The more I listen to Victoria the more absolutely delightful I find her to be.

@HarringtonsApocy

2 ай бұрын

Victoria be like “i hate seeing women who look better then me” and “Britain aught to be the standard for tea, despite our tea being the weird and minority variety”

@TheTralfaz

2 ай бұрын

Ill watch anything she appears in,,,,shes stunning

Victoria was absolutely robbed in the first two rounds.

Finally a show that can harness the power of British moaning.

@Shilo-fc3xm

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha...You got to be an Aussie. lol

@JasperJanssen

4 жыл бұрын

Finally, she says about season 13.

@John.S92

3 жыл бұрын

I do find this show quite entertaining and good to call out on idiotic things/practices/misc. other things, as well, the more I watch british shows the more I realize how similar Swedes are to the Brits, moaning about everyday things, queuing, moaning ABOUT queuing and a fair bit other practices

@Widdekuu91

2 жыл бұрын

@@John.S92 There's a video about the Dutch ("#8 - How to survive the Dutch weather") and that features our famous complaining as well. You fight struggles in life, you fail, you sit down for a bit. Then you complain until you've said everything a few times and there's nothing else left to do. Then you get up again, you fight the struggles, you fail, you sit down and complain, et cetera.

@royfr8136

Жыл бұрын

It's been going since the 1990s or early 2000s

Victoria and David really are kindred spirits. You can tell that even though it doesn't matter AT ALL, it kind of bothers her that she didn't 'win'.

28:40 "I will say this for you; you are a man with a really unusual frame of reference" said Victoria Coren, and went on to marry David Mitchell.

I could listen to Terry Wogan speak for hours. Legend.

@limericklad2000

2 жыл бұрын

He was in my dad's class at school in Limerick.

@chenzenzo

Жыл бұрын

Top chap.

RIP Sir Terry

@scottcopeland2590

8 жыл бұрын

....ok?

@RuudJH

7 жыл бұрын

I find myself zapping past his bits in the clip, because he's just intolerably boring in presentation.

Frank was such a beast against Victoria it was awesome and a bit tough

The tea of which she speaks and to which most of the UK is accustomed, is in fact the lowest grade of tea. It is a non-specific blend of black teas that once upon a time were sacked up in burlap and used as ballast for clipper ships returning to England from the subcontinent. During that 11-13 month long journey, the teas absorbed the vapors and flavors of the creosote used to waterproof the oak timbers of the hull. Nowadays, the tea, still a blend of various teas, is aged in creosote-lined oaken barrels for months until they take on the desired strength of flavor. Open a can of fresh EBT tea and take a deep whiff. You'll easily detect the pine & creosote scents.

Thanks for putting these up! It is most appreciated!!

Also I think David Mitchell was right in feeling she was his perfect mate, because Victoria is the female David Mitchell! lol

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

3 жыл бұрын

likes don't attract, everyone knows that. Competition is too great. But they might be different enough to make it work.

In the US, the tip is never included on the bill unless the menu specifically says that a gratuity will be applied for parties of a certain size or larger (usually five or six). Also, American employers have been screwing their employees over on wages and tips for so long that waiters and waitresses just can't survive without the 15% tip. But I've never been chased down the road for a tip; that's not typical of US restaurants.

@matthewcullen1298

10 ай бұрын

In Australia most of the time we don't tip. Companies have to pay their waiters /waitresses a decent salary. The average salary in my city is $31/hour.

Phil was the best at persuading Frank, although Victoria did the best job of persuading the audience and the other guests. Terry was a pleasure to listen to.

Ah, Victoria Coren Mitchell! She always brights up my screen!

@user-bs4jn6444

2 ай бұрын

She is very pretentious...and bit sarky Not as nice as David is.

@Widdekuu91

Ай бұрын

Troll alert

The great Terry Wogan love that dude

Love Tel's slant on Language! Plus his "racing snake" figure! Memories of his breakfast show. What a laugh he had!! Enough to crack you up even if you were feeling 100% rotten

Totally with Victoria on the tea front. Also think that anyone in a restaurant who brings me a cup of warm water and a tea bag in a paper envelope on the side should be sent off to an island somewhere to learn what tea is about. That's not tea.

@helvete983

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, and anyone who brings me a frigging envelope and it's a fruit tea should be let off the boat halfway to the island.

@john.premose

Жыл бұрын

So you're a tea Nazi just like her. You should be so proud of yourself for your violent rhetoric. To think that the British think they're better than the Germans with rhetoric like this smh. Unsurprising that Germany learned most of its tactics from you lot

Oh, those poor rowers make me so sad even now!

Richard Wagners operas! Brilliant.

Sir Terry is right about those damned sports broadcasters. We have the same problem here in Norway. It's horrible to watch.

That Windows bit was so clever! Since he's a massive Fornby fan every would think he would sing when I'm cleaning windows.

@PopeSalty1

9 жыл бұрын

krombee I think that was the whole point of the joke, or at least the bait that created the setup for it. I'm an American who had never heard that song until a couple of years ago, and even I was waiting for Frank Skinner to break into "...Windows". It was impossibly clever, luring us all in like that, just to blindside us with a completely different punchline. I don't know if. Skinner wrote that bit, or if it was written for him, but whoever's idea it was, it was damn clever.

@Widdekuu91

6 жыл бұрын

+Krombee I expected 'How much is that doggy in the window.'

@asterix7842

3 жыл бұрын

As a MAC user, it took me a few seconds to get the joke.

R.I.P. Terry

On the tipping thing, simply just respond "oh sorry, but it wasn't included in the bill and I don't like to tip", and continue walking. I mean, if it ISN'T on the bill it is not mandatory thus not a charge for something thus it is optional, thus if you don't feel like tipping it's - Optional!.

I'm completely on Victoria's side. When I say tea I expect the run-of-the-mill, Tetley/PG tips tea. If I ask for Fish and Chips I don't have to ask for vintage English dinner fish a chips I just expect battered cod and chips.

@DanGolag

8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Morris If you go to a place that serves more than just cod, would you be offended if they asked you which of the types of fish they serve you prefer? Because that's the insanity Victoria is preaching here.

Had to pause at 05:15 and LOL at the little Merv Hughes effigy they made for Phil Tufnell. Those were the days when you could have a beer gut and still be selected for the national squad. Bit rough on Phil though, I remember him as a pretty good spin bowler. Fielding was a bit poor, though if anyone can tell me which game it was where he took a brilliant (I think it was an outfield but I keep seeing the Glenn McGrath one in my head) catch that's be nice.

Victoria knows that they didn't make an original blend of tea...

The moment when he breaks the bottle made me laugh a lot

AQI (Australian Question Intonation)was put into room one 101 by Stephen Fry when the show was only for one person.

I love this show

I understand this is an old recording, but Vicky's rant on English Tea is timely in as much as Today (5/24) is International Tea Day.

Everything terry wogan says is gold. Example 18:45

A great lineup.

that woman news reader was wrong to tell him to take his glasses off, Im all for manners and stuff but these people think they can just go ahead and tell them

Stephen Fry put sentences that go up at the end in Room 101 about 25 years ago. Righfully so.

@NonNewtonianAnything

6 жыл бұрын

Like, whatever! ;)

Tips MUST be voluntary! It is how the customer should show appreciation for good service. Compulsory tips destroy the purpose of the tip AND pretty much guarantee that I will not return!

@helvete983

Жыл бұрын

Tipping is solely the fault of the Americans who won't pay their people a living wage.

Is room 101 from 1984...it rings a bell

The nerve of Frank referring to Wogan as a national treasure.

@andrewhyogo

4 жыл бұрын

Why?

... he has the portable changing room tent upside down.

I am a Norwegian and have never heard about dipping the chips in vinegar, but it sounds good so i must try it :)

@elisabethtveitalea3414

7 жыл бұрын

Petter Eliseussen Heisann, fellow Norwegian here :)

@chenzenzo

Жыл бұрын

Tried it yet?

@HrRezpatex

Жыл бұрын

@@chenzenzo no, but i mention this to a friend, and then he showed me a traditional Norwegian dish (i don`t know the English word for it) that was very good when we dipped it in vinegar. 🙂

She was a little off with the whole tea thing. British or England tea is really different from normal tea. Normal tea being the tea consumed in Asia where it originated in southern western China and introduced into britian in the 16th century, this tea is usually not consumed with milk and was used as a medicine.

@elisabethtveitalea3414

7 жыл бұрын

Anthony Bartlett-Fletcher Well, yes, but in England (which is where they are talking about) it is the normal sort of tea, and so it does not need to be specified.

Aaaaah Terry!! Heartbreaking.

Oh my god. I'm American. You do not leave a restaurant without tipping. I don't think many people know this, but a lot of wait staff are paid below minimum wage due to laws in some places and rely on the tips. It's expected here. I remember in Japan you don't tip and my sister and I got up to leave and I was so paranoid about not leaving a tip. She assured me you don't leave tips in Japan. It's so ingrained in us to leave tips here. just FYI. People who are small tippers are considered assholes.

@murpho999

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you should look at the laws and systems. It’s not as if America is cheap. Employers should be paying for staff not customers.

I like tipping though, because it leaves you the option not to leave a tip if you're unhappy with the service. I particularly love it if they've ignored you for the entirety of your stay, you had to snap your fingers like a dickhead to get them to serve you, and then in the end, you ask for the bill and you pay the exact amount by card. They look at you with big expectant eyes like "aren't you forgetting something?". No mate, if you want to earn something extra, you got to at least acknowledge my existence, and remember my order properly. And if they've treated you particularly well you can then show your appreciation with a very generous tip as well. You can't do that in a shop when they've taken you around to help you find the exact thing you need, so you just give this awkard thanks, and pay the 2 pound 40 or whayever it is. And if it's a small shop do your best to find something else to buy just to not feel like they've wasted half their day just to help you find a notebook with a picture of a mancoon kitten on it or something frivolous like that.

Thanks so much for all of your uploads

I think Victoria is a world treasure.

Thanks for the upload!

I can see why David Mitchell married Victoria, two brainiacs.

@chrisworth2102

7 жыл бұрын

Not hard to look at either.

@emmams5

7 жыл бұрын

chris worth I agree, used to watch her a few years ago on the TV playing Texas Holdem, damn fine poker player as well.

@chrisworth2102

7 жыл бұрын

emmams5 Total package.

@gudfella1034

7 жыл бұрын

and bigtits.

@mollymurphy999

7 жыл бұрын

emmams5 did e, fair doos ya would though wouldn't ya.

The Tea-Tanic really annoys me because it's sinking the wrong way.

@Shilo-fc3xm

5 жыл бұрын

No. COrrectly, it went down by the stern. What should have annoyed you was two stacks instead of three.

Most of the time, but it is really so inconvenient for her to specify. Variety makes everyone happy.

A good one! Some of my pet hates in there. Would have gone with Mr Wogan's foods good or bad for you. Researchers can manufacture the result they want.

I think there is a difference in the tipping culture of America vs. that of Britain. Tipping is a major way most servers make their money in America (especially in places where employers can pay them less than minimum wage because their tips make up for it). I studied abroad in Britain for a few months and I remember thinking that you only tipped if the service was outstanding, not because it was necessary. But, Room 101 is a British show, so who cares what the US' tipping culture is? :)

@chenzenzo

3 жыл бұрын

I'm American and it would be far better if our food service workers made enough to live on without having to rely on tips.

Clearly it isn't, as Wogan points out. There are lots of places in the UK where, if you ask simply for "tea", you're quite likely to get Earl Grey (or other blends, like Irish Breakfast). And even Lapsang Souchong would be 100% correct, because you asked for tea and got tea (chamomile "tea" is more arguable, since it usually contains no actual tea). Specific blends have names for a reason. Victoria just wanted to rant against Starbucks, and tried to use tea leaves (bags?) as camouflage.

Some people also simply don't care to the degree of avid drinkers and won't distinguish between tea variants. For example many people just go order a flat white coffee and rarely ask for medium roast, single origin beans or anything like that. They just want a coffee.

I hate a rising inflection. I'm Australian, 'tis not a thing we have in majority.

@Anonymous-or4ru

7 жыл бұрын

Hello darlin. Have you got a ginger tuppence?

Phil doesn't understand the situation with wait staff in the US: they're on (less than) minimum wage ... the tips can make the difference between starving a few days that month or not.

@john.premose

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but this idea that people will chase you down the street to get a tip is such nonsense

@luminousfractal420

Ай бұрын

the point is we dont feel thats acceptable in the uk

@DavidAndrewsPEC

Ай бұрын

@@luminousfractal420 Indeed. But the topic was about in the US. Here in Finland, your tip is in the price of the meal. The whole thing of insisting that wait-staff live of tips is something that we in Finland find abhorrant.

George Best sounded rather posh there

As a lesbian, I find public dressingrooms uncomfortable, because I get the feeling people would think I'm taking advantage of the situation, I guess? It's not a sexy environment, but I'm afraid I see something I like by accident... I don't have the issue with relatives and people who know I'm gay, I'm Finnish so all the family goes to sauna together and nudity isn't necessarily considered sexual, but I can't help to think I'm taking advantage of the situation in a public dressingroom/sauna.

Rising inflection is an implied question, the question being 'are you with me?'

@floris.927

3 жыл бұрын

Well ... in this case grammatical inversion is an implied question. However there are those who use rising inflection in statements.

English breakfast tea is like Madagascan vanilla ice cream 95 percent of vanilla is farmed in Madagascar

Good onya Victoria. No wonder David loves her. She's great. Im Australian and we are proper coffee drinkers, proper coffee bought with passion and love with our greek and Italian Australians. Not this corporate shite but i too love a normal cup of tea with a teaspoon of sugar

haha when i heard the windows sound, i thought my computer was going to shut down.

anyone who is agains tipping has never worked their asses off for 3 bucks an hour with a student loan crushing your spirit and the landlord just raised your rent

@alexanderbrown8921

7 жыл бұрын

I'm against the concept itself, rather than the practice as a necessity. Obviously if I'm in America I'd tip. Not tipping there is the lowest form of villainy. But the ideal situation for everyone involved (except the employers, I guess), would be for an employee's wages not to rely on the goodwill of their customers.

@eldricgrubbidge6465

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I completely disagree with you. People should be paid a living wage. If you're running a restaurant you pay the waiters properly for their work. You don't oblige the patrons to pay them! I'll pay for my meal, and the owner can pay the people who are involved in cooking and serving it out of the money he makes. That's how a business is supposed to work. If I'm in a country where business owners are allowed to horribly exploit their employees, then I'll tip because you kind of have to. Anywhere else I'll tip when I get particularly good service.

@sooof1839

6 жыл бұрын

ofcourse but thats why the restaurant industry is so crooked, in any industry you pay the company and the company pays their employees, but not in this industry. And of course it be nice if it changed but by making me starve nothing is gonna change so you might as well tip. My motto is, if you can pay for 50 bucks in one meal, you can pay 5 bucks for the waitress (who has to share it with the other waiters and the busboy and the kitchen and the bartender).

@Widdekuu91

6 жыл бұрын

+soooof In the Netherlands, we never tip, unless it's a great restaurant and usually it's one tenth of the price or less. Tipping is not common, because we know the people get properly paid.

@misformargaret4028

5 жыл бұрын

@Widdekuu91 Never? Really? How about cab drivers? Plumbers? Tour guides?

Good to see that Terry Wogan`s stopped dressing like it`s the 1970s, oh hang on...!

I think it's worse than that. She is denying that any other tea brews are acceptable to drink/count as tea so that when she asks for "tea" she wants there to be only one possible beverage that she can be brought.

@john.premose

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. She's some kind of tra monster

@RFC3514 It kind of makes sense. She's just saying that should be the default and you shouldn't need to specify unless you want something else, THEN you should describe it.

OH MY GOD A WINDOWS MEME

One of the categories is added in extended version, but never the last one. I think in this one it was 'Language'.

Last 10 seconds of the video though..

Victoria would hate the German attitude towards nudity then xD

There are several blends of black tea, though. English Breakfast is just one of them. Maybe she thinks "English Breakfast Tea" is a generic (and therefore somewhat redundant) term for any black tea blend, but it isn't. I could totally understand her point if she was distinguishing tea from a tisane (herbal infusion), that has no actual tea in it, but if you ask for "tea" and get Earl Grey or even a white Darjeeling, you are getting tea, so it makes perfect sense to name the blend you want.

I agree with another commenter about Victoria's complaint about nudity in changing rooms. It's like complaining about a smell in public toilets. It's unpleasant, but it's almost unavoidable, and this is the place specifically created for keeping such an unpleasant necessity semi-private. So complaining that there ought to be a way to avoid it *in the place* created to contain it is missing the point.

I love Victoria’s unabashed gaslighting about her colonialism 😂

People who think that eggs aren't good for you must have stopped reading things in the early 90s.

If people didnt buy starbucks, they wouldnt be in business

Wasn't Stephen Fry on an old Room 101 & he chose Phil's Language choice, which is known as 'Australian Question Intonation'?

Perhaps she is against the phrase "English breakfast tea" as opposed to "English breakfast" or "tea" in the sense that one could be against the phrase "Earl Gray Tea" instead of "Earl Gray" or "Tea". I certainly find the phrase "Earl Gray tea" redundant, because I'm not looking for Earl Gray or a Portait of Earl Gray: I'm obviously asking for tea in a restaurant. Though I suppose there is such a thing as a "Full English breakfast". I always received Twinings EB when when asking for tea in the UK

The chess set at 0:10 is set up wrong. The light square should be on the right side of each player's starting position, not the left.

Aw Terry Wogan clapping his feet

I don't want to hear David Mitchell say "Yes dear" ;O)

as an aussie, i don't think we've had inclines at the end of our sentences since the 80s. At least not in the cities.

For a person who lives where tipping is not "done" I hate going (to England) and have to tip. The server should get paid by his boss where he works... and I pay the bill for what I buy. Not being able to open the windows... is awful. I spent 10 days in a hotel in London, where there was no way to open the windows and got sick!

Oh right, thanks.

The thing Brits don't get about tipping in America is that the minimum wage for servers is lower than for other jobs- as in $2-3 an hour. They're supposed to make up the rest in tips. If they don't meet minimum wage with tips the employer is supposed to pay them the difference but in practice that seems to vary. That's why it's expected.

Why would anyone with self-respect and who enjoys good quality music go to a take that "gig"?

Tufnell's sentence ending is another one I hate, although the use of the word 'like' is now more hated.

Victoria Coren is class. Btw why has it become "Room 101 - Extra Storage"? What was wrong with plain old "Room 101"?

@simpsondudes

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom George I assume it's "extra storage" because it's longer than the normal program. Similar to "QI XL" which are extended episodes of QI.

@chrismagnelli5693

6 жыл бұрын

The whole time I was expecting someone to make an argument against having a storage unit for all your extra crap that doesn't fit in your home.

The host very good

But in Britain tea means black tea.

Victoria and David Mitchell are truly perfect for each other.

@Widdekuu91

6 жыл бұрын

+Tec Hey! Another eye! With a yellow circle! It is yours? Mine is..well..mine :)

Phil must hate talking to Canadians then...

I'm sort of with the cricket guy about tipping. Before you all jump down my throat, hear me out! I used to work as a server, I know that servers rely on their tips for ...most of life. So I think you SHOULD tip. That being said, if you get shitty service, no you shouldn't tip. The tip is also a reward for a job well done. Don't do your job? You still get your wage, you just don't get tipped. And chasing someone down the street and frog marching them back to tip you is just fucking RUDE. That is NOT customer service and you would have gotten a fist to the mouth for putting your hands on me. And you STILL wouldn't be getting a tip and I'd be telling all my friends to avoid your place of business like the plague!

What are the 'extra' parts?!

Hail asam!

The windows thing is to stop you doing a runner.

@AoifeL93

8 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Doggart But what's to stop you just doing a runner in the morning? Hotels don't make you clock in and out when you leave and arrive, you could very easily just walk out the front door before checkout rather than going through the window. As a matter of fact you're probably a lot more likely to be noticed climbing out a window rather than just walking calmly out through the lobby. Not to mention that most of these windows are significantly above ground level so you'd never do a runner out of one anyway. I totally agree with her on the window thing it's just plain stupid.

@badgersgetabadname

8 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Doggart Fire escapes work far better and usually open up into the car park.

you wouldn't need gratuities if the service industry paid a living wage. instead of pennies plus tips , It's the 21st Century, It's time for change, just Pay the Wait Staff a Living Wage and adjust your prices to fit. People will always need a restaurant. If they don't have to calculate a gratuity, they might just spend More.

I can see what David saw in her. And vice versa.

30:00 Covid

What's "English tea". I've never seen tea grown in England.

Someone wants to fix Victoria's hair. I'd like to fix her voice. Oi don't loike ?

@jonathanrice7272

8 жыл бұрын

+Neil Beever I swear she always has the same coloured nail varnish and never removes it. I have noticed on only connect and she always interlinks her fingers. It's annoying.

27:47~28:03 hey Tuffers, purely based on your batting and catching abilities, my bet would be you couldn't land a punch either.