The weather? We know it's summer in the North of England because the rain gets warmer.

@Dazzxp

4 жыл бұрын

It's not even the rain really it's more to do with consistency, it can't make up it's mind and you don't know if you need a coat if it's cold or something water proof or it's warm and now you are going round with a coat and sweating. You can't really plan for it either, you check the weather forecast and thats only right 10% of the time. A magic8 ball can predict the weather better than the weather forecast team.

@ivorbiggun710

4 жыл бұрын

When I were a lad it were always raining up Dudley Moor, except when it were fine and even then there were a slight drizzle in the air.

@bobbybigboyyes

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect reply!!

@user-ox6yt3wr8n

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! I'm from north and the muggier it gets the more its summer.

@realmwatters2977

4 жыл бұрын

5th of November lol not 4th!

The weather complaining is really just small talk, not meant seriously

@davidkeenan5642

4 жыл бұрын

You're right, it's our fall back position rather than just saying nothing. But there's good reasons why we go there. Britain is affected by four major weather patterns. The Gulf Stream gives us a generally temperate climate, especially considering our latitude. But occasionally our South Westerlies also bring major storms. Then there's the Jet Stream. If that dips south, we get arctic conditions. This doesn't happen often, so we're not really prepared for it. Similarly if the weather comes from the east, we get a taste of what it's like in continent Europe. Remember The Beast from the East? And occasionally we'll get weather that originates in North Africa, and then we don't have to hop on a plane to one of the Costas to get a tan. The thing is, we're never sure which one of the buggers is going to hit us next month. :-)

@davidkeenan5642

4 жыл бұрын

@ringdigger London is the best example in the UK of an urban heat island. Unsurprising since it's our largest and most sprawling city.

Who’s watching this in January 2020 thinking girlllll I bet you regret saying “it’s only rained twice” 😂😂😂

@teesdailyx6423

4 жыл бұрын

Chloe Morel ikr 😂😂

@dingo7774

4 жыл бұрын

YASSSS!!!!!

@dingo7774

4 жыл бұрын

It’s so damn cold and will be until probably May!!!!!

@andygilbert1877

4 жыл бұрын

Chloe Morel Yep!

@D50Music

4 жыл бұрын

You know 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

We talk about the "Weather" to avoid talking about sensitive or private things

@terrymacdad8742

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, my experience, people talk about the weather, as a conversation starter, it's down to us after to broaden the conversation. I'm extremely open, so, its down to the individual, as in all things in life..

“Stiff upper lip” refers to us being Stoic in the face of adversity.

@silkaverage

4 жыл бұрын

also it taps into the "blitz mentality" we had from the 2nd WW, "keep calm and carry on"

@redf7209

4 жыл бұрын

or "keep calm and carry on"

Without having the weather to talk, complain about, us Brits would not talk to each other.

bonfire night celebrates the failure of the event and not the event

@ivorbiggun710

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it does.

@viper8177

4 жыл бұрын

The unfortunate failure which we shouldn't celebrate but be in mourning about.

@jackd9928

4 жыл бұрын

@jakiiboi8 Course it does....lol hence the burning of Guy Fawkes on the fire. Celebrating the failure to blow up the houses of parliament.

@kathrynabbott5032

4 жыл бұрын

It ‘s the 5th of November

@qwadratix

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's a celebration of the execution. Although Fawkes and his accomplices were drawn, hung and quartered (in that order - drawn means dragged behind a horse), Fawkes has been burned in effigy annually ever since. We take traitors seriously here.

For the accents, if it helps, remember that it was only the Victorian railways that synchronised time across the country. People just didn’t travel any distance before that if they weren’t rich. So there were a huge number of isolated communities, which developed their own dialect. Where I’m from in Yorkshire, you can practically tell which town someone is from, by their accent, within a very small distance

@michaelloach9461

4 жыл бұрын

Same around the Rochdale, Heywood & Bury area. I used to be able to tell which town they were from & theres only about 3 miles between each one. Its not like that anymore though!

@dallassukerkin6878

4 жыл бұрын

I just made a very similar post, Andy :nods: {should have read more of the comments first :O}. When I first moved out of my parents home, I relocated about eight miles away ... and I pretty much couldn't understand the older folk in the area!

@SuperFunkmachine

4 жыл бұрын

The isolated communities never had a time, it was walk/ ride from X to Y, time enough to ignore.

@DwayneRichards

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelloach9461 and we each think we are better than the other. Bury is best

@simonparmar2051

4 жыл бұрын

@@DwayneRichards Bury (pronounced a short Buury not Bery, of course) the best. Get away with thee! Bedale's the best. And of course this argument will go one beyond the end of time. But we are all agreed that Yorkshire (and even the bits we are embarrassed about) is far better than any where else.

Okay, the two taps! It's not a case of having to keep moving your hands from one stream of water to the other to wash them. It works like this.... The taps hang over a thing called a basin. At the bottom of the basin is the plug hole. Put the plug in the plug hole and then turn on the taps. Notice how the water doesn't disappear... it stays in the basin, and you can make it as warm or as cold as you want. You now have a whole basin of water in which you can wash your hands. Notice also how you aren't wasting water and money by having all your water going straight down the aforementioned plughole while you use just a teeny a tiny amount of the running water to wash your hands. Cost effective, ecologically sound and you don't have to rush. Try it, it works a treat.

@stanleywoodison8699

4 жыл бұрын

it's just too darn complicated, perhaps there's evening classes on how to use two taps at once.

@franticstorm7411

4 жыл бұрын

And here we have another great British Tradition; the educational sarcasm. Great stuff. That little thing that helps put the GREAT in Great Britain.

@KandiQTC

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha...Still technically achievable with the 1 tap...Plus, old pipes can literally poison you sooo...

@andysutcliffe3915

4 жыл бұрын

My understanding was that it was to do with the hot water tank you’d have in your loft, being the perfect temperature to breed germs, and probably being lead, and the hot tap not necessarily being safe to drink out of. I was always taught if you want hot water to drink, get it from the cold tap and put it in the kettle. The separate taps prevent cross contamination. Everything nowadays is heated on demand from the main supply, so not really an issue any more

@welshgit

4 жыл бұрын

And do you scrub the sink out first? I just have it so the hot tap is set at just the right temperature. Sorted!

No-one actually cares much about the weather- it’s simply a non-personal / non-offensive conversation opener, as we find say, an American “Hello!” A bit direct. It allows pleasantries to be exchanged with strangers as well as familiars. It allows a moan. The British bond with a good grumble. Not really sure wia spot on observation

@merrygoblin

4 жыл бұрын

One way I've heard it explained as a national topic of conversation is because the weather in the UK is so variable and changable. There's a quote by John Steinbeck that sums it up nicely - "I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.". Many other places have climate - relatively stable trends of heat, or rain, or cold, or whatever over long periods. Like the Australian rain described in the video. We have _weather_, 3 seasons in one day, and it's precisely because it's so variable that its a benign but reliable topic of conversation. That well known quote "If you don't like the weather wait a minute, it'll change" applies well to the UK, I think. It's actually so variable because the UK, more often than not, is almost directly under the Gulf Stream, where you've got warm air to the south and cold air to the north, and the Gulf Stream is constantly wiggling up and down. So we have this constantly shifting balance of cold and warm air above us resulting in the highly changable weather we have.

A stiff upper lip means not complaining and being brave in the face of adversity..just get on with it ..the British way

@alanhutchins5916

4 жыл бұрын

Keep Calm and Carry On.....

@gerardmann3038

4 жыл бұрын

Yep! Got a problem? Just keep it to yourself. Bit 40s probably but I don't cry on someone's shoulder at the first opportunity and tell them all my problems. Just not done.

@personalcheeses8073

4 жыл бұрын

Phil Pope Stiff up lip is the antithesis of Donald Trump’s behaviour

@noifurze6397

4 жыл бұрын

@@personalcheeses8073 well the don is one strange man,lost any respect when he abandoned the kurds

@ZenosOsgorma

4 жыл бұрын

@@gerardmann3038 having a stiff upper lip isn't about keeping it to yourself, it's about getting on with the task without all the bs in between. In times of adversity, there is no point in drowning in your own emotions because it doesn't fix anything, there's a time and place. If you believe it's about bottling up feelings and keeping to yourself you have a horrid perspective of what British culture really is, either someone's taught you that or you've learned it from some twisted media articles put out by the UK hating regressives, trying to portray us all as cold hearted.

We don’t have weird habits, it’s the rest of the world that weird😉😉

@ivorbiggun710

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you are from Yorkshire, in which case it is the rest of Britain AND the rest of the World.

@welshpete12

4 жыл бұрын

yes of course, we are perfect in every way ! ( and modest too ! )

"Remember, remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason, and plot."

@stevetaylor8698

4 жыл бұрын

Pity he isn't about now but this time doesn't get found out.

@redf7209

4 жыл бұрын

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below, Poor old England to overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd (or by God's mercy*) With a dark lantern and burning match. Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King! And what should we do with him? Burn him! A traitor to the Crown by his action, No Parli'ment mercy from any faction, His just end should'st be grim, What should we do? Burn him! Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring, Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King! A penny loaf to feed the Pope A farthing o' cheese to choke him. A pint of beer to rinse it down. A fagot of sticks to burn him. Burn him in a tub of tar. Burn him like a blazing star. Burn his body from his head. Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead. Hip hip hoorah! Hip hip hoorah hoorah! Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason, why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot! A stick or a stake for King James' sake Will you please to give us a fagot If you can't give us one, we'll take two; The better for us and the worse for you! Guy, guy, guy Poke him in the eye, Put him on the bonfire, And there let him die Remember, remember the fifth of November It's Gunpowder Plot, we never forgot Put your hand in your pocket and pull out your purse A ha'penny or a penny will do you no harm Who's that knocking at the window? Who's that knocking at the door? It's little Mary Ann with a candle in her hand And she's going down the cellar for some coal We come a Cob-coaling for Bonfire time, Your coal and your money we hope to enjoy. Fal-a-dee, fal-a-die, fal-a-diddly-i-do-day. For down in yon' cellar there's an owd umberella And up on yon' cornish there's an owd pepperpot. Pepperpot! Pepperpot! Morning 'till night. If you give us nowt, we'll steal nowt and bid you good night. Up a ladder, down a wall, a cob o'coal would save us all. If you don't have a penny a ha'penny will do. If you don't have a ha'penny, then God bless you. We knock at your knocker and ring at your bell To see what you'll give us for singing so well. Here comes three jolly rovers, all in one row. We're coming a cob-coiling for t' Bon Fire Plot. Bon Fire Plot from morning till night ! If you'll give us owt, we'll steal nowt, but bid you goodnight. Fol-a-dee, fol-a-die, fol-a-diddle-die-do-dum ! The next house we come to is a sailor you see. He sails over the ocean and over the sea, Sailing from England to France and to Spain, And now he's returning to England again. The next house we come to is an old tinker's shop, And up in one rook there's an old pepper-box- An old pepper-box from morning till night- If you'll give us owt, we'll steal nowt, but bid you good-night.

“Stiff upper lip” It’s about being strong in the face of adversity, we don’t bottle things up

@TomGB-81

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on. I remember a while ago when someone was comparing American and British soldiers during wartime. The American soldier is more about being a hero, while for the British soldier its just a job; so when the American suffers with something he will be emotional or moan about it, compared to the Brit soldier suffering he won't think much about it he'll just "soldier on" - get the job done whatever it takes. At least that's how the generations used to be, I'm not so sure for the millennial generation these days where being easily offended about anything and everything is promoted as a good thing.

@rickharriss

4 жыл бұрын

We (The british) are stoic.

@MikeRees

4 жыл бұрын

@@TomGB-81 millenial soldiers definitely don't fit the stereotype. Most of my village wound up joining the grenadier guards and they very much have boomer attitudes.

I don't think most of us Brits mind the weather. We just like to joke about it self-deprecatingly cos that's our style of humour. It's like an inside joke for the whole of the UK to take the piss out of our weather even though it's not that bad.

"so, are you celebrating the fact he tried to blow up parliament, or the fact that he failed?" "yes" "....okay but which one?" "shhhh... just enjoy the pretty lights"

@redf7209

4 жыл бұрын

In those days Catholics were the equivalent of ISIS in their politics so we we celebrating the plot being foiled and that's why we burn a conspirator called guy on a bonfire

@titilayoowolabi8224

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂. I asked same thing!!!!

I'm a simple man. Someone mentioned Red Dwarf. I like and subscribe.

@cropking7808

4 жыл бұрын

Step up to red alert But sir are you sure it does mean changing the bulb 👍😁

@helenbanks7599

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@helenbanks7599

4 жыл бұрын

They're all dead.

@qwadratix

4 жыл бұрын

I made myself a red alert sign for the workshop, sadly I can't get a decent blue bulb so I'm always stuck on the panic setting.

@dave_h_8742

4 жыл бұрын

@@helenbanks7599 wat even Peterson, Peterson's dead ?

"I never see Northern Ireland making a fuss."

@ivorbiggun710

4 жыл бұрын

Stick O'Jelly.

@cocobunjee6676

4 жыл бұрын

The northern Irish have a tendency to kill each other regarding territory! Ever heard of the IRA?l And the Scots are insisting on independence.

10 months of good weather in the UK? Hahahahahahahaha, just you wait :)

I'm Australian and we have two taps not one. Quite common in Australia.

Accents simply arise from isolation. Before the start of the industrial revolution most people would not have travelled outside the community into which they were born. Since the majority had no means of transport other than walking and no 'time off' from their daily labours they were, by and large, limited to the distance they could cover in a single day's return trip---probably a range no more than 10-15 miles across rough ground--just enough to reach the next village or market town to sell any excess produce. America has a different accent from Britain (if we could settle on a single representative accent for Britain) for a few reasons. Firstly, settlers did not come to North America only from Britain but from many different countries so the country was not 100% anglophone in the first place and this continued as they welcomed immigrants from around the world. Secondly, the British settlers arrived with a whole range of different accents but were then pushed together in new settlements and pretty much averaged out the differences over a couple of generations. Thirdly, the American population was, for all practical purposes, cut off from the British mainstream by distance so in many cases continued usages that are now archaic in British English. In fact many of the terms that seem characteristically American, such as using 'fall' instead of 'autumn' were actually in common use in British English at the point that the settlers left but changed later in Britain while our American cousins continued the older usage. Another case in point is the use of 'gotten' --common in #american English but now totally lost in mainstream British English (other than in one or two specific phrases such as 'ill gotten gains'). I'd guess that similar things happened in Australia; isolation from the mother tongue, a particular mix of accents among the earliest settlers and the blending within communities as diverse accents rubbed together to come to a common mean.

@jonathanwetherell3609

4 жыл бұрын

What is rapidly dieing out is Dialects. All those rich local words not used elsewhere in the country.

@speleokeir

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanwetherell3609 Yes. My best friend is from Brislington in Yorkshire and his grandfather is one of the few people still alive who spoke the local dialect.

@rebeccasimantov5476

4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating...have you by any chance studied historical linguistics? Btw I'm from Australia...

@rebeccasimantov5476

4 жыл бұрын

@Blackporsche roadster Why are accents seen as a sign of being stupid and/or backward? I don't believe this to be the case at all...

Accents change every 25 miles in the UK.

@jaykay9608

4 жыл бұрын

Less, folk 8 miles down the road in Burnley talk totally different to me.

@helenbanks7599

4 жыл бұрын

Try 5 😂

@markatchison5112

3 жыл бұрын

25 miles? Its way way less than that,I live 10 miles from Wigan and I can't understand one word they say.

@Jabber-ig3iw

3 жыл бұрын

Mark Atchison have you heard of a thing called averages?

@markatchison5112

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jabber-ig3iw yeah,and I reckon the average is way less than 25 miles,as does everybody else who replied to you as far as I can tell,but it's all just opinions.

Stiff upper lip means maintain your dignity in the face of adversity. A fine British trait. As opposed to falling apart in the face of adversity.

I think that your experience with the Welsh being particularly loud and proud about their nationality is because Wales is so often forgotten as a country. Foreigners often think that UK, Britain and even England are the same thing by different names. Many will have heard of Scotland because of historical characters like Robert the Bruce, and more modern stories like Harry Potter and Highlander. Ireland is also known (although often Ireland and Northern Ireland are confused) again because of history, and also because of GoT. In all of this, Wales is often forgotten about and the Welsh want to draw our attention to their own identity. The same is often true about New Zealanders who are very proud of their nationality, particularly when people consider them to just be Australians.

@raydology9584

4 жыл бұрын

Because there's nothing much for tourists to go there for (landmarks or Historically) that's known globally!.

@noifurze6397

4 жыл бұрын

@@raydology9584 what there lots to see in wales

@jackieparish979

4 жыл бұрын

@@raydology9584 If that is known globally then it is WRONG. Which is precisely why the Welsh have to 'toot their own horn'. Have you ever been to Wales? It is a beautiful country and full of history (and I say that as an English person).

@raydology9584

4 жыл бұрын

@@noifurze6397 there is lots to see everywhere!... But if there is nothing Unique man made or Naturally (Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, Pyramids, Grand Canyon, Great Battles...) then people are not likely to plan their holiday getting there to be apart of it, and take snaps or any other proof (stories) back home to show their loved ones!...that's just Tradition and

@raydology9584

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackieparish979 unfortunately if it ain't Annually or connected to something major big then it is unlikely to catch the attention, for generations to come!.

Bonfire night is on the 5th November (which happens to be today), it's sometimes referred to as Guy Fawkes night but most call it Bonfire Night. It's to celebrate the failed attempt to blow up Parliament. Guy Fawkes (whose full name was Guido Fawkes), hid a load of barrels of gunpowder underneath the Parliament building and was caught before he could set it off. So once a year communities get together to burn an effigy of him on bonfires, set off fireworks and eat and drink as a community.

Your fellow Aussie, Shane Warne, recently described the British weather as "9 months of bad weather and 3 months of winter".

Traditionally Guy Fawkes goes on top of the bonfire, so we are not celebrating him. lol

The weather has changed, but you will find our winters are very long, dull and damp!

I live in the south coast. I count everything as North....

@honkchisel

4 жыл бұрын

FallenGrace yup I’m from Kent and anywhere north of London is just the north 😀

@TheTorchwoodHeroes

4 жыл бұрын

Yep!! I live in kent and everything else is the north!!!!

@davidclark1952

4 жыл бұрын

North starts at Watford

@KenDebley

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, anything above Tunbridge Wells is up North.

As a foreigner living in UK, I find the various accents intriguing and funny.Water is ' War- Ah', esp. in Manchester. Baby is ' BAy...bear'

I love listening to your observations, keep them coming.

It is on the 5 th of November. We are celebrating that he got caught and killed. And more often people make like wood figure of him and burn them on the fire

@personalcheeses8073

4 жыл бұрын

Gaberial Mead Wood figure? Guy Fawkes effigies are old clothing and rags

@dukenukem5768

4 жыл бұрын

Old clothes stuffed with paper, not wood.

About the weather thing, it depends where you live. For instance I live in Liverpool and it has rained on a 106 days since May

Guy Fawkes / bonfire night is the 5th November, not the 4th. We celebrate lots of crazy things here, rolling round cheeses down steep hills and nearly killing ourselves, pancake day races, the daft Morris dancing, various things to do with witchcraft, etc etc. The Welsh are proud of their language and culture and speak both languages there. The roadsigns there are in both languages. The Cornish are fiercely proud of their culture and heritage too, and talk in a certain way. You ought to see the "Obby Oss" tradition that goes on in various towns in Cornwall every year. It's like something out of the original classic movie The Wicker Man starring Christopher Lee. x x x

Hot & cold taps - if I want cold water (eg to make a drink) I don't want to have to run a mixer tap for a minute to cool it down after it has been used to get hot water.

Cold water came from a mains supply and was fit for drinking. Hot water would be serviced by a local storage cistern often situated in the loft so would just sit there gathering bugs. This is why we have hot and cold taps as many houses still have this system!

The weather can vary from year to year so no year can be called typical.

I am originally from the UK. Wait until December and January then you can say something about the weather. It has been a record high lately in the UK but my father moved from the UK after the plumbing inside the house froze up and he could not put his keys in the car door as it had frozen up. Those dark winters are very depressing.

Most irritating thing about accents is that they are frequently used to determine your social status and perceived educational attainment. The thickest Londoner will probably think he is cleverer than a professor with a northern accent.

Is it just me or is the whole tap thing an emotional thing, like depending on my mood I will just use one tap and either scold or freeze my hands, no big deal.

Until 2017ish the weather started to get better. I used to walk to primary every morning and put my shoes on the radiator when I got in ( whole class did ).

The 'stiff upper lip' is about being stoic in the face of adversity, which is a good thing. I agree that some Brits bottle things up, but these aren't the same thing. Personally I'm extremely direct and open, but that's probably because I'm from the North. You're right about the weather, as a Northerner living in London I find it remarkable how little it actually rains here, yet people act like it's non-stop. It really isn't. What I will say though is that it's CLOUDY a lot of the time - not raining, but not sunny either. You're right that separate taps are idiotic, however they tend to only exist in older, unrenovated homes. It's very rare for anyone to buy them new, practically everyone buys mixers now if they're fitting a new bathroom. You do tend to see more separate taps the further you get from the larger cities though. Regarding accents, Northerners including Mancunians tend to drop the T and replace it with a glottal stop, sort of like "war'er". In fact Northerners use glottal stops quite a lot, including to replace "the" (e.g. "I'm going tu't pub" means "I'm going to the pub"). Talking of glottal stops, I was once told by a guy working in the Middle East that Northerners learn Arabic more easily than Southerners because we're already used to glottal stops, which are common in Arabic. Not sure how true that is. I can't really speak for either, but I find Scottish national pride is just as strong as Welsh national pride. In either case it probably comes from not wanting their national identity to be snuffed out by the domineering English. Rightly so, both nations have strong identities of their own that deserve to thrive. Cornish identity is strong too, and of course Northern Irish. Even the regions of England can be quite vocally proud.

The west starts, at least around Bristol when you are asked how are you my lover or when they ask you where are you to meaning where are you, especially confusing with taxi services.

The thing about the weather is that when the temperature reaches 25° people start bleating about it being too hot! It's typically British to knock the weather but they forget that in 2018 the grass turned brown and we had a water shortage! Last year we saw the highest recorded temperature.

A part of the accent thing is from the various tribes that controlled different areas but that is only a small part. That does affect slang words a lot. Accents are slowly merging across the world with the internet and comms. Lister was from Liverpool. It was law for a few hundred years to burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes.

The weather here is so changeable, in a small area the weather can be surprising, in spring, summer or autumn. In winter we get surprised when it acts like winter with snow and stuff in a generally non-wintery winter. So lots to talk about even if it is only small talk.

On the accents, (when I say accent i include dialect) it's usually based on the outside influences in a different region, or the original languages that the local dialect has developed from. Whether you need to make yourself understood to more people not from the local area also plays into it (if there's more interaction with people without the local accent you need to be clearer in your everyday speech). So where I'm from in the North East of England, there's a lot of viking influence, because of the invasions, but not that much since, because it's fairly remote and not that populated. Likewise in the Highlands of Scotland, but the influence is from Gaelic rather than Scandinavian. Whereas accents in places with more interaction tend to be clearer (though not always - they can be used as a way to shut people out because you don't want others to understand you - like Cockney). Accents in the country tend to be slower than city accents, probably matching the general pace of life. Australian and american accents follow the same rules, generally, but in some cases, the accents there are closer to the original settlers than modern British accents from the place the settlers came from.

Bonfire night is 5th November - though people will start having fireworks for a week or so before. There are lots of public displays usually in parks etc. which are usually either on the 5th or on the nearest weekend - they vary in size a lot. Look up bonfire night displays near you. Some of the really big ones you'll need a ticket in advance for - Alexandra Palace has a good one. The most famous fireworks event (probably in the world) is in Lewes, East Sussex on the 5th, which involves the whole town, several fireworks displays and parades and tens of thousands of people go to watch.

This summer was one of the best summers we have had in a long time by far!

I thought this summer was pretty mixed to be honest. 2018, on the other hand, was a stellar year. The summer which kept on giving.

Up here in the north we've had endless weekends ruined by rain this year, we've hardly had a stretch of three days without rain. Last summer was awesome though, from May through to the end of August.

Im from Liverpool and its strange as we are classed as Merseyside and Southport is also Merseyside and only about a 30 minute drive from Liverpool City but the accent is so different as they have a Lancashire accent. Its almost like crossing a line.

@slightlyconfused876

4 жыл бұрын

I heard a linguistics expert saying Liverpool had 4 distinct accents, and then imitated all 4.

@curmudgeon_OG

4 жыл бұрын

@@slightlyconfused876 My daughter in law is from (the) wirral and her Mum proper Scouse. Even I from Belfast can tell the difference.

Little is known about the earliest celebrations. In settlements such as Carlisle, Norwich, and Nottingham, corporations (town governments) provided music and artillery salutes. Canterbury celebrated 5 November 1607 with 106 pounds (48 kg) of gunpowder and 14 pounds (6.4 kg) of match, and three years later food and drink was provided for local dignitaries, as well as music, explosions, and a parade by the local militia. Even less is known of how the occasion was first commemorated by the general public, although records indicate that in the Protestant stronghold of Dorchester a sermon was read, the church bells rung, and bonfires and fireworks lit. I'm scouse and I say what I think! Got me in a lot of trouble over the years ha ha also I love that we have proper seasons over here 😁

Accents. The Uk being a much older country than both the US and Australia and existing in times before mass transportation, people largely were born, worked & died within a few miles of the village they grew up in. Existing largely in isolation, language evolved differently & this is how we got accents. This is true in all old countries

If you see how Parliament is performing now, you'd realise why Guy Fawkes is so popular!

@wyterabitt2149

4 жыл бұрын

Except bonfire night is celebrating his failure . . . .

@Zombies8MDingo

4 жыл бұрын

Bonfire night celebrates his failure. And he was trying to kill King James to restore Catholicism to the throne, nothing to do with Parliament.

@colonyofrats4193

4 жыл бұрын

Mr K he tried to blow up parliament

You do know we do have mixture taps, and separate hot and cold taps can be changed.

The weather part made me laugh so much. We can get snow in April... it’s all fun and games until January the first hits and you’re done with winter already.

If you live in the south and the east of England (London too) it’s much drier, warmer and sunnier. The further North and West you go it’s gets gloomier, stormier, darker, wetter, windier, colder. So Winters in the North are much worse and winter months in some places see rain almost everyday. I’ve lived it and it’s terrible ahah.

@davidclark1952

4 жыл бұрын

Ethan 4444 I lived in the north for seven years and really did not see a deference

So many foreigners bring up the separate tap thing but you make it hard when it isn’t. You just put the plug in and fill the basin to the required temperature. EASY!

There are parts of the UK where it could be raining or snowing but drive to the other side of the hill and its a lovely summers day.

Re the weather - I think you inadvertently answered your own question. Britain has the most changeable weather of anywhere in the world (not the worst weather, just the most changeable). Its something to do with being the one land spot where 4 different systems converge (I got that off a documentary years ago) and the weather is largely dictated by which of those weather systems wins. What it does mean is that you can have 4 seasons in a day and you can have very unseasonable weather any time of the year. You stand a better chance of hot weather in the Summer and cold in the Winter, but it just doesnt always work out that way, which makes planning quite difficult on occasions. And I'm quite baffled as to how you have only seen 2 days of rain - I live in South West London and experienced a fairly wet summer with intermittent scorching days and a fairly rainy October. It's chucked it down most of the last week. There are places in London that legitimately have their own micro-climate, but if its not rained where you are then I want your address because I'm moving there

Great video. A perfect Bommy (Bonfire) night is a sparkler or two and a good firework display in the park with a toffee apple. As for the Welsh. I live in the north west of England, close to the border of Wales, and it seems it's because they're legally part of England, and they have to fight a lot harder to have their own laws etc.

I’m a teenager and it’s a mixture. We are better at talking about mental health than older generations but other feelings we still bottle up most felling.

The relatively new thing of just one mixer tap is a ROTTEN design to me. I bend down in the morning/whenever to wash my face/(hair when I had some) and ding my head grr, also you can't really see how much hot or cold is mixing! The weather is actually much better than most of the planet but is highly unpredictable. I find after over 6 decades of experience it best to wear a North Face/Rab/Berghaus mountain climbing jacket with up to 3 layers underneath 10 months of the year unless I've escaped to Croatia, Spain, S. Italy or Canary Isles :)

Welsh hate the English cause they say they were chased into a corner of Britain! I was married to a welsh man and got his welsh history every single day and notice I said was married lol

@davidhoward2487

4 жыл бұрын

Probably false as the Romans cornered every Druid priest, and slaughtered them on Anglesy Island

@amandalewis3898

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Travers Yes I know all about the history of wales thanks to my ex. And he most definitely had a chip on his shoulder! Trying to convince him that I was not responsible for it was like trying to grow a money tree 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@footscorn

4 жыл бұрын

Actually that's completely correct. The Romans destroyed the Druids not the British people. It was the Germanics who forced the true British into the land we now call Wales. Welsh is a true descendent of the native language ( Brythonic ) that was spoken in the land now called England.

@Showbizboy

4 жыл бұрын

Amanda lewis ....you don’t need to try and grow money on trees just vote Labour!

Hi Yvette, you should of been here 2 winters ago when the beast from the east hit us. That was fun !

Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions in his heart!

Points 1 and 2 are connected - we talk about the weather to avoid talking about our feelings. Like “hey, how are you?” I could say “well, Yvette, my husband just ran off with the milkman, and my piles are playing up something chronic”. Or I could say “brr, it’s Baltic out there, I had to scrape an inch of ice of my windscreen this morning! You?” But, we’re British, so I’ll go for option 2 every time!

From my understanding of accents the difference in them are basically variations due to the isolation of villages. Its not until really the 1960s that all the country and its villages were connected to one another.

I bet you have loved the weather during February 2020 wind and rain at the weekends. 🤣😅🤣

2019 spring, summer happened to be one of the driest in a long while, it has been known to rain almost constantly through August before now.

The seperate taps thing is a throwback to when people used to have hot water storage tanks / cisterns. These tanks could sit for a considerable length of time with warmish water in them making them a perfect breeding ground for all kinds of nasty water borne illnesses were you to drink from the hot tank. Some establishments or properties may still be using these old systems so to this day it's inadviseable to drink from the hot tap if you aren't familiar with the boiler set up. The cold is always mains drinking water unless clearly marked otherwise.

Dear Yvette The reason there are so many different accents in England is because of our history of invasion and settlement by people from other countries.The Angles & Saxons from Germany, Vikings from Norway and Denmark and then in 1066 the Normans who were a mix of French and Viking. Apart from The Normans( who spoke French) who spread out throughout the country in order to subdue the population the invaders tended to settle in one place and intermix with the indigenous people producing an accent specific to that region.. Until the 19th Century and the invention of the train people travelled very little and it was not unusual for the residents of a village to never travel more than ten miles from home. They were therefore unlikely to be influenced by other accents. I am not an expert on this subject but I think parts of the country like Cornwall endured very little foreign influence and so have their own dialect. Liverpool had a large number of Irish people come over in the nineteenth century, to escape the Irish Potato Famine, which corrupted their Lancashire accent. Although this is maybe not a full explanation I hope it will give you some idea as to how the situation has arisen. With regards as to why the Welsh are so proud I would suggest it is because they are a small population next door to England's much larger one. There is therefore more of a feeling of togetherness and a pride in their individual heritage and traditions. Not being Welsh this is just a guess.

@Georgestella100

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe the Welsh celebrate that they are basically derived from the original Britons. When the Danish Vikings and Saxons controlled England the original inhabitants were slowly pushed westwards into what is now Wales.

Little did she know that this autumn was the most wet autumn ever recorded

10 months of good weather?!? Where the hell are you living?!?! I want to move there.

@TheAlanSaunders

4 жыл бұрын

The rain may never fall till after sundown. By eight, the morning fog must disappear. In short, there's simply not A more congenial spot For happily-ever-aftering than here In Camelot.

We have a joint tap, and the water is either freezing or scalding, sometimes I wish it was separate taps.

They do fireworks in brokwell park near Brixton / Herne hill area and Crystal Palace Park. Just look for any large parks

Re hot and cold taps. You mix the water in the basin to get the right temperature. Then you use the water in the basin.

How dare you! I like to scald my hand with one tap and then treat the burn with the other tap! Welcome to 2019 ;)

The best place to get the full 5th of November experience is Lewes in East Sussex.

The weather is so changeable because we have 4 weather systems jostling for position over the country, the arctic, Atlantic, Mediterranean and eastern weather systems. For the most part the rest of the world has only 2 weather systems, also most of the rain we get in the UK is along the west coast in Essex they get less rain fall then Israel year on year.

It used to always be raining but now as climate change is becoming bigger, the weather is nothing like it used to be

Last summer was VERY dry and hot so people may be comparing to that. We rarely get a few days together without rain though. Also weather and public transport are the main things people enjoy complaining about.

October to April is usually misery/endless gloom/rain. I think you're just lucky. May to July can be pretty unpredictable and if you're lucky you might get a week of sun in August

"Please to remember, the 5th of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason, why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot." It's celebrating his failure and execution - the guy is put on the bonfire and burnt! Nothing to do with V for Vendetta that just expropriated some of the iconography.

Separate taps for hot and cold water: My guess is that in the past people heated water, poured it into a tub/basin and washed whatever was to be cleaned. Only today we are used to wash things under flowing water. So this is the old style of filling the sink which does not need the medium hot water coming out of the wall.

Very surprised you aren't seeing/have plenty of single mixer taps now, as most houses have been renovated and now have them or the option to, along with new builds. If you don't have an attic/loft with as water tank, you can have a mixer tap.

Separate taps are great. Just ramp the hot tap up and blast your sink of all it’s gunk without messing with temperature

Late to the party on this one, I know. The reason we have separate taps is because the cold water is supplied directly by the mains. It is a safe ‘potable’ water source, the hot water is supplied by a tank, especially in the older buildings. These tanks are not regulated, at all, most are left open to the elements and are left untested. One family in Manchester was taken seriously ill because they used hot water in their kettle. Boiling the water wasn’t enough because their tank had six, yes six rat corpses floating in it. Never, Ever install a mixer tap in an old building, Especially if hot water is supplied by a tank, you will contaminate the water supply. If the cold mains supply backwashes for some reason, you can contaminate an entire areas supply of water which carries serious penalties such as fines if they manage to trace the source of the contamination. Never have finer words been spoken: Never, cross the streams.

to be fair the weather this year has been exceptionally mild...

Accents and other languages. The reason why we have different accents is the bloody foreigners kept turning up. First there stone people (archaeologists recon at least 3 waves, each with different burial practices), then several Bronze age peoples. Then the Celts (possibly from the south of France) who spread all over England and Wales (the world is Old English for foreigner. See I told you they were everywhere.) North of the Border (them that is try to leave), you have the Caledonians and Picts ( Painted Ones). But that division is probably a Roman invention. Then the Romans (modern pronunciation Womans, vice Monty Python). King Arthur became the Roman-British. And here comes the fun but only in a Dark sense. You have Angles (because they angled to the North East and East Anglia (guess why that is so called), Jutes (Kent) and Saxons (named after a really nasty knife) , who settled in Sussex (South Saxons), Wessex (West Saxons), Essex (where the stupid ones were exiled) and various minor tribal people of each. Its very messy. Result of which some Romano British decided to set in Gaul (Brittany), A tradition followed on since. Hibernia (Ireland) you have the Irish raiding and settling in the North West, Sheep-shagger (Wales) country and the West Country (explains a lot of practices down there). The Scots from Ireland (its not confusing) land in Caledonia and turned them into the bloody Scots (see not confusing at all). Various Anglo (but not British) - Saxon Kings later the Scandinavians or Norse came selling Abba records, Duvets and having a really nasty attitude to ownership. The Vikings had arrived. These people raided and settled in the isles of Scotland, northern England on both sides and the Irish (in Ireland not Scotland, although see above). Founded Dublin as a bit of an afterthought. Also the Danes, who, after the Saxons had unified England, including Cornwall (more on that later) divided the country into two. The north became the Danelaw. The south became a place where kings could burn cakes so becoming Great. Anyway, vast amounts of bloodshed. But the country was united again. Huzzah! (Apart from Cornwall which we allowed to have its own language otherwise they would have cried. They also had some very Silly Isles.) Finally the Normans (Norse, who were bad spellers) arrived under William the Bastard ( Because 1. He really was and 2. He is really, really was). Took over, wrote a book called the Domesday Book (should be Doomsday. See, they cannot spell). Also invaded Ireland so they could become Pale. Look to up. That's what the internet is there for. The other Normans went off and invaded other places such as Italy, Sicily (owned at the time by Don Mafiosa), Byzantine (but gave it up because it was too complicated) and other places but all those don't concern us. So you should have read that part. I am not your teacher, there is to be no test so you can all start breathing again. So everything clear so far? Good. Because that is the end of the Invasions of Britain. During the Middle Ages (so called because everybody was a bit tired (like your middle aged parents) of all this coming over here setting up a nice little farm, getting to know the neighbours, even if they are a bit strange not from around here. On no, it was time the English, Welsh, Scots and any other foreigners who liked a bit of gardening and a nice cup of tea, showed the real foreigners (apart from those who lived in the West Country (who really did come from Mars, probably) what it really felt like to be invaded. Cue the 100 years War, 7 Years War, Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, The British Empire (You at the back, why aren't you saluting, Yes you Australians too. If it wasn't for us you wouldn't have a country to go strewth in and call everybody Bruce and Sheila.) The Empire also gave us an excuse to steal lots of words from Johnny Foreigner. We had no jungles in Britain being civilised. Also anything else we have is for safekeeping. Got that. The French had a bit of a Religious War and so the Huguenots fled France, settled here and gave us some strange words ('we surrender', 'here's a weapon. only been dropped once' and so forth). Some Dutch came over in the 17th century to help drains parts of the Fens (because it is a marsh and the both words almost mean the same thing. (Look, English is simple, sensible and does not have any words that mean the some thing. Unlike those other languages wot I've heard about.) Anyway that gave some words as well. So the reason why we have so many accents is simply explained above. Everybody who came here had their own language but they melded into one (apart from the bloody Welsh with their Cymric and them tossers north of the Border with their Gaelic. The more complicated reason is that the bastards who lived 2 minutes down the road and refuses to give back our kettle what our aunt Edith lent them last Michealmas, could not be bothered to learn how to speech correctly. I.e. how we spoked it. Incidentally (and really) it was not up until the mass us of TV, that 'English' really became a language used throughout the British Isles. It was easier for a Yorkshireman to speak to a Frisian (a person from the island of the north coast of Holland than it was for the Yorkshireman to speak to some body in the home counties. Right, everybody is clear why there are so many accents? Good.

@johngledhill2970

4 жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention Middlesex where all the gay Saxons set up camp!

@simonparmar2051

4 жыл бұрын

@@johngledhill2970 Nice one!

Very beautiful and completely bonkers. Who takes your dog out to the loo? Whatever “ floats your boat”. Love that.

People do have mixer taps. It’s to do with piping I think lol

Seperate Hot and Cold is because many houses have a separate cold water tank which may not be strictly hygenic . The only mains water in many houses is in the kitchen.

Regarding Wales, I was reading a book about the Plantagenet kings and the short version is that the Welsh nobility had a treaty with England back in the 1200s, then tried to rebel and failed. Edward the First attacked, annihilated the Welsh nobility and replaced them with English. Hence Wales was conquered and assimilated into England, rather than scotland having treaties, breaking them, signing them again... Fun fact: this is why the heir to the crown of England is prince of Wales. Edward the 1st had his son born in wales, and proclaimed prince after Llwellyn the Last was killed/disappeared.

@hannahprosser357

4 жыл бұрын

9thDallasMowerExpo yep and then the English nobility would for fun ride out from there Castle’s and slaughter any Welsh they could find. They also made the Welsh language illegal even up until the 1800 and if you had a Welsh accent they considered you to be stupid and wouldn’t give you a job.

We have two water taps because the water in the cold tap is drinking water, whether from bathroom, kitchen or toilet cistern, but don't drink water from the hot tap because (generally) it has too much copper from the pipes. We don't celebrate Guy Fawkes, we celebrate catching and killing him. The Welsh pride in their excellent country comes from the fact that they are often 'lumped' with us English in the expression "England and Wales". As for the weather, well, you've only been here for five minutes, when you've also suffered snow in June, you'll know what we mean.

5th of November, and it's to celebrate the failure of the plot, traditionally an effigy of Guy Fawkes is burnt on the bonfire. A couple of traditional treats are black treacle toffee and parkin. The two taps are because homes had a hot water tank which is considered 'static' water, if you then have mixer taps the hot water can possibly feed back into the cold water supply. This has a slight risk of contaminating the cold water supply. If you have a condensing boiler a mixer tap is possible.

We used to have cold winters wit lots of snow but not anymore

Wait until its snows, Which is not often, the whole of England comes to a stop, Almost no winter tyres

The winter in The UK is the best 7 months of the year! 😄😄