the, we don't say the Russia or the Mexico)...don't always know that many of the citys,places... are names from the tiny little island of Great Britain. 🤠

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

@@John-nc4bl It is! I agree. Isn't it elephants that were tied to a person with a rope and when the rope was removed they stayed memtaly tied. Like don't look up and realise they are bigger and could just walk away?

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

@@John-nc4bl I think they have owened up. They have owned up, review and reflected, then implemented changes. Yes they did all those terrible things. But USA today have all of that going on every day still! No affordable health care for everyone, school shootings becoming a regular occurrence. People killing people everyday. Inhumane treatment of prisoners, daily police brutality of some sort, living in fear of a battle or an invasion from your neighbours or anyone on the street. Kids going to school with security, metal detectors. Terrible employment conditions, no paid holiday, sick days maternity paternity leave as a universal right. Sure sounds like slavery, battling, war etc ect to me. Soooo 👀

It’s not the ‘British version’, it’s the ORIGINAL version`! 😂

@rodsmith7032

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffydd i was talking about `THE OFFICE’!

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

@@rodsmith7032 But you never actually mentioned The Office, are people supposed to be psychic? Everyone else was talking about apple pies and donuts so I assumed you were too.

@rodsmith7032

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffydd i was responding to the clip, no-one else’s post!

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

@@rodsmith7032 Yes, and they talked about more than just The Office. If you’d have actually said The Office then I wouldn’t have responded, but you didn’t. 😂

@rodsmith7032

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffydd sorry, are you the KZread comments police? Do i have to justify myself to you? The answer is no btw!

_Cadbury is so good_ You should have tasted it BEFORE it was bought up by an American multinational. Modern Cadbury's just don't taste the same.

@briangibson6527

Жыл бұрын

I agree, It's far to sweet ,so can't enjoy it now.

@yumyummoany

Жыл бұрын

So true!

@asseyez-vous6492

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely AND I haven’t seen a barcode for ages that suggests it’s even made here in the uk anymore! I think it’s Central Europe somewhere?

@chiprbob

Жыл бұрын

Cadbury sold in the US is manufactured by Hershey's.

@Steve-go6oq

Жыл бұрын

@@chiprbob my wife recently came back from the US (we're South African). She brought a lot of chocolate back and outside of Milk Duds it really didn't taste great to me. Hershey's stood out to me as the worst of the lot. Of course my taste doesn't matter in the grander scheme of things but interesting how tastes differ!

So many bigger things conceived in Britain that were not mentioned such as moving pictures, first filmed in Leeds, my home city, people walking across a bridge on a river, television by John Logie Baird. Mess produced two and three piece suits, by Montague Burton again in Leeds where over 30,000 people worked in one huge factory. Steam trains first ran in Liverpool as a trail before being manufactured all across the country. The list is endless these are some of the bigger ones. As always a class broadcast keep them coming they make my day.

@yumyummoany

Жыл бұрын

Louis Le Prince, a Frenchman, invented moving pictures. He got into a train in 1890 and was never seen again!

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

Basically the ipod mobile phone... usa swooped in woth the patent expired

@Paul-hl8yg

Жыл бұрын

Same guy filmed in Roundhay park Leeds the same year, as well as filming on the bridge in Leeds 👍🇬🇧

@sutty8526

Жыл бұрын

The industrial revolution 🤷🏻👍

@DeusVult71

Жыл бұрын

@@yumyummoany Yeah we have blue plaques for him in Leeds where he filmed.

The RAF Hospital I served at specialized in plastic (reconstructive) surgery for burns to pilot's during WW2.

I’m actually shocked with number 1 myself! A drinking song made by someone from Gloucester, that’s where I’m from. I never knew that!

The Stars and Stripes. In the Medieval Language of Arms, Stars represent Spurs and Horizontal Red Stripes represent rivers of blood. Three white stars raised over horizontal red stripes became the coat of arms of the town of Washington in the North of England back in the 14th century . This later became the coat of arms for the Washington family, who later moved to America.

@alisonrandall3039

Жыл бұрын

Wow I didn’t know that. Thank you.

@anoldfogeysfun

Жыл бұрын

Aye, we had that same coat of arms as the badge on our blazer breast pocket at Uzzy Comp, John . . . 👍

@Linz1489

Жыл бұрын

One of the oldest representations of this coat of arms is in a stained glass window in Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire, it’s been there since the 1400s and is assumed to have been a gift from one of George Washington’s ancestors, which is a pretty cool piece of local history 😊

@penashe17

11 ай бұрын

Also, the flag of Washington, DC is based on that coat of arms.

Love this channel, you, and how you want to learn. If we could all do that the world would be a far better place.

The Anacreontic Song/ Star Spangled Banner original lyrics 1. To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full Glee, A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition, That he their Inspirer and Patron would be; When this answer arriv'd from the Jolly Old Grecian "Voice, Fiddle, and Flute, "no longer be mute, "I'll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot, "And, besides I'll instruct you, like me, to intwine "The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine." 2. The news through Olympus immediately flew; When Old Thunder pretended to give himself Airs. "If these Mortals are suffer'd their Scheme to persue, "The Devil a Goddess will stay above Stairs. "Hark! already they cry, "In transports of Joy, "Away to the Sons of Anacreon we'll fly,[28] "And there, with good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine "The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine. 3. "The Yellow-Hair'd God and his nine fusty Maids, "From Helicon's banks will incontinent flee,[29] "Idalia will boast but of tenantless Shades, "And the bi-forked Hill a mere Desart will be "My Thunder no fear on't, "Shall soon do it's Errand, "And dam'me! I'll swinge the Ringleaders, I warrant. "I'll trim the young Dogs, for thus daring to twine "The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine." 4. Apollo rose up, and said, "Pry'thee ne'er quarrel, "Good King of the Gods, with my Vot'ries below: "Your Thunder is useless"-then shewing his Laurel, Cry'd "Sic evitabile fulmen,[30] you know! "Then over each head "My Laurels I'll spread; "So my Sons from your Crackers no Mischief shall dread, "Whilst snug in their Club-Room, they jovially twine "The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine." 5. Next Momus got up with his risible Phiz, And swore with Apollo he'd chearfully join- "The full Tide of Harmony still shall be his, "But the Song, and the Catch, and the Laugh shall be mine. "Then, Jove, be not jealous "Of these honest fellows." Cry'd Jove, "We relent, since the Truth you now tell us; "And swear by Old Styx, that they long shall intwine "The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine." 6. Ye Sons of Anacreon, then join Hand in Hand; Preserve Unanimity, Friendship, and Love! 'Tis your's to support what's so happily plann'd; You've the sanction of Gods, and the Fiat of Jove. While thus we agree, Our Toast let it be. May our Club flourish happy, united, and free! And long may the Sons of Anacreon intwine The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.

In Ireland, we play rounders. The rules are pretty much the same. Running round to get back to home base.

@richardj9016

Жыл бұрын

Think about the word Rounders. Does it sound Irish or English ? All I know is that it’s been a girls game in schools for many years.

@gallowglass2630

Жыл бұрын

@@richardj9016 The principle is the same but the bat and other rules are quite different.

@garyhynes6574

Жыл бұрын

@@richardj9016 a good English game is called burn down the White House in the USA...in 1814 the English burned down the White House... didn't the English also build it though...

@asseyez-vous6492

Жыл бұрын

I played rounders in junior school, in Lancashire.

@garyhynes6574

Жыл бұрын

@@asseyez-vous6492 you played cricket... don't get it twisted...

Apple Pie is a traditional Westcountry dish where I come from, Cornwall. It goes back hundreds of years and we have it with Cornish Clotted Cream 😋

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

Most European countries have their version of apple pie, early printed recipes exist from both English and Dutch sources dating back to the 14th century. Though it’s thought to date back to Roman times in some form. It’s not specific to the Westcountry, although serving it with clotted cream could well be.

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

Let's talk pasties!

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

@@raw6460 The origin of the pasty is unclear, but there are recipes dating back to the 13th century. The name derives from Medieval French, so it’s thought they were brought over to the UK by the Normans, but are now most closely associated with the Southwest of England, mainly Cornwall. The first time I ate a Cornish Pastie, whilst on holiday in Cornwall, I got food poisoning and spent three days throwing up! Cornish Pasties are overrated in my opinion, but that’s probably down to the food poisoning incident. 😉

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

Oh, and there’s a reference to pasties include a 13th-century charter that was granted by King John in 1208 to the town of Great Yarmouth. Also, the 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris wrote of the monks of St Albans Abbey “according to their custom, lived upon pasties of flesh-meat”. And in 1465, 5,500 venison pasties were served at the installation feast of the archbishop of York. The earliest reference to pasties found in Devon and Cornwall is in the Plymouth city records of 1509/10, so it would appear that pasties took a while to make it that far west. 🙂

@raw6460

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffydd thats awesome!

The other patriotic song, America my country tis of thee, is sung to the the tune of God save the king. The "American" Candys, Starburst and Skittles are also British creations.

Steve even the American constitution decends from the Magna Carta , the American Bill of Rights . So they even stole that.😅 As for Baseball we played as children and it was called Rounders, it was mostly girls that played but definitely the same. principle.

@geoffpoole483

Жыл бұрын

A lot of the ideas formulated in the American Revolution came from England.

@johnwade1095

Жыл бұрын

You can find references to people playing 'base' in Lincolnshire in the 1500s. Basketball is the authentic American game.

@davidz2690

4 ай бұрын

@@geoffpoole483 well the founding fathers were englishmen

the stars and stripes were based on the Washington coat of arms, and the original family home was near Sunderland England

@timsimpson9367

Жыл бұрын

Also the inventor of the light bulb Joseph Swan, from Sunderland.

@mikitz

Жыл бұрын

@@timsimpson9367 United States of Sunderland.

@bigenglishmonkey

Жыл бұрын

its funny, when you look at everything in america thats British or based off of something British. food national anthem flag military laws government layout sports and more, it makes you realize they never really left the British empire, and technically their national identity is closer to Britain's than that of Canada or Australia for example.

@lesjames5191

Жыл бұрын

The original family home, Washington Hall, is still there in Washington near Sunderland and is open to the public.The Washington family Crest is incorporated into the coat of arms of the city of Sunderland and is built into the walls of Hylton castle and in the cloisters ceiling of Durham Cathedral. The Washington family came from County Durham, I believe in the old days they were called Wessington possibly descended from the Normans.

Yet another great video Steve,Thank you,Merry Christmas and very happy new year from us in the UK. England

I'll tell you something interesting about plastic surgery (or plastic surgeons) that I never considered.... My daughter was in a horrific motorbike accident - horrific. She was given 12 hours to live.... It was a plastic surgeon in the ICU who saved her life! Yes, there were neurosurgeons, ENTs, and other specialists (her injuries were 90% to her head), but it was the plastic surgeon who operated on her multiple times and saved her life. I never realized that a plastic surgeon was always on call for accidents, but seeing what he did, it all makes sense now (final note - my daughter not only survived but is thriving).

@reactingtomyroots

Жыл бұрын

That would definitely give someone a new perspective on plastic surgeons. I'm glad your daughter is doing well now.

@pebblecritter

Жыл бұрын

@@reactingtomyroots Thank you - yes, it did. Like you, I never really considered how integral they were to everyday surgery - or trauma surgery.

Plastic surgery, there is a very famous hospital in East Grinstead called The Queen Victoria Hospital. They specialise in reconstructive surgery and the treatment of burns. I had cause to go once and in the surgeon’ office was a card written by a child. It said Dear Mr X (surgeons here are not called doctor all to do with barbers and makes no sense), Thank you for putting my face back together, I love you. Now that must be the best thanks a plastic surgeon can get.

@davidshattock9522

Жыл бұрын

Aka the guinea pig units east grinstead been to queen Mary's .Sidcup .lots of memerora bila there .I got treated in East grins tead one got to keep thumb though.thanks.

@yumyummoany

Жыл бұрын

@@davidshattock9522 I hope all went well for you and that you made a full recovery. 😷

Ricky Gervais made quite a few series called Idiot Abroad but it was his friend Karl Pilkington who done the travelling and challenges. It is hilarious and what he gets Karl doing is amazing. It seems to have become popular with Americans. Also the English series inbetweeners and there is a film. I think you would enjoy these different shows. Enjoying your channel and you really are trying to learn so much which I admire. I hope you do get to visit the UK but I must admit people do forget about Scotland, Wales and Ireland and focus on London and I am only a few hours away from London and I never go there it’s too busy and more crime. If you are coming from America I’d say see the famous buildings but the rest of England and the British isles has so much more beauty to offer.

@Number6_

Жыл бұрын

So did jeremy clarkson. He was a real idiot abroad.

Sandwiches ie something stuffed between 2 pieces of bread - or what passed for bread - have been around for donkeys years. Because of the Earl's habit of asking for saltbeef between 2 pieces of bread so he could play cribbage uninterrupted, it became known as a 'sandwich'.

Ricky Gervais (JERR rhymes with her....VAYZ similar to how you say a flower vase, but with a z sound instead of a c sound) Yes he's a stand up comedian and actor, (and musician/singer!) who wrote and starred in The Office UK... And worked on it's transition to USA. He always hosted the Golden Globes and roasted the celebs like Brazilian coffee beans. 🤣 When you get here, try a warm fresh sliced Tiger loaf spread with Anchor butter! Then tell me you don't like bread! 😜

@jaynadiah5498

Жыл бұрын

it always astounds me how americans cant pronounce his name

Many many of your place names originated here. Just look at a map of England. You will see lots of place names that you have. The settlers name them after their home towns

@Paul-hl8yg

Жыл бұрын

So true.. The English settlers named places after where they came from, making a "New England". Not only "New" York & Washington etc but many more. In Massachusetts US, there is a town named Hull & 17 miles from there is a city named Beverly. I live in the city of Hull UK & 8 miles from Hull is the town of Beverley lol. The early colonists were making a home from home. 🙂🇬🇧🇺🇸

@boffgirl

Жыл бұрын

yeah I grew up in Plymouth, I think there's now over 20 Plymouths, so a tourist thing at one point was it went "Plymouth,the original one."

A genie appeared from a magic lamp and asked a man what he would wish for."I want women to find me irresistable",the genie turned him in to a block of chocolate😂😂😂😂a wise genie

New YORK, New HAMPSHIRE, New PLYMOUTH, New ENGLAND, NEW PORT, New CASTLE - Newcastle, Baile An Ti Mhoior - BALTIMORE, Newark-on-Trent - NEWARK, RICHMOND, POURTSMOUTH, and many others derived from places of origin in the UK.

Take a look back in history. George Washington was born in County Durham. His family cost of arms is stars and red and white strips. Just like the star spangled banner

@stephenwaters3515

Жыл бұрын

No he wasn't he was born in Virginia as were his father and grandfather .

@philcooper279

Жыл бұрын

So what? That didn't stop him and his French friends killing British soldiers. If the Continental Army had been able to get their hands on Nuclear weapons, one must allow me too use my imagination here, to make my point, do you think they and their French friends, wouldn't have used them? Modern America has nothing to do with England, in the future, it will have even less.

I love watching your videos, it's like having a conversation with an old friend. I'm sitting here, nodding and answering you like I'm there sitting by you lol

I am an Aussie over 60 years of age and have been eating apple pie since I was a child. None of my ancestors to my knowledge were big fans of American culture.

HI STEVE DEBRA HERE FROM S WALES THE OFFICE was written and created by Ricky Gervais and Stephan Merchant and ran for just 12 episodes that is 2 6 part series, Ricky tends to end his series after 2 6 part runs because he did the same with another series he created and wrote called EXTRAS, he then went to America and hosted various award shows and stared in films such as Night At The Museum as the museum manager.

Sorry Steve but Americans tend to assume that everything that can be found in the States was invented or concocted there or by them (includiing the English language) when almost everything wasn't. Like the hotdog.

@rickb.4168

Жыл бұрын

It would be fun to ask Americans in which towns were the FRANKFURTER and HAMBURGER from? Watch there eyes glaze over.....and eventually say NEW YORK?

@darthwiizius

Жыл бұрын

@@rickb.4168 Romans had Hamburgers but it was Hamburgers who took Hamburgers to America. Also Britain also gave America the Cheesecake long before NY tried rebranding it. Oh and the US flag originates in Durham.

@jillosler9353

Жыл бұрын

And Halloween!

@darthwiizius

Жыл бұрын

@@jillosler9353 I think Halloween comes from Ireland.

@rickb.4168

Жыл бұрын

@@darthwiizius I think you missed the point. 😂

those Fry chocolate cream bars are still delicious by the way

@linnettsamuel5026

Жыл бұрын

Does anyone remember the 'five boys' bar? My grandfather would buy me one as a Sunday treat.

There is a town in Kent called Sandwich, it's near the coast I think. Re: apple pie I think the Danes have also influenced it as they have it in their food culture so they also have an influence on it making it to the US due to settlers. Think you may've been thinking about Ricky G hosting the Golden Globes - the last one was the doozy!

@darthwiizius

Жыл бұрын

The edible apple was deliberately exported as a matter of policy because Apple trees are easy to cultivate. They were sent specifically to put in pies as an easy to produce high energy staple to prevent starvation in new British colonies, you can make a fair assertion that the apple pie was the foundation of America, or at least one significant foundation.

@DatDirtyDog

Жыл бұрын

The town of Sandwich is also very close to tiny town called Ham

@michael_177

Жыл бұрын

I live near Sandwich! there is a nearby town called Ham, if you find the right roadsigns, you can take a picture next to "Ham, Sandwich" sign 😂

@barni_b

Жыл бұрын

The name Earl of Sandwich comes from the man being the Earl of that town in Kent called Sandwich. Similarly to hamburgers being from Hamburg in Germany where they put sausages in two slices of bread in the 1700s. And I'd argue Apfelstrudel is an apple pie which is a German pastry way before any mention of the modern day apple pie in Danish, British or US cultre. 🤷‍♂

@annemariefleming

Жыл бұрын

Ricky is a living legend. I was proud of his GG speech...no-one else could have got away with that huge roast.

02:33 plus aren't the only native Apples in the US Crab Apples anyway? I don't know if they would make a good pie.

I think I commented about the national anthem being a British drinking song previously😂 Pretty crazy for an American I can imagine, but the original song is called ‘To Anacreon in Heaven’ and is actually pretty cool :)

@geoffpriestley7310

Жыл бұрын

To be fair we can drink to any song

When not even 250 years old the chance is that the list won't be extensive

It depends on where you are, New York was originally a Dutch colony, which is why it used to be New Amsterdam and why they still have Harlem (Haarlem), Brooklyn (Breukelen), etc.

Cosmetic/reconstructive surgery was also stolen by the UK, from India. It's shockingly old. There is a famous book called Sushruta Samhita, which was written around 500BC, and includes the first known descriptions of cosmetic surgery, including the first "nose job"/rhinoplasty. The techniques used by British surgeons after world war 1 were partially based on the Sushruta Samhita.

Waltzing Matilda, that quintessential Australian song was originally an 18th century British Army recruiting song, Who'll Come A Soldier.

@julianbarber4708

Жыл бұрын

Never knew that!....should be the Aussie National Anthem imho.

Let's start with the 'American language' I remember seeing a video where a woman admited looking for the stars and stripes banner when looking to convert a foreign website, the options were french spanish and English, they didn't realise English was also American 😂😂

@CptDangernoodle

Жыл бұрын

@@John-nc4bl You can hardly call the Angles, Jutes and Saxons "Germans". They were Germanic tribes

Please excuse me for hijacking the comments section. It is in a very good cause. There is a young boy called Cori who has had two unsuccessful heart transplants and is now on palliative care, his wish is to get his KZread plaque. Johnny Depp heard of this, sent him a video as Captain Jack and put the word out to people he knows. I heard about him through Popcorned Planet and decided to do the same through channels I subscribe to. Please check out the original video, his channel is Kraken The Box and let's get this little lad his plaque as soon as possible. Thanks. xx

Not only is the Star Spangled Banner written to an English tune.. The American Stars & Stripes flag is a direct copy of the flag of the British East India Company. Complete with the 13 red/white stripes of the original English later British colonies & keeping the original colours of the red/white & blue of the British Union flag (union jack). The British East India Company was the main trading company for the colonies, including tea. On that fateful day in Boston when the tea was thrown into the bay, that tea came off a British East India Company vessel. Quote Wikipedia: " Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania once gave a speech endorsing the adoption of the Company's flag by the United States as their national flag. He said to George Washington of Virginia, "While the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company." 🇬🇧❤🇺🇸

What about "Yankee Doodle ". A song used to taunt the Americans during the war of independence?

We call baseball rounders and it’s only usually played in schools. Never seen it played outside of school

@geoffpoole483

Жыл бұрын

It had a brief period of popularity between WW1 and WW2. Derby County used to play its home matches at the Baseball Ground.

Ricky Gervais roasting the celeb’s at the Golden Globes is a must watch. Seeing a bunch of hypocritical, virtue signalling celebs squirm is an absolutely joyful experience. 😂 In fact I think I’ll watch it again right now!

I was going to say that industrialization would be no. 1 on the list.

Brilliant video 👍

Truly loved the idea that your national anthem is a British drinking song...so, so funny, then knowing my life in having one too many, we as a drinking crowed always ended up in a sing song.....

I didn’t know about the doughnuts, but I did presume they were European 😁

@daveofyorkshire301

Жыл бұрын

I thought doughnuts were Italian? The spelling however "donut" is American.

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

@@daveofyorkshire301 The term doughnut or donut (both is correct) is English, not American. The first known printed recipe for ‘doughnuts’ dates to 1750, with another recipe for ‘dow nuts’ dates to 1800. But variations of the doughnut are thought to have existed for thousands of years. Dutch settlers first introduced donuts to the USA in the 18th century, but back then they were known as ‘olykoek’. The first known use of the word doughnut in the USA was 1809.

@daveofyorkshire301

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffydd Thank you I didn't know that...

@Pluggit1953

Жыл бұрын

The donut is a version of the Dutch Berlinerbol, which is a version of a German donut.

a recipe identical to the world’s best-selling whiskey was discovered in a dusty old book in Llanelli in 2012. Businessman Mark Evans, 54, was researching his family history when he discovered the recipe in a book of herbal remedies. It was written in 1853 by his great-great grandmother who was called Daniels and was a local herbalist in Llanelli, South Wales

I think the thing about sandwiches is that US culture tends to present them as being a desirable food, with restaurant chains devoted to them, whereas in the UK they're usually seen as something you have quickly as an inferior option when you haven't got time for a full meal. I remember being very confused by Joey Tribbiani from "Friends" (as they mention here) having sandwiches as his favourite food. That's why I think the video maker sees sandwiches as something people associate with the US.

@terencehill1971

Жыл бұрын

FYI a quarter mile from the small town of Sandwich is a village called Ham. Tourists find the roadsign hilarious.

You're thinking of An idiot abroad with Karl Pilkington, which btw you should definitely do more of! Also the Ricky Gervais Show :)

I think your thinking of an idiot abroad with Ricky Gervais, he send Karl pilkington around the world and it’s HILARIOUS! it would be amazing to see you react the the series

Very interesting.

Swan patented and demonstrated his lightbulb before Edison. (The first street in the world to be lit by electric lamps was Mosely Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, the city where Swan had demo'd the lightbulb (at the Lit & Phil). Swan sued Edison in the British courts, and won. Edison wanted to sue Swan in the US courts, but his lawyers talked him out of it, because they knew Swan could prove everything he was claiming, and that Edison would likely lose. So they merged, and became the Edison and Swan Electric Company in the UK.

in 1924, when a Gettysburg Times advertisement promoted “New Lestz Suits that are as American as apple pie.” Meanwhile, a 1928 New York Times article used the phrase to describe the homemaking abilities of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover: “as American as apple pie or corn pone.”

The US has remade many UK sitcoms. Sandford & Son, Veep, Dear John, Three's Company, The Ropers, Ghosts, You Again, Call Me Kat, etc. All remakes.

There's a hospital near Guildford which is was opened to treat badly injured soldiers, airmen etc. from WW11. Years ago a friend of mine was treated there for a malformed hand. I visited her and the place was like a prefabricated building with pictures of old aircrafts around the walls - not like a hospital. More recently another friend had breast cancer &, when she & I were hearing her results, I remembered the hospital & asked her doctor if it still existed. It did and her doctor made sure she had her surgery there. I went to visit her and the place was exactly the same. Same pictures, everything (& it has a lovely vibe). She went in with a great figure, came out with a great figure but a flatter tummy because the surgeon made a new breast from her tummy fat. I think this is the place where the surgeon mentioned in the video possibly did his work.

Hi Steve just heard of My County Ti's of Thee for the first and it blew my mind to now God save our King.

Something to be proud of right there.

Morning.

@atorthefightingeagle9813

Жыл бұрын

Evening. (From Australia)

I have had the conversation re apple pie with Americans and so many find that one hard to swallow (pun intended).:) I knew the big one would be your anthem. I was smiling when you were trying to guess and thought that would be the biggest shock. It usually is when I tell someone from the US.

I think the person that created the scoring system for baseball was actually an English immigrant in America and developed the score cards from cricket score cards.

Stolen is note quite the right description, I feel it should be originated. Rounders was played in school years ago that is very similar to baseball

Another musical note, the American song My Country Tis Of Thee is sung to the tune of the older God Save The Queen.

I think you're thinking of An Idiot Abroad with Ricky Gervais. He sets up the trip and Karl Pilkington is the one who travels the world.

A few years back Major League Baseball (MLB) sponsored a program which sought to trace the origins of baseball. The producers went to the UK and filmed Cricket matches and "Rounders". But they finally hit the mother lode when a woman later produced a diary by an ancestor in which, in the 18th century, he wrote about going to the Sunday "Baseball" game. This the MLB states is the earliest documented mention of baseball.

Fry's Chocolate Cream is a bit like After Eights idk if America has those I think you can get mint ones, it really is the og chocolate bar

Great Channel and great reactions which proved that we are basically one and the same culturally. Maybe Jordan Peterson is correct when he states Canada and the USA are extensions of the British culture - He meant that in a good way to our friends across the pond. - Its food for thought :)

Edison was notorious for patenting his employee's inventions under his own name so it's dubious that he invented much at all since we don't know what he did and what his employees did.

Funny thing tho. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent the telephone first. It was an American guy by accident in the middle America somewhere. Although he died before he could patten it. It was then reinvented in England by Bell. [fry_2022]

I'd like to see you react to rugby. I know you have it in America but it isn't as big and it is big around the world and was invented in England so i'd love you to react to it's biggest hits and best tris videos

we called baseball 'Rounders' when I was at school.

The travel show was Ricky Gervais sending his friend Karl Pilkington around the world in a show called An Idiot Abroad. You should react to it

Ricky Gervais ( pronounced jer- vase) Golden Globes 2020 is a good watch...

He hosted the Golden Globe Awards and ripped into every A list celebrity there.

@fayesouthall6604

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A genius

Your 'most used hymn' is also British - Amazing Grace!!

The light bulb was 1st patented in canada in 1880's . Edison bought it off them for $5000 canadian.

Try apple crumble... even better. With cream, ice cream or custard. Its all good.

I'd add the coffee house too.

The title should be taken light heartedly, of course these things were invented or originated in the UK. It makes sense as the UK is so much older. The reason videos like this are made is because the Americans always presume that everything's American, maybe its because you aren't ever told otherwise. I hope you get this because to us it's like saying to an American that we were first on the moon. 👍😁😁🎄☃️

I don't know how much you know about baseball but I think it would be a good reaction is you watched videos on how to play cricket and rounders. I assume you've never even heard of rounders haha. There's plenty of videos on KZread but I don't know which one is best so take your pick.

@Sharon-bo2se

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Baseball played in Canada a year before Abner Doubleday.

@gallowglass2630

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They are two types of rounders though ,irish and english and there very different a bit like rugby league and rugby union.He is better off with cricket there is only one cricket

The first international cricket match was the USA versus Canada. The tune of the Australian National is the same as a very rude Danish drinking song.

Original yeah , stolen ? These things are full all to share 😂 Enjoy watching your channel 😊

Gloucester (Gloster) is my home city. Makes me wonder if whoever put forward the tune for your anthem was secretly a British sympathiser who was making fun of you. Because they must have known it was a drinking song tune. That would make for one hell of a pub story. "So that's how I got the newly fledged nation to appoint a pub drinking song their new anthem music! and pay me for it too! 🤣" Every Brit at the time who heard your new anthem would probably have laughed and heard the words to the drinking song in his head while Americans were stood proud hand on heart with a tear rolling down one proud cheek.

I've heard some people say Eggnog was invented in America but it was invented in East Anglia England

@marydavis5234

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The eggnog from England is a hot drink with rum and the eggnog in the US is a cold drink.

Hi Steve , could you react to the sainsburys Advert 1914 Christmas Truce , it's very good 🙂👍.

@reactingtomyroots

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I'll bookmark it and try to check it out soon. It looks short, but the thumbnail looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.

Archibald McIndoe a cousin of Harold Gillies, pioneered a lot of techniques for burns victims, during WWII for RAF aircrew, they became known as the Guinea pig club. So bothe surgeons were actually Kiwis not British.

I’ve never watched The Office either!

The British game that Baseball evolved from is Rounders.

The computer mouse, computer color screen and computerized flight control systems (as introduced in the 70's) were all stolen from the same Swedish inventor way back when - they got nabbed by US military, who refused to pay heed to the patents, then they handed them to US manufacturers to use. There's a documentary about the guy they ripped off and his struggle to get acknowledgement for it.

Mmm apple pie is the shit tbf with a little custard, do you guys get apple crumbles too? Those are probably a little nicer. Same thing but crumbily pastry on top that just falls apart n is really crunchy

The words for Star Spangled Banner was written on the deck of a Royal Naval Warship.

That one genuine Edison invention Steven Fry is referring to is the word 'Hello' used as a greeting. Before Edison started using it that way and it caught on, 'Hello' was simply an expression of surprise (like being surprised by something and saying 'Hello' what's this?) and not used as a greeting. NB. Hello, not Hallo, say that and you mark yourself out as Eurotrash and not a native speaker, no matter how clean your accent.

Ricky Gervais hosted the golden globe awards and called hollywood out to their face - brilliant ! Have a look at the English lesson with him and Karl Pilkington - it is hilarious. Another of his creations is a series called afterlife !! - do yourself a favour and watch it ! When I found it, I binge watched the whole first series in a session ?? Terriffic series !

Ricky Gervais, An Idiot Abroad. featured Karl Pilkington

Ricky Gervais didn't do the travelling in "An Idiot Abroad" that was Karl Pilkington.

Ah - Heshey's - vomit flavoured chocolate... (honestly, it's true - the "Hershey process" produces butyric acid - the chemical that gives dried parmesan and vomit their taste and smell...).

They missed the computer! Poor old colossus

The earl of sandwich was the 1st person to publicly put meat between 2 slices of bread.

and Basketball began in CANADA, and the Trivia Pursuit game.

Edison was a huge thief of inventions, and this actually got him into a bit of trouble, when Joseph Swan found out. Swan not being the best businessman (and being aware of that fact) however decided to take advantage of the situation and forced Edison into a partnership where Edison could take on the Business side that Swan was not inclined too. This all leads to the name of the company, The Edison and SWAN electric light company, or ediswan for short.

Number 1: the moving tail plane that America basically stole to break the sound barrier for the first time!