In November 1979 I was serving with the British Army my job had kept me busy and I hadn't managed to get home in over a year. I had hoped to get back home in November but was forced to go on a two week pre deployment skiing jolly with my section to Achensee about an hours drive from Innsbruck in Austria. One morning I was tasked with an admin mail run to the main post office in Innsbruck. I stopped by a small café for a cup of coffee before heading back. The café was run by two older women, to be fair they we probably only n their 50's but I was a 19 year old kid so they were my mothers age. I thought I was a big tough man but they saw the homesick little boy that I really was, they hovered over me and insisted on giving me a slice of a rich cherry cake to go with my coffee. It was one of the warmest moments of my life, I'm 60 now and that was 41 years ago, I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday but when I think about that time I can feel the warmth of those two wonderful ladies and I can remember the taste of the cake. I don't really know why I'm writing this, it's just come back into my mind, maybe the next day they had forgotten about me but I never forgot them, for me it's a little moment frozen in time and in our current uncertain times it's those little things like being kind to someone who needs it that help get us through.
The girls walking around in the cold with very little on are actually wearing an invisible garment called a bacardigan. The individual in question automatically dons the invisible garment only after a sufficient amount of alcohol, usually an alcopop, has been consumed. Hope that helps.
Yep, absolutely right. The same girl is "freezing" in a centrally heated house, but goes clubbing (in winter) in bare legs and a dress made from less fabric than a chocolate wrapper. (And so short that there are two little smiles peeking out from under the back hem)
On temperature - 12 degrees is T-shirt weather, 15 is beach, 20 is skinny-dipping and 25 is heat wave. It's because we're conditioned to wet cold as opposed to continental dry cold.
Whenever I'm sitting on the sofa with my dogs curled up in my lap, if I say, 'Right', the dogs instantly jump up because they know I'm about to stand up and do something.
When I lived in nunhead (London) my cat had a fox as its best friend they would pounce on each other and chase each other but the cutest thing was in the sun they would lay together stretched out as if sun bathing
Wall to wall carpets came in vogue the 70s. Before then we had a carpet square and lino around the edges. Wall to wall carpets came in German homes before they were common in English homes. These also included a thick underlay. On concrete floors this made a huge improvements. Along with double gazing and the memory of frost inside on the windows went. Laminated and wooden floors started to be more common in the 90s. Back came carpet squares. The deep pile insulation no longer there.
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A few years ago I lived in Sheffield for a while. On a night out, when I first got there, I had to visit the Gents. I stood there, doing what you do, when a fellow reveller started a short amiable conversation with the line 'You alreet luv?', it kinda shocked me as I'd never been called 'luv' in a Gents toilet before.
This is a Sheffield thing - men do, sometimes, call one another ‘love’, but it’s close to be called ‘mate’ - friendly with no connotations intended. I lived in Sheffield at one time, and it surprised me too when I first heard it.
My home, an apartment built about 20 years ago, does have 2-pin sockets in both bathrooms, suitable for an electric shaver (which I don't use) or a rechargable electric toothbush, or other low power items. In my own bathroom I do also use an electric hair trimmer, with a long cord, plugged into a socket outside the bathroom. For female guests (or if there happened to be male guests with long hair too I suppose ;) ), I have an electric hairdryer situated in a dressing-table drawer in a guest bedroom, the dressing-table has a large mirror, so all likely needs are catered for. Yes, it's all about safety - for which I am quite content and thankful. I've lived in many other countries, in Europe and elsewhere, with varying levels of safety, some excellent and some not so great (as I know to my cost unfortunately). As for the imperial/metric measurement system, I am old enough to have grown up before metrication, but I have mostly adapted to metric for things like temperature or even shoe sizes (although that's variable), but I must admit I stick rigidly to imperial (inches) when considering trouser measurements, and in weather forecasts it gives me a nostalgic feeling when I visit the US and hear them talking about temperatures in Fahrenheit, which we rarely use now in the UK, but still know exactly what temperatures expressed in C or F signify without thinking too hard about it, younger people are probably less familiar with imperial measurements. Personally I'm grateful to have grown up in the days before calculators, because I am perfectly used to using my brains to make pretty complex calculations, even if I'm equally perfectly happy to use electronic assistance too ;) .
Bathrooms in homes, particularly built over the last 35-40 years, are usually fitted with a socket that has 230/110v for electric shavers. These double for toothbrush charging but most hair driers require more current.
Things I liked about living in Vienna 1, Music film festival at the Rathausplatz, especially the last night 2. Sitting in the Graben drinking coffee and chilling 3. Demel 4. Hundertwasserhaus
Very weird carpet comments. A nice carpet, with decent underlay is so nice under foot. Carpets get hoovered, which is much easier than sweeping and mopping a hard floor and most people with carpeted houses take shoes off at the front door. Most will make a point of telling you it is a shoes off house if they have carpets. Shoes on houses are usually dog owner houses where you are more likely to want to wipe your feet on the way out🤪. Carpets rarely need cleaning with shampoo unless you have dogs, or kids that trample dirt in. Not taking shoes off would be more common where people go outside regularly. If I arrive at my girlfriends and am going out for a smoke shortly after, I will leave my shoes on but if I needed the loo which is upstairs (and from the bottom stair is is carpeted) I would take my shoes off. Carpets are so much nicer to walk on and way warmer and also make the house feel cosier due to its effects on sound. A carpeted room is much nicer for listening to music, or watching a film in than a room where every surface is hard, even talking just sounds nicer in a carpeted room without all of the excessive reverberation.
Carpet, shoes off! Bad etiquette to keep shoes on in a person's home imo unless they specifically say no need to take them off. I dunno, maybe it's just the way I was raised?
Newcastle upon Tyne, midnight, snow falling, girls wearing T-shirts and miniskirts. Beer can be measured in pints or litres depending, shops normally sell half litre cans or bottles.
I only wear shoes from the hall to the kitchen which is laminated flooring, I usually change into slippers for going into the living room or upstairs :)
No sockets in bathrooms is because of: 1. The use or installation of sockets is not allowed in bathrooms or shower rooms unless they can be fitted at least 3 metres from the bath or shower. The only exception to this is a shaver-supply unit. If you do have an electrical shaver point installed, it must be a safe distance (in metres) from the bath or shower to avoid splashes. It's a little known law in the UK.
By not having electrics in the bathroom people can't end up frying themselves. Take your shoes off people! You have to see lasses going to clubs in the snow with hardly anything on. Yup, there are foxes all over the place, mostly in towns now raiding bins like raccoons in the states. Do you not get raccoons or foxes in Austria? In Newcastle I went to a football match where most of the home support lads were topless, no shirts and it was snowing, snowing heavy for England anyway. It's fun to see how people see us.
Out in the countryside we always leave outdoor shoes at the door and never venture indoors with them. People usually have a porch or similar to leave boots in. Some visitors even bring their own slippers with them!
They did try and change Coco Pops to Choco Krispies in the UK in 1998. Sales plummeted, and there were constant calls to change it back. Kelloggs ran a poll the next year, and it was nearly 100% in favour of returning the name so they did.
You don't sound Austrian. You sound American. I can't detect any Austrian accent. You are way ahead of Arnold Schwarzenegger who has lived in USA nearly his whole life.
Not town region we are not that disperate yet we are getting there but yeah every region has a compleatly difference accent or different ways of saying the same word ie the correct English for a greeting would be "Are you alright/okay ?" in the East where i live that has been shortened to "rite"
Same in Derbyshire, I'm from up't North, and I remember the first time I was in a shop in Derbyshire, and the person behind the counter called me 'duck', I was like WTF!
I think you are totally wasted on youtube, you really should be on television. I wouldn't be surprised once your youtube channel grabs the attention of the right people or person wonderful things are going to happen and when that day comes im going to come back and say "i told you so". You are way to talented, beautiful and easy to watch and enjoy to not grab peoples attention. I see a very bright and exciting future ahead for you. Ps; another great video that gets a big thumbs up from me, please do keep them coming xx
It's 'love' in London, 'duck' in the East Midlands, 'bab' in the West Midlands, 'pet' in the North-East, 'hen' in Scotland and 'my love' in the South-West. What is it in Wales, anyone?
Hi Vanessa! I've just found your channel. I'm American living over here (Hampshire) and for the first few years of living here, I would dry my hair and straighten my hair, by running an extension cord across the hallway into the bathroom!! It got to be such a pain. When we were replacing the wardrobes in the bedroom, I had the tradesmen install a mirror in the bedroom so I could do my hair more easily. But everytime I go back home to Illinois, I look forward to styling my hair in the bathroom at my Auntie's house.
'Walkers' are an older brand in the UK bought out by Pepsi-Co some time in the late 80s, so it seems they stuck with the name for the UK market and another Euro branch had the 'Lays' brand.
Three things of note perhaps more. In the Staffs are and a few areas 'duck' is used similarly to Love. Also December 26 2017 it was quite cold. NOT freezing 9:30 PM I got a knock at the door . I opened it to find a young lady in just Bra and panties 'can I borrow a tea towel' I just went to the cupboard got a towel and gave it to her she said 'thanks' and ran away. I am still waiting to get the towel back. May I say that you seen to have got a British sense of humour I don't know if that's a curse. I really enjoy your videos.
People talk about how friendly people in England and the UK are, I think a lot of it comes down to how you present yourself to those people when you talk to them: If you're a friendly and polite person then you'll probably find those people to be friendly and polite back to you. And vice versa if you're not such a nice person. Most of the time, you get out what you put in!
Guess you've never been to Basildon because you" ve never experienced the Basildon pub quiz which has only two questions and all the possible answers are wrong; the questions are; What are you looking at? Do you want some? The prize is a free stay in hospital with optional cranio-maxilliary surgery.
I thoroughly enjoy seeing your take on our little islands culture, been backtracking through your channel, as the trapped nerve in my hip simply won't let me move! Slightly off topic but have you ever seen the t.v. comedy "The Fast Show" ... I feel sure you would enjoy it! Johnny Depp liked it so much, he did a scene for the "suit you sir"
Shoes inside the house. Not sure if that's a London/South of England thing, but here in the Midlands where I live, and in the North of England where I'm originally from, you'd be very frowned upon if you went beyond the entrance hall with shoes on!
Weights and measures: By tradition we use imperial but for trade/standisation purposes we switched to metric when we joined the EU. However most ordinary people stuck with what they were used to that's why it's a bit of a mess and we use both. Here are some easy conversions that may help. They aren't exact but close enough unless you need precision: I mile is about 1600m. So 5 miles = 8 km. 25miles = 40km. 50miles = 80km, etc 10ft is about 3m. so 30 ft = 9m, etc 1m is about 3'3". So 2m is 6'6", 4m = 13', etc 1kg = 2.2lbs. So 5kg = 11lbs, 50 kg = 110lbs, etc A stone is 14lbs or a bit over 6kg. A big 15 stone guy is 210lbs, or about 95kg. Basically the trick is to learn a few markers such as 10' is 3m and then it's easy to get a quick rough conversion. hope that helps!
Yes, strangely enough water and electricity is a bad mix. Britain and Europe uses about 220 to 240volt 50Hz supply (it varies somewhat depending on demand and supply). I think America popularized having sockets in the bathroom, but it's 110v (or 120v?) At 60Hz there so it's a bit less lethal if you mix up the hair dryer and the soap. Normally the washing machine is in the kitchen or laundry room in most of Britain. A lot of places (particularly Mediterranean countries) seem to mostly have them in the bathroom.
I work with a Greek woman and her English sounds fairly American. It's because all the English language programs she watched back home are all American- she saw almost no UK made tv, so she's learned to speak with an American inflection. Probably similar in Austria.
She also does vids about American/English differences etc, but if people laugh at her 'ignorant American' she trots out the Austrian angle, so I figure people should say 'ignorant Austrian/American'? I've known Germans and a few Austrians, none sounded like this, they all had a distinctive Germanic accent.
If you get a chance to travel to Wales, or many rural areas, you'll find people starting a conversation with you. You might just be walking along a street and eyes meet and people say hello. Having lived in London for over 40 years, very few would talk to you as complete strangers. So there you are love, we are very happy that you are enjoying life in the UK. There are two young Austrian twins you should Check out, Mona Lisa Twins. They are on RUclips. Great singers. Looking forward to more of your videos.
I'm a Kiwi, lived in London for a number of years, got used to it, then visited Manchester. OMG, friendly. As a bit of an introvert, I was happy to get back to London, even tho I enjoyed my time in Manchester.
Alright my luver (West country), we don't have 240 volts in a bath room, very bad. You may have 110 Volts in other countries with sockets which is slightly safer. Shaver sockets are found in bathrooms but they are limited current capacity as they are supplied through an isolation transformer which means you have to put both fingers in the socket to get a shock.
I completely agree with you about carpeted floors. I think they are actually quite dirty, particularly if there are pets in the house. They have gradually been getting less fashionable over the past couple of decades, I'm glad to say.
Dont forget that the mains electricity supply in the UK is 240volts. You may get a shavers only socket in the bathroom (2 pin socket limited to 230/110 volts)
Always enjoy your ‘take’ on English society & behaviour. If you haven’t done anything such as ‘cockney slang’ terms, that would be both interesting & educational. Best wishes
You should visit Newcastle upon Tyne in December,it can be -6 and snowing and people in The Bigg Market will be wearing second cousin to nothing and still complain that they're too hot
You are correct, hairdyers in the bathroom are a no, no, Try dropping one in a sink or bath full of water. It's all about safety, Same thing for the bathroom light switch, it's mostly found on the end of a rope in the UK, UK power is 240volts AC. That makes it sufficiently powerful to kill you if you get a fault caused by water or even heavy condensation. So you dont want to be handling something with 240volts live running through anywhere to close to water.
Many people fail to recognise that the UK switched over to the metric and SI system in education in 1968-69. Science became strongly SI units since then even if old text books continued to be used in mathematics and physics A Level for another 5 years. The period of change continues. Road signs are still in miles and quoting fuel consumption in miles per gallon (they do in America but have a smaller gallon so the rates for the same car are much lower). We still have 300 yard warnings for changes in speed and slip roads off motor ways. But height restrictions are in metres. Most products only show grams or ml and in odd amounts until you convert to imperial ounces and then it makes sense. I expect jars to be 250 or 500g, not 340g (12 oz) or 450g (1ib) that they are. Milk is mostly sold in 1, 2, 4 or 6 pint bottles. There are 1 or 2 litre alternatives. We buy planks of wood in multiples of 600 mm (nearly 2 ft) but sheets of plywood are 4ft x 8ft exactly. In building supplies you may need imperial sizes as metrics ones do not fit correctly. Some young people claim they were never taught imperial units in English schools but there has always been questions using them on mathematics papers for 16+ examination until the 2015 change when it was finally dropped. But common usage still means that many under twenties when asked to estimate height or weight will reply in feet or stones before thinking in metric. This is not really surprizing. Germans still buy a Pfúnd of apples or potatoes but mean 500 grams. The British even have a metric foot (300 mm, a nickname) and a metric inch (2.54 cm exact definition). Some older people claim they were never taught metric in schools. My father, in his 70s said he didn't understand the units. This is odd as he taught me the metric system when I was in primary school and still denied knowing about them when I produced his school exercise books from the 1930s which are full of examples of their use. The UK went metric in a half hearted compromised way, just like they jointed the EU absenting or refusing to accept many of the resolutions put forward. They even leave in a half hearted manner. But that is another can of worms.
I think we have a personalised system in the UK where we dismissed the boring measurements like kilometres and kept the things we liked, like the romantic and exciting mile. Inches and feet go hand in hand with centimetres and milimetres. And of course the old measurements relate to humans (organic) while perhaps metric relates to the decline of the human into automatons....just saying.
@@Witheredgoogie And of course everyone knows a pint is about right but half a litre does cut it and a litre is too much. Missed me by an inch is more poetic than missed me by a could of centimetres. I'll go the whole mile but not going the full kilometre.
No British people use imperial units and we switch to metic units. The Eu banned us from using imperial units on products but on products but now we left imperial units back on products.
In Sheffield the men call other blokes love too. When I moved there for my degree the first time an overweight, bearded bus driver called me love I was a bit worried he was coming onto me! Back in my native Somerset the dinner ladies at my school would call you "my lurver" rather than love. Again as a teenage boy I found this slightly disturbing at first.
@@speleokeir Once on the M5 at night, I got confused in roadworks, and mistakenly followed a lorry into a coned-off area. The lorry driver stopped - so I had to - walked back to me, and said "I don't think you want to be 'ere my lurver." He was right, but it made my day to learn that people actually do say that in Somerset!
@@coombscharlie In the East Midlands he'd have called you "Me duck", and I once interviewed someone for a job in Yorkshire who addressed me as "Flower".
@@speleokeir How be on, my fianceé is from Yorkshire and he sometimes calls blokes luv too. He be the gurt lush one on the left in our piccie. Tbh I'm rarely that broad, having been brought up and living in the posh(ish) part. Love my little city (smallest in England).
@@mindygracebickerdike I don't have the accent either, I'm common RP but I sometimes put it on for fun. Wells is lovely. I grew up about 20 miles away and pop into Wells when I'm caving on Mendip.
Not necessarily. I taught English in the Slovak Republic, and you could always tell the students who'd had an American EFL teacher because they had an American accent.
@@highpath4776 All the wood in this yard is now metric mate and that 75mm by 50mm in your hand is 2 bob a foot. Actually heard in a wood yard quite a while ago, pre decimalisation of the coinage.
Electricity and water do not mix you are correct it's against building regulations for safety reasons. That's why there are no 240v sockets in the bathroom nor should they be within 400mm of any splash zone in your kitchen
I didn’t notice the ‘finding other ways to say no’ thing until I moved to China and (in an English-speaking restaurant that catered to foreigners) was asked if I wanted another coke and said ‘I’m fine thanks’, but was brought another coke. Of course I was too polite to turn it down.
The terms of endearment also (kinda) extend to interactions between blokes (guys). A colleague of mine often greets me by saying "y'alright me old fruit?". Casual interactions in public (almost typed pubic there 😬) would be "alright mate" or buddy
Here’s one for you - I’m not sure if this is a UK thing or just a Scottish thing but we ask questions like ‘how is it going?’ or ‘how are you doing?’ that we don’t expect or want an answer to 🤷🏼♂️ It’s just like saying hello.
Somehow we are subliminally taught in the UK that water and electricity is a bad combo so sockets in a bathroom just does not feel safe even though logically we know modern bathroom sockets should be. Carpets, were in the middle of a generation gap, caught between badly insulated houses with cold floors and drafts which need carpets and modern housing that doesn't but you grew up with carpets so that feels right, its slowly changing, at least we don't have carpets in bathrooms and toilets anymore.
The reason for not having 3 pin sockets in the bathroom, is because the power supply is so high which is not good if it mixes with water, it deadly. You can have a socket if it's over 3 meters away, but who has a bathroom that big in the UK. You do get the 2 pin socket as they use a lower power rating.
The two pin sockets are also supplied through an isolating transformer which means that there is no route to ground from either leg. In theory (don't try this) you could put one hand on a grounded tap (all pipework in the bathroom must be bonded to Earth) and one on either side of the 2 pin socket without any risk of shock. The transformers are small and so the output is limited to supplying shaver/toothbrush levels of demand.
I'm a yorkshire man, so I will say 'cheers love' to everyone. I do not mean this to be sexist to women, only as a means to be polite. However you are really pretty I just realised, maybe it is just me but you look kinda like oona chaplin
In November 1979 I was serving with the British Army my job had kept me busy and I hadn't managed to get home in over a year. I had hoped to get back home in November but was forced to go on a two week pre deployment skiing jolly with my section to Achensee about an hours drive from Innsbruck in Austria. One morning I was tasked with an admin mail run to the main post office in Innsbruck. I stopped by a small café for a cup of coffee before heading back. The café was run by two older women, to be fair they we probably only n their 50's but I was a 19 year old kid so they were my mothers age. I thought I was a big tough man but they saw the homesick little boy that I really was, they hovered over me and insisted on giving me a slice of a rich cherry cake to go with my coffee. It was one of the warmest moments of my life, I'm 60 now and that was 41 years ago, I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday but when I think about that time I can feel the warmth of those two wonderful ladies and I can remember the taste of the cake. I don't really know why I'm writing this, it's just come back into my mind, maybe the next day they had forgotten about me but I never forgot them, for me it's a little moment frozen in time and in our current uncertain times it's those little things like being kind to someone who needs it that help get us through.
The girls walking around in the cold with very little on are actually wearing an invisible garment called a bacardigan. The individual in question automatically dons the invisible garment only after a sufficient amount of alcohol, usually an alcopop, has been consumed. Hope that helps.
Yep, absolutely right. The same girl is "freezing" in a centrally heated house, but goes clubbing (in winter) in bare legs and a dress made from less fabric than a chocolate wrapper. (And so short that there are two little smiles peeking out from under the back hem)
On temperature - 12 degrees is T-shirt weather, 15 is beach, 20 is skinny-dipping and 25 is heat wave. It's because we're conditioned to wet cold as opposed to continental dry cold.
Whenever I'm sitting on the sofa with my dogs curled up in my lap, if I say, 'Right', the dogs instantly jump up because they know I'm about to stand up and do something.
this. When i go to my parents i have to something else now or the dog starts barking non stop haha.
When I lived in nunhead (London) my cat had a fox as its best friend they would pounce on each other and chase each other but the cutest thing was in the sun they would lay together stretched out as if sun bathing
Nunhead cemetery. Creepiest place in London.
Wall to wall carpets came in vogue the 70s. Before then we had a carpet square and lino around the edges. Wall to wall carpets came in German homes before they were common in English homes. These also included a thick underlay. On concrete floors this made a huge improvements. Along with double gazing and the memory of frost inside on the windows went. Laminated and wooden floors started to be more common in the 90s. Back came carpet squares. The deep pile insulation no longer there.
Someone suggested that you should have your own TV program. I agree! Excellent communication skills, personality, natural sense of humour and fun, plus intelligence. Enjoy your observations of living in LONDON/ England. Success for you! Message from Brazil.
People in England love a little bit of carpet! Euphemism if ever I heard one! ;-)
Giggity.
@MadManRob1 Smooth operator. 😀
You dirty dog!
Only if it matches the drapes
Yeah. And there's nothing I like more on a Sunday morning than giving it a good thorough hoovering.
It's been ages since I saw one of these videos. I hope you're well Vanessa xx
Right if said seated is normally accompanied by the slapping of the thigh or thighs depending on the amount of hands used!
Olay cold cream was developed for RAF pilots that had serious burns after being shot down in flames.
So it wasn't a Spanish beautician satisfied with their facial treatment on a rich client then ? Darn, i'm soo doooopid !
A few years ago I lived in Sheffield for a while. On a night out, when I first got there, I had to visit the Gents. I stood there, doing what you do, when a fellow reveller started a short amiable conversation with the line 'You alreet luv?', it kinda shocked me as I'd never been called 'luv' in a Gents toilet before.
You where in a gay club.
This is a Sheffield thing - men do, sometimes, call one another ‘love’, but it’s close to be called ‘mate’ - friendly with no connotations intended. I lived in Sheffield at one time, and it surprised me too when I first heard it.
My home, an apartment built about 20 years ago, does have 2-pin sockets in both bathrooms, suitable for an electric shaver (which I don't use) or a rechargable electric toothbush, or other low power items. In my own bathroom I do also use an electric hair trimmer, with a long cord, plugged into a socket outside the bathroom. For female guests (or if there happened to be male guests with long hair too I suppose ;) ), I have an electric hairdryer situated in a dressing-table drawer in a guest bedroom, the dressing-table has a large mirror, so all likely needs are catered for. Yes, it's all about safety - for which I am quite content and thankful. I've lived in many other countries, in Europe and elsewhere, with varying levels of safety, some excellent and some not so great (as I know to my cost unfortunately). As for the imperial/metric measurement system, I am old enough to have grown up before metrication, but I have mostly adapted to metric for things like temperature or even shoe sizes (although that's variable), but I must admit I stick rigidly to imperial (inches) when considering trouser measurements, and in weather forecasts it gives me a nostalgic feeling when I visit the US and hear them talking about temperatures in Fahrenheit, which we rarely use now in the UK, but still know exactly what temperatures expressed in C or F signify without thinking too hard about it, younger people are probably less familiar with imperial measurements. Personally I'm grateful to have grown up in the days before calculators, because I am perfectly used to using my brains to make pretty complex calculations, even if I'm equally perfectly happy to use electronic assistance too ;) .
Bathrooms in homes, particularly built over the last 35-40 years, are usually fitted with a socket that has 230/110v for electric shavers. These double for toothbrush charging but most hair driers require more current.
Olay was called Ulay in the UK until the ‘80’s, Snickers bars were originally Marathons, Cif cleaning creams were Jif.
Keith Orbell It was called Oil of Ulay then shortened to Ulay then changed to Olay!
And condoms were “ anything for the weekend Sir”
And don’t forget Opal Fruits!
I think it was later than the 80s, I remember it being ulay and I was born in 86 so unlikely I remembered it from when I was under 4.
@@RichardBarclay It was later than the 80s.
I loved Austria beautiful countryside, the Tyrol wow. Really friendly & nice people.
Things I liked about living in Vienna
1, Music film festival at the Rathausplatz, especially the last night
2. Sitting in the Graben drinking coffee and chilling
3. Demel
4. Hundertwasserhaus
Very weird carpet comments. A nice carpet, with decent underlay is so nice under foot. Carpets get hoovered, which is much easier than sweeping and mopping a hard floor and most people with carpeted houses take shoes off at the front door. Most will make a point of telling you it is a shoes off house if they have carpets.
Shoes on houses are usually dog owner houses where you are more likely to want to wipe your feet on the way out🤪. Carpets rarely need cleaning with shampoo unless you have dogs, or kids that trample dirt in.
Not taking shoes off would be more common where people go outside regularly. If I arrive at my girlfriends and am going out for a smoke shortly after, I will leave my shoes on but if I needed the loo which is upstairs (and from the bottom stair is is carpeted) I would take my shoes off.
Carpets are so much nicer to walk on and way warmer and also make the house feel cosier due to its effects on sound. A carpeted room is much nicer for listening to music, or watching a film in than a room where every surface is hard, even talking just sounds nicer in a carpeted room without all of the excessive reverberation.
I have a dog and its shoes off . Stop judging.
Carpet, shoes off! Bad etiquette to keep shoes on in a person's home imo unless they specifically say no need to take them off. I dunno, maybe it's just the way I was raised?
Newcastle upon Tyne, midnight, snow falling, girls wearing T-shirts and miniskirts. Beer can be measured in pints or litres depending, shops normally sell half litre cans or bottles.
Great video. Very interesting observations. Thanks for sharing them.
I only wear shoes from the hall to the kitchen which is laminated flooring, I usually change into slippers for going into the living room or upstairs :)
No sockets in bathrooms is because of:
1. The use or installation of sockets is not allowed in bathrooms or shower rooms unless they can be fitted at least 3 metres from the bath or shower. The only exception to this is a shaver-supply unit.
If you do have an electrical shaver point installed, it must be a safe distance (in metres) from the bath or shower to avoid splashes.
It's a little known law in the UK.
By not having electrics in the bathroom people can't end up frying themselves. Take your shoes off people! You have to see lasses going to clubs in the snow with hardly anything on. Yup, there are foxes all over the place, mostly in towns now raiding bins like raccoons in the states. Do you not get raccoons or foxes in Austria? In Newcastle I went to a football match where most of the home support lads were topless, no shirts and it was snowing, snowing heavy for England anyway. It's fun to see how people see us.
Out in the countryside we always leave outdoor shoes at the door and never venture indoors with them. People usually have a porch or similar to leave boots in. Some visitors even bring their own slippers with them!
Your 'London' accent is hilarious and pretty much spot on
I’m new to your channel and have to say I LOVE how everything you say has me nodding “Yes!”!
Especially the ‘Right. I’d better...” 😘😂. So spot on!
Reason there are no electrical sockets in UK bathrooms is for safety reasons.Mixing 220 volts electricity with water can be deadly
They did try and change Coco Pops to Choco Krispies in the UK in 1998. Sales plummeted, and there were constant calls to change it back. Kelloggs ran a poll the next year, and it was nearly 100% in favour of returning the name so they did.
You don't sound Austrian. You sound American. I can't detect any Austrian accent. You are way ahead of Arnold Schwarzenegger who has lived in USA nearly his whole life.
she lived in the US prior and is likely where she learned the majority of her English.
Get to the choppah!
Lessons to live by...
@@SirZanZa why do yanks always say prior instead of before?
You've discovered her secret, she's really Raven "Mystique" Darkholme!
its a very rare viennese accent, its only spoken in one building, the US embassy
We can also be rude in an endearing way, banter is a big thing among men, then again if you buy a round of drinks you're a gentleman and a scholar.
Just came across your vids - they’re great. Gonna do your whole back catalogue!
I like how every town has it's own accent over here.
Not town region we are not that disperate yet we are getting there but yeah every region has a compleatly difference accent or different ways of saying the same word ie the correct English for a greeting would be "Are you alright/okay ?" in the East where i live that has been shortened to "rite"
In Northamptonshire apart from the endearments you've mentioned you will hear "me duck" used most often. " Can I help you me duck?"
Same in Derbyshire, I'm from up't North, and I remember the first time I was in a shop in Derbyshire, and the person behind the counter called me 'duck', I was like WTF!
Yeah, but you're quackers over there.
I love your channel very interesting and love your reactions to things too. Highlights of my day watching your content.
The not feeling the cold thing is really true especially up North
I think you are totally wasted on youtube, you really should be on television. I wouldn't be surprised once your youtube channel grabs the attention of the right people or person wonderful things are going to happen and when that day comes im going to come back and say "i told you so". You are way to talented, beautiful and easy to watch and enjoy to not grab peoples attention. I see a very bright and exciting future ahead for you. Ps; another great video that gets a big thumbs up from me, please do keep them coming xx
Totally agree….👍
Hi Vanessa, just seen the news, and immediately thought of you....x
It's 'love' in London, 'duck' in the East Midlands, 'bab' in the West Midlands, 'pet' in the North-East, 'hen' in Scotland and 'my love' in the South-West. What is it in Wales, anyone?
In wales it’s Caridad=darling/sweetheart.
Ewe?
@@shaneparry8743 Cariad, not "caridad"
Hi Vanessa! I've just found your channel. I'm American living over here (Hampshire) and for the first few years of living here, I would dry my hair and straighten my hair, by running an extension cord across the hallway into the bathroom!! It got to be such a pain. When we were replacing the wardrobes in the bedroom, I had the tradesmen install a mirror in the bedroom so I could do my hair more easily. But everytime I go back home to Illinois, I look forward to styling my hair in the bathroom at my Auntie's house.
'Walkers' are an older brand in the UK bought out by Pepsi-Co some time in the late 80s, so it seems they stuck with the name for the UK market and another Euro branch had the 'Lays' brand.
Three things of note perhaps more. In the Staffs are and a few areas 'duck' is used similarly to Love. Also December 26 2017 it was quite cold. NOT freezing 9:30 PM I got a knock at the door . I opened it to find a young lady in just Bra and panties 'can I borrow a tea towel' I just went to the cupboard got a towel and gave it to her she said 'thanks' and ran away. I am still waiting to get the towel back.
May I say that you seen to have got a British sense of humour I don't know if that's a curse. I really enjoy your videos.
People talk about how friendly people in England and the UK are, I think a lot of it comes down to how you present yourself to those people when you talk to them: If you're a friendly and polite person then you'll probably find those people to be friendly and polite back to you. And vice versa if you're not such a nice person.
Most of the time, you get out what you put in!
In London you generally just have to scratch the surface and people are nice and usually helpful -- as long as you're not being a pain in the ass
Guess you've never been to Basildon because you" ve never experienced the Basildon pub quiz which has only two questions and all the possible answers are wrong; the questions are;
What are you looking at?
Do you want some?
The prize is a free stay in hospital with optional cranio-maxilliary surgery.
I thoroughly enjoy seeing your take on our little islands culture, been backtracking through your channel, as the trapped nerve in my hip simply won't let me move! Slightly off topic but have you ever seen the t.v. comedy "The Fast Show" ... I feel sure you would enjoy it! Johnny Depp liked it so much, he did a scene for the "suit you sir"
Olay used to be called Oil Of Ulay here.
My wife and I still call it Ulay. But we have stopped calling Snickers Marathons.
Shoes inside the house. Not sure if that's a London/South of England thing, but here in the Midlands where I live, and in the North of England where I'm originally from, you'd be very frowned upon if you went beyond the entrance hall with shoes on!
Haha I'm British, and I didn't realise how weird we were 🤣🤣
Where not. They just want to change us.
@@garygalt4146 true true
Boom bit different up northwest England in Morecambe but same applies xx ❤ just lost my dad on Sunday heads gone ,you take care x
Weights and measures: By tradition we use imperial but for trade/standisation purposes we switched to metric when we joined the EU. However most ordinary people stuck with what they were used to that's why it's a bit of a mess and we use both. Here are some easy conversions that may help. They aren't exact but close enough unless you need precision:
I mile is about 1600m. So 5 miles = 8 km. 25miles = 40km. 50miles = 80km, etc
10ft is about 3m. so 30 ft = 9m, etc
1m is about 3'3". So 2m is 6'6", 4m = 13', etc
1kg = 2.2lbs. So 5kg = 11lbs, 50 kg = 110lbs, etc
A stone is 14lbs or a bit over 6kg.
A big 15 stone guy is 210lbs, or about 95kg.
Basically the trick is to learn a few markers such as 10' is 3m and then it's easy to get a quick rough conversion.
hope that helps!
Yes, strangely enough water and electricity is a bad mix. Britain and Europe uses about 220 to 240volt 50Hz supply (it varies somewhat depending on demand and supply). I think America popularized having sockets in the bathroom, but it's 110v (or 120v?) At 60Hz there so it's a bit less lethal if you mix up the hair dryer and the soap. Normally the washing machine is in the kitchen or laundry room in most of Britain. A lot of places (particularly Mediterranean countries) seem to mostly have them in the bathroom.
I lived in Far North of Scotland... sunrise around 9.30am and sunset around 3.30pm
The cold thing is so right XD it's 1 degree outside and I'm boiling, my room doesn't even have heating
Austrian, thought you were American lol
Same here. I'm guessing she lived or studied in America at some point maybe.
@@HonestWatchReviewsHWR or was taught English by an American
Same
I work with a Greek woman and her English sounds fairly American. It's because all the English language programs she watched back home are all American- she saw almost no UK made tv, so she's learned to speak with an American inflection. Probably similar in Austria.
She also does vids about American/English differences etc, but if people laugh at her 'ignorant American' she trots out the Austrian angle, so I figure people should say 'ignorant Austrian/American'?
I've known Germans and a few Austrians, none sounded like this, they all had a distinctive Germanic accent.
We use 240v electric, which has higher chance of killing you than 110v, so we are stricter at keeping water away from water.
You should try Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park during this Autumn Christmas Season. That's if it's open this Year due to these Restrictions.
If you get a chance to travel to Wales, or many rural areas, you'll find people starting a conversation with you. You might just be walking along a street and eyes meet and people say hello. Having lived in London for over 40 years, very few would talk to you as complete strangers. So there you are love, we are very happy that you are enjoying life in the UK. There are two young Austrian twins you should Check out, Mona Lisa Twins. They are on RUclips. Great singers. Looking forward to more of your videos.
I'm a Kiwi, lived in London for a number of years, got used to it, then visited Manchester. OMG, friendly. As a bit of an introvert, I was happy to get back to London, even tho I enjoyed my time in Manchester.
Alright my luver (West country), we don't have 240 volts in a bath room, very bad. You may have 110 Volts in other countries with sockets which is slightly safer. Shaver sockets are found in bathrooms but they are limited current capacity as they are supplied through an isolation transformer which means you have to put both fingers in the socket to get a shock.
You talk like English is your first language. For someone who was hopeless at school when trying to learn French, that is just so awesome. :-)
Great video !!
Great as always 🥰🙏
Oh we do feel the cold, but when we're young fashion trumps being warm 😂
I completely agree with you about carpeted floors. I think they are actually quite dirty, particularly if there are pets in the house. They have gradually been getting less fashionable over the past couple of decades, I'm glad to say.
Kindness unexpected is kindness most welcome.
Dont forget that the mains electricity supply in the UK is 240volts. You may get a shavers only socket in the bathroom (2 pin socket limited to 230/110 volts)
Good vid. Right, time to hit like, and wait for the next one. Cheers.
Always enjoy your ‘take’ on English society & behaviour. If you haven’t done anything such as ‘cockney slang’ terms, that would be both interesting & educational. Best wishes
Vanessa, you are so adorable. Loving your videos x
Very good, gave me a real laugh, and you're bang on (another British expression).
I have seen girls wearing about the same in Broad Street, Birmingham in January that you can see on a beach in July.
You should visit Newcastle upon Tyne in December,it can be -6 and snowing and people in The Bigg Market will be wearing second cousin to nothing and still complain that they're too hot
Unique and amazing channel.
You are correct, hairdyers in the bathroom are a no, no, Try dropping one in a sink or bath full of water. It's all about safety, Same thing for the bathroom light switch, it's mostly found on the end of a rope in the UK, UK power is 240volts AC. That makes it sufficiently powerful to kill you if you get a fault caused by water or even heavy condensation. So you dont want to be handling something with 240volts live running through anywhere to close to water.
Foxes got smart legged it from hounds in countryside ☃️🎄😄
Excellent work Sweetheart!
Many people fail to recognise that the UK switched over to the metric and SI system in education in 1968-69. Science became strongly SI units since then even if old text books continued to be used in mathematics and physics A Level for another 5 years. The period of change continues.
Road signs are still in miles and quoting fuel consumption in miles per gallon (they do in America but have a smaller gallon so the rates for the same car are much lower). We still have 300 yard warnings for changes in speed and slip roads off motor ways. But height restrictions are in metres.
Most products only show grams or ml and in odd amounts until you convert to imperial ounces and then it makes sense. I expect jars to be 250 or 500g, not 340g (12 oz) or 450g (1ib) that they are. Milk is mostly sold in 1, 2, 4 or 6 pint bottles. There are 1 or 2 litre alternatives. We buy planks of wood in multiples of 600 mm (nearly 2 ft) but sheets of plywood are 4ft x 8ft exactly. In building supplies you may need imperial sizes as metrics ones do not fit correctly.
Some young people claim they were never taught imperial units in English schools but there has always been questions using them on mathematics papers for 16+ examination until the 2015 change when it was finally dropped. But common usage still means that many under twenties when asked to estimate height or weight will reply in feet or stones before thinking in metric. This is not really surprizing. Germans still buy a Pfúnd of apples or potatoes but mean 500 grams. The British even have a metric foot (300 mm, a nickname) and a metric inch (2.54 cm exact definition).
Some older people claim they were never taught metric in schools. My father, in his 70s said he didn't understand the units. This is odd as he taught me the metric system when I was in primary school and still denied knowing about them when I produced his school exercise books from the 1930s which are full of examples of their use.
The UK went metric in a half hearted compromised way, just like they jointed the EU absenting or refusing to accept many of the resolutions put forward. They even leave in a half hearted manner. But that is another can of worms.
I think we have a personalised system in the UK where we dismissed the boring measurements like kilometres and kept the things we liked, like the romantic and exciting mile. Inches and feet go hand in hand with centimetres and milimetres. And of course the old measurements relate to humans (organic) while perhaps metric relates to the decline of the human into automatons....just saying.
@@Witheredgoogie And of course everyone knows a pint is about right but half a litre does cut it and a litre is too much.
Missed me by an inch is more poetic than missed me by a could of centimetres.
I'll go the whole mile but not going the full kilometre.
No British people use imperial units and we switch to metic units. The Eu banned us from using imperial units on products but on products but now we left imperial units back on products.
If you're a woman, you can call both men and women love, but a man would only call women 'love' and men 'mate'
In Sheffield the men call other blokes love too. When I moved there for my degree the first time an overweight, bearded bus driver called me love I was a bit worried he was coming onto me!
Back in my native Somerset the dinner ladies at my school would call you "my lurver" rather than love. Again as a teenage boy I found this slightly disturbing at first.
@@speleokeir Once on the M5 at night, I got confused in roadworks, and mistakenly followed a lorry into a coned-off area. The lorry driver stopped - so I had to - walked back to me, and said "I don't think you want to be 'ere my lurver." He was right, but it made my day to learn that people actually do say that in Somerset!
@@coombscharlie In the East Midlands he'd have called you "Me duck", and I once interviewed someone for a job in Yorkshire who addressed me as "Flower".
@@speleokeir How be on, my fianceé is from Yorkshire and he sometimes calls blokes luv too. He be the gurt lush one on the left in our piccie.
Tbh I'm rarely that broad, having been brought up and living in the posh(ish) part. Love my little city (smallest in England).
@@mindygracebickerdike I don't have the accent either, I'm common RP but I sometimes put it on for fun. Wells is lovely. I grew up about 20 miles away and pop into Wells when I'm caving on Mendip.
You definitely learnt English in the USA , would never have thought of you as Austrian
People pick it up from hollywood films.
I know a guy who learned English through Cartoon Network when he was younger so he has an American accent
Not necessarily. I taught English in the Slovak Republic, and you could always tell the students who'd had an American EFL teacher because they had an American accent.
Can you tell us where your American accent IS from? An American school?
Ha, the diet coke one is definitely true! 🤣 Fab video, new sub here 🥰
I'm cold all the time, even in Summer! 🤣
All these actually surprised me as well!!
How about, 'alright there?' That's a common one here in Hereford.
Yes we buy fuel in litres but then say how many miles per gallon your car does.
Still convert mentally 20ltr is about 4gallons. A litre of water's a pint and three quarters
@@highpath4776 All the wood in this yard is now metric mate and that 75mm by 50mm in your hand is 2 bob a foot. Actually heard in a wood yard quite a while ago, pre decimalisation of the coinage.
Another British/U.K. habit you’ve acquired...
“Talking about the weather.”
X-D
There's still plenty of carpet out there but laminate has become very popular in the last 20 years.
In England the mains voltage is 240 Volts which can kill you if take it down to earth which is easlily done with water in basins and baths.
Electricity and water do not mix you are correct it's against building regulations for safety reasons. That's why there are no 240v sockets in the bathroom nor should they be within 400mm of any splash zone in your kitchen
HaHaHaAa cold down south, never been up to Newcastle in the winter then...
Love this video
I didn’t notice the ‘finding other ways to say no’ thing until I moved to China and (in an English-speaking restaurant that catered to foreigners) was asked if I wanted another coke and said ‘I’m fine thanks’, but was brought another coke. Of course I was too polite to turn it down.
No sockets in bathrooms is a safety precaution.
We talk about the weather as a safe subject as Eliza was told to do in My fair lady.
The terms of endearment also (kinda) extend to interactions between blokes (guys). A colleague of mine often greets me by saying "y'alright me old fruit?". Casual interactions in public (almost typed pubic there 😬) would be "alright mate" or buddy
My god what a beauty, I used to work in Austria a beautiful country.
Here’s one for you - I’m not sure if this is a UK thing or just a Scottish thing but we ask questions like ‘how is it going?’ or ‘how are you doing?’ that we don’t expect or want an answer to 🤷🏼♂️ It’s just like saying hello.
We have a 240amp electricity system here and if you mix it with water or steam - shocking
Spot on
Safety issue with appliances in the bathrooms not all circuits are protected by an rcd.
Above 15C is tropical heat wave.
I feel that you and Alana (Adventures and Naps) should be friends.
Somehow we are subliminally taught in the UK that water and electricity is a bad combo so sockets in a bathroom just does not feel safe even though logically we know modern bathroom sockets should be.
Carpets, were in the middle of a generation gap, caught between badly insulated houses with cold floors and drafts which need carpets and modern housing that doesn't but you grew up with carpets so that feels right, its slowly changing, at least we don't have carpets in bathrooms and toilets anymore.
The reason for not having 3 pin sockets in the bathroom, is because the power supply is so high which is not good if it mixes with water, it deadly. You can have a socket if it's over 3 meters away, but who has a bathroom that big in the UK. You do get the 2 pin socket as they use a lower power rating.
The two pin sockets are also supplied through an isolating transformer which means that there is no route to ground from either leg. In theory (don't try this) you could put one hand on a grounded tap (all pipework in the bathroom must be bonded to Earth) and one on either side of the 2 pin socket without any risk of shock. The transformers are small and so the output is limited to supplying shaver/toothbrush levels of demand.
I'm a yorkshire man, so I will say 'cheers love' to everyone. I do not mean this to be sexist to women, only as a means to be polite.
However you are really pretty I just realised, maybe it is just me but you look kinda like oona chaplin