Top 10 Things Only Brits Do and Think Its Normal kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJiks7Fme7e8gqg.html

@yannikoloff7659

9 ай бұрын

How about explaining isle of man, Guernsey and Jersey status. Then British Caribbean nations and Pitcairn

@the_full_english

8 ай бұрын

So you decided to use an actor from New Zealand as the thumbnail 🤦‍♂️

I won a years supply of Marmite in a competition once... One jar.

@probablygraham

2 жыл бұрын

Second prize was two jars 😁

@flokivilgerarson4500

Жыл бұрын

One jar would last a life time, since I wouldn't even open the stuff.

@alastairmonk6439

Жыл бұрын

And I bet it was one of the small jars ...

@jenniedarling3710

Жыл бұрын

More like two or three months supply for me.

@royfr8136

Жыл бұрын

Thast onen days

There was a British guy in college that used to make fun on my puertorrican English accent. In return I made fun of his up-arse British one... we became the best of friends making fun of everyone else.

@Thurgosh_OG

9 ай бұрын

That sums up how we Brits make friends. If we don't like you we pretend to be happy and civil around you. If do like we take the piss out of you for just about anything.

@CrispinBac0n

9 ай бұрын

The Puerto Rican has honorary British Passport

@dnmurphy48

8 ай бұрын

Proper British (and Australian) style humour.

@matthewhopkins666

8 ай бұрын

@@dnmurphy48 A lot of Americans I have met are thoroughly taken aback to learn how much we like to use blue language in the UK too. I used to live near several US air bases in England when I was younger and there was one local pub whose landlord we all called c*nty John because every second or third word from his mouth was the c word. The look on the faces of these blokes who just came over and got a weekend pass when they first tried striking up a conversation with c*nty John was priceless.

I'm an american but my Mother is English and I grew up on beans on toast and find it one of my go to comfort foods, especially with a bit of cheddar melted on it, but my wife looks at me like I'm from another planet when I make it and still hasn't tried it to this day.

@deanmullen1882

Жыл бұрын

Get rid she's not the one

@halfvolley11

Жыл бұрын

Why ? I thought all white people eat beans - at least its not sushi or dumpling !

@snowtfl5617

11 ай бұрын

A true Brit at heart don’t worry the homeland shall welcome you back whenever you want where sanity prevails 😂

@zmalevo2126

9 ай бұрын

Got a sudden craving now for baked beans on toast

@wessexdruid7598

9 ай бұрын

More for you.

An American tourist in London is asking for directions to the British Museum from a local, He doesn't understand the local and says, "Sorry, You just have a really strong accent." The local stares at the American with a smirk and says, "I speak perfect English Mate, You're the one with a funny accent."

@ayrshireman1314

2 жыл бұрын

As Jimmy Carr says, 'I dont have an accent, this is what English sounds when spoken properly'.

@danielwaugh2215

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayrshireman1314 And probably keep arguing over who speaks with a real accent

@mangot589

2 жыл бұрын

I swear, I was just thinking about this a couple days ago. To US, we’re perfectly understandable, and how can OUR accent be incomprehensible 😂. We don’t have one!🙈 I’d go live there in one, hot second.

@flashrobbie

2 жыл бұрын

like a native

@eugenegilleno9344

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayrshireman1314 ......when spoken correctly ! 😜.....and we always correct bad grammar. 🥴

"Is Britain metric or imperial?" Answer: yes

@Trebor74

2 жыл бұрын

We're intelligent enough to use both

@kyuss1984

2 жыл бұрын

The only country where you ask for 3 meters of inch and a quarter pipe.

@ya33a

Жыл бұрын

@@kyuss1984 Ummm no we still have BSP plumbing fittings in Australia, as standard here, 3/8" copper to 2", including PVC up to 4"...all the fittings going back to pre 1972 fit still....Australia makes the UK look well sorted. I have a 1/4" drive metric socket set...brand new..2022... we went decimal currency in 1966 and metric in 1972 to '74... and still can't get it straight...as our PVC rain pipe comes in 6.0M lengths of 3 1/4"... and 6" sewer pipe...hummmm...

@airvicemarshalsirgeorgemas2083

Жыл бұрын

@@kyuss1984 and fuel consumption in miles per litre

@brigidsingleton1596

9 ай бұрын

I still understand the Imperial system better than the Metric system but then, I am 70 now and never tried wholeheartedly to immerse myself in the "new-fangled" ways which my children all learned !! I still use acres over hectares, feet and inches over metres and hands (to measure horses and ponies) instead of...whatever they are measured in these days !! 🐴🐴🐴❤ I don't drive so seldom gave cause to consider mile's over kilometres, but I still regard 1 AU* as 93 million miles (*astronomical unit - the distance from the Earth to the Sun) instead of however many kilometres it is. I would (if I had bathroom scakes) weigh myself in stones and pounds and bake (if I had an oven) using pounds and ounces to weigh ingredients but then, I am a stubborn old lady and loath to change if / as I have no need to !! 😊❤❤🖖LLAP🖖PALL🖖❤️

Regarding bathroom taps - when I was young in the 1960s you were expected to put the plug in and fill the basin with water from both taps before washing your hands. Washing your hands under running water would have seemed very wasteful of the hot water.

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

& how much water dies it take to fill the basin, so you'd likely use more? I used to do this to as a kid, because the hit water was to hot, so to get warm water

@MrMann0123

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 much smaller basins

@stewedfishproductions7959

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 - You don't need to 'fill' the sink... DUH !

@anastasia10017

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 don't be ridiculous. you dont fill the sink.

@thepagecollective

Жыл бұрын

Can we talk about when the English started using the word "bathroom" because if it's for the American market, I feel like they are condescending to me.

You forgot to mention we British drive on the correct 'left' side of the road, proven by historical facts and logic. The majority of the world adopted the wrong side.

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, since driving originated in Rome, on horse & carriage, then the car came via Germany, the right side was the original side. So actually it's the UK that's wrong, & it's just that must of the commonwealth had to comply with them so that's why they drive on the left. Don't get me wrong, I prefer sitting on the right side of the car because I'd prefer to change gear with my left hand, but it's not the original, & there is no correct side, they're just different, that's like arguing being over/underweight is better, a man or woman whatever...

@johnbaird4912

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 Actually you are wrong must countries traveled on the left before changing

@trancehi

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 Sorry my friend, driving on the left is historically correct. It dates back to Knights on horseback. They hold the horses reigns with their weakest left hand and hold their lance or sword in their strongest right hand facing their opponent and vice-versa. It's also applicable to Centurions on foot in battle where they hold their dagger, flail, sword and shield accordingly while approaching from the left. The Egyptians also drove their carts on the left proven by deeper ruts leaving quarries on the right.

@SW-fn7cl

2 жыл бұрын

@@trancehi that is some interesting shit

@kooler8586

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 your wrong the car that has 3 pedals clutch brack accelerator was invented in England and still used to this day but your right about the 1st was combustible engine car came from Germany

My mother loves beans. Watching BBC America she was so happy seeing Brits eat beans with breakfast that it is at least one Saturday a month now. (She would do it everyday but my father and I do have some limits.) And now you made me want a nice cup of tea. Thank you very much.

@axelhopfinger533

Жыл бұрын

Your mom must be a pretty gassy gal.

@totallybored5526

9 ай бұрын

Has she discovered beans on toast yet?

The key with Marmite is to spread it verrrrry thinly until you know how much you like and remember that it is a salty savoury spread. Do not start by slathering it on like Nutella! (or filling bath tubs with it).

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

The key with Marmite is to throw it in the bin and never open the jar

@stewedfishproductions7959

2 жыл бұрын

Never has the expression 'Less is More' been so applicable !

@SW-fn7cl

2 жыл бұрын

You don't dip your finger in the jar and eat it when you're waiting for the toast?

@stewedfishproductions7959

2 жыл бұрын

@@SW-fn7cl - I bloody do - LOL !

@smithy280663

2 жыл бұрын

@@JF1908x as with Vegemite...........horrible stuff

I'm from New Zealand - love marmite - we've had it on the shelves here since 1910, and yes, vegemite isn't even in the same category! We still have separate taps for hot and cold water too. Cup of tea here is also the same. I think we must have been heavily influenced in the early days.

@bugsygoo

9 ай бұрын

That is why we didn't let you join Australia in 1901!

@fasteddie406

9 ай бұрын

Always look at NZ as upside down UK..

@martinemartin4779

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂@@bugsygoo

@ekspatriat

9 ай бұрын

I'm a Pom in NZ and NZ Marmite is nothing like as good. Lucky I can get the real stuff here though.

@AlmostEthical

9 ай бұрын

Aussie here. I find Promite nicer than both Vegemite and Marmite.

The reason we can’t get totally to grips with the metric system for temperature is because the weather forecast uses both systems, metric Celsius for cold and imperial Fahrenheit for hot because it’s more dramatic that way.

@stanleybuchan4610

9 ай бұрын

Also in the aviation world, visibility is in metres and cloudbase is in feet.

@jimtaylor294

9 ай бұрын

Not quite. °F & °C were invented at about the same time (both in Europe) and separate to Imperial and Metric. Britain though invented two units of Temperature measure, °K (Kelvin) and °R (Rankine).

Years ago on a trip to the National Portrait Gallery, an old Swiss friend asked an attendant where the Way Out was. In response, he asked what made her think there was a way out.

@staceykeeley4219

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@fuzzblightyear145

Жыл бұрын

@@staceykeeley4219 Such a British response. It's like the apocryphal US tourist asking how old a building/museum is "Is it pre-war?" and being told "It's pre-American, sir"

@staceykeeley4219

Жыл бұрын

@@fuzzblightyear145 😂😂 Ah yes us Brits do laugh at others, but the difference is we laugh at ourselves first.

@davidching7260

8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Baked beans on toast with fish fingers, the ultimate British student fare! Surprisingly, in Malaysia we use marmite as a soup base or marinade, never spread on toast :)

@jasminghazali3848

9 ай бұрын

Marmite chicken!

@benjaminmajor5144

9 ай бұрын

try creamy mash and black pudding in a Yorkshire pudding with cheddar on top, you're welcome.

@benjaminmajor5144

9 ай бұрын

or bacon if you don't like black pudding

@kokliangchew3609

9 ай бұрын

@@benjaminmajor5144 Toad in the hole, and followed by Spotted Dick with custard :)

@dnmurphy48

8 ай бұрын

I can't stand marmite but have used it in soups and stews to enhance flavour.

Slightly wrong about hot water. When hot water came along the water tank heated by a coal fire or an electric immersion heater tank was mostly fed from a cold water storage tank in the attic and not by a direct line from the mains. This attic storage tank was not hermetic and so the water could be contaminated by all sorts of things from dust to insects to rats so drinking water from the hot tap was deemed unsafe. Hence two separate taps. This has largely been sorted out except in very old systems. Also the metric system was introduced in 1971, so no one under 50 would know the true imperial system, not 70. Tiny little errors like this are rather annoying.

@bogeyonanostrilhair9568

2 жыл бұрын

Here's a big error. Americans think that Native Americans are Native to America.

@awestruckbeaver3344

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't 1971 when they changed over the coins?

@serendipitylovejoy4724

Жыл бұрын

The metric system was officially introduced in 1965 so no one under the age 57 (in 2022) is unfamiliar with it. Decimalisation of the monetary system happened in 1971.

@awestruckbeaver3344

Жыл бұрын

@@serendipitylovejoy4724 thank you for clarifying that for me

@serendipitylovejoy4724

Жыл бұрын

You’re alright my lovely. X

Actually the Union Jack is a combination of England's Cross of Saint George, Scotland's Cross of Saint Andrew and Ireland"s (not Northern Ireland's) Cross of Saint Patrick. The Union Jack flag predates Northern Ireland.

@beccabbea2511

2 жыл бұрын

The cross of St. Patrick was taken from the coat of arms of the Fitzgerald clan or maybe it was the other way round 😉

@cymrulady1

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be pedantic, but the flag is only called the Union Jack when flown at sea. On land it's called the Union Flag. ❤️

@trevormj

2 жыл бұрын

The Union flag, as shown at the beginning and at the end, is being flown upside down - a distress signal.

@baby_joe

2 жыл бұрын

@@cymrulady1 no it isn't, this was changed in 1906

@kindnessfirst9670

Жыл бұрын

@@cymrulady1 That was a belief prior to being disproven in 2013.

Sarcasm and being blatantly rude to show love, are my favourite UK imports. Although I dare say we South Africans have perfected the art.🤪🇿🇦

@HShango

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, I do tend to be sarcastic 😅

@justonecornetto80

2 жыл бұрын

Sarcasm sits next to our nuclear warheads in being the UK 's most potent weapon.

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

So we created it and you perfected it? Keep dreaming.

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

No, you knob, they are still the original & best (hp, unintended, but I'll take it). I live watching comedy on BBC, pretty we don't get all the stuff, but can find it here. I feel that's a bit of an issue though, because I do like calling people horrible names, but it's too people I like, but I think they think I'm being mean so can't do it so often

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

@@JF1908x the originators aren't always the best, as claimed, tea is such a British thing, uhhh is check in with the Chinese in that

When I was living in the US, I had flatmates that loved to watch UK programmes and I'd be asked to translate occasonally (I knew to come in when I'd hear them watch the same section a couple times). It was fun. The hot tap being unsafe was true in our house when we moved in - my Dad found a dead pigeon in the hot water tank (he promply put the cover on (which was leaning on the tank)) It took years before I'd actually use the hot water for scalding out a mug or teapot. About tea - My friends and family in the States really don't understand dunking biscuits. I've tried to explain, but they just look at me as if I've got 3 heads. I feel sorry for them, really.

@JediBuddhist

9 ай бұрын

Pidgeon Funfact #11. Snap! :)

@themanwithnoname3636

9 ай бұрын

Dunking biscuits has evolved so much in my lifetime. It was amazing even as a child with the old school type biscuits. Now though there's so many biscuits that are basically designed for Dunking and out of this world. They really are missing out.

@jimtaylor294

9 ай бұрын

Upstairs taps were also a no drinking zone in the old days because cold water also went through a tank in the loft. The latter is still a thing in many US homes (such as in New York), and it's lousy there too.

@vancityplantie5752

6 ай бұрын

I have a British aunt who says biscuit dunking is low brow and unacceptable, lol

@JediBuddhist

6 ай бұрын

@@vancityplantie5752 Yes absolutely ... for anyone between the ages of 6 and 60 for sure. Unless you go hide in the bog and knock a cheeky one out :-)

I was born in the '50s and live in Singapore and my family still must have a cuppa every afternoon at 4 pm! My parents came from Borneo and learnt English from teachers from the UK. They also picked up some English habits along the way which have been passed down. English marmalade on toast is my fave (yay to M&S) but nope to Marmite LOL! So a lot of British habits and mannerisms are not foreign to me.

@themanwithnoname3636

9 ай бұрын

I can't stand marmalade but love marmite. I love everything orange or orange flavour. Weird.

@aldozilli1293

9 ай бұрын

A true Brit doesn't wait until 4pm for a cup of tea, it's drunk every half hour throughout the day 😅

@anitacher2412

9 ай бұрын

@@aldozilli1293 Sorry, I don't claim to be one 🤣

@inatwirlingram2540

8 ай бұрын

You're one of us 😉

Fun fact: it's only called a Union Jack if it's flying from one of HM's ships. Otherwise it should be called the Union Flag.

@ayrshireman1314

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, changed in 1908. You can call it the Union Jack.

@ianforder2886

2 жыл бұрын

here's another fun fact for you. a video telling us about British culture has more than half of the Union Jacks shown, upside-down!

@davidwebley6186

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianforder2886 The Union flag shown in the beginning of this video was upside down too but not the one later on.

@ianforder2886

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidwebley6186 yeah but there are the little flags that people are waving in 1 scene that are mostly upside down

@bogeyonanostrilhair9568

2 жыл бұрын

Fact is, American Natives are not Native to America.

Waterloo road school is a classic and brings back memories of when I was in secondary school.

Many in the USA are ‘Anglophiles’. We no doubt miss the finer points but enjoy what we view as the British sensibility. The phrase ‘our friends across the pond’ demonstrates our basic affinity.

@polkatronixx

9 ай бұрын

My experience as an American who has lived in the UK for 17 years is that American Anglophiles actually know very little of British culture at all - they tend to form a very distorted picture based on some television shows and bands they like (and maybe some books or magazines).

@jimtaylor294

9 ай бұрын

My experience as a Brit' is the outlook anglophiles in the US & Japan have of us in GB is highly flattering 😁👌 . Heck: even our detractors tend to inadvertently flatter us by pointing out that we play most villains on screen 😂 (it after all takes skill to look & sound devious)

@batgurrl

9 ай бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 not ALL are anglophiles, especially in the Deep South. Even anglophiles like myself can fine plenty to fault or dislike or ‘not get’ at all🥴

@dnmurphy48

8 ай бұрын

Its pretty much the same here. Most of us have a soft spot for the US. Many of us still have the sensibility to remember without your help we'd all be speaking german now.

@batgurrl

8 ай бұрын

@@dnmurphy48 thank you for saying that. I’m not supposed to say this, but in a way we are ‘your children’. In the media, the Brits are often enough referred to as ‘our friends across the pond’. England is considered to be our strongest political Ally. As a boomer, its hard not to remember the music connection- the 1960’s ‘British Invasion’ Beatles, Rolling Stones plus others. Leaders of both bands said American R&B and soul had a huge influence on THEM. Chuck Berry, etc. 2 way street

We have baked beans for breakfast, here at Liseli Lodge in Mongu (Zambia), along with Pork Sausage, fried eggs and toast.

@matt7775

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds nice.

@alungwilliams1

Жыл бұрын

just missing the black pudding and mushrooms for a full english

@nekroneko

Жыл бұрын

Probably a legacy of British colonialism.

The most uncomfortable thing that could happen going round to a friends house for the first time is their hot and cold taps being the wrong way round

Can we take a moment to appreciate being able to say the Welsh town name 😂 I wouldn’t know where to start

@1515327E

Жыл бұрын

He butchered it (that is an English verb meaning the narrator didn’t come close to pronouncing it even vaguely properly).

@altovisa5691

Жыл бұрын

@@1515327E troll alert!

@1515327E

9 ай бұрын

@@altovisa5691 Pointing out mispronunciation isn’t a case of intentionally posting an inflammatory remark to create hostility. The guy badly mispronounced LlanfairPG. God bless you.

@danielkerr4100

9 ай бұрын

He butchered the fucking shit out if it

@MissGroves

9 ай бұрын

We just call it Llanfair in the south XD

Love brittish food and im from sweden… Baked beans are amazing, on white bread..

In Australia, baked beans on toast is usually for breakfast but can be a lunch or dinner too. We also mix metric and imperial measurements. For example babies weights are in lbs.

@halfvolley11

Жыл бұрын

Funny Candians don't eat it that much.

@Mustard1987

Жыл бұрын

And yes... Vegemite is better 💪🏻

@bugsygoo

9 ай бұрын

My baby' s weight was in kilos. I don't know anything that still measured in pounds. But it's wrong to say that Vegemite is as good as Marmite because it's clearly better.

@johnnywarnerperfectroad66

9 ай бұрын

@Cathrinewilson....But you're just Brits with Barbecues , healthy tans and with an extra cricket gene ... So no surprise there 😂

@snaek29

9 ай бұрын

My weight on my birth card in Australia is in kilos... and I was born in 1977? But height is mostly referred to in feet for some unknown reason. Probably too much US television on our screens growing up.

Love Marmite in buttered noodles with mushrooms and garlic. Heinz Beans on toast is a treat. For my birthday, my friend bought me a case of Heinz Beans. I treat those beans like liquid gold. Love Eccles cake too. Oh, I am from the United States.

@serendipitylovejoy4724

Жыл бұрын

Eccles cakes are the bomb! You have good taste.

@Nettsinthewoods

9 ай бұрын

It’s a great addition to stews and for making vegetarian shepherds pie. Full of goodness - like you.

@inatwirlingram2540

8 ай бұрын

You are an Honery Brit! Come visit us and experience our sarcastic humour 😁

@minimanukuk

8 ай бұрын

Mate, get some Branston beans as soon as you get the chance.

I was buying fabric for a pattern from 1967 once and had to convert the amount of fabric into metres when buying it, and so converted the length of the zip into centimetres as well. I then found out zips were still in inches…

It’s weird how one of my classmates in Ireland constantly calls herself sarcastic yet she can’t catch on to deadpan sarcasm to save her life

Although Canadian born and bred I actually went to an English school in Saint Leonards-on-Sea , Sussex in the spring of 1966 for about 4 months . It was quite a puzzlement trying to understand the difference between public and private schools .

@matthewhopkins666

8 ай бұрын

The confusion goes back centuries right back to the establishment of schools. The first establishments called schools were not really what you would describe as school nowadays. It wasn't a place for general education, the earliest schools were run by the church and were really just places for Bible study and to learn Latin for trainee clergy. A more general education would be provided to those who could afford such luxuries by private tutors not schools. Later the church would establish schools to provide a basic general education and although these were fee paying schools they were open for anyone to enrol at regardless of their religious affiliation and became known as public schools because they were open to anyone. It wasn't until many many centuries later that any kind of school was opened to people to attend without fees and of course by then the name public school was well established for a fee paying school.

I think how we talk to each other, last night one of my mates rung up not spoke to him in ages. If anyone heard our 1h 35m conversation you'd of thought we hated each but but we're the best of friends.

If you teach a foreigner this stuff they'll u understand most of it in a week. My Mrs is from Lithuania and I taught her sarcasm and insulting banter immediately. She still won't entertain baked beans for some reason but eats smoked chicken stomachs. I guess you take the girl out of Lithuania, but you can't take the Lithuania out of the girl XD

@woolenthreads

Жыл бұрын

Not a fan of Beans whether it's the baked beans or the beans used for Chili Con Carne. I'm not a fan of putting grain or raisins in Stews and Curries either.

@probablygraham

Жыл бұрын

I just love the idea of teaching your wife insulting banter.😁 Could be that you've thrown a boomerang there!

@davidwave6902

Жыл бұрын

Many years ago young and socially awkward German lad got a job behind the bar of my local. He was rather confused with the banter of people insulting each other. After it was explained to him, his first attempt to fit in was made with a stranger he was serving. He leaned across and in his Middle German announced "excuse me Sir, but your wife is very ugly"

@probablygraham

Жыл бұрын

@@davidwave6902 - I love it. Brilliant.

@fuglbird

9 ай бұрын

@Halfdanr_H And you have expats who have lived on Costa del Sol for more than 15 years, who neither understand the culture nor the language.

Drinking tea (PG tips, 2 sugars with milk) while saluting the Union Jack! That is how I role!

@razzle1964

Жыл бұрын

'roll'

This made me even more excited for my trip to Manchester this fall!

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget your rain coat

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

@Stacey Raven they’re American, they need to remember what happens with the leaves on the trees

@amandadavies..

2 жыл бұрын

@Stacey Raven And don't say "y'all"

@kevinmorris173

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your trip i live in manchester🙂

@gilesgeddes8958

2 жыл бұрын

Greatest city in the world.

I love beans on toast!! Don't knock it till you try it!

@digitalclips

Жыл бұрын

As a Brit living in the USA, I now find Bush's Vegetarian Beans far better than the Heinze Baked Beans I grew up with. Bacon here is a whole other topic.

@annettewalter2273

9 ай бұрын

Especially with a poached egg on top.

I am British; love marmite, hate beans and tea, drink black coffee, had a white jewish Jamaican mum and a dark-skinned english dad, went to grammar school, lived in France then England, love accents and cultural diversity.

@moptopbaku6022

9 ай бұрын

You're not really British, are you?

@dnmurphy48

8 ай бұрын

Sounds wonderful

Like how Billy butcher is in the thumbnail cos the boys is trendy atm, while I’ll give em the props of character being British, Karl Urban the swell fella is a New Zealander

@majorchaos5000

2 ай бұрын

So is the actor for homelander

Our geography teacher explained other countries doing things differently very simply, "they're all just trying to show us that we're no longer in control". The smirk and tone of 'very thinly', veiled contempt though, those spoke volumes.😂

@vzwodb17

9 ай бұрын

Lol. Inferiority complex in action. America doesn’t care tbh

@COM70

9 ай бұрын

And now the UK is trying to do things differently to prove they are no longer under European control. Funny that 😂

I'm Canadian (albeit of mostly British ancestry) and I remember how my mother would occasionally make beans on toast as a lunch or dinner item. Sometimes I will throw chunks of toasted, buttered bread into chili to add a bit more flavour and interest.

@unusedsub3003

9 ай бұрын

That's disgusting!

@vegetableman3911

9 ай бұрын

@@unusedsub3003you’re disgusting

@daviddowsett1658

9 ай бұрын

@@unusedsub3003To right, what strange ideas these foreigners have, haha.

@pointysidedown

9 ай бұрын

Canadian too, I love beans for breakfast 😋

I'm a Canadian with an English Cockney father and a Newfoundland/Labrador mother with relatives smeared across the map all the way to California.I like to say I can understand just about any form of spoken English you can throw at me. That said, it still takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to get up to speed when I watch 'Coronation Street', even with subtitles.

@CMS-qo3wz

2 жыл бұрын

Your mother is a dog?

@RUSH2112RUSH

2 жыл бұрын

"Newfoundland/Labrador" possibly the two best dog breeds in the world.🙂

@halfvolley11

Жыл бұрын

@@RUSH2112RUSH hahaha

@janfairclough6982

9 ай бұрын

I knew there’d be the dog joke coming 😊

As a Kiwi... most of these make sense because you know we (New Zealand) are part of the Commonwealth

@inatwirlingram2540

8 ай бұрын

Yes part of the family 😊

Fantastic as always 👏 👌 👍

Love the sarcasm. Best ever.

One mistake. The Union Flag is only called the Union Jack when flown from a 'Jack' pole at the rear of a ship. A common error made by 90% of Brits.

@HShango

2 жыл бұрын

I must have missed that one out in history class back in the day

@carlchapman4053

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say the same thing so thank you.

@sparkythemagicpiano2867

2 жыл бұрын

Not any more, it was changed quite a while ago, the flag can be called either now

@PedroConejo1939

2 жыл бұрын

This has been disproven. It's properly called the Union Jack or the Union Flag.

@rayskitten78

2 жыл бұрын

Err being picky arnt we? A lot of our tearmaoledgey comes from our sailing history

Regarding temperature if it's cold I think in Celsius, if it's hot I think in Fahrenheit. At least I'm halfway there!!!

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

Normal people only use Celsius

@WillRiker0504

2 жыл бұрын

This is 100% me. It amazes friends & family that I don’t understand both temperatures in either of the scales. If someone says to me, “It’s quite warm today. It’s 24 degrees.” I literally have no idea how hot that is until I convert it to 75 F. Yet with cold temperatures, if someone told me it was 32 degrees…I don’t know how cold that is, but 0C I understand fine. (I used Siri to convert the numbers in these examples 😂😂). I’m glad I’m not the only one that has this problem.

@richard6440

2 жыл бұрын

@@JF1908x its probably an age thing , the younger you are, the more you'll use C.

@richard6440

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillRiker0504 (I used Siri to convert the numbers in these examples ......... i convert them in my head in a second. the bonus of being raised on imperial just before we converted to metric. and i dont have a siri or alexa in the house.

@WillRiker0504

2 жыл бұрын

@@richard6440 I’m partially sighted so use an iPad for most things including internet etc., as it has good accessibility features. I use Siri a lot lol.

Incredible, you've just explained all of these

Great explanation, thanks a lot!

Here in England we all own red double decker buses and even our butlers have butlers.

Beans for breakfast makes sense to me (an American). The first time someone offered me beans for dinner, I thought that was weird.

LOL Loving that a Kiwi is used for the tea section: Karl Urban

We moved to UK 7 years ago and what surprised us the most was definitely lack of sockets in the bathroom and no switch for bathroom light. We have a string just like in old-fashioned toilet to turn bathroom light on and off. Of course separate taps is massive inconvenience especially when one has small kids and they are still preferred option by some landlords.

@gillianrimmer7733

8 ай бұрын

Hey are the preferred option by building standards - it's illegal to put an electric socket in the bathroom.

@malinowamamba89

8 ай бұрын

@gillianrimmer7733 yes, lack of electricity in the bathroom is a legal requirement but I was referring to double taps when stating it is a preferred option :) don't know why though, wash basins for double taps are not cheaper than for single ones and not many houses have old-fashioned hot water tanks especially not the new-builds🤔

@weaponizedknight7316

5 ай бұрын

why would you have plug sockets in bath room lol

@malinowamamba89

5 ай бұрын

@@weaponizedknight7316 well for example in Poland we have our washing machines in the bathroom, but also you would have sockets for hairdryers, electric toothbrush or any other beauty equipment that requires electricity :)

The Union Flag (Union Jack when flown on a ship) can be hung four different ways, three of which are wrong, this allowed the Royal Navy to identify foreign ships sailing under a false flag in our waters, it also allowed our merchant ships to call for assistance because by turning the flag they knew any navy ship in sight would come to investigate and offer aid. One flag but multiple uses, exactly what you expect from a slave nation that fought for and won it's freedom, who then went on to fight for everyone else's. God Bless England the one and only country that created the modern world.

@Monkeypole

2 жыл бұрын

Someone's watched QI... England didn't fight for other peoples freedom they took other peoples freedom, look what they did in Ireland to start.

@MrScotty5877304

2 жыл бұрын

Must be to do with the northern Ireland saltire section of the flag? The saltire doesn't line up the way the Scottish saltire does so if hung the wrong way it'll look different id imagine?

@PedroConejo1939

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrScotty5877304 Yes. The broader white diagonal on the hoist end should be at the top - this then follows round the flag. Despite the way children draw it, the NI saltire doesn't line up across the centre. There's a good design specification (and history) on the Union Jack wikipedia page. It dispells some of the myths too.

@joegrey9807

2 жыл бұрын

Erm, no, half of the ways it can be flown are wrong (ironically the ways shown in the video) and half are correct. And the upside down flag is used in other countries as a distress signal. And we weren't the only colonial aggressors around. And most of what you've said is factually incorrect.

@jwb52z9

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know how many British people know this, but you can't fly the Union Flag at all in the US unless you want someone to think you're a racist as it was the emblem of the Southern states during the American Civil War.

I knew a lot more about the UK than I thought I would.

In the UK we do not speak like the toffs (rich folks) I hate that stereotype

@herrprofessor

2 жыл бұрын

Like Jacob Rees-Mogg, for example, too pompous and contrived.

What is missing from this list is "What is the expected etiquette in a pub". Having visited England, Wales and Scotland each a dozen times, it has been and always will be absolutely mysterious what you are supposed to do, how you are supposed to behave, and what you are under no circumstances supposed to do, to simply order a beer, and receive it without any complications.

@davidwhite4874

2 жыл бұрын

Go straight to the bar, order your drinks, find somewhere to sit. Don't look at people 'funny'. Simple.

@zasherr

2 жыл бұрын

Out of interest, what do you find different or strange about it? When you say complications are you including altercations or more about the ordering itself?

@Killerkwoi13

2 жыл бұрын

Main things to remember 1. Chill out, have a laugh, don't be a dick, mind your own business with your own table as much as possible 2. Don't talk to people or offer to sit with people who are sat in a pub alone minding their own business, chances are they just want a quiet drink and to read a newspaper / watch football (if these people strike up conversation with you that's fine although the correct way to handle this is nervously laugh and say "haha, enjoy your night mate" and then hope they go away) 3. Be polite to all staff / other patrons 4. If the pub is quiet(ish) don't be that table in there making more noise than anyone else 5. If you accidentally bump into someone when making your way through a crowd, make sure you apologise immediately (this one is actually quite key) 6. In fact, saying sorry at any point is actually advisable in any situation in a pub, even when its not necessary at all, it's just a British thing to do 7. If someone holds the door open for you and you do not thank them on the way through expect silent and incandescent rage and / or judgement from that person / other patrons who witnessed this 8. Do not push in at the bar or cut the queue for the toilet / any queue in general because you may cause an international incident Other than the above, just go up order a pint and go find a table and have a good time, you can't go too wrong there

@lightningrt434

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately a lot of younger Brits don’t know it either. You don’t queue behind people at a bar, you spread yourself across it, and everyone knows who is next. People filter into the gaps as they become available. Also, and this is something that often doesn’t happen when you are with people who are in the pub to eat, you go to the bar FIRST, then find a table, not the other way round. Don’t offend the locals would be my other tip.

@scampijoe666

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks red666 for this list. Though I can honestly claim that I followed all these rules, and still things got awkward. With "complications" (zasherr asked) I mean nothing like actual altercations, but weird looks, eye-rolling, head-shaking, or simply ignoring me altogether (the staff I mean). As I said, I am a very calm and quiet person anyways, but when being in the UK I pay extra attention to be polite and to say sorry 20 times a minute. And this has worked out perfectly well, except when entering a pub. Maybe people get the scent of me being not a native and therefore make a point of behaving in a way to let me know that I do not belong there. So I always get the feeling I am doing something wrong when I am cleary the next one up and staff keeps serving other people first. And when I finally get my order in, there is the head-shaking, or the pretending 20 times in a row that they did not understand what I said. Mind you, this doesn't ALWAYS happen, but it happened often enough (I'd say certainly more than 50% of the time) to make me fell self-conscious and anxious when entering an English pub (or Welch or Scottish).

Brit: "No one else uses this dumb Imperial measurement system." American: "Hi there!"

I love it when Americans ask for a 'cup o tea'. Its 'cuppa tea' ...obviously! Its especially funny when you hear them say 'bollocks' or 'wanker'. My American brother in law (from Austin Texas) once said "Leave it out bruv!" I laughed my tits off, what a berk!

Baked beans have a lot of very good properties about them and are surprisingly good for you. Obviously you can enjoy them hot on a slice of buttered toast with a lovely hot cup of tea. Or you can have them as part of a full English breakfast or indeed a Scottish, Welsh or Irish variant. There's something wholesome and hearty about Heinz Baked beans when cooked properly.

We did actually change over to metric just as I started work as an apprentice industrial electrician. It was a nightmare as I had to know both systems and be able to seemlessly switch from one to the other. Then there was the hardware, all sorts of threaded adaptors were required so that metric glands, couplings, bushings etc. Could be used with older equipment threaded to take imperial sized fittings. Then of course there were the different screw threads and of the need for an extra set of spanners, drills, taps, dies etc. The imperial measurements for food and particularly alcohol where retained for cultural reasons and I suspect to keep the public happy as the government was at an advanced stage in its application to join what was then known as the Common Market which even then was a devicive topic. I actually prefer the metric system, much more simple to work things out, except for buying beer of course.

Beans were popular in "New England" in the US at breakfast time. No longer, although there may be holdouts far away from the cosmopolitan areas. Beans and biscuits (savory scones) were also a traditional meal.

@WDKimball

Жыл бұрын

Boston is famous for it's baked beans. However they are very different to British ones as i learnt to my cost. 😂

@whackedoutwrestlingpodcast1404

Жыл бұрын

From "New England" and lived here all my life- while New England does have a lot of baked beans due to Boston's fame for them as said, they are not a particularly common breakfast food at all even in this US region. (Baked beans are much more common as a side dish with lunch or dinner.)

Heheh, I live 2 buses away from Pity Me...also, my old College is a half hour walk away from Pity Me 🤣

@RichO1701e

2 жыл бұрын

About 20 miles away for me

I grew up with the metric system, I used the metric system for years at work, and now I've been living in a country with metric road signs for fifteen years, and I STILL convert kilometres to miles in my head as I drive.

Nah that marmite ad with the police going in houses was class. Our adverts are next level.

Interesting that Britan adopted the metric system in 1965, but over fifty years later, try buying either an entirely metric tape measure or one that has the metric units on the top, thus making life much easier for builders and similar trades folk.

@realityslidersmandelaeffec6594

2 жыл бұрын

It was about 75 I was about 10 when I had to relearn everything I had only just grasped

@ya33a

Жыл бұрын

We adopted Metric from 1972 and most of the 'important' bits were adopted by 1974, I still calculate back and forth between both systems as it makes sense...now try flying... Aircraft speed - knots.. altitude...feet, distance from take off/landing..Kilometres, terrain in Metres, separation of aircraft, miles..(in some areas), Kilometres in others, fuel in Litres - light aircraft, Kilograms in Jet aircraft, distance to clouds/visibility...Miles... Takeoff weight..Tonnes or Tons- pounds..depending on the aircraft type....tyre/tire pressures....pounds per square inch... Lucky us pilots....

@eleveneleven572

5 ай бұрын

I live in Brittany and some stall holders still use imperial weights (livres = pound), pouces (inches) and sell in dozens...... and France has had metric since Napoleonic times.

@cobden28whittehnam7

Ай бұрын

Our coinage in the UK changed over to decimal noney on Saturday 15th February 1971 and I've always thought that was when we went officially metric, not way before in 1965! Up until 1971 our maths lessons in school were always in imperial with metric only mentioned as an afterthought - and 1971 was the first year the O-level maths was entirely in metric. Even today, over fifty years after decimalisation we Brits still measure a fair few things in Imperial and I mentally convert prices in shops and weights & measures into Imperial in my head as the measures mean more to me than metric.

As an American, I can say I am completely at home with my tea with cream and sugar. My Irish great grandmother got me started at the age of 4. I remember hearing her say that the only civilized thing the Brits did for the Irish was give them tea. I, to this very day, drink about 4 huge cups of tea a day and always with cream and sugar.

@ForceFreeTrainergirl06

2 жыл бұрын

Noooooooooo! We Brits would never have cream in our tea! YUK!

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

MILK. YOU PUT MILK IN TEA.

@corkycobon1481

2 жыл бұрын

@@JF1908x Prefer cream over milk but I will use milk when I am out of cream

@anastasia10017

2 жыл бұрын

Cream ? Bloody hell.

@corkycobon1481

2 жыл бұрын

@@anastasia10017 Milk in the UK has a higher fat content than milk in the US. That is why I use cream. When I have gone to Canada, I use milk cuz, again, it has a higher fat content than milk in the US.

That last line, “but not Wales” got me chuckling 😂

@Hellwyck

4 ай бұрын

It's because when the first Union Flag was created in 1606, the Principality of Wales by that time was already united with England and was no longer a separate principality.

Love how you just annexed the Faroe Islands for the UK!

Wales isn't on the union flag because they were late submitting it, they finished it on time but they ran out of room to stick the name they gave it on the back on the back" Flygoucontillyochgogococoughertyplerouiteruioasjeouvqedfkkmeoiusflaggy" 😜

@WDKimball

Жыл бұрын

Wales isn't on the Union flag because until recently it was considered to be a principality under the England crown, and so not a separate kingdom in the United Kingdom.

@rodjones117

Жыл бұрын

I love when English people think this kind of thing is funny

As a stalwart Marmite supporter I can both understand why some people despise it whilst also occasionally wondering why. A few slices of bread, lightly toasted, with a sensibly restrained layer of Marmite is a great way to start the day and, yes, follow it up with a tea, not too strong, a dash of sugar and let it sit whilst you munch and masticate on your Marmite marvel ready to perfectly accentuate your breakfast (though it’s a combination that’s welcome at any time of the day) It should also be noted that said tea also works a treat after a soft boiled egg replete with a battalion of toasty soldiers and a pinch of salt. As for insults my all time best friend and I would regularly insult each other on social media to such extremes that others would regularly intervene baffled as to why such vitriolic slander could exist between mates. I would duly explain it was meant with love, respect and a deep understanding of each other plus the fact he was a actually a deeply repugnant fuck monkey with all the style and sophistication of a fetid puddle of dog semen. And they say true friends are hard to find?

@beccabbea2511

2 жыл бұрын

Ah marmite. Marmite on toast topped with scrambled egg, marmite on hot crumpets... I tried that 'Dynmite' marmite with chilli, unfortunately they forgot to add the chilli.

@SAMTYLER1974

2 жыл бұрын

@@beccabbea2511 Huh, never heard of Dynamite before so I had a wee Google and discovered a) my metabolism probably wouldn’t handle it very well and b) there’s a truffle variant as well. But I say you can’t top the original and, to me at least, Marmite is synonymous with its original, unblemished flavour in the same way you can’t technically call a fruit polo a polo! But I digress. Hot crumpets! Now I’m not fussy whether my crumpet it hot, slightly warm or cold in much the same way as I can’t discuss hot crumpet without at least one wry smile and a subdued snigger but yes, definitely another win there and maybe a baffled look at the individuals silently gagging as I take a bite. Sorry naysayers, but Marmite is indeed a wondrous thing and so is a can of cold rice pudding. No baked beans, though. Can’t stand them with the texture, taste and general beaniness of them. I’ll have the spaghetti on toast, merci garçon! Now, where was I?

The issue or one of with mixer taps is you need mains pressure to mix the water properly, if you have a gravity fed tank with hot water - old fashioned plumbing and mains pressure cold, then the cold can overcome the pressure from the hot water supply and damage the heater unit, that's also why a 'bidet' with an under rim washer needs a separate hot and cold supply in separate header tanks, so you don't accidentally scald yourself in a very sensitive place, over rim bidets can and do use either mains pressure or a separate hot and cold supply... Just something else about plumbing

ohh the ones that got me are the beans for breakfast and the separate hot and cold taps .... why ?? 😂

@0.19 Union flag is upside down. A very British thing to notice 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Let’s see, I’m a brit…. They’re doing a Michael Caine impression

4:20 you can tell you practiced that 🤣

@RichO1701e

2 жыл бұрын

obviously, you don't just pick up a map and instantly know how to pronounce that!

In the province of Québec (Canada) also eat beans for breakfast with eggs sausage and bacon. We also sometimes eat them for lunch or diner when we don't want to cook but our beans are made with maple sirup contrary to yours that are more tomato based I think and we don't put them on toasts.

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

That's the full English breakfast, but agreed if it's just brand on toast, that's fit afternoon/evening snack or half a lazy meal (in a safa btw). I live syrup, just a little, but I'm not sure about with beans, maybe I'll try drain the can one day & add that. & Sorry, this isn't me shooting, but heads up I think you meant dinner not diner

the metric system became mandatory in British schools in 1974. But they were definitely teaching both imperial and metric in the early 90s. Hmmmm, I’m guessing that’s why people still know it and that’s why it has not completely gone away

@themanwithnoname3636

9 ай бұрын

My dad hated the metric system but I suppose its what you know.

@jimtaylor294

9 ай бұрын

The teachers tried pushing metric on me in middle school in the late-'90's; but I wasn't having that 😂 . Big difference between a Government adopting a system, and the populace - who usually loathe the former - paying any heed to it. Case in point ULEZ, which's had the most pushback of any road measure in British history.

@rachelnise2473

9 ай бұрын

It was only in the early 90's that food containers had to have metric values printed on them, either alone or as well as imperial. Sorry, realised it must have been mid 90's

@jimtaylor294

9 ай бұрын

@@rachelnise2473 That, and most manufacturers didn't bother changing containers, so you get milk in 2.272 liters, because it's still in a 4 pint bottle 😁 . (similar story with Jam jars, and many other container sizes)

@rachelnise2473

9 ай бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 yes, I worked on a farm dairy at the time. We didn't change the size of the yoghurt pots etc, just had a weird metric number on them next to the fluid ounces

The UK is my heaven from the food, culture, accents and cheekiness ❤️❤️ Hopefully someday once I hit the Lottery I will get to visit Where I feel my heart belongs. Dang mom why couldn’t you have just had me over the pond. Edit though the one word okay two words I can’t stand and still wouldn’t say if I lived there, they are f*g (cigarettes) and the C word. Other than that bring it on. But can someone please explain why the washing machine is in the kitchen? Also I’ve always loved beans on toast and I’m from the 🇺🇸

@thirdmeow2270

2 жыл бұрын

Due to the water inlet. Usually the water inlet enters the kitchen and having the washing machine anywhere else would require extending the pipework. *it's just a matter of convenience*

@justonecornetto80

2 жыл бұрын

If you don't like the C word then you might not like it here. Many of us use it as a kind of term of endearment toward each other! (Usually men after a few drinks) The washing machine is often in the kitchen because houses tend to be smaller here so there's no utility room. We have a population of nearly 70 million crammed onto a landmass about the size of Oregon if that helps with regard to comparison, so space is at a premium during home construction.

@gloryglory5688

2 жыл бұрын

Why would you want to hang out amongst them soap dodgers?

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

You've got to say the c word, that's the first rule, it's endearment. Where in from there are others that we use instead, that maybe aren't as harsh, but I have heard Americans have a task distaste for the word. Start with prick & twat, baby steps. But you can't seriously like their food?

@Laura55sere

2 жыл бұрын

Space dear, or lack of is the reason for washing machine’s in the kitchen.

That Michael Caine impression is perfect.

Love the waah on the 2nd track

I’m not 70 and I grew up under the imperial system. I have NEVER been able to get my head round the God awful metric, kilogram and kilometres systems!

@kurtsudheim825

2 жыл бұрын

Good awful, but they're so much simpler. I guess it's just easier to go with what you learn first. Most don't like change

@cynthiawheeler8978

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsudheim825 I think if they had just switched over like the did from the old money to new money, most people would have had to learn it, but they didn’t.

@chrispurnell368

2 жыл бұрын

Now 65, joined local steelworks at 16, tech coll/Uni then semiconducyor plant - used all metric thru' to this day. Although I do relate to own height and weight in imperial.

@amandadavies..

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 60 and was taught imperial. I'm fine with a lot of it but still use feet and inches to refer to height, stones and lbs for weight, and can visualise length better in inches, but fine measuring something in cm. Weights of food and liquid measures are fine too. I no longer use fahrenheit for temps but understand miles better than km when judging distance. I'm sure there's something I've forgotten. I agree that metric makes much more sense, being in 10s and 100s.

@RUSH2112RUSH

2 жыл бұрын

As someone rapidly approaching 60 I grew up during the transitional period from imperial to metric and can work with both though I do much prefer metric, it just makes more sense to me.

Imagine trying to put that Welsh dragon on the Union Jack.

@RUSH2112RUSH

2 жыл бұрын

I could have sworn the Nicola Sturgeon was Scottish...

Pratts Bottom in Kent always got us kids cracking up whenver we went to margate 🤣

Who puts a tea bag in a cup we use a tea pot

Well, being a Portuguese inlove with the British Culture i find this very relaxing and conforting. I should have been a British blocke in a previous life... 🤣

@vascoapolonio2309

Жыл бұрын

dont forget Trainspoting... i love that, as well 🤣🤣🤣

@snowtfl5617

11 ай бұрын

Portugal is our oldest ally basically honorary Brit anyway should u want to be 😂

Many of our road signs actually mix imperial and metric measurements. ie 5t weight restriction in 1.5 miles. The weight is in metric tonnes.

@clarksonoceallachain8536

Жыл бұрын

And to measure forces in newton meatures But use ft-lbs for machinery Mainly transport

@alastairmonk6439

Жыл бұрын

Even worse, there are many distance signs on the motorway showing "10m" to mean 10 miles not 10 metres!

@brianrodney712

Жыл бұрын

The units used in Imperial weights and measures are not usually pluralised. We talk about " a six-pound baby " and " a seven-stone weakling " and " a five-mile car journey " etc.

@philiprice7875

2 ай бұрын

yea and the 14foot low bridge is 200 meters away

A funny video, somewhere here on Y.T., is a yank that tried eating a spoonful of Marmite like one of ice cream: unsurprisingly, it blew his head off. Marmite spread ever so thinly on toast is delicious - and it can even zing up gravy if you use the right amount.

Very interesting.

Shout out to the Canadians, who also interchange imperial and metric without thinking about it. I was a land surveyor's assistant on a pipeline project one year, where the right-of-ways were measured in rods and chains, and I overheard a foreman placing an order to his supplier... "I need 120 metres [length] of 18 inch [diameter] pipe" lol

@sygendron

9 ай бұрын

I know! My mom never used the C for reading temperature (which sometimes caused a lot of confusion), and me, for some reason, I don't know my weight in kilos, but in pounds, no problem, and I always say my height in meters. Go figure!

@joepkortekaas8813

9 ай бұрын

Completely understandable - when I started my work as a mechanical engineer in the petrochemical industry, everything was metric, except pipe and flange diameters!

@jimtaylor294

9 ай бұрын

In other words; the *government* went for French measures but the *populace* stuck with what worked 😁

@joepkortekaas8813

9 ай бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 No, it didn't! Some years later even the ANSI changed to metric units, exactly because the imperial system didn't work! Why do all you idiots think that over 95% of the world population, and practically ALL engineers, scientists , technicians and doctors use the metric system? Because the imperial system is so good? Forget it and wake up!

@elizabethanthony3916

9 ай бұрын

​@@jimtaylor294😁👍👏👏👏👏

I wish so much I could live in the UK.

@JessicaMiller-pc4dj

2 жыл бұрын

Where do you live, maybe we can swap for a bit? But only after the summer because the weather is lush at the moment 😉.

@skyhawkdown

Жыл бұрын

you CAN live in the UK, with 'free' housing and get 'free' money and 'free' healthcare as long as you're not FROM the UK.....the native idiots will pay for it all for you

Its great that you talked about all the different accents. We need any americans watching to know

There's a village near the Essex/Suffolk border, called 'Fingeringhoe'

Marmite crisps are lush ….

@JF1908x

2 жыл бұрын

Because they don’t taste like Marmite. Twiglets on the other hand, are disgusting.

I eventually figured out the school thing as well, being dirty of the opposite meaning, but even after this in not sure I understand it fully

@rosemarielee7775

2 жыл бұрын

Remember that when they started, individual tuturing was the norm. Then the wealthy started schools where their sons would mix with non family, ie the public.

@thiskamg

Жыл бұрын

The answer is from a a few hundred years ago before we had mandatory education. Young gentlemen were educted, the unwashed masses were not (we won't even touch education for girls) - so think only in terms of the social or business elite. Young gentlemen were educated at home by a tutor or were sent to a tutor's home. These boys were educated 'privately'. Others went to fee-paying schools, anyone who could pay the fees could send their sons there, and so these were 'public schools'. There were other provisions for young gentlemen, but I think you don't want that much detail! Move forward to today. The old Public Schools kept the tradition of calling themselves public schools. Newer fee-paying schools call themselves private or independent schools (think independent of state funding or control). Our state-funded schools are called state schools.

The lack of mixer taps has been solved in many homes but only the kitchen sink. The wash basin in most bathrooms you either freeze your face into numbness or scald it.

I've been drinking tea since I came off the teat. It's the only thing I miss on holiday

Marmite is brilliant spread thinly on toast, not great on crumpets though. Marmite also elevates a standard cheese sandwich, makes a bacon sandwich and is better in a sandwich on its own with butter spread; not real butter and marmite together though that be vile stuff right there.

@skyhawkdown

Жыл бұрын

and a teaspoon added to bolognese

@jenniedarling3710

Жыл бұрын

Maritime on crumpets, with a fried egg on top, such a treat.

@serendipitylovejoy4724

Жыл бұрын

Oh gosh yes! Umami. *Rubs trouser legs*

@serendipitylovejoy4724

Жыл бұрын

Now I’ve not tried that but it’s definitely worth a wiz.

No one speaks like Dick Van Dyke. 😂😂😂 WetWang, North Yorkshire, is my personal favourite place name in England, Twatt in Scotland.

@brianartillery

2 жыл бұрын

I was always fond of 'Blubberhouses' in North Yorkshire. Essex has the most unfortunate placenames, though: Mucking, Messing, Foulness, and Ugley.

@itsacarolbthing5221

2 жыл бұрын

Wetwang has a fabulous chippy.

You can't really beat a good cup of tea. The most enjoyable does tend to be with your breakfast in the morning, so I can understand where it gets its reference from but whether it's at lunchtime or evening meal or just simply for a wee break i usually stick to 2 or 3 makes of ordinary teabags. Taylor's of Harrogate, Yorkshire Tea makes a lovely cuppa but can be a tad expensive that's why i only really get them on special offer or a small box now and then. The rest of the time i use PG Tips or Scottish Blend.

I love that the thumbnail is actually a Kiwi actor not a Brit