Driving long distances in the UK. I grew up going on road trips to Europe from the UK, so long distance driving doesn't phase me. Something for sale on eBay 4 hours away? I'll make a day trip out of going to collect it. Also, American weddings sound better for guests. I always think UK weddings drag on a little too long, even if you're just invited to the evening reception. Maybe I'm boring, but feeling obliged to hang around for 5+ hours with a bunch of people I don't know, especially if I have to drive home/to a hotel afterwards, so aren't drinking, is pretty miserable 😂
Driving for over an hour is considered some sort of torture in the UK and something that only weirdos do. I suppose it's because the UK and Europe is small and compact. Drive for two hours! I could be in Paris by then... In regards to meat we do have this bizarre thing called Luncheon meat... that you eat at ...lunch... that everyone has heard of but many will have no idea what the hell it is. (It's actually 30% sparrow or less expensive wild pigeon cuts and 40% bees' knees and the rest is random non meat filler).
Your comment about USA weddings starting at 5 or 6 PM being normal. When we were married in 1983. The Cathedral we were married in was was heavily booked up. So the priest fitted us in with a late wedding starting at 6 PM. Then later found out the wedding vows had to be said before 6PM for the wedding to be legal. Caused a bit of fun advancing everything by 20 minutes. It is so rare for UK people to want to get married that late the situation had never occurred there before.
Hoover was established in Ohio in 1908 and almost intermediately opened up in Britain to take advantage of Britain's world wide trading market, so Hoover had a virtual monopoly in vacuum cleaners, hence it became the name here for carpet cleaners.
Although Hoover is/was an American company, they invested heavilly in Britain, capturing most of the vacuum cleaner market. That's why the name became synonymous with the product. There's a large preserved Art Deco Hoover factory on the A40 Western Avenue in West London (although it now houses a Tesco supermarket). The equivalent of a Band Aid is actually a "Sticking Plaster" and the most common brand was Elastoplast. I think the "plaster" part came from it's origin as a form of poultice in a bandage. The stuff you can use for molding is Plaster of Paris.
It used to be that British weddings were held before noon. This was true of church weddings at least until the late 60s. I remember as a chorister that weddings were always in the morning. This is why one generally attended a meal afterwards which was called the wedding breakfast - the first meal of married life. As for "homecoming", my schools in England (aged 8-13) and thereafter in Cape Town had "old boys' day", when we held a church service, played rugby against a team of alumni, and had a meal together in the evening with a short concert thereafter. It was chiefly a way to get alumni to donate to school building, bursary or other projects.
Netball is a major sport in New Zealand with corporate sponsorship and professional players. Australia and New Zealand have dominated the world rankings until 2018 when England won gold at the commonwealth games.
Netball is played in America, though I suspect it's mostly Caribbean migrants who play it. US played in the Americas qualifying tournament for this years world championships, but didn't do very well. A point worth remembering is that it is a winter sport that is mostly payed outdoors
There is something very similar to "Homecoming" in some parts of Scotland, especially in former mining communities and rural villages in the Central Belt/Lowlands. These are a yearly event, usually held in summer, typically called a Gala day, There's a Gala Queen, sometimes a King/Consort, and a coronation ceremony. This generally involves younger school students in primary school There's usually a parade with brass bands/pipe bands and people in fancy dress, floats, and a day of partying. with bunting along the streets, and sometimes a travelling fair. Traditions vary by town or village, sometimes these festivals go by another name, but they are essentially similar. Similar town or village festivals or fêtes occur all over the UK, with different local traditions.
Baseball is referred to, by that name, as a game played by men by Jane Austen in 1812 and there is a reference to it as a man's game in the 1770s. Hmmmm didn't an American "invent" baseball in the 19th Century?
@@stephenede-borrett1452 Rounders, invented in the Tudor period (1485-1603). Taken to the States by English settlers. Or it derives from Palant brought over by Polish settlers. The Americans did 'invent' the World Series Baseball in which only American teams play. Not quite the same as football, rugby, cricket or table tennis.
It is said that in the USA, a hundred years is a long time, but in the UK a hundred miles is a long way. My own house was built around 1860 and is nothing special.
No. A wedding takes about half an hour in the Church or wherever. The rest are the after wedding celebrations. Some people, most, will have a Reception, or Wedding Breakfast, where speeches are made, the cake is cut etc. Some, but not all may be followed by an evening event, party or disco or similar, which not all guests to the wedding attend, usually just closest people. Basketball is not played much in the UK. No house tours, these are private places. Ballony is unknown in the UK, but there are many meat things similar, Spam?
I’ve seen Bolony, but we used to have a similar roll called Polony. But this was years ago, I'm use to Elastoplast and Thermos Flask in the UK. My GP's Surgery has one corner with kid sized chairs and tables
The Hoover company was founded in Ohio in 1908 by William Hoover. We do have the Bandaid brand of plasters in the UK Many GPs are paediatricians, there is most likely to be at least 1 in most GP surgeries. There are also dedicated children's areas in hospital A&E departments with specialist paediatricians.
When I was at secondary school, a scarily long time ago now, after the third year, my first few weeks back in September was finding the best place to wag it.
We drink more in England , no chance anyone would make a 5-6pm wedding without already been sh💩faced in England 😂 and remember it . Imagine waiting all day till 5pm wow I’d be pissed in both ways
In the UK: Many GPs have children's surgeries (i.e. a time when children get appointments). The waiting room often has toys and children's books at those times.
Netball is also very popular as a women's sport in Australia and New Zealand. Possibly the leading women's team sport (it certainly used to be). I think it's quite strong in the Caribbean too, or at least those islands that were British.
Growing up in Yorkshire I was familiar with a type of cooked meat in sausage form called polony. It is still available and is apparently a mixture of pork and beef, with spices. Is this a coincidence? I think not.
Netball is massive in Australia and New Zealand. They have professional leagues and when they play each other, they are great sporting contests. Also played at Commonwealth Games.
Funnily enough, Netball's development traces back to American sports teacher Clara Gregory Baer's misinterpretation of the basketball rule book in 1895. The book had lines of patrol drawn on it and Clara interpreted this to mean that players had to stay in those zones. Baer's modifications proliferated and were later officially ratified into the rules for women's basketball by 1899.
I first heard of "Homecoming Queen" from the song* by the 1960's pop group 'The Monkees' (Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork & Mike Nesmith... Mickey is the sole surviver, sadly). 🎶"Daydream Believer"*🎶 😊 (but never knew what it* meant so mostly ignored that lyric!!)
The driving distance thing, I always a found a two hour drive as the maximum I could comfortably do as a commute (that's each way, so four hours total, each day). I did that a lot of my working life - and given how full the roads have always been, I'm not alone.
Love your videos! So glad you are back to posting! Just to give another perspective, American from the northeast/MidWest. Weddings here often start in the afternoon and go late into the evening. There are also evening weddings but it's a pretty even split, I would say erring on the longer side. Also, slight fact check (sorry), Hoover is a US company, and you can get them anywhere in the United States at any major appliance store or Wal-Mart/Target, etc. It's theorized the brand name synonym didn't happen in the US because in the same time frame we had a famous FBI Director and President named Hoover, so it wasn't so much an exclusively vacuum word. The no pediatrician in the US sense thing I'd never heard about, that's quite interesting.
Other differences in Us v UK weddings that you didn't mention (from what I've seen in US movies v experienced in real life (unless things have changed recently) 1. No wedding rehearsal and dinner in the UK. We just have the couple spending 10 or 15 minutes with the celebrant (the person performing the ceremony) who talks you through what's going to happen on the day. This could be days or even weeks before the wedding. No-one else attends 2. In the US, from what I've seen, the bridesmaids precede the bride. In the UK they follow her. 3. After the wedding in the UK, there is usually a lot of waiting around while the official photographer takes some "set piece" photos: the bride & groom; bride & groom with the bride's parents; bride & groom with groom's parents; bride & groom with bride's extended family; bride & groom with groom's extended family, etc etc. All this can take up to an hour. 4. Then, unless the wedding reception is at the same venue as the ceremony. the bride & groom head off in their limo to where the reception is held. Then everyone else gets in their cars to head off there after a lot of negotiations about who is going to take old Aunt Alice, who doesn't have a car and who no one can stand being in the company of. 5. The wedding reception is pretty much the same, except we have "evening guests" who come along after the meal. These are usually friends of the married couple who got bumped from the main list to accommodate all those relatives you never see but who your parents insisted had to be at the ceremony and who therefore needed to attend the wedding "breakfast." Driving any distance in the UK v US. Have you seen our roads? Unless you're mostly using the motorways, it takes hours to get anywhere. And it can be quite stressful. Also, if you drive for 8 hours in the UK, you'll end up in the sea. Tour of the house in the UK? Not all that odd, but usually just family and close friends. They wouldn't ask for a tour, but you as the host/ess might offer. Why don't we have baloney in the UK (except as a term meaning nonsense)? Because we have all those wonderful, genuine Italian, French, Spanish etc cured meat varieties in our shops. The closest you might get to baloney is "luncheon meat." Band-Aid v plaster. The main brand in the UK was Elastoplast until own-brand equivalents became widespread, but I've always just called them plasters - and I'm old!
I think we probably aren’t big on driving long distances on a regular basis because we live on such a tiny dot in the ocean. East to west. If someone sneezes in Grimsby someone in Liverpool will say ‘Bless you.’
Thanks Kalyn. As a Brit - who has American friends and spent time travelling in the US - I think you’re pretty spot on. Some great picks as well. The countries that play netball do have national teams. It’s played competitively in international competitions. Maybe we’re different (as Brits), but my wife would always do a house tour for visitors. 😂
You need a drink after the wedding! The plus one, well, despite what people think about "British reserve", people will chat to you and make sure you are welcome. Homecoming week sounds horrific! Why celebrate going back to school? The driving thing is a question of scale, in the US, the next town can be 100 miles away, here it is less than 20, still takes ages to get there.... People do sometimes do a house tour, it can be seen as showing off, or being flash Every one knows what a Band Aid is over here, its those Hollywood Films!
Love your driving comment. Worked for Hertfordshire CC if you drove more than 150M away from the County had to spend the night in a hotel. Seriously 150 have driven from Cincy to NY 680m that's almost lands end to the Schottish place. Nice vid.
You forgot the homecoming DANCE! 😉 We had homecoming in college (university), too. It was different, however. We had BIG competitions throughout the week between residence halls and the Greek system. We'd pair up with another res hall (mine was all women. Scott's was all men. Our dorms were always homecoming partners). We had a HUGE football game and alumni returned "home" for the game. It's such a huge deal at WSU that Andy Grammer actually "gave" his song "Back Home" to WSU, as it became a beloved anthem to the students and alumni. The video makes me cry, every time. 😊
The equivalent brand name to Band Aid is Elastoplast, which I think is where we get plaster (could be wrong there). Note we also use plaster to mean a ridged caste for a broken bone, short for Plaster of Paris which is the material used.
@@tiggerwood8899 I think they were introduced following the Band-aid concert 1985. Pretty sure we (Brits) knew the brand before that as an American brand.
@@tiggerwood8899 Oh, OK, I had never seen them before the '90s. Only ever saw Elastoplast. Then lots of off brand types in places like Superdrug and Boots.
Yeah, British weddings can be painful if you’re not immediate family. That’s why most weddings are kind of split now, so a lot of lower tier guests only come to the after-party. So the ceremony part is for close friends and family. But either way, you can be there for 7-12 hours usually.
I think the willingness of Americans to travel verses Brits (for a visit) I suggest you might be conflating distance and time. A day trip taking 3 hours (each way) is not that unusual in UK. Transport costs are not cheap per mile in UK But in London the average speed by car is 15 mph
I do know mortadella, although to be honest I haven't seen it for a while since I haven't had access to a decent deli for a while. I also know that it is alternatively known as Bologna sausage, since it originates in that Italian city. In the US we used to get boloney not from the supermarket but sliced to order from Bobby's General Store in Verona NY, sliced to order. I loved Bobby's because it was exactly like small town general stores in countless old black and white films, complete with a dusty forecourt with a kerosene pump. I'm led to believe that Bobby's closed many year ago now. Mortadella isn't my favourite kind of sausage and Bobby's boloney didn't entirely disappoint. I assume boloney is a corruption of Bologna.
I would offer people a 'tour' of my house if I was new to it. Sometimes people ask if they can look round, like my old school friend who visited recently and had not seen my new flat.
I think in Scotland, people do drive more and for longer. Many folk never leave their hometown unless they have to but others do long roundtrips. Travelling is quite expensive here and can be really stressful, I think people do spend a lot of time travelling but unless you're on motorways you will not go extremely far in two hours. How far you can go in two hours varies a lot depending on where you are travelling through and what the roads and transport conditions are like in that area. Lots of people have quite time consuming commutes, so it's not that people don't travel, it's that can be expensive, time consuming and stressful so you want to have a good reason for doing it, like commuting, or because you live somewhere remote and have to go to town (or alternatively you want to visit a remote place).
Hiya. I think you'll find Hoover originated in Ohio. Also, we mainly refer to or use the word 'Baloney' in the UK as meaning 'Nonsense', i.e., "you're talking baloney," "that's a load of baloney." Stay safe. All the best to you.
Oh my pet hate in recent years British Schools doing "US PROM NIGHT" argh 😱 WTF do we need them as we have no clue and have them in the last years of the Comp Schools??? Which I believe is a few years earlier than the US,? if not please correct me 😉 but still hate it, when years ago it was just the School Dance? 🤔 and that was for most seniors in school not just those who are leaving to work in McDonald's lol I pity the Parents who have to fork out hundreds of pounds on Dresses and Tuxedos when all they had was a Dress of the shelf and maybe a Jacket for the boys lol sigh so I bet we won't be long having Homecoming 🙄 sigh
LOL. If I gave a house tour it'd take all of 30 seconds. From the front door, bedroom 2, bedroom 1, bathroom, living room, kitchen! Simple! The concept of house tours is for nosey neighbours and people who live to see what you've got that they haven't - keeping up with the Jones' comes to mind as well as fomo.
Ninja and instant pot seem to be taking over the slow cooker market in the US now. Crock pot is still around. We moved from the uk to canada and other differences were kleenex for tissues no matter the brand. Scotch tape for sticky tape no matter the brand, sellotape in the uk. Other things like kitty corner or kiddie not sure as N. Americans pronounce kiddie even if double t. It means the corner diagonally opposite no idea of the origin. Maybe somebody could explain.
I'm British. I used to visit. my grandma, and we would have poloney sandwiches for tea. I don't know if this was the same as what you call baloney. The word baloney means rubbish, garbage, nonsense. So you could say 'I had some poloney and it was a load of baloney. ' I always thought the word baloney was Irish and we were of Irish descent.
Hoover is not a known brand name in America? I wonder when that happened? I always wondered how Brits knew the name Hoover , but they have them here as well obviously. (I'm American in the UK)
@@steven54511 Sometimes brands names become synonymous with the generic product. The hoover name has onomatopoeic quality to it, but that's not the case with a biro (ballpoint pen) for example.
Wouldn't baloney have a close match in Spam, in the UK? But then, I guess many people in the UK under the age of 40 might not be familiar with Spam either. Which is ironic, considering just how very, very popular it was in times past.
Most surprising? Moulding your hand in plaster. Plaster is dangerous stuff. When it sets it gets really hot really quickly. I remember a news story where a young girl lost her fingers when the plaster set.
Where I live in the UK (Nottingham) most people I know would use the term band-aid as it is readily available here. Most of the people living in my area are younger people (I'm 66) and they would never use the term hoovering but would say vacuuming. It's only my generation or older who might use the term hoovering.
I don’t think I know anyone who calls a sticky-plaster a band-aid, inside the uk. I wonder if is regional. Bandage is what I call it, but it does get confusing at times, as it shares its name with another item in a first aid box.
@GirlGoneLondon while it’s great to see you back, this is going to sound weird but can I suggest going to see your GP. I’m wondering if you’ve got thyroid problems and obviously I can’t really tell from a video but if you have a quick visit to your GP can get things sorted really quickly. Having said that, I really hope you’re well!
The "plaster" business is always evolving. In Jane Austen's time there was a product called "court plaster", which we would recognise as a sticking plaster. Apparently the name originated as the product was originally used by ladies at court to hide blemishes, but the "court" part was dropped over the years. For many years the brand leader in the UK was Elastoplast, and many older people will still use that term instead of "plaster".
While this American girl ate lots of bologna sandwiches, mortadella is also something I ate a lot of, and it’s very different. Also, you forgot about all the dancing at American weddings! 😂😂
America dumped Spam on us but ours tastes different, same company Hormel, as has less harmful chemicals and made in the NL. I still love it, Spam sarnies, Spam fritters or Spam and cheese toasties.
Netball is a weird version of basketball for girls/women, seems to have been someone misunderstanding the rules of basketball and setting up the game for girls. It is international, there is a world cup, and unlike the US that tends to mean more than 1 country plays. In the UK there are about 3,000 netball clubs, about 130 leagues. There are professional players, but not very highly paid.
@wft15 The history of netball can be traced to the early development of basketball. A year after basketball was invented in 1891, the sport was modified for women to accommodate social conventions regarding their participation in sport, giving rise to women's basketball. Variations of women's basketball arose across the United States and in England. At the Bergman Österberg physical training college in Dartford, England, the rules of women's basketball were modified over several years to form an entirely new sport: "net ball".[1] The sport was invented to encourage young females to be physically active and energetic
Hey let me know. Lived in the US for 25Y last British wedding 35Y when I was there not allowed to leave the church grounds until the Bride? So photographer's every good shot 2 H.Still true. Hope not.
I was surprised at the wedding differences. Most of the weddings here, as you will know, will have the wedding, then the meal, then another part in the evening where there is music and dancing. So I have a question! If all the tv and films are to be believed, there is always a wedding rehearsal with US weddings, and it seems like that is almost as big as the wedding itself. All the people at the wedding seems to attend the rehearsal - is that a normal thing? We definitely don't have that here. Thanks.
Weddings in the US vary. None of my family did dinners before the wedding, nor were there any rehearsals. At least with my family members, to save costs, it would be the actual weeding, usually held between 10am and 1pm, and typically lasted 1 to 2 hours. Most people stayed at the church for a few hours after the wedding was over. The reception (as we call the dinner, or supper, as both are used interchangeably in the US) would start between 5 and 7pm. The meal varied, but it usually was soup, then salad, then different main dishes (my family, especially on my mom's side, chose fried chicken and roast beef with gravy, vegetable, and dinner roll. Most hired a dj, and there would be music played. Most danced after dinner was served. The cake usually was served at least 2 hours after dinner. There is no set standard for weddings here, but what Kaylyn explained is what the average US wedding is.
Are American student house parties as good as they seem in movies ? They make it look like a nightclub atmosphere , but it just seems like a bunch of people standing around talking !
If I want to be very annoying (guess massoganistic) I explain when someone is going on about basketball ( I live in KY) it's netball a girls game with no back board to make it more difficult
I doubt if you will see this Girl Gone London - Kaylin, but in Britain ‘baloney’ is a noun: meaning nonsense / utter rubbish / codswallop ‘Baloney’ is used disapprovingly when someone is saying something foolish, a load of rubbish / codswallop. That’s a load of baloney. I didn’t know about ‘baloney’ as a meat sandwich. It doesn’t sound healthy. Lives your vids.
How about the difference in pronunciation! You say "verse"...UK say "versus"! I really don't know why you say "verse" as it means an entirely different thing!
I told you I'd be back! Which of these surprised you the most?
Driving long distances in the UK. I grew up going on road trips to Europe from the UK, so long distance driving doesn't phase me. Something for sale on eBay 4 hours away? I'll make a day trip out of going to collect it.
Also, American weddings sound better for guests. I always think UK weddings drag on a little too long, even if you're just invited to the evening reception. Maybe I'm boring, but feeling obliged to hang around for 5+ hours with a bunch of people I don't know, especially if I have to drive home/to a hotel afterwards, so aren't drinking, is pretty miserable 😂
Driving for over an hour is considered some sort of torture in the UK and something that only weirdos do. I suppose it's because the UK and Europe is small and compact. Drive for two hours! I could be in Paris by then... In regards to meat we do have this bizarre thing called Luncheon meat... that you eat at ...lunch... that everyone has heard of but many will have no idea what the hell it is. (It's actually 30% sparrow or less expensive wild pigeon cuts and 40% bees' knees and the rest is random non meat filler).
Your comment about USA weddings starting at 5 or 6 PM being normal. When we were married in 1983. The Cathedral we were married in was was heavily booked up. So the priest fitted us in with a late wedding starting at 6 PM. Then later found out the wedding vows had to be said before 6PM for the wedding to be legal. Caused a bit of fun advancing everything by 20 minutes. It is so rare for UK people to want to get married that late the situation had never occurred there before.
That your 'family' doctor doesn't look after your family....
@@joshbrailsford Something I've always done - and my father did, before me, both for work and for holidays.
Here in the UK, when we do use the word baloney, we are referring to nonsense, gibberish etc.
That is also used by some people in the US too. I've heard it a lot as a kid.
I finally understand the lyrics to daydream believer! "To a daydream believer, And a homecoming queen?"
Your homecoming explanation was fascinating. I can't imagine any UK school kids celebrating going back to school 🤣🤣
It has nothing to do with going back to school she just doesn't seem to research anything
Homecoming is about a football game, a dance, and honoring a school dignitary. Nothing to do with coming back to school.
You'd have to pay me to go back to my old school. A lot of money, and even then I might not.
Hoover is ABSOLUTELY a brand name vacuum in the US,
The only thing I know about homecoming is "wake up sleepy Jean ...
Daydream believer and a homecoming queen.
Monkees x
Hoover was established in Ohio in 1908 and almost intermediately opened up in Britain to take advantage of Britain's world wide trading market, so Hoover had a virtual monopoly in vacuum cleaners, hence it became the name here for carpet cleaners.
Although Hoover is/was an American company, they invested heavilly in Britain, capturing most of the vacuum cleaner market. That's why the name became synonymous with the product. There's a large preserved Art Deco Hoover factory on the A40 Western Avenue in West London (although it now houses a Tesco supermarket).
The equivalent of a Band Aid is actually a "Sticking Plaster" and the most common brand was Elastoplast. I think the "plaster" part came from it's origin as a form of poultice in a bandage. The stuff you can use for molding is Plaster of Paris.
It maybe a Northern thing but I believe "Luncheon Meat" is the British version of that American meat I can't spell 😂
Yes, that was what I was thinking. I used to have luncheon meat sandwiches regularly as a child, though haven't had any for decades now.
It used to be that British weddings were held before noon. This was true of church weddings at least until the late 60s. I remember as a chorister that weddings were always in the morning. This is why one generally attended a meal afterwards which was called the wedding breakfast - the first meal of married life. As for "homecoming", my schools in England (aged 8-13) and thereafter in Cape Town had "old boys' day", when we held a church service, played rugby against a team of alumni, and had a meal together in the evening with a short concert thereafter. It was chiefly a way to get alumni to donate to school building, bursary or other projects.
It is likely that morning weddings were normal as, particularly in winter, any later would make the end after sunset.
Netball is a major sport in New Zealand with corporate sponsorship and professional players. Australia and New Zealand have dominated the world rankings until 2018 when England won gold at the commonwealth games.
Netball is played in America, though I suspect it's mostly Caribbean migrants who play it. US played in the Americas qualifying tournament for this years world championships, but didn't do very well.
A point worth remembering is that it is a winter sport that is mostly payed outdoors
There is something very similar to "Homecoming" in some parts of Scotland, especially in former mining communities and rural villages in the Central Belt/Lowlands. These are a yearly event, usually held in summer, typically called a Gala day, There's a Gala Queen, sometimes a King/Consort, and a coronation ceremony. This generally involves younger school students in primary school There's usually a parade with brass bands/pipe bands and people in fancy dress, floats, and a day of partying. with bunting along the streets, and sometimes a travelling fair. Traditions vary by town or village, sometimes these festivals go by another name, but they are essentially similar. Similar town or village festivals or fêtes occur all over the UK, with different local traditions.
Netball (basketball) and rounders (baseball) played by British schoolgirls and adult American men.
Baseball is referred to, by that name, as a game played by men by Jane Austen in 1812 and there is a reference to it as a man's game in the 1770s. Hmmmm didn't an American "invent" baseball in the 19th Century?
@@stephenede-borrett1452 Rounders, invented in the Tudor period (1485-1603). Taken to the States by English settlers. Or it derives from Palant brought over by Polish settlers. The Americans did 'invent' the World Series Baseball in which only American teams play. Not quite the same as football, rugby, cricket or table tennis.
Plaster is a catchall for Elastoplast.
It is said that in the USA, a hundred years is a long time, but in the UK a hundred miles is a long way.
My own house was built around 1860 and is nothing special.
No. A wedding takes about half an hour in the Church or wherever. The rest are the after wedding celebrations. Some people, most, will have a Reception, or Wedding Breakfast, where speeches are made, the cake is cut etc. Some, but not all may be followed by an evening event, party or disco or similar, which not all guests to the wedding attend, usually just closest people. Basketball is not played much in the UK. No house tours, these are private places.
Ballony is unknown in the UK, but there are many meat things similar, Spam?
I’ve seen Bolony, but we used to have a similar roll called Polony. But this was years ago,
I'm use to Elastoplast and Thermos Flask in the UK.
My GP's Surgery has one corner with kid sized chairs and tables
The Hoover company was founded in Ohio in 1908 by William Hoover.
We do have the Bandaid brand of plasters in the UK
Many GPs are paediatricians, there is most likely to be at least 1 in most GP surgeries. There are also dedicated children's areas in hospital A&E departments with specialist paediatricians.
When I was at secondary school, a scarily long time ago now, after the third year, my first few weeks back in September was finding the best place to wag it.
We drink more in England , no chance anyone would make a 5-6pm wedding without already been sh💩faced in England 😂 and remember it .
Imagine waiting all day till 5pm wow I’d be pissed in both ways
The first international cricket match was between the USA Vs Canada. Fun fact and pub quiz gem
Cheer up, sleepy Jean
Oh, what can it mean
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen?
In the UK:
Many GPs have children's surgeries (i.e. a time when children get appointments).
The waiting room often has toys and children's books at those times.
Netball is also very popular as a women's sport in Australia and New Zealand. Possibly the leading women's team sport (it certainly used to be). I think it's quite strong in the Caribbean too, or at least those islands that were British.
Growing up in Yorkshire I was familiar with a type of cooked meat in sausage form called polony. It is still available and is apparently a mixture of pork and beef, with spices. Is this a coincidence? I think not.
Netball is massive in Australia and New Zealand. They have professional leagues and when they play each other, they are great sporting contests. Also played at Commonwealth Games.
It's also big in the USA and Canada. Played in high school and college
Funnily enough, Netball's development traces back to American sports teacher Clara Gregory Baer's misinterpretation of the basketball rule book in 1895. The book had lines of patrol drawn on it and Clara interpreted this to mean that players had to stay in those zones. Baer's modifications proliferated and were later officially ratified into the rules for women's basketball by 1899.
I first heard of "Homecoming Queen" from the song* by the 1960's pop group 'The Monkees' (Mickey Dolenz,
Davy Jones, Peter Tork & Mike Nesmith... Mickey is the sole surviver, sadly).
🎶"Daydream Believer"*🎶
😊 (but never knew what it* meant so mostly ignored that lyric!!)
Great one! I would prefer the US version of a wedding. I have the attention span of a goldfish and get bored very quickly and want to go home.
I may be getting old and things may have changed but we always gave a tour of the home to friends visiting first time and of course family.
There are professional netball leagues in a number of countries, definitely the UK, Australia and New Zealand
The driving distance thing, I always a found a two hour drive as the maximum I could comfortably do as a commute (that's each way, so four hours total, each day). I did that a lot of my working life - and given how full the roads have always been, I'm not alone.
Love your videos! So glad you are back to posting! Just to give another perspective, American from the northeast/MidWest. Weddings here often start in the afternoon and go late into the evening. There are also evening weddings but it's a pretty even split, I would say erring on the longer side. Also, slight fact check (sorry), Hoover is a US company, and you can get them anywhere in the United States at any major appliance store or Wal-Mart/Target, etc. It's theorized the brand name synonym didn't happen in the US because in the same time frame we had a famous FBI Director and President named Hoover, so it wasn't so much an exclusively vacuum word. The no pediatrician in the US sense thing I'd never heard about, that's quite interesting.
Thank you for answering my question about homecoming. I've wanted to know this for so long!!
Other differences in Us v UK weddings that you didn't mention (from what I've seen in US movies v experienced in real life (unless things have changed recently)
1. No wedding rehearsal and dinner in the UK. We just have the couple spending 10 or 15 minutes with the celebrant (the person performing the ceremony) who talks you through what's going to happen on the day. This could be days or even weeks before the wedding. No-one else attends
2. In the US, from what I've seen, the bridesmaids precede the bride. In the UK they follow her.
3. After the wedding in the UK, there is usually a lot of waiting around while the official photographer takes some "set piece" photos: the bride & groom; bride & groom with the bride's parents; bride & groom with groom's parents; bride & groom with bride's extended family; bride & groom with groom's extended family, etc etc. All this can take up to an hour.
4. Then, unless the wedding reception is at the same venue as the ceremony. the bride & groom head off in their limo to where the reception is held. Then everyone else gets in their cars to head off there after a lot of negotiations about who is going to take old Aunt Alice, who doesn't have a car and who no one can stand being in the company of.
5. The wedding reception is pretty much the same, except we have "evening guests" who come along after the meal. These are usually friends of the married couple who got bumped from the main list to accommodate all those relatives you never see but who your parents insisted had to be at the ceremony and who therefore needed to attend the wedding "breakfast."
Driving any distance in the UK v US. Have you seen our roads? Unless you're mostly using the motorways, it takes hours to get anywhere. And it can be quite stressful. Also, if you drive for 8 hours in the UK, you'll end up in the sea.
Tour of the house in the UK? Not all that odd, but usually just family and close friends. They wouldn't ask for a tour, but you as the host/ess might offer.
Why don't we have baloney in the UK (except as a term meaning nonsense)? Because we have all those wonderful, genuine Italian, French, Spanish etc cured meat varieties in our shops. The closest you might get to baloney is "luncheon meat."
Band-Aid v plaster. The main brand in the UK was Elastoplast until own-brand equivalents became widespread, but I've always just called them plasters - and I'm old!
I think we probably aren’t big on driving long distances on a regular basis because we live on such a tiny dot in the ocean. East to west. If someone sneezes in Grimsby someone in Liverpool will say ‘Bless you.’
Thanks Kalyn. As a Brit - who has American friends and spent time travelling in the US - I think you’re pretty spot on. Some great picks as well. The countries that play netball do have national teams. It’s played competitively in international competitions. Maybe we’re different (as Brits), but my wife would always do a house tour for visitors. 😂
You need a drink after the wedding!
The plus one, well, despite what people think about "British reserve", people will chat to you and make sure you are welcome.
Homecoming week sounds horrific! Why celebrate going back to school?
The driving thing is a question of scale, in the US, the next town can be 100 miles away, here it is less than 20, still takes ages to get there....
People do sometimes do a house tour, it can be seen as showing off, or being flash
Every one knows what a Band Aid is over here, its those Hollywood Films!
Baloney, in the UK is I believe Polony, or Polish sausage. I think it is available in most supermarkets.
I've never tried it/them lots of variants.
It’s good, give it a try. It has been made in Britain for several centuries.
Love your driving comment. Worked for Hertfordshire CC if you drove more than 150M away from the County had to spend the night in a hotel. Seriously 150 have driven from Cincy to NY 680m that's almost lands end to the Schottish place. Nice vid.
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It's good to see you back, sweetheart!!!! Keep up the good work!!!! 😊.
You forgot the homecoming DANCE! 😉 We had homecoming in college (university), too. It was different, however. We had BIG competitions throughout the week between residence halls and the Greek system. We'd pair up with another res hall (mine was all women. Scott's was all men. Our dorms were always homecoming partners). We had a HUGE football game and alumni returned "home" for the game. It's such a huge deal at WSU that Andy Grammer actually "gave" his song "Back Home" to WSU, as it became a beloved anthem to the students and alumni. The video makes me cry, every time. 😊
The equivalent brand name to Band Aid is Elastoplast, which I think is where we get plaster (could be wrong there).
Note we also use plaster to mean a ridged caste for a broken bone, short for Plaster of Paris which is the material used.
You can buy the brand band aid in the UK. I have them in my first aid box, not much else though 😂
@@tiggerwood8899 I think they were introduced following the Band-aid concert 1985.
Pretty sure we (Brits) knew the brand before that as an American brand.
@Stephen Lee
Band aid plasters have been available in the UK since the 1940s.
They were invented in 1920 in the USA
@@tiggerwood8899 Oh, OK, I had never seen them before the '90s.
Only ever saw Elastoplast. Then lots of off brand types in places like Superdrug and Boots.
Yeah, British weddings can be painful if you’re not immediate family. That’s why most weddings are kind of split now, so a lot of lower tier guests only come to the after-party. So the ceremony part is for close friends and family. But either way, you can be there for 7-12 hours usually.
British-American here. For Bologna you need to look for Luncheon meat - usually comes in a roll, sometimes with a smiley face on it 🙂
I think the willingness of Americans to travel verses Brits (for a visit) I suggest you might be conflating distance and time.
A day trip taking 3 hours (each way) is not that unusual in UK.
Transport costs are not cheap per mile in UK
But in London the average speed by car is 15 mph
I drove 5,000 miles once on a visit from Australia. If you follow the coast in the UK you will travel a long long way, but obviously not in one day.
All weddings I have been to in America start about 2pm to midnight,,
I feel that hoover is like the IT equivalent of the floppy disk icon, to save. Young people use it, but have no idea what it means.
I do know mortadella, although to be honest I haven't seen it for a while since I haven't had access to a decent deli for a while. I also know that it is alternatively known as Bologna sausage, since it originates in that Italian city. In the US we used to get boloney not from the supermarket but sliced to order from Bobby's General Store in Verona NY, sliced to order. I loved Bobby's because it was exactly like small town general stores in countless old black and white films, complete with a dusty forecourt with a kerosene pump. I'm led to believe that Bobby's closed many year ago now.
Mortadella isn't my favourite kind of sausage and Bobby's boloney didn't entirely disappoint. I assume boloney is a corruption of Bologna.
I remember getting Baloney when I was a kid about 70 years ago
I would offer people a 'tour' of my house if I was new to it. Sometimes people ask if they can look round, like my old school friend who visited recently and had not seen my new flat.
I think in Scotland, people do drive more and for longer. Many folk never leave their hometown unless they have to but others do long roundtrips. Travelling is quite expensive here and can be really stressful, I think people do spend a lot of time travelling but unless you're on motorways you will not go extremely far in two hours. How far you can go in two hours varies a lot depending on where you are travelling through and what the roads and transport conditions are like in that area. Lots of people have quite time consuming commutes, so it's not that people don't travel, it's that can be expensive, time consuming and stressful so you want to have a good reason for doing it, like commuting, or because you live somewhere remote and have to go to town (or alternatively you want to visit a remote place).
We have spliced and garlic sausage
Hiya. I think you'll find Hoover originated in Ohio. Also, we mainly refer to or use the word 'Baloney' in the UK as meaning 'Nonsense', i.e., "you're talking baloney," "that's a load of baloney." Stay safe. All the best to you.
Yeah but that came from American movies.
In the UK we say a load of bollocks.
Oh my pet hate in recent years British Schools doing "US PROM NIGHT" argh 😱 WTF do we need them as we have no clue and have them in the last years of the Comp Schools??? Which I believe is a few years earlier than the US,? if not please correct me 😉 but still hate it, when years ago it was just the School Dance? 🤔 and that was for most seniors in school not just those who are leaving to work in McDonald's lol I pity the Parents who have to fork out hundreds of pounds on Dresses and Tuxedos when all they had was a Dress of the shelf and maybe a Jacket for the boys lol sigh so I bet we won't be long having Homecoming 🙄 sigh
Yes, same here. I don’t like seeing ‘prom’ used in British schools. Year 11 Ball, is what my school called it.
LOL. If I gave a house tour it'd take all of 30 seconds. From the front door, bedroom 2, bedroom 1, bathroom, living room, kitchen! Simple! The concept of house tours is for nosey neighbours and people who live to see what you've got that they haven't - keeping up with the Jones' comes to mind as well as fomo.
Ninja and instant pot seem to be taking over the slow cooker market in the US now. Crock pot is still around. We moved from the uk to canada and other differences were kleenex for tissues no matter the brand. Scotch tape for sticky tape no matter the brand, sellotape in the uk. Other things like kitty corner or kiddie not sure as N. Americans pronounce kiddie even if double t. It means the corner diagonally opposite no idea of the origin. Maybe somebody could explain.
I'm British. I used to visit. my grandma, and we would have poloney sandwiches for tea. I don't know if this was the same as what you call baloney. The word baloney means rubbish, garbage, nonsense. So you could say 'I had some poloney and it was a load of baloney. ' I always thought the word baloney was Irish and we were of Irish descent.
Another good one Kalyn! was wondering if you found any other youtubers watching your content yet? lol!
Hoover is not a known brand name in America? I wonder when that happened? I always wondered how Brits knew the name Hoover , but they have them here as well obviously. (I'm American in the UK)
We generalise and call all brands of vacuum cleaner a Hoover. Not sure how this started, its just the way it is.
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Sometimes brands names become synonymous with the generic product. The hoover name has onomatopoeic quality to it, but that's not the case with a biro (ballpoint pen) for example.
Wouldn't baloney have a close match in Spam, in the UK? But then, I guess many people in the UK under the age of 40 might not be familiar with Spam either. Which is ironic, considering just how very, very popular it was in times past.
Most surprising? Moulding your hand in plaster. Plaster is dangerous stuff. When it sets it gets really hot really quickly. I remember a news story where a young girl lost her fingers when the plaster set.
Interesting. I grew up in an ex-British colony, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and my (English) mother would often make me Bolony sandwiches!
Where I live in the UK (Nottingham) most people I know would use the term band-aid as it is readily available here. Most of the people living in my area are younger people (I'm 66) and they would never use the term hoovering but would say vacuuming. It's only my generation or older who might use the term hoovering.
I don’t think I know anyone who calls a sticky-plaster a band-aid, inside the uk. I wonder if is regional. Bandage is what I call it, but it does get confusing at times, as it shares its name with another item in a first aid box.
@@Zomerset I'm from Notts and it's definitely a plaster
@GirlGoneLondon while it’s great to see you back, this is going to sound weird but can I suggest going to see your GP. I’m wondering if you’ve got thyroid problems and obviously I can’t really tell from a video but if you have a quick visit to your GP can get things sorted really quickly. Having said that, I really hope you’re well!
You seem to have missed the whole concept of homecoming
Except for the 25% of children in the USA whose parents don't have insurance...
Elastoplast. The British band aid.
The "plaster" business is always evolving. In Jane Austen's time there was a product called "court plaster", which we would recognise as a sticking plaster. Apparently the name originated as the product was originally used by ladies at court to hide blemishes, but the "court" part was dropped over the years. For many years the brand leader in the UK was Elastoplast, and many older people will still use that term instead of "plaster".
My mum did it regularly
While this American girl ate lots of bologna sandwiches, mortadella is also something I ate a lot of, and it’s very different.
Also, you forgot about all the dancing at American weddings! 😂😂
America dumped Spam on us but ours tastes different, same company Hormel, as has less harmful chemicals and made in the NL. I still love it, Spam sarnies, Spam fritters or Spam and cheese toasties.
Brawn is closest to bologni but nobody eats it any more.
yes 😁I do!
My wedding was conducted in Russian. I didn't understand a single word of it. 😂 The reception too.
Netball is a weird version of basketball for girls/women, seems to have been someone misunderstanding the rules of basketball and setting up the game for girls.
It is international, there is a world cup, and unlike the US that tends to mean more than 1 country plays.
In the UK there are about 3,000 netball clubs, about 130 leagues.
There are professional players, but not very highly paid.
Netball was invented by the same man who invented Basketball so that women could play
@@tiggerwood8899no it wasn't, that's completely false. The notion that a game is either male or female is silly- either gender can play any sport.
@wft15
Thankfully that may be true now. But back then, in 1891 beliefs were completely different.
@wft15
The history of netball can be traced to the early development of basketball. A year after basketball was invented in 1891, the sport was modified for women to accommodate social conventions regarding their participation in sport, giving rise to women's basketball. Variations of women's basketball arose across the United States and in England. At the Bergman Österberg physical training college in Dartford, England, the rules of women's basketball were modified over several years to form an entirely new sport: "net ball".[1] The sport was invented to encourage young females to be physically active and energetic
@@tiggerwood8899 I sort of agree, but I don't think you will find any male Netball teams.
Baloney In Britain goes by the name of Polony/Polonia. Baloney is when someone is talking rubbish.
How can you discuss the differences regarding weddings without mentioning the insanity that is the "rehearsal dinner"?
Hey let me know. Lived in the US for 25Y last British wedding 35Y when I was there not allowed to leave the church grounds until the Bride? So photographer's every good shot 2 H.Still true. Hope not.
I was surprised at the wedding differences. Most of the weddings here, as you will know, will have the wedding, then the meal, then another part in the evening where there is music and dancing. So I have a question! If all the tv and films are to be believed, there is always a wedding rehearsal with US weddings, and it seems like that is almost as big as the wedding itself. All the people at the wedding seems to attend the rehearsal - is that a normal thing? We definitely don't have that here. Thanks.
Weddings in the US vary. None of my family did dinners before the wedding, nor were there any rehearsals. At least with my family members, to save costs, it would be the actual weeding, usually held between 10am and 1pm, and typically lasted 1 to 2 hours. Most people stayed at the church for a few hours after the wedding was over. The reception (as we call the dinner, or supper, as both are used interchangeably in the US) would start between 5 and 7pm. The meal varied, but it usually was soup, then salad, then different main dishes (my family, especially on my mom's side, chose fried chicken and roast beef with gravy, vegetable, and dinner roll. Most hired a dj, and there would be music played. Most danced after dinner was served. The cake usually was served at least 2 hours after dinner. There is no set standard for weddings here, but what Kaylyn explained is what the average US wedding is.
@@davenwin1973 I really love the fact that we are all different - something to celebrate.
Mortadella is/was traditionally horse meat.
Are American student house parties as good as they seem in movies ? They make it look like a nightclub atmosphere , but it just seems like a bunch of people standing around talking !
If I want to be very annoying (guess massoganistic) I explain when someone is going on about basketball ( I live in KY) it's netball a girls game with no back board to make it more difficult
Home coming ? Is that for secondary schools.
Please see your GP soon
We give our of our home
you should try some Meat pudding and Pease pudding...
Oh no - don't! Both are disgusting 😄
Not sure about meat pudding -- it depends on the meat! Pease pudding however, delicious! I grew up on the stuff and buy it regularly.
@@steven54511 I adore pease pudding. And anything else made from delicious split peas.
Twice in a week Kalyn....well aren't we lucky!!! 😁
I doubt if you will see this Girl Gone London - Kaylin, but in Britain ‘baloney’ is a noun:
meaning nonsense / utter rubbish / codswallop
‘Baloney’ is used disapprovingly when someone is saying something foolish, a load of rubbish / codswallop.
That’s a load of baloney.
I didn’t know about ‘baloney’ as a meat sandwich. It doesn’t sound healthy.
Lives your vids.
How about the difference in pronunciation! You say "verse"...UK say "versus"! I really don't know why you say "verse" as it means an entirely different thing!
Does the homecoming involve money in some way, otherwise what's the point. Baloney lol.
Only know Bologni as a slang as in talking rubbish. Talking bologni