I’m not even British and that was painful to watch. It’s obviously that stones are heavier than pounds, given the context. He and his brother must be sharing a single brain cell. No, I’m not sorry.
Never liked grits or biscuits with gravy. Those who have tried hot buttered toast with warmed up beans take to it. Add a fried egg on top. Great student meal.
You sure you know what biscuits and gravy is? Not trying to say anything, just a lot of people still think brown gravy on digestives, which isn't even remotely close. Some say the biscuits are like scones, but they're pretty different, it's just harder to find a better comparison other than actual american biscuits. But if you tried the real deal and don't like it, that's fine, I think it's a fairly normal thing a lot of people like even outside the US, when they try it. Tea is a matter of preference, grits.. well I'm not from the south, and I'm not interested either. Already too much corn stuff in everything. (Cornbread is good though.) Also, I hear the beans for beans on toast isn't the same as Americans think (idk)
Hi Ryan, Why are fee paying schools, 'Public'? In the UK, before there were state schools, there were schools set up by churches, there were also schools set up by the military, and by trades (I think), In order to go to these schools, you needed to be put forward by the military, or a priest or some nobility. At some point (later) schools were set up that anyone (who could pay the fees) could go to, these were called Public schools, because the Public could attend, Albeit only the Public who could pay. At some later point it was decide that education should be provided to all, these schools were set up and paid for by the state (government), these are State Schools.
"Tea" in the US is sugary water with artificial tea and peach or lemon flavor added. Some of it tastes nice enough, but there's nothing about it that would be recognizable to people who drink real tea made with actual tea leaves.
Don't confuse Ryan anymore than you have to, it'd be very very easy to confuse him more, if you started talking about how much of a waste it is if the tea became stewed.
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 It shouldn't... For non British ANY speech impediment can mean a new accent. If you know the RUclipsr Thoughty2, he pronounces many words this way.. I've always wondered if that's part of his accent or it's a speech impediment. It could be either at this point, since i'm not British and I don't have experience with the accent he uses.
To be fair, they only changed the name in 1927 (after taking 5 years to think up a new name after the Irish Freestate got its autonomous status in 1922) It hasn't even been a century since the name was changed
@@babalonkie I believe he referred to him saying United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, instead of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
I was watching another channel yesterday, where, like you, the host interjects throughout the video. One thing he does differently is when he stops the video to offer commentary, he restarts the video slightly before he stopped. It makes everything more clear. It’s something you might consider.
Ryan has always done it this way, and (as a consequence) he often misses the point being made, and/or answers to things he wonders about, along with the flow of things (and facts) being said.
Well, this means for me as a viewer, that the video must be either watched by Ryan before commenting or creating a strange déjà vu effect for the viewer. I prefer none of it, just keeping it the way it is. If one has problems following, do the restart on your own.
It was always strange to me, that when in America and you want some drinking water in a restaurant, you don't ask for 'faucet water', you ask for 'tap water' - DUH !!! 🤣🤣🤣
The loud Cockney accent was a British comedian impersonating Michael Caine. Cockney is what Americans seem to default to when trying to sound Australian and British, I have no idea why. Cockney is very distinctive from British RP and has nothing in common with Australian English.
@@Jeni10 Some Australian accents have quite a lot in common with Cockney. Although the Australian accent was formed from accents from various parts of the UK and Ireland, Cockney had a strong influence.
Original taps were all cold water. When they brought in the hot water tanks, they had to be separate from the cold water supply, hence the two taps, which you just mixed in the sink to the temp you needed. As newer homes were able to use the modern system, things began to change, but in older houses with a smaller and limited footprint based on the land area, they had to unify the plumbing into the existing plumbed rooms. So a washing machine would be installed in the kitchen for example. It seems rudimentary to you because your house was built in the last fifty years, whereas houses in UK can be two to five hundred years old.
Yes. Americans don't understand about living in homes built 80 years ago or more. Very expensive to replumb a brick built house unless you are making other major changes. Just use a plug in the basin if needed.
But if there are no plugs in the bathroom sink (which the video claimed was another peculiarity), how do you mix the water together to a good temperature (to wash your hands, for example)?
@@carolmurphy7572 Plugs - what size do you want? sink or bathtub? Answer - 13 Amp (ELECTRIC plug) This was part of a comedy sketch by the Two Ronnie’s. They were a very popular British comedy duo. What the clip was saying, is that we don't have electric plugs (sockets etc...) in our British bathrooms. Electricity and water are very dangerous when close together, especially when the current is 240v.
Ryan, you were completely unaware that the narrator has a slight speech impediment with the letter R, which is a rather common speech trait, just like there are some who have a problem with S or SK or TH etc. It depends on the shape of the mouth, jaw, teeth and tongue, which is genetic. It’s not part of his accent, he would have trouble sounding R no matter which language he spoke.
I'm sure I sat through a reaction to Life of Brian once and the American reactor had no idea that either Pilate or Dickus had speech impediments. They were just British.
the two taps (faucets) is about pipes. I was brought up being told never to drink or brush your teeth with water from the hot tap because it could make you ill...to do with old boilers and pipes...whereas the cold tap is clean and healthy to drink from.
once had hot water turn brown and slushy. Turned out that a cardboard box in the loft had collapsed into the water tank that supplied the hot water system. Was an excellent way to prove to my children that drinking out of the hot tap wasn't a good plan.
Ryan is a gentleman and certainly NOT thick ..... he has a genuine interest in other cultures!! Nothing wrong with that IMO .... He's such a pleasant and friendly guy! You GO Ryan and I enjoy all of your vlogs very much!! Greetings from Dublin, Ireland ☘☘☘☘
@@Pauline-u2sI so much agree ❤😘- He is not thick at all, but an intelligent and more importantly a kind and decent person what a rude and untruth thing to say :(
Marmite went on sale in Britain in 1902, although the recipe is much older. Vegimite dates from 1923, when an Australian chemist was asked to create a home grown version. It went though many reformulations and name changes, but eventually took off in 1937.
1:42 yes actually we can explain that to you smartarse they have separate hot and cold water taps because it dates back to when a lot of houses had separate hot water tanks which could get easily contaminated so just stop mixing with a clean fresh cold water supply we had separate taps nowadays though most houses don’t have a separate hot water tank. it’s fine to have a mixer tap but there’s something about separate tabs that they seem to find rather charming so you find them in a lot of modern homes. So no its not the "Cool thing" to have a mixer tap
Why do people here always repeat what is actually said and explained in the video already? Is there really a need for watching in bits and repeating those just like buddys_dad would like to have it?
Ryan, remember Elmer Fudd with Bugs Bunny? He also had a pwoblem with R, but much more deliberately voiced to create the unique cartoon character. “You wascally wabbit!”
I've had both sorts of taps, and prefer separate hot and cold. It aggravates me to have to waste water, clearing any hot from the pipes, to pour a glass of cold water. Also, you should have a plug, it makes no sense without. Our hot water is scolding too, so care must be taken. 14lbs = 1 stone by the way 😊
It's not necessarily cheap to upgrade because the taps can be a variety of distances apart. Unless this is the same as a standard mixer tso fitting you would have to change the basin so usually the whole bathroom suite! Not cheap at all
I have blending taps,but dont like the waste of clean drinking water,either...So I only use the bathroom tap,for hot water,and the kitchen tap,for cold water...I collect hot water, from the bathroom,every morning, for handwashing,in the kitchen,and have it in a thermos🤗
He should have said stones and pounds. I'm 64 and was taught imperial measurements at school. When he said we don't have plugs in bathrooms he meant electric sockets. We do have wash basin plugs, enabling Brits to have water at just the right temperature!
Separate taps can be found in many countries including the US. Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Bangladesh, UEA, Australia, Pakistan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain. In fact most of Europe's countries have them, just not in every building.
I think what he has in mind, because he saw and commented on it in a previous video, is a sink with two separate faucets/tips - one for cold and one for hot water. He does not merely imply the regulators (turning thingees, today more often levers to regulate the temperature of the water coming out of ONE faucet) but actually TWO separate faucets, one for cold and one for hot water that supply ONE sink. With those, you have either piping hot or ice cold water and can only get medium warm water if you stop the sink and mix the water in it (and, when done, release the water from the sink. Those are indeed somewhat antiquated and, here in Germany, I have never seen them, even in old houses, yet….
My house in Croatia had no kitchen when I bought it, as the seller had removed the units and sink. The only evidence of where the kitchen went was 2 separate taps on the wall.
Dick Van Dyke’s Cockney accent was terrible and he knew it and apologised for it, but like so many of you, it was his default English accent that’s anything but Cockney. Listen to Michael Caine for the clearest Cockney.
Australian hot water services have limiters on the temperature to prevent severe burns and scalds. It comes out hot but not boiling, however I still blend it with some cold water when showering because I’m not trying to cook myself. Even so, we use cold water to make tea, because freshly boiled in the kettle makes much more flavourful tea than hot water by any other means. I just have my tea strong with milk, no sugar. I love to taste the tea!
I DONT drink tea but I DO sometimes go for afternoon tea (which is something different). With it, I usually take a pot of freshly percolated coffee (which is unlike anything you'll get in Starficks or McJonald's).
Schools in the UK are called public schools because they were historically open to students from all backgrounds, regardless of their locality, denomination, or family's profession (though they were not open to everyone, just those who could afford to send their children to one). They were also not run for profit by a private owner.
Fourteen pounds in a stone. You actually said “how many stones in a pound”, which gave you less than one. 😃. That’s like asking how many miles in a yard.
I think it's because the narrator gave the smaller unit before the larger in his commentary, so I can understand the confusion. We say 10 stone 4 pounds, not 4 pounds 10 stone, so it was weird that he gave them that way
American baked beans are in a completely different sauce so they taste nothing like British baked beans. I saw a midwest couple try both for comparison and they immediately noticed the difference. “American baked beans are small white beans (usually navy beans), slow-cooked in an oven, hearth, or ember-filled hole in the ground with molasses, salt pork, black pepper, and maybe a touch of mustard and onion until they form a thick stew, rich with a deep color and caramelized crust.” “Over time, the British recipe was altered to a less sweet tomato sauce with a mix of herbs and spices but without maple syrup, molasses, or brown sugar, to appeal to the tastes of the United Kingdom. This is the version of baked beans most commonly eaten outside of the United States.”
I love slow cooked bbq beans. Grew up with Brit type beans, lived in the south for many years, moved to UK. Must admit, it took me a while to start liking them again.
I still found ' uk' baked beans too sweet until quite a few years back they restricted the amount of sugar in them. It's much better now. Where I live they are imported so expensive. Now I only eat them when I go back.
@ The sugar reduction was due to Jamie Oliver and others pushing for a sugar tax to discourage food manufacturers from using sugar unnecessarily. It has worked despite many disgruntled critics.
Overly hot water to the point of danger used to be an issue here in NZ as I understand that it still is in some countries. It was a simple matter of setting maximum water heating temperatures in the home to a level where immersion did not result in instant scalding.
there is a legal restriction on how hot the water in a domestic water tank can be in Scotland, I believe the law actually covers the whole of the UK but can't confirm.
Tea in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries is a hot drink made from fermented tea leaves [making this 'black tea' and very strongly flavored, as distinct from various herbal teas] grown in places like India and Sri Lanka and elsewhere. There are many varieties of black tea, such as Earl Grey, English Breakfast, and many others and all have their adherents. Tea leaves are allowed to steep in hot water for several minutes [either in a tea bag or a tea pot] then taken out and poured into a cup through a strainer of the leaves. Milk [or cream] is added to the cup either before the water or after, depending on the preference of the drinker, and commonly some sugar. Black tea has various subtle flavors and is aromatic and is very refreshing and energizing, which explains its popularity. It takes some skill to make a good cup of tea instead of just an ordinary one, that involves the correct temperature of the hot water, preheating the tea pot, whether to add the milk to the cup first, and other variables. I personally prefer it way ahead of coffee.
@ryan wuzer, vegemite was created in competition by using vegetable yeast instead. Hence vege-mite. Marmite gets it's name from the marmite jars it comes in
And the beer sludge came from the Bass Brewery in Burton on Trent. The River Trent water meant the unique Burton brewing sets (large wooden barrels) provided a significant proportion of the World's beer and of excellent quality. But also huge amounts of yeast sludge. Marmite a good source of Vitamim B for vegans.
@Phiyedough I think it's just gone out of fashion. Just checked tesco and good lord it's expensive, 250g usually £4.50. I think people would rather buy hot chocolate powder or something. I thought bovril came in powdered form once upon a time? Afraid I've only had it once as a kid, I think my mum had it in the cupboard and it didn't leave an impression on me.
Tea with milk is the bog standard way of doing it. Much better without sugar though. Are used to take a lot of sugar, but I take none now, much better.
No, the Brits didn't come up with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It was written by the American song writers the Sherman Brothers, for the American film Mary Poppins. It was sung by Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke. Also, Dick Van Dyke's British accent in that film is atrocious!
@catgladwell5684 Yes she is, and a national treasure. I got too excited blaming Americans that I put that word in too many times! Good spot, I have corrected my post. 👍
'Scuse the nitpick, but Julie was born in Walton-on-Thames, raised in various parts of the Home Counties, and does not seem to have changed her nationality despite living in the US for most of the time since the late '60s.
Hot and cold taps are still pretty ubiquitous…..if a kitchen is being modernised, mixers may be used, but if your sink or bath was made originally with holes for 2 taps, how do you replace it wIth a single holes mixer?
American not understanding what a sink is for, you put the plug in the plug hole and add hot and cold water to desired temperature, you should never let water run down the plughole wasting water.
I live in an area of the UK surrounded by fresh water I have more water at my fingertips than all the water in England and Wales combined .We never have droughts no matter how hot the weather gets .I couldn't waste water if I tried to.
I havent had 2 different taps in houses since I lived in firstly my family's 1892 house in 1970s and then my rented 1847 cottage house in 80s. Mixer taps are most everywhere now.
Two different faucets? Simple. The old way was, to have a tank on the upper floor filled with water, and kept heated for hot water, BUT, as the water is in a storage tank, it might get contaminated, so you DO NOT use it for drinking. It's for washing and bathing only. Cold water is fed directly from the mains supply, and is suitable for drinking. (Always drinkable in the U.K.) Mixed use? Washing the dishes, mix hot and cold to achieve a temperature that suits. These days, we use combi boilers with no tank, which heats water on demand, and is drinkable, but why go via a boiler, if a cold tap bypasses it. Something like a shower, blends the two supplies, for the right temperature, as the boiler may be too hot for a shower. THAT, is the American way. A single blender tap.
If you ưant to change the double tap system forr a mixer tap, you need to change the sink or bath as well. ua#ssing one of the holes doesn't work, so people wait until they are redoing the kitchen or whatever . Mixer táp are not uncmmon all new builds have them and many older buildings have changed them. Until they do, you just use a plug ( Uwhen he said plugs in the bath rôm, he meant sockets, outlets to you. I worked in France for many years and double taps ảe common thêre too. Do you read your comments?
Vegemite was invented in Australia because it was too expensive to import Marmite from Britain at the start of the 20th century. Without a recipe, food scientists went to work trying to make their own version and initially called it Parwill. If Marmite then Parwill. 😂 It was soon changed to Vegemite. The two products have a similar salty taste but Marmite is sticky and runny like honey. It’s available in Australia these days but I haven’t tried it because I love Vegemite, and the jar lasts for so long, that if I didn’t like Marmite, I’d be stuck with the full jar.
Or you could share it with friend's? That wouldn't happen in our house though, we love it too much. Properly toasted crumpets, with proper butter and loads of Marmite. Bloody amazing.
@@catgladwell5684 I think it's partly because they rarely travel and so are not used to things like currency conversions. However, he did look very tired so we'll give him that one.
They were called 'Public Schools' because any member of the public could (in theory) apply to send their child to any of them (often far from their homes) - provided they could afford the fees. Many, of course, had/have long waiting list, so for some you had to apply before the child was even born, and priority was given if the parent had themselves attended that school. Public schools were/are not just for the very rich; many offered their own, and/ or applied Government, scholarships and grants, for 'ordinary children. I myself went to a (minor) Public school, despite only being the child of an Army Sergeant, because I won a Government-funded academic scholarship (the 'Direct Grant', now abolished) in the school's entrance exam to cover the academic fee (as did about 1/3 of the intake), _and_ the Army paid most of my boarding costs. Others, 'day boys' not 'boarders', lived locally so had no boarding costs.
The faucet, tap, thing. You will see 2 taps in old Hollywood movies, so it was the norm in the US as well as in the UK once. In the UK the water supplied to the cold tap has to be good to drink directly, while heated water carries the risk of contamination by dangerous bacteria etc, so they are kept separate. Mixer taps are now common in the UK, but it is still not recommended to drink water straight from these. The temperature of the hot water can be controlled, it does not need to be scalding, but in any case both taps can be used together, with the water being mixed to the required temperature in the sink or bathtub. Tea in the UK is usually hot, with milk & sugar added to taste. Iced or cold tea is not a thing in the UK. The Public school thing. The children of the Landed Gentry & Aristocracy were traditionally educated privately at home or in exclusive schools. These schools were therefore called 'Public' because they were not entirely private, & people could send their children there if they could afford the fees. The more ordinary folk didn't really get much schooling, if any, until the Victorian era, when it became compulsory for all children, meaning many schools had to be built, usually by the local authority school boards. These new schools could not be labelled 'Public' , as these already existed in the exclusive private sector, so they are called 'State' schools. The very long Welsh place name was created by a railway company as a PR advertising gimmick, to publicise a new line, by putting together, as if it was a single place, the names of several features of the local area, & this stuck. Its 14 pounds in a Stone. A person generally judges their weight in stones. So an adult female will be around 9 to 10 stones, while an adult male is between, say, 11 to 15 stones. We can use these interchangeably with Kilos, but never count such weights in pounds alone as Americans do. We alternate between Metric & Imperial weights & measures, as we do Centigrade & Farrenheit temperature, & 12 to 24 hour clock faces, quite naturally & easily, these are not a problem.
0:40 who guys? That’s the original American pronunciation. But at one point you stopped doing that for some reason. Just like pronouncing the T in mature like an actual T. Do you pronounce enduring with and actual D sound?
Not that they used actual imperial, anyway. The US uses 'customary' units, so weights and volumes are very different to real 'imperial'. Even their inches are very slightly different.
@@wessexdruid7598 We still have tum (thumb=inches) along the cm on some rulers and similar here in Europe (Sweden). Not sure whether these are the same as US or UK inches though. But they are 2.54 cm.
Two taps is because hot water usually comes from a tank in the attic which is for washing hands and isnt for drinking , cold tap is perfectly good drinking water. Americans inability to make warm water from the two is very apparent 😂 how does this work???
Even mixer taps have 2 different pipe’s one for cold (from the mains) and 1 for hot (from a tank or direct from the boiler). You still have to mix the two to get the right temperature
Most modern houses will have at least some mixer taps, but older ones tend to have separate taps unless they've had a new bathroom, etc installed, in which case they may have been updated. Just put the plug in and add a bit of cold to the hot until it's the temp you want. Easy!😀 Remember are houses are made of brick or stone, so last a long time, unlike the wooden homes in the US. Consequently much of our housing stock is quite old and built before many mod cons were widely available and these were often added AFTER the house was built such as electricity, central heating and even running water in some cases. It's against building regulations to have plugs in UK bathrooms except 5 amp sockets for electric razors. This is basic safety, especially as we use 240v not 110v. If you check the stats the UK has a very low number of fatalities from electric shocks compared to other countries which don't have our safety standards.
In Britain our hot water, is heated up in the boiler. And we can choose what temperature we want the hot water to be. So when I want to have a shower or want to wash dishes I just use the hot water. No need to mix hot with cold. Simple.
Because of its unique hydro-thermic catalytic composition, British water doesn't mix. You have the hot tap running, the cold tap running, and the cold water stays in the bottom of the bath, the hot water at the top. The boundary between them is called the balneum layer, from the Latin for 'bath'. Getting the layers to intermix to an intermediate temperature is almost impossible without industrial-sized mixers - just running your hands through the water a few times (or even just getting in) simply doesn't do the job. You're left with your nether regions icy cold and your top half turning pink. In view of this, it really is quite amazing we never invented mixer taps.
you put a plug in the sink to mix the water to the correct temperature. the main issue is the type of hot water system if you have a tank which heats the water like a big kettle its not considered fit for drinking . if you have a boiler that heats the water then instantly dispenses then its safer.
No, you're correct. Vegemite was developed in Australia just after the Great War. Trade with the UK had been damaged by wartime maritime losses, and so Marmite was less available. To satisfy demand in the absence of the original, a Melbourne food company developed home-produced Vegemite.
Beans on toast is pretty standard for breakfast in Australia as well as tea in the British way. Most cafes offer a "Full English" breakfast option as well.
Almost all kitchens have mixer taps, usually you will only find separate taps in bathroom sinks. Yes, they are easy to replace with mixers, we just tend not to because we are used to separate taps. When you have mixer taps you have to run the water longer to make sure the hot has been run through when making a drink or cleaning your teeth. Also, our hot water is generally not as hot as in the US, we tend to not have it much hotter than 60°C which is about 140F. I wash my face and hands directly under the hot tap most of the time.
You can set hot water temperature with your boiler. You dont have to accept burning hot water. Getting mixer taps often requires a new sink with just 1 tap hole so its more of a thing for modern houses or refurbished bathrooms.
Challenge accepted , 2 taps (faucets), older plumbing had 2 seperate sources, cold came from the main, warm from a tank that was heated various ways and was exposed to bacterial contamiinatiion due to being stored , therefore not recommended to be exposed to the cold drinking water. Modern plumbing now uses combi boilers that use that main supply hence all new homes and renovated homes have mixer taps.
We also have a thing called a plug which you put in the sink hole to fill with the hot and cold water at the temp you want. Saves using more water than needed.
A lot of people have mixer taps but as he said years ago hot water came from a tank in a loft and cold from the mains . If you are running a bath you a run both together to get the right temperature. I’m assuming you have a plug in your bath to stop losing the water but you don’t understand that’s what we do in a sink, run hot and cold, also saves on water. Do you have water meters over there ?
The two taps for hot and cold water is due to a health issue. Hot water is stored in a tank and can contain seriously bad bacteria such s Legionella, first found in the US, unless it is regularly heated above 65°C (82°F), so it can be contaminated and leave contaminated water in the tap. Cold water is fed directly from the mains supply and is pure, but in a mixer tap it can be contaminated by left over previously heated water. It's a matter of Health and Hygiene. Nowadays with strict plumbing regulations (codes) it is less of a problem and most of us now use mixer taps. Our hot water is also very hot due to the legionella bacteria and has to be at the same temperature as yours. However, I've seen separate taps in the US in Film, TV and video programmes. Marmite and Vegemite are the same thing, made from yeast extract left over from the brewing process. Mile in tea? Many Indians actually make their teas with hot milk, not water -it's not pleasant. A Stone is 14 pounds, it is heavier than a pound. We don't measure in pounds, ounces etc, we use grams and kilos. Baked beans were introduced as part of army provisions/rations by American GIs in WW2 as they are very high in protein.
Ryan about using mixed taps, lets say you have been running the hottest water for a few minutes, then decide you want a drink of cold water immediately, you would have to run the cold water for a few minutes to get cold water, this is because the mixer tap has heated up so therefore needs to be cooled down before getting cold water to run through the mixer tap, this means the cold water will absorb the heat. So the question is do you waste water, cooling the mixer tap down or use a separate tap which is already cold? If cost comes into the equation then the question is even more important, Waste water and money cooling down the taps first. And you got pounds and stones the wrong way round there are 14 pounds in one stone, and make you more confused there are 8 stones in one hundredweight.
I look at the temperature in centigrade, I drive with miles, I weigh in stones (14 in a pound), my height in feet, but I measure my handyman materials in metres, I drink in the pub in pints, but I buy fruit juices (etc.) in the supermarket in litres. Come on over and get to know it all !
Ryan, as I understand it they do taste different. Marmite is the original. Vegemite was made in Australia later, pretty similar base, but has vegetables added(hence the name) together with spices, additives and colourings.
12:55 do you take your coffee back as well? 13:02 what?! What’s so fancy about leaving trash in the cup!? 13:37 No?! Are you being deliberately dense!? It’s 14 pounds to make 1 stone 13:50 because that’s what you asked and that’s what the answer is. 13:56 no YOU are 13:58 do it yourself!
I kind of understand his confusion; the narrator said we talk about weight in pounds and stones. We talk about weight using the larger unit first, so it would have made more sense to a person who is not familiar with the system to say 'stones and pounds'
Paul is a school is that it is owned by 'public" ownership not the state! Therefore a "public" business owns it!! Yes the main library in every state in Australia is called a "state library". The accents are because they were developed when getting to the next town would take days as walking or riding a horse! The general mobs were in isolation in their villages & the aristocracy only associated with their own mob, so all accents started there! BTW, go to your water heater & turn it down, it has a knob on it & that will save your $s too!
i think the difference between "public" and private in British schools is that originally the elite private schools were open to anyone that could afford it so they were named public schools even though they were really for the elite rich that could afford these "public" schools
"British Isles" has ceased to be used for the full archipelago for decades, as people misinterpret it as islands that belong to Britain, and Ireland has been independent of Britain since 1922. The royals stopped using "British Isles" decades ago. The trouble is that no new name for the archipelago has caught on. Alternatives tried out include IONA (Islands of the North Atlantic), British and Irish Isles, etc. British laws dropped 'British Isles' from law in the 1990s.
I'm not British but I'm from Europe and I can say that Marmite is superb. It's umami and has million uses.. from toast to bouillons and soups to gravy, marinates and stir-fry. It is not supposed to be eaten just-like-that. It's a very concentrated extract. For those who haven't tried it, It doesn't really have a foul smell or taste. It's a salty goo with hints of soy sauce and molasses.. I swear I can even taste a hint of fennel and caramel, but that's me. I'm a brewer, I work with a lot of yeast, I might be biased. EDIT - Also, I can't ever say this enough in every video that talks about English breakfast.... It is THE BEST breakfast. Since breakfast is the most important meal of the day and you will need all that energy that comes from those carbs, it actually does good for your weight. You don't feel hungry all day, you don't feel bloated, because you use that energy throughout the day and your metabolism is ticking fast from the very start of your day. Beans, eggs, sausage, bacon, tomatoes... what's not the like?! Maybe the only thing I would skip in a full English breakfast, is the black pudding. I know people say it's delicious, but we all have certain things we just don't want to eat, even if we tried them and didn't mind the taste.
If the water is so hot that it needs to be diluted by mixing in cold water, then to my mind that is very inefficient. Withe the two tap system, the hot water tap is regulated that it comes out just hot enough to wash your face and therefore needs no mixing of cold water. In the summer you can wash your face with the cold tap if you prefer. Mixer taps are very wasteful.
'Stone is to pounds' as 'feet is to inches'. Makes no sense to say you are 73 inches tall, it doesnt translate in the head like 6 foot 1 'feels about this tall'. Similarly to a brit, saying 198 pounds doesnt mean much, but if you say 14 stone 2, theres a sense of what 14 stone is 'like'
There were no schools just private tutors,then schools started, they were open to the public, and you could go too, if you had enough money to pay for lessons. Now the public can still go to them, if they have enough money. Then came compulsory schooling run by the state. That was compulsory and free.
Been living in England for 16 years and that thing of being rude one another means being comfortable together will never ever sit with me. I get teasing, but not being rude....
Our farmhouse had a double stainless stell sink , each with stainless draining boards AND a mixer tap. I strongly suspect that it was actually a catering model because Dad had catering businesses as well as being a farmer. I never remember it not being a mixer tap so from the late 1950's at least , it was thus. Handbasins in the rest of the house and the bath did have separate taps.
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"How many stones in a pound" gives a decimal fraction because a stone is 14 pounds. It is not one fourteenth of a pound
I’m not even British and that was painful to watch. It’s obviously that stones are heavier than pounds, given the context. He and his brother must be sharing a single brain cell. No, I’m not sorry.
Precisely.
As a decimal, it is 0.071429 approximately or 1/14 if preferred
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To put it simply one pound is 1/14 of a stone.
Yea, Ryan mix it up all the time. He does the same quit often with conversion of currency. Euro - Dollar, Dollar - Euro.
How can Americans knock beans on toast when they eat Biscuit’s and gravy, drink cold tea, and what the hell is grits 🤮
Never liked grits or biscuits with gravy. Those who have tried hot buttered toast with warmed up beans take to it. Add a fried egg on top. Great student meal.
Grits is polenta, basically.
You sure you know what biscuits and gravy is? Not trying to say anything, just a lot of people still think brown gravy on digestives, which isn't even remotely close. Some say the biscuits are like scones, but they're pretty different, it's just harder to find a better comparison other than actual american biscuits. But if you tried the real deal and don't like it, that's fine, I think it's a fairly normal thing a lot of people like even outside the US, when they try it. Tea is a matter of preference, grits.. well I'm not from the south, and I'm not interested either. Already too much corn stuff in everything. (Cornbread is good though.) Also, I hear the beans for beans on toast isn't the same as Americans think (idk)
Hi Ryan,
Why are fee paying schools, 'Public'?
In the UK, before there were state schools, there were schools set up by churches, there were also schools set up by the military, and by trades (I think),
In order to go to these schools, you needed to be put forward by the military, or a priest or some nobility.
At some point (later) schools were set up that anyone (who could pay the fees) could go to, these were called Public schools, because the Public could attend, Albeit only the Public who could pay.
At some later point it was decide that education should be provided to all, these schools were set up and paid for by the state (government), these are State Schools.
"Tea" in the US is sugary water with artificial tea and peach or lemon flavor added. Some of it tastes nice enough, but there's nothing about it that would be recognizable to people who drink real tea made with actual tea leaves.
True!
Agreed
Don't confuse Ryan anymore than you have to, it'd be very very easy to confuse him more, if you started talking about how much of a waste it is if the tea became stewed.
meh (I'm not American)
@@dimocrasi Wow, bully for you, but no one on this thread has suggested that, so your response makes us all wonder if your all there.
Hate to say it, his pronunciation of “variety” is due to a minor speech impediment, not an accent
I know it infuriated me when he said that
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 It shouldn't... For non British ANY speech impediment can mean a new accent. If you know the RUclipsr Thoughty2, he pronounces many words this way.. I've always wondered if that's part of his accent or it's a speech impediment. It could be either at this point, since i'm not British and I don't have experience with the accent he uses.
@alanpotter8680 yes, I noticed that he often uses "f" instead of "th", which initially annoyed the heck out of me.
@@johntomlinson4369People from the Bronx in New York, replace initial th with d. Dis, dat, dese and dose.
@@johntomlinson4369 He can’t pronounce his Rs.
There are 14 pounds in a stone and remember to say Northern Ireland... Ireland has nothing to do with us
Well, there is that little land connection, so...
Exactly. BIG oops on Ryan's part!
To be fair, they only changed the name in 1927 (after taking 5 years to think up a new name after the Irish Freestate got its autonomous status in 1922)
It hasn't even been a century since the name was changed
Depends of what you are referring to...
If i say the "British Isles"... it's a Geographical location (Archipelago in Europe) and includes Ireland...
@@babalonkie I believe he referred to him saying United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, instead of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
12:00 Yeeeah ice tea is not tea mate
Oh aye
Totally depends on whether it is made from tea leaves.. doesn't it?
Things like "peppermint tea", "camomille tea" and such are not teas though.
@herrbonk3635 I still put milk in them
14:11 It's not "1/14 of a pound", 1 stone is 14 pounds.
1/14 of a pound is about 32g. Nobody wants to weigh themselves with that degree of accuracy, I'd probably lose that much with a decent fart
@@0saintsfan0 16 ounces in a pound, so close enough to 1/14th :D
I was watching another channel yesterday, where, like you, the host interjects throughout the video. One thing he does differently is when he stops the video to offer commentary, he restarts the video slightly before he stopped. It makes everything more clear. It’s something you might consider.
Ryan has always done it this way, and (as a consequence) he often misses the point being made, and/or answers to things he wonders about, along with the flow of things (and facts) being said.
Well, this means for me as a viewer, that the video must be either watched by Ryan before commenting or creating a strange déjà vu effect for the viewer. I prefer none of it, just keeping it the way it is. If one has problems following, do the restart on your own.
yip, he misses tonnes.
If you went to west Belfast and said “the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland” there’s a chance you’d never be seen again.
Don't understand us having two taps, I don't understand why you can't drink water from your cold tap (faucet) 🙂
It was always strange to me, that when in America and you want some drinking water in a restaurant, you don't ask for 'faucet water', you ask for 'tap water' - DUH !!! 🤣🤣🤣
It's the hot water you are not supposed to drink ! The stuff that's been warm in a tank for days.
@auldfouter8661 no, I'm thinking of all the places in (supposedly first world) USA where it's not safe to drink the municipal water supply
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But sadly, in MANY states in the US, you CANNOT drink 'tap/faucet' water because its not potable (not safe to drink) !!!
@@cassieoz1702 hey it's only like 50% of the country that still has lead pipes from the 40s
The loud Cockney accent was a British comedian impersonating Michael Caine. Cockney is what Americans seem to default to when trying to sound Australian and British, I have no idea why. Cockney is very distinctive from British RP and has nothing in common with Australian English.
@@Jeni10 Some Australian accents have quite a lot in common with Cockney. Although the Australian accent was formed from accents from various parts of the UK and Ireland, Cockney had a strong influence.
@@andybaker2456 My father's cousin in Essex ( b 1907) had an accent that was quite Australian like in some ways. It was a rural Essex one ( Dunmow).
I love british phrases, like " dont piss in my pocket and tell me its raining "
I've heard variations of this, such as "Don't piss on my boots...", and "Don't piss down my back...", but never "Don't piss in my pocket..."!
@@andybaker2456 Yeah " piss " is used alot, like " taking the piss " when someone is moking or joking on someone elses expense.
@jimmyandersson9938 I know mate, I'm English! 😉
@@andybaker2456 Haha oh ok, my bad😀
The saying is actually "Don't pee on my boots and tell me it's raining". Nothing to do with pockets.
Original taps were all cold water. When they brought in the hot water tanks, they had to be separate from the cold water supply, hence the two taps, which you just mixed in the sink to the temp you needed. As newer homes were able to use the modern system, things began to change, but in older houses with a smaller and limited footprint based on the land area, they had to unify the plumbing into the existing plumbed rooms. So a washing machine would be installed in the kitchen for example. It seems rudimentary to you because your house was built in the last fifty years, whereas houses in UK can be two to five hundred years old.
Yes. Americans don't understand about living in homes built 80 years ago or more. Very expensive to replumb a brick built house unless you are making other major changes. Just use a plug in the basin if needed.
He won't understand that there are houses as old as that.
But if there are no plugs in the bathroom sink (which the video claimed was another peculiarity), how do you mix the water together to a good temperature (to wash your hands, for example)?
@@carolmurphy7572 Plugs - what size do you want? sink or bathtub? Answer - 13 Amp (ELECTRIC plug) This was part of a comedy sketch by the Two Ronnie’s. They were a very popular British comedy duo. What the clip was saying, is that we don't have electric plugs (sockets etc...) in our British bathrooms. Electricity and water are very dangerous when close together, especially when the current is 240v.
@stevepage5813 Thank you (to you and to The Two Ronnies) for that clarification!
Ryan, you were completely unaware that the narrator has a slight speech impediment with the letter R, which is a rather common speech trait, just like there are some who have a problem with S or SK or TH etc. It depends on the shape of the mouth, jaw, teeth and tongue, which is genetic. It’s not part of his accent, he would have trouble sounding R no matter which language he spoke.
Ryan is just your average willfully ignorant American.
I'm sure I sat through a reaction to Life of Brian once and the American reactor had no idea that either Pilate or Dickus had speech impediments. They were just British.
You should use stones as you pretend to use Imperial. A stone is 14 lbs, not 1/14.
the two taps (faucets) is about pipes. I was brought up being told never to drink or brush your teeth with water from the hot tap because it could make you ill...to do with old boilers and pipes...whereas the cold tap is clean and healthy to drink from.
I was taught the same.
Most modern homes draw water for both from the same tank now.
Me too.
once had hot water turn brown and slushy. Turned out that a cardboard box in the loft had collapsed into the water tank that supplied the hot water system. Was an excellent way to prove to my children that drinking out of the hot tap wasn't a good plan.
Ryan seems especially thick in this one.
This would confuse him too because if you are thick in the USA you are fat.
Ryan is a gentleman and certainly NOT thick ..... he has a genuine interest in other cultures!! Nothing wrong with that IMO .... He's such a pleasant and friendly guy! You GO Ryan and I enjoy all of your vlogs very much!! Greetings from Dublin, Ireland ☘☘☘☘
@@Pauline-u2sI so much agree ❤😘- He is not thick at all, but an intelligent and more importantly a kind and decent person what a rude and untruth thing to say :(
Vegemite is an Australian copy of the original Marmite, they do taste slightly different though.
I tried both, can't taste any difference. Both taste like bouillon cubes 🤣
Vegemite has a different consistency, too. I find it much easier to manage and spread than Marmite!
Marmite uses barley,oat and rye while Vegemite uses wheat and barley and seems slightly sweeter.
Vegemite was influenced by, but not intended as a direct copy of Marmite. Cheers from Oz.
Marmite went on sale in Britain in 1902, although the recipe is much older. Vegimite dates from 1923, when an Australian chemist was asked to create a home grown version. It went though many reformulations and name changes, but eventually took off in 1937.
Iced tea and boiling babies, America is quite strange.
This series could go on forever, the things Americans don't understand. 💋
1:42 yes actually we can explain that to you smartarse they have separate hot and cold water taps because it dates back to when a lot of houses had separate hot water tanks which could get easily contaminated so just stop mixing with a clean fresh cold water supply we had separate taps nowadays though most houses don’t have a separate hot water tank. it’s fine to have a mixer tap but there’s something about separate tabs that they seem to find rather charming so you find them in a lot of modern homes. So no its not the "Cool thing" to have a mixer tap
Why do people here always repeat what is actually said and explained in the video already? Is there really a need for watching in bits and repeating those just like buddys_dad would like to have it?
@@Schmito1 ????? K?
14 pounds in a STONE !!!!!.......NOT the other way round !!!!!
Ryan, remember Elmer Fudd with Bugs Bunny? He also had a pwoblem with R, but much more deliberately voiced to create the unique cartoon character. “You wascally wabbit!”
I've had both sorts of taps, and prefer separate hot and cold. It aggravates me to have to waste water, clearing any hot from the pipes, to pour a glass of cold water.
Also, you should have a plug, it makes no sense without.
Our hot water is scolding too, so care must be taken.
14lbs = 1 stone by the way 😊
It's not necessarily cheap to upgrade because the taps can be a variety of distances apart. Unless this is the same as a standard mixer tso fitting you would have to change the basin so usually the whole bathroom suite! Not cheap at all
i thought it was just me, i hate sinks w not plug, just watching it all go down a hole lol.
thnres loads of plus's but i tend t get out voted
I have blending taps,but dont like the waste of clean drinking water,either...So I only use the bathroom tap,for hot water,and the kitchen tap,for cold water...I collect hot water, from the bathroom,every morning, for handwashing,in the kitchen,and have it in a thermos🤗
@katejackson7432 I think when he talked about lack of plugs that he meant electrical plugs.
@artemisfowl66 i know i just ment loads of uk sinks dont have them now
He should have said stones and pounds. I'm 64 and was taught imperial measurements at school. When he said we don't have plugs in bathrooms he meant electric sockets. We do have wash basin plugs, enabling Brits to have water at just the right temperature!
Separate taps can be found in many countries including the US. Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Bangladesh, UEA, Australia, Pakistan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain. In fact most of Europe's countries have them, just not in every building.
I think what he has in mind, because he saw and commented on it in a previous video, is a sink with two separate faucets/tips - one for cold and one for hot water. He does not merely imply the regulators (turning thingees, today more often levers to regulate the temperature of the water coming out of ONE faucet) but actually TWO separate faucets, one for cold and one for hot water that supply ONE sink. With those, you have either piping hot or ice cold water and can only get medium warm water if you stop the sink and mix the water in it (and, when done, release the water from the sink. Those are indeed somewhat antiquated and, here in Germany, I have never seen them, even in old houses, yet….
My house in Croatia had no kitchen when I bought it, as the seller had removed the units and sink. The only evidence of where the kitchen went was 2 separate taps on the wall.
@@Phiyedough
Apparently this is the custom in some European countries. The whole kitchen is removed! 😮😳
The buyer has to install their own kitchen!
It’s the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, not Ireland.
And I have no idea where the Sealy Isles are!!
@eddisstreet You're just being Scilly now 🤣🤣🤣
Dick Van Dyke’s Cockney accent was terrible and he knew it and apologised for it, but like so many of you, it was his default English accent that’s anything but Cockney. Listen to Michael Caine for the clearest Cockney.
Australian hot water services have limiters on the temperature to prevent severe burns and scalds. It comes out hot but not boiling, however I still blend it with some cold water when showering because I’m not trying to cook myself.
Even so, we use cold water to make tea, because freshly boiled in the kettle makes much more flavourful tea than hot water by any other means. I just have my tea strong with milk, no sugar. I love to taste the tea!
Reading that made me want a cup of tea. Cheers ☕️
I DONT drink tea but I DO sometimes go for afternoon tea (which is something different).
With it, I usually take a pot of freshly percolated coffee (which is unlike anything you'll get in Starficks or McJonald's).
The way he says variety is not his accent. He has a speech impediment.
Public schools are known as public because the students come from all over the country and not just the local area as in state schools.
Schools in the UK are called public schools because they were historically open to students from all backgrounds, regardless of their locality, denomination, or family's profession (though they were not open to everyone, just those who could afford to send their children to one). They were also not run for profit by a private owner.
Fourteen pounds in a stone. You actually said “how many stones in a pound”, which gave you less than one. 😃. That’s like asking how many miles in a yard.
Graveyard or Schoolyard😅?
@@nelliebly6616 In the US, a garden is a yard, surely?
@ Three feet 🦶🏼🦶🏼🦶🏼
I think it's because the narrator gave the smaller unit before the larger in his commentary, so I can understand the confusion. We say 10 stone 4 pounds, not 4 pounds 10 stone, so it was weird that he gave them that way
@ Yes I noticed that too. It misled Ryan.
American baked beans are in a completely different sauce so they taste nothing like British baked beans. I saw a midwest couple try both for comparison and they immediately noticed the difference.
“American baked beans are small white beans (usually navy beans), slow-cooked in an oven, hearth, or ember-filled hole in the ground with molasses, salt pork, black pepper, and maybe a touch of mustard and onion until they form a thick stew, rich with a deep color and caramelized crust.”
“Over time, the British recipe was altered to a less sweet tomato sauce with a mix of herbs and spices but without maple syrup, molasses, or brown sugar, to appeal to the tastes of the United Kingdom. This is the version of baked beans most commonly eaten outside of the United States.”
And the bread we toast is also not, in essence, cake plus the butter is actually creamy goodness, not the US sub-par "cooking fat" version.
I love slow cooked bbq beans. Grew up with Brit type beans, lived in the south for many years, moved to UK. Must admit, it took me a while to start liking them again.
I still found ' uk' baked beans too sweet until quite a few years back they restricted the amount of sugar in them. It's much better now. Where I live they are imported so expensive. Now I only eat them when I go back.
@ The sugar reduction was due to Jamie Oliver and others pushing for a sugar tax to discourage food manufacturers from using sugar unnecessarily. It has worked despite many disgruntled critics.
@@BigStib In the USA, cows are fed grain, not grass. That's why the butter is so different.
Overly hot water to the point of danger used to be an issue here in NZ as I understand that it still is in some countries. It was a simple matter of setting maximum water heating temperatures in the home to a level where immersion did not result in instant scalding.
Australia too
I thought America still used pounds how come you don’t use stones then? Do you weigh yourselves in kilograms?
And checking ALWAYS with kids.
there is a legal restriction on how hot the water in a domestic water tank can be in Scotland, I believe the law actually covers the whole of the UK but can't confirm.
Tea in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries is a hot drink made from fermented tea leaves [making this 'black tea' and very strongly flavored, as distinct from various herbal teas] grown in places like India and Sri Lanka and elsewhere. There are many varieties of black tea, such as Earl Grey, English Breakfast, and many others and all have their adherents. Tea leaves are allowed to steep in hot water for several minutes [either in a tea bag or a tea pot] then taken out and poured into a cup through a strainer of the leaves. Milk [or cream] is added to the cup either before the water or after, depending on the preference of the drinker, and commonly some sugar. Black tea has various subtle flavors and is aromatic and is very refreshing and energizing, which explains its popularity. It takes some skill to make a good cup of tea instead of just an ordinary one, that involves the correct temperature of the hot water, preheating the tea pot, whether to add the milk to the cup first, and other variables. I personally prefer it way ahead of coffee.
14lbs to 1 stone. 16oz to 1 lb.
But 20 fl oz for the pt
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 Your point being???
@ryan wuzer, vegemite was created in competition by using vegetable yeast instead. Hence vege-mite. Marmite gets it's name from the marmite jars it comes in
Thank you!
And the beer sludge came from the Bass Brewery in Burton on Trent. The River Trent water meant the unique Burton brewing sets (large wooden barrels) provided a significant proportion of the World's beer and of excellent quality. But also huge amounts of yeast sludge. Marmite a good source of Vitamim B for vegans.
Nobody ever mentions Bovril.
@Phiyedough I think it's just gone out of fashion. Just checked tesco and good lord it's expensive, 250g usually £4.50. I think people would rather buy hot chocolate powder or something. I thought bovril came in powdered form once upon a time? Afraid I've only had it once as a kid, I think my mum had it in the cupboard and it didn't leave an impression on me.
@@Nick_Jarrett you can still buy the plastic cups with bovril powder so I assume the bulk packs of powder are out there somewhere
Tea with milk is the bog standard way of doing it. Much better without sugar though. Are used to take a lot of sugar, but I take none now, much better.
Yeah I still might have sugar occasionally but I got used to no sugar. Can't taste the sugar if you are having something sweet with your brew anyway.
No, the Brits didn't come up with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It was written by the American song writers the Sherman Brothers, for the American film Mary Poppins. It was sung by Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke. Also, Dick Van Dyke's British accent in that film is atrocious!
Julie Andrews is British.
@catgladwell5684 Yes she is, and a national treasure. I got too excited blaming Americans that I put that word in too many times! Good spot, I have corrected my post. 👍
'Scuse the nitpick, but Julie was born in Walton-on-Thames, raised in various parts of the Home Counties, and does not seem to have changed her nationality despite living in the US for most of the time since the late '60s.
Hot and cold taps are still pretty ubiquitous…..if a kitchen is being modernised, mixers may be used, but if your sink or bath was made originally with holes for 2 taps, how do you replace it wIth a single holes mixer?
I would think you would replace the sink or bathtub if you were modernising the place. At least, that's what I would do.
Just boiling the kettle for my tea as I head to the shower which has two taps.in Australia. May have beans on toast for brunch too.
American not understanding what a sink is for, you put the plug in the plug hole and add hot and cold water to desired temperature, you should never let water run down the plughole wasting water.
I live in an area of the UK surrounded by fresh water I have more water at my fingertips than all the water in England and Wales combined .We never have droughts no matter how hot the weather gets .I couldn't waste water if I tried to.
I havent had 2 different taps in houses since I lived in firstly my family's 1892 house in 1970s and then my rented 1847 cottage house in 80s. Mixer taps are most everywhere now.
Rich kids were educated at home until they went public and moved into public schools.
Strictly speaking the Union Flag should only be called a Union Jack when it is flown on a ship.
Two different faucets? Simple. The old way was, to have a tank on the upper floor filled with water, and kept heated for hot water, BUT, as the water is in a storage tank, it might get contaminated, so you DO NOT use it for drinking. It's for washing and bathing only. Cold water is fed directly from the mains supply, and is suitable for drinking. (Always drinkable in the U.K.) Mixed use? Washing the dishes, mix hot and cold to achieve a temperature that suits. These days, we use combi boilers with no tank, which heats water on demand, and is drinkable, but why go via a boiler, if a cold tap bypasses it. Something like a shower, blends the two supplies, for the right temperature, as the boiler may be too hot for a shower. THAT, is the American way. A single blender tap.
If you ưant to change the double tap system forr a mixer tap, you need to change the sink or bath as well. ua#ssing one of the holes doesn't work, so people wait until they are redoing the kitchen or whatever . Mixer táp are not uncmmon all new builds have them and many older buildings have changed them. Until they do, you just use a plug ( Uwhen he said plugs in the bath rôm, he meant sockets, outlets to you. I worked in France for many years and double taps ảe common thêre too.
Do you read your comments?
I haven't had separate taps for 30+ years. Hot water temp should be 50° - 60°C ( > 140° F)
Vegemite was invented in Australia because it was too expensive to import Marmite from Britain at the start of the 20th century. Without a recipe, food scientists went to work trying to make their own version and initially called it Parwill. If Marmite then Parwill. 😂 It was soon changed to Vegemite. The two products have a similar salty taste but Marmite is sticky and runny like honey. It’s available in Australia these days but I haven’t tried it because I love Vegemite, and the jar lasts for so long, that if I didn’t like Marmite, I’d be stuck with the full jar.
Or you could share it with friend's? That wouldn't happen in our house though, we love it too much. Properly toasted crumpets, with proper butter and loads of Marmite. Bloody amazing.
Both are revolting!
Do you mean the start of the 20th century? Vegemite has been around since 1923.
@@sharonbrown7419 Thanks, I fixed it! 😄👍
@@pennyroyalt2542 Yep, so is Vegemite the same way, and it’s less messy because it’s not sticky.
To use an old English phrase you really cocked up that unit calculation. There are 14 pounds in a stone, not 1/14 of a pound.
It's so funny the way they get confused.
@@catgladwell5684 I think it's partly because they rarely travel and so are not used to things like currency conversions. However, he did look very tired so we'll give him that one.
They were called 'Public Schools' because any member of the public could (in theory) apply to send their child to any of them (often far from their homes) - provided they could afford the fees. Many, of course, had/have long waiting list, so for some you had to apply before the child was even born, and priority was given if the parent had themselves attended that school.
Public schools were/are not just for the very rich; many offered their own, and/ or applied Government, scholarships and grants, for 'ordinary children. I myself went to a (minor) Public school, despite only being the child of an Army Sergeant, because I won a Government-funded academic scholarship (the 'Direct Grant', now abolished) in the school's entrance exam to cover the academic fee (as did about 1/3 of the intake), _and_ the Army paid most of my boarding costs. Others, 'day boys' not 'boarders', lived locally so had no boarding costs.
The faucet, tap, thing. You will see 2 taps in old Hollywood movies, so it was the norm in the US as well as in the UK once. In the UK the water supplied to the cold tap has to be good to drink directly, while heated water carries the risk of contamination by dangerous bacteria etc, so they are kept separate. Mixer taps are now common in the UK, but it is still not recommended to drink water straight from these. The temperature of the hot water can be controlled, it does not need to be scalding, but in any case both taps can be used together, with the water being mixed to the required temperature in the sink or bathtub. Tea in the UK is usually hot, with milk & sugar added to taste. Iced or cold tea is not a thing in the UK. The Public school thing. The children of the Landed Gentry & Aristocracy were traditionally educated privately at home or in exclusive schools. These schools were therefore called 'Public' because they were not entirely private, & people could send their children there if they could afford the fees. The more ordinary folk didn't really get much schooling, if any, until the Victorian era, when it became compulsory for all children, meaning many schools had to be built, usually by the local authority school boards. These new schools could not be labelled 'Public' , as these already existed in the exclusive private sector, so they are called 'State' schools. The very long Welsh place name was created by a railway company as a PR advertising gimmick, to publicise a new line, by putting together, as if it was a single place, the names of several features of the local area, & this stuck. Its 14 pounds in a Stone. A person generally judges their weight in stones. So an adult female will be around 9 to 10 stones, while an adult male is between, say, 11 to 15 stones. We can use these interchangeably with Kilos, but never count such weights in pounds alone as Americans do. We alternate between Metric & Imperial weights & measures, as we do Centigrade & Farrenheit temperature, & 12 to 24 hour clock faces, quite naturally & easily, these are not a problem.
Ryan, Supercalifragilistic was written by two NY brothers for Disney’s Mary Poppins.
Exactly. Thanks.
But it's set in England so maybe that was his confusion.
@ Disney is always Hollywood.
Sweet tea is not a thing in the UK nor Australia.
I would suggest u didn't use this site. It is not representative of the UK, despite their propaganda.
0:40 who guys? That’s the original American pronunciation. But at one point you stopped doing that for some reason. Just like pronouncing the T in mature like an actual T. Do you pronounce enduring with and actual D sound?
I have both mixer taps and separate hot/cold. Pretty obvious how to use them. My washer has separate ones as well.
The US taught the metric system to all students throughout the 60s to prepare for changing from Imperial to Metric, which never happened.
Ryan wouldn't know that!
Metric is used in science though, even in the US (and UK).
Largely also in engineering nowadays.
Not that they used actual imperial, anyway. The US uses 'customary' units, so weights and volumes are very different to real 'imperial'. Even their inches are very slightly different.
@@wessexdruid7598 We still have tum (thumb=inches) along the cm on some rulers and similar here in Europe (Sweden). Not sure whether these are the same as US or UK inches though. But they are 2.54 cm.
Two taps is because hot water usually comes from a tank in the attic which is for washing hands and isnt for drinking , cold tap is perfectly good drinking water. Americans inability to make warm water from the two is very apparent 😂 how does this work???
Even mixer taps have 2 different pipe’s one for cold (from the mains) and 1 for hot (from a tank or direct from the boiler). You still have to mix the two to get the right temperature
16 ounces is a pound 14 pound is a stone
As someone from scotland i can confirm, i know no one who likes marmite
I'm from Scotland and i know many people that eat it .
Stones is the heavier weight. There are 14 lbs IN a Stone
Most modern houses will have at least some mixer taps, but older ones tend to have separate taps unless they've had a new bathroom, etc installed, in which case they may have been updated. Just put the plug in and add a bit of cold to the hot until it's the temp you want. Easy!😀
Remember are houses are made of brick or stone, so last a long time, unlike the wooden homes in the US. Consequently much of our housing stock is quite old and built before many mod cons were widely available and these were often added AFTER the house was built such as electricity, central heating and even running water in some cases.
It's against building regulations to have plugs in UK bathrooms except 5 amp sockets for electric razors. This is basic safety, especially as we use 240v not 110v. If you check the stats the UK has a very low number of fatalities from electric shocks compared to other countries which don't have our safety standards.
In Britain our hot water, is heated up in the boiler. And we can choose what temperature we want the hot water to be. So when I want to have a shower or want to wash dishes I just use the hot water. No need to mix hot with cold. Simple.
Because of its unique hydro-thermic catalytic composition, British water doesn't mix. You have the hot tap running, the cold tap running, and the cold water stays in the bottom of the bath, the hot water at the top. The boundary between them is called the balneum layer, from the Latin for 'bath'. Getting the layers to intermix to an intermediate temperature is almost impossible without industrial-sized mixers - just running your hands through the water a few times (or even just getting in) simply doesn't do the job. You're left with your nether regions icy cold and your top half turning pink.
In view of this, it really is quite amazing we never invented mixer taps.
you put a plug in the sink to mix the water to the correct temperature. the main issue is the type of hot water system if you have a tank which heats the water like a big kettle its not considered fit for drinking . if you have a boiler that heats the water then instantly dispenses then its safer.
No, you're correct. Vegemite was developed in Australia just after the Great War. Trade with the UK had been damaged by wartime maritime losses, and so Marmite was less available. To satisfy demand in the absence of the original, a Melbourne food company developed home-produced Vegemite.
Public schools? Anyone can go if they can afford the fee's and pass an entrance exam.
Yup, so they are Public 😊
@@tinap8227 Isn't THAT what I said?
@@colinbirks5403 yes you did, I was agreeing with you.
Mixer taps are becoming the norm in UK new builds.
..and UK doesn't have US wooden framed houses which needs to be replaced after a few decades LOL
@@rairei Or felt roofs on houses, that need replacing every ten years or so.
Beans on toast is pretty standard for breakfast in Australia as well as tea in the British way. Most cafes offer a "Full English" breakfast option as well.
11:15 I can't imagine that there are parents bathing their babies in a tub without checking the water temperature beforehand. 😳😢😫
Almost all kitchens have mixer taps, usually you will only find separate taps in bathroom sinks. Yes, they are easy to replace with mixers, we just tend not to because we are used to separate taps. When you have mixer taps you have to run the water longer to make sure the hot has been run through when making a drink or cleaning your teeth. Also, our hot water is generally not as hot as in the US, we tend to not have it much hotter than 60°C which is about 140F. I wash my face and hands directly under the hot tap most of the time.
You can set hot water temperature with your boiler. You dont have to accept burning hot water. Getting mixer taps often requires a new sink with just 1 tap hole so its more of a thing for modern houses or refurbished bathrooms.
Challenge accepted , 2 taps (faucets), older plumbing had 2 seperate sources, cold came from the main, warm from a tank that was heated various ways and was exposed to bacterial contamiinatiion due to being stored , therefore not recommended to be exposed to the cold drinking water. Modern plumbing now uses combi boilers that use that main supply hence all new homes and renovated homes have mixer taps.
Vegemite is for amateurs, similar but not as strong😉
And was never intended to be, along with being easier to spread.
We also have a thing called a plug which you put in the sink hole to fill with the hot and cold water at the temp you want. Saves using more water than needed.
A lot of people have mixer taps but as he said years ago hot water came from a tank in a loft and cold from the mains . If you are running a bath you a run both together to get the right temperature. I’m assuming you have a plug in your bath to stop losing the water but you don’t understand that’s what we do in a sink, run hot and cold, also saves on water. Do you have water meters over there ?
The two taps for hot and cold water is due to a health issue. Hot water is stored in a tank and can contain seriously bad bacteria such s Legionella, first found in the US, unless it is regularly heated above 65°C (82°F), so it can be contaminated and leave contaminated water in the tap. Cold water is fed directly from the mains supply and is pure, but in a mixer tap it can be contaminated by left over previously heated water. It's a matter of Health and Hygiene. Nowadays with strict plumbing regulations (codes) it is less of a problem and most of us now use mixer taps. Our hot water is also very hot due to the legionella bacteria and has to be at the same temperature as yours. However, I've seen separate taps in the US in Film, TV and video programmes. Marmite and Vegemite are the same thing, made from yeast extract left over from the brewing process.
Mile in tea? Many Indians actually make their teas with hot milk, not water -it's not pleasant.
A Stone is 14 pounds, it is heavier than a pound. We don't measure in pounds, ounces etc, we use grams and kilos. Baked beans were introduced as part of army provisions/rations by American GIs in WW2 as they are very high in protein.
Ryan about using mixed taps, lets say you have been running the hottest water for a few minutes, then decide you want a drink of cold water immediately, you would have to run the cold water for a few minutes to get cold water, this is because the mixer tap has heated up so therefore needs to be cooled down before getting cold water to run through the mixer tap, this means the cold water will absorb the heat.
So the question is do you waste water, cooling the mixer tap down or use a separate tap which is already cold? If cost comes into the equation then the question is even more important, Waste water and money cooling down the taps first.
And you got pounds and stones the wrong way round there are 14 pounds in one stone, and make you more confused there are 8 stones in one hundredweight.
I look at the temperature in centigrade, I drive with miles, I weigh in stones (14 in a pound), my height in feet, but I measure my handyman materials in metres, I drink in the pub in pints, but I buy fruit juices (etc.) in the supermarket in litres.
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Ryan, as I understand it they do taste different. Marmite is the original. Vegemite was made in Australia later, pretty similar base, but has vegetables added(hence the name) together with spices, additives and colourings.
12:55 do you take your coffee back as well? 13:02 what?! What’s so fancy about leaving trash in the cup!? 13:37 No?! Are you being deliberately dense!? It’s 14 pounds to make 1 stone 13:50 because that’s what you asked and that’s what the answer is. 13:56 no YOU are 13:58 do it yourself!
I kind of understand his confusion; the narrator said we talk about weight in pounds and stones. We talk about weight using the larger unit first, so it would have made more sense to a person who is not familiar with the system to say 'stones and pounds'
Paul is a school is that it is owned by 'public" ownership not the state! Therefore a "public" business owns it!! Yes the main library in every state in Australia is called a "state library". The accents are because they were developed when getting to the next town would take days as walking or riding a horse! The general mobs were in isolation in their villages & the aristocracy only associated with their own mob, so all accents started there! BTW, go to your water heater & turn it down, it has a knob on it & that will save your $s too!
i think the difference between "public" and private in British schools is that originally the elite private schools were open to anyone that could afford it so they were named public schools even though they were really for the elite rich that could afford these "public" schools
"British Isles" has ceased to be used for the full archipelago for decades, as people misinterpret it as islands that belong to Britain, and Ireland has been independent of Britain since 1922. The royals stopped using "British Isles" decades ago. The trouble is that no new name for the archipelago has caught on. Alternatives tried out include IONA (Islands of the North Atlantic), British and Irish Isles, etc. British laws dropped 'British Isles' from law in the 1990s.
I'm not British but I'm from Europe and I can say that Marmite is superb. It's umami and has million uses.. from toast to bouillons and soups to gravy, marinates and stir-fry. It is not supposed to be eaten just-like-that. It's a very concentrated extract. For those who haven't tried it, It doesn't really have a foul smell or taste. It's a salty goo with hints of soy sauce and molasses.. I swear I can even taste a hint of fennel and caramel, but that's me. I'm a brewer, I work with a lot of yeast, I might be biased.
EDIT - Also, I can't ever say this enough in every video that talks about English breakfast.... It is THE BEST breakfast. Since breakfast is the most important meal of the day and you will need all that energy that comes from those carbs, it actually does good for your weight. You don't feel hungry all day, you don't feel bloated, because you use that energy throughout the day and your metabolism is ticking fast from the very start of your day. Beans, eggs, sausage, bacon, tomatoes... what's not the like?! Maybe the only thing I would skip in a full English breakfast, is the black pudding. I know people say it's delicious, but we all have certain things we just don't want to eat, even if we tried them and didn't mind the taste.
It takes ages to beat the hot tap - so by the time it is warm - you've already cleaned your hands. We have plugs of course to mix the t wo.
If the water is so hot that it needs to be diluted by mixing in cold water, then to my mind that is very inefficient. Withe the two tap system, the hot water tap is regulated that it comes out just hot enough to wash your face and therefore needs no mixing of cold water. In the summer you can wash your face with the cold tap if you prefer. Mixer taps are very wasteful.
'Stone is to pounds' as 'feet is to inches'. Makes no sense to say you are 73 inches tall, it doesnt translate in the head like 6 foot 1 'feels about this tall'. Similarly to a brit, saying 198 pounds doesnt mean much, but if you say 14 stone 2, theres a sense of what 14 stone is 'like'
Adding a mixer tap to an old plumbing system would cost a shit ton of money
A stone is larger than a pound. There are 14 pounds to a stone: 1 st = 14 lbs.
There were no schools just private tutors,then schools started, they were open to the public, and you could go too, if you had enough money to pay for lessons. Now the public can still go to them, if they have enough money. Then came compulsory schooling run by the state. That was compulsory and free.
Nobody who has changed their bathroom or kitchen in the last 30 years has separate hot and cold taps
Been living in England for 16 years and that thing of being rude one another means being comfortable together will never ever sit with me. I get teasing, but not being rude....
Our farmhouse had a double stainless stell sink , each with stainless draining boards AND a mixer tap. I strongly suspect that it was actually a catering model because Dad had catering businesses as well as being a farmer. I never remember it not being a mixer tap so from the late 1950's at least , it was thus. Handbasins in the rest of the house and the bath did have separate taps.
Why do you always have problems with conversion? 😂
1 Stone equals 14 pounds not 1/14th of a pound
Good afternoon from UK. X
I like how they pronounce the word 'Schedule'.