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As a Brit myself I would say the best thing to say when you see someone is *Hi how's it going? I pronounce things as an American even though I'm not but I have friends over there
Hmm turning off at the "socket" aka the outlet does indeed save you cash... Its not rocket science electronics in standby mode use electricity.... LOGIC... Also where is the proff um on your fooking meteryou... Ahhhh8 years 8 years... And you still question this.... Also you forgot that most of this started and was named here... Not there... 😂
American English is your first language..... 😂 Not ENGLISH... 😂 also it pains me that I can tell that tea was cold or lukewarm in that cup..... No just no
Dame Caroline Haslett, a pioneer in women engineers, held in very high regard by British electrical engineers. An early feminist who didn't just have an 'attitude', but got out there and worked to improve the quality of life for all women, and also children and men.
The best thing is that when you don't have a plug for your lead, you can shove a screwdriver into the earth, and that opens up the live and neutral. You can then push the bare live and neutral wires into the socket, pull out the screwdriver and the safety mechanism in the socket closes on the wires.
The UK standard plug is, without a doubt, the safest in the world. The plug is fused, the earth pin is longer than the other two which means it's the first to make contact and the last out. The live (+) and neutral (-) are shielded to make it difficult / impossible to touch them as you plug them in. Internally there is a substantial cable grip and again the wiring is equally designed for safety.
@stevebrown7574 - Very nicely explained. Indeed, we do have the safest plugs in the world, here in the UK! And switching them off at the wall really does save money.
You forgot to mention the most important safety feature if you have inquisitive children - the plastic guard that only lifts to make the live and neutral slots of the socket available when the earth pin is inserted. Child safety socket covers are literally unnecessary.
Please make that UK AND IRELAND because we have your sockets/plugs as well, and having grown up in NZ (similar plugs but without fuses) I fully agree they are the safest around (and just as painful to step on in the dark as a kiwi plug)
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou If you want to be pedantic, UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Cyprus, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Gibraltar, Malta and many more!
The QE2 was built in the UK the refit was by a European company.....almost all the contactors arrived on the ship with continental tool and plugs.....my x boss said a one of the few British contracts they were fine but had to send out two people on any job one to guard the plug ...
I ran downstairs to tell my dad that plug sockets don’t have on/off switches in other countries like it was the most amazing thing in the world and he looked at me like he didn’t believe me, I think it’s because I’m drunk - am going to txt him this link 😂😂😂 🇬🇧
Our plug sockets are absolute genius. It is virtually impossible to electrocute one’s self. Plus our power supply is 240v as oppose to North American 120v hence the extra safety in the U.K. Remember the episode that Alanna did on how long it took her to heat a kettle in Canada!
Speaking as a cleaner myself - TELL ME ABOUT IT. Nothing worse than setting up your unit for quick and easy working, and some £$£" (you know who you are) has messed it up.
@@AdventuresAndNaps , the switches on the SOCKETS is basically for safety , for example when you think of it just how many times have you plugged in the lamp you use for videos or / kettle / vacuum cleaner / iron or mixer etc etc and they start up automatically because they were never actually turned off on the item , you may have not noticed but when you plugged in the item there was a small spark and this was because with it still being switched on a " load " was put on the socket , this spark can be big and it'll certainly surprise you , to stop this happening a good connection in the socket is required , hence the switch is used, now you push the plug into the socket then turn on the item with the switch in the socket and again safely at the item , when switching off the item you do it the reverse way . As for which is the ground floor stand by a window and look out of it , if you were to jump out of the window but don't fall anywhere then your on the ground floor but if you would fall down one floor then your on the first floor ( before you jump of course 😂 ) Just remember that falling doesn't hurt , it's the last half a millimeter that does 😂 Please please please just show a plug for the sink because you'll be the first ever to show a complete sink / bath , what's the odds that Germans know actually how and why it works , because we are related 😂
I'm a foreigner too from non-English speaking country, I've come to the UK just 3 months. Honestly, I don't struggle with these British things at all and just do what 'When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do'. I'm easy and adapt quickly & happily 😁
And we love having you here ! thank you for wanting to happily adapt :) im glad you dont struggle with it ... hope you continue to like it here and enjoy it ! stay safe and well !
@@serenityinside1...you wouldn't say that if you were Chinese 200 years ago...Britain Merchants created an Opium War..a drug dependency..so that the British ruling class could have their tea on the table during Napoleonic era..not that the lower class of course..we didn't benefit till Indian or more commonly Ceylon tea was common..but China have never forgotten or fully forgiven us..and then we clashed with America in Boston over distribution at the docks...tea has not been a smoothe ride to bring what we take for granted since the early to mid 20th century...I appreciate it more now than in my childhood..now I know the history..and the real cost..
Henry is an *amazing* low key British success story. 1) not floated, so ownership remains entirely in the UK. 2) robust, durable, easy to repair and *designed* to be repaired (no planned obsolescence.). 3) fun fact - the company, still based in London, has zero, thats right *zero* advertising budget. It has made itself profitable through one simple gimmick - a cute anthropomorphic design and a name - and word of mouth about its quality and durability. Honestly I wish more companies were like this.
Yeah... It drives me nuts when people can't think logically and put a plug in the sink... Simply mix the hot and cold water together... In just the same way as you would when running a bath... If it's too hot add some cold water... And if it's too cold add some hot water... And once you've washed your hands and or face in the bathroom sink... Just remove the plug and the water goes straight down the sink.
I still have my Henry with the turbo boost button, which is so great to have if you have house rabbits and have bits of hay to vacuum up. Well, anyway, my Henry is at least 20 years old now. He still works really well. I had a Dyson before Henry, and I can tell you it could not deal with the bits of hay at all. I'm just hoping my Henry lasts a really long time as they don't make the one with the booster button in the UK anymore cause of EU Environmental laws. Oh, I also own a George, too, for cleaning carpets.
as a Plumber, I have separate taps. this is because the cold tap is supplied from the fresh mains drinking water. the hot tap will be supplied from either a hot water cylinder, boiler or instant heating unit. all 3 of these devices heat the water to no more than 78 degrees and create bacteria, making the water undrinkable. so a mixer taps spout will be contaminated. next time you have a mixer tap taken out, ask the plumber to cut the spout open. you will then see how green it is inside, the same with the heating unit. as for choosing between washing your hands under either the hot or cold tap, here's a trick. put the plug in the plug hole and run both taps until you get the temperature of water you want in the basin. another tip is ... wash yourself in the basin not the sink. the sink is for washing dishes in.
Switches on outlets makes sense with the alternative is to unplug the device, and leave the plug on the floor pins up and ready for you to step on it bare foot late a night.
Henrys are genius… almost every cleaner and builder uses them, they just work (or if you have used it wrong they are really easy to mend), and who needs warm water… cold for drinking, hot for washing, both if you need warm… anything else would be madness!
I love the part in A Bridge too far when the adjutant goes to Sean Connery and says "Cup of tea sir?".. Then the rant about radios not working and lunatics laughing from the wood "and you think a cup of tea will help me ??!".. "Well it won't hurt sir" 😂
Yes I miss British plugs, here in Australia I went to Bunnings and asked for bulbs....he pointed me to the garden section.....huh? Oh you mean globes! We laughed.
As a Brit, I've never heard of browsing hours. But then I'm not crazy enough to go to any shop before 10am on a Sunday. Hell, I don't want to even leave the house until after lunch on a Sunday!
My local Sainsbury used to do this on Sundays, but recently they seem to have abolished it. It's rather annoying as I could be out of the place by 1005 and on my way home.
No Sunday trading restrictions (at least, not nationally anyway) in Scotland. The Wee Frees up in Harris and Lewis are doing their best to keep churches as the only thing open on Sundays, though, the miserable gits.
UK deaths from electrocution in the years 2001 to 2017 range from 8 to 38 per year and average at about 20. I can't find such detailed statistics for the USA, but it seems to be somewhere between 400 and "more than 1000" per year. Taking into account the approximate 5 to 1 population difference, the UK would appear to be about 4 to 10 times safer despite using 230V rather than 110V.
@@wilmaknickersfit Yeah, trademark erosion is all over the place. Americans calling all tissues Kleenex, all colas become coke. I just found it amusing that strictly speaking Henry is a vacuum cleaner but has, understandably, done the same and it really works in its favour in this case. I bet they wish they could officially call him that.
I fit bathrooms for a living. I think in the 15 years I've been a sole trader, I've fitted 2 bathrooms with separate taps. Mixers are the NORM here. If someone wants separate hot and cold, it's because they desire the 'Edwardian' look. New basins with two tap holes are the absolute minority. Yet all American/Canadian's claim that we all have two taps everywhere. Just not true AT ALL.
@Lonewolf_121 That is NOT what I was saying. I said I've been fitting bathrooms for 15 years. If I'm ripping out an old bathroom, even if it's 30 years old, I will be ripping out mixer taps too.
With our separate taps you don't scald your hands or freeze them off. You put the plug in the basin first to mix the hot and cold water in the sink. Therefore you only use the amount you actually need and reduce the cost of your water bill.
Another note on UK plugs and sockets is that it's REALLY difficult to electrocute yourself with one. The prongs are arranged in such a way that by the time the plug is out of the socket enough for you to touch exposed metal it is already too far out of the socket to still have power running through it. It generally take intentional tampering with either the plug and/or socket to be able to.
That and the 'long prong.' It has two functions. It is an earth connection and it means the device will be earthed before the power prongs are connected, and it also open the flaps that cover the L+N prong holes (on some sockets). Great design that seemed to get lost outside of the country.
@@GaryMcCormick furthermore, the extra length and route of the earth wire means it should be the last to physically fail if the cable is ripped from the plug. This means it is unlikely a yanked cable could be able to power a device and have a broken earth if wired correctly.
I had a colleague who was an Electrical engineer from Poland and our plugs and sockets where he's favourite thing from the UK, because it is over engineered and superior to all other plugs
We call it the "Ground Floor" because it's on the ground. When you walk outside going to shops or something, you don't say it's the first floor. It's called the ground. So the floor in your house that's level with the outside is known as the ground floor. The first floor is the next level up because that's the first floor you come to. It's why, on a lift (elevator), the button has "G" for ground. If the building has a floor lower than the ground, it's known as the basement/celler depending on what the building is and where in the uk you are. If it's a big building and has a lift available to all levels, then you'd see "B" for basement "G" for ground and then 1 to however many levels there are above ground. I'm from Kent as well. A town called Maidstone.
And in the UK, operating at 230-240 volts, any safety features are to be welcomed. If you get a shock here, you know all about it. Mind you, it does cure your depression.
In some countries it does make some sense, mainly North America. We use 240v in the UK but they use 120v. As voltage is linked to current and current is what kills you the higher current of the UK system is much more likely to kill you so having the various extra safety features including on/off switches makes sense. It would still be safer for for North America to have switches and tbh just switching to UK plugs and sockets as even the current from 120v can kill you but it's less important. Countries such as most of mainland Europe where they use voltages over 200 it makes less sense though, they have a current level where the risk is elevated but have a less safe system than the uk
@@SimonWakefieldUK Americans have 240V in their homes for large appliances such as dryers and cookers, actually a lower voltage will require higher current to produce the same power requirement as power is current times voltage, I believe most US homes have 15A and 20A circuits with 120V and 240V supplies dependent on end use appliance.
Using "First floor" to describe the Ground floor does not make sense. It's like saying that a baby is 1 year old on the day that they are born. Also, the American system breaks down as soon as you have underground floors. In the UK the Ground floor is numbered zero, and then underground floors are numbered -1, -2 etc. (because they are below zero). So positive numbers are above ground level, and negative numbers are below ground level. However, In the US the first underground floor would have to be numbered zero (seeing as they number the ground floor as 1).
The ground floor is also a floor. And because it is the floor that you are on when you enter a building you could call it the first floor. Not saying that we should do that but there is reason to it.
In South Korea ( until recently) you were aged 1 on the day you were born . Just to add to it , when new year came you add another year to your age . Someone born in December would be two by January! They changed it to align themselves internationally. Not a lot of people know that - apart from Michael Caine obviously! 😅
Europe in general (and certainly France and the UK) has a floor zero (ground floor) and the first floor is upstairs. Switched sockets are great. You don't have to use the switch but I often do. If I'm testing something mains powered I've either repaired or made I can plug it in and then switch on and be able to switch off quickly if things are not going to plan. It's an option and that's good, right?
@@kevindarkstar From Ireland where we have the same plugs/sockets, totally correct. With Australia/NZ coming a close second - switched sockets, similar plugs but without a fuse and upside down
ive a Henry hoover in my worshop. It`s used for cleaning up swarf(small shards of metal from machining), oil and water. It`s still working after fifteen years, sumply fantastic.
One of the cool things about the Henry's is that Numatic that makes them never advertises them, so you'll never see them advertised on telly, they just rely on their reputation to sell them. The bad thing (for them at least) is they're virtually indestructable, so many people buy them and then never need to replace them as they just keep working, which is great as a user (got one myself) but not sure it's a great business model. :)
A place I worked at used Henry's to powered a fluidised bed system for powder coating hot metal products, instead of using the compressed air system everything else that heeded air used. They had to replace Henry every month about, as they used the hose in the outlet to blow air inefficiently into a powder bed, overheating and burning out his insufficient little motor, instead of using the more than powerful enough compressed air system they already had, trying to save money.
The newer Henry's are definitely not indestructible! They are now the most common vacuum cleaners seen dumped in the street 😅 they definitely overtook Dyson in terms of disposable vacuum cleaners 🤣
Henry and family just do what you need them to do! No gimmicks, no complication, just function. We’ve done all the Hoovers, Nilfisk, Electrolux, Dyson, Shark etc, but Henry is so much better, so we have 3 including the one I use as a general builder. Many years ago I t worked selling the “legendary” Kirby to Americans in Germany - fantastic machine, but really the Henry for me is the winner😊
The taps did it for me. Your explanation for separate taps is almost spot on. There are many homes in the UK that are a hundred or many hundreds of years old and still have crappy old tanks in the attic, perhaps with the odd dead rodent floating around. So you never really mixed your hot and cold if you planned to ingest that mixture without boiling it first, valued your health that is. With the introduction of boilers, especially combi types, the hot is fed from the same supply as the cold and its perfectly safe to mix them, so the UK has slowly moved from separate taps to mixers. Love this channel.
I guess you have never cut open a broken Combi Boiler, cylinder, Instant Water Heater or the Spout of a Mixer Tap. they will be black from contamination. so never drink the cold water from a Mixer Tap.
Regarding the taps. British people tend to fill the sink up using the cold and hot taps to make the water just right. American's, not caring about water, just run the tap while they wash. I lived in America for 7 years, so I have seen this!
The US doesn't use the plug in a wash basin, they haven't invented the rubber plug yet! Don't tell them or they will patent it like they did the electric light bulb.
So you fill the sink, then put your dirty hand into the water then put soap on it, then rub, and then put back your hands in the water, so at the end your hand will be covered with a bit soapy-dirty water and then you dry it? Or how does that work? Here how it works with running water: open the mix tap for a few seconds to wet your hands, close it, then put soap on your hands, rub them as long as needed (tap closed) and at the end wash the soap off in a short time, ending up with wet hands, no soap, no grim. I believe this method uses less water than filling the sink.
I think the whole idea of sinks with plugs is so you can fill it with a mixture of hot and cold water to the temperature you want, then wash. True that there could have been a dead rodent in your local water tank but more people used to fill the sink using the plug than just keep the tap running to wash and shave etc.
You Alright Alanna, how you doin'. Listen don't stress about the switch on the socket at the gym, it was probably just the cleaner forgetting to turn it off when unplugging the Henry vacuum because he /she were wondering if they had remembered to turn off the hot taps on the 1st floor. 🤣🤣
Taps show the age of the building. And of course you could put the plug in the basin , plug supplied, and add cold and hot water to suit. But that means using the grey matter in your heads and it’s not in large supply across the pond.
the reason for 2 taps, it wasnt about keeping hot and cold separate, it was about keeping the drinking water separate from the non drinking water as the old types of boiler used to heat water were not great and created Bactria, so basically its not separate hot and cold taps, its separate drinking and non drinking water taps.
True, that is the main reason. But also the fact that the hot water did not come until later. So sinks just had cold water initially. When hot water came along it was usually piped to the kitchen or bathroom separately so they designed sinks and baths with 2 taps - one for hot one for cold. I don't know if they had designed twin flow taps by that time. But it certains took quite some time to take hold in the UK. And still not all new kitchens will have a dual flow tap.
Alanna You would have liked the DFS furniture store Darley Dale Derbyshire. To avoid Sunday Trading laws if you bought a carrot for say £300 they threw in a settee or piece of furniture for free! They did very well from it!
Alanna, I stumbled across one of your videos only yesterday. I've watched several, and you had me in stitches with this one! Our British pronunciations of some place names are TOTALLY unreasonable, and they're just as confusing to us when we're kids and we first see them. I think we learn many of these place names by hearing them, before we ever see how they're spelled. But ... when you get used to them, the crazy difference between the spelling and the pronunciation becomes part of the fun, and knowing the correct pronunciation makes you feel like you've graduated, somehow. You're now in the know, and you're able to correct people who mispronounce them! This is all part of being British! I think my favourites are Alnwick, pronounced 'annick', and Towcester, pronounced 'toaster'. There are other words that don't sound like they look, of course, such as women, or friend, and I think their pronunciations are universal in all English-speaking countries. It's pretty silly that supermarkets call the pre-trading hour "browsing hour", as if anyone is going to browse in a supermarket, looking at all the food and taking an hour to make up their mind what they're going to buy. It's really "trolley loading hour". As for our plug sockets, they used not to have switches, many years ago, and even now, not all do. However, British plugs can take a bit of effort to pull out and put back in, so it's handy having a switch, especially as we have so many electrical things plugged into so many sockets these days. Also, when British plugs aren't plugged in, they tend to lie on the floor with their prongs pointing upwards, and if you inadvertently stand on one, it REALLY hurts! Both the American and British ways of numbering the floors of a building make sense, but as a child, I think probably most of us would expect the storey you walk into to be the first floor, and they you'd go up a flight of stairs to the second floor, and we all have to learn that no, the ground-level floor is the ground floor, and the 2nd level is the first floor. And then you're in the know: you've graduated! I guess the logic is that the ground 'floor' is actually on the ground (just forget basements for a moment), and that a 'floor' is a higher level that is actually made, rather than naturally being there, so the one above the ground is the first But I really understand your current confusion. I used to live abroad in a country where they drive on the right, with the steering wheel on the left side of the car, but when I visited home, cars' steering wheels were on the right. I got so confused that several times (in both countries) I got into the wrong side of the car, only to find that I didn't have a steering wheel. For maybe a year after I moved back to Britain, I just couldn't think which way round it would be, so before I got in the car, I would simply look to see where the steering wheel was! I do think, though, that the idiosyncrasies of British life are one of the defining qualities of Britishness. I know Americans use pounds and ounces, but the British used to go further and use stones. 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, and 8 stones in a hundredweight. What could be simpler? 🤣🤣 Until 1971, our money had 240 pennies in a pound, divided into 20 shillings worth 12 pennies each ...
The tap thing always gets me as people say about burning there hands! Put the plug in and then put hot and cold in to make warm water plus its better for the enviroment to fill the sink instead of constant running water and if you diss Henry then i will hunt you down😂
@@stevemichael8458alot of old buildings still don't as they still use tanks in the loft which are open for contamination for their hot water which mixing tap would cause contamination of the fresh water supply. Modern houses or those residents of older houses with the money, ability and desire to retrofit will be ready for mixing taps but so many houses are still pre ww2 look at alone pre 80/90s where there was a real shift that we still have a massive number of houses that aren't suitable for mixing taps
@@stevemichael8458 The majority of UK homes still have separate taps. Mixer taps are used in a lot of new builds but we still see separate taps in some. Social housing uses them most of the time because repairs and replacements are cheaper than mixer taps.
You fill the sink up to wash your hands in 2023? The same sink you spit into while brushing your teeth or blow your nose into?? 🤮 Stop making the rest of us Brits look old fashioned and unhygienic. 😂
With the taps older houses used to have a "hot water tank" where the hot water was boiled and kept ready for use. This could get quite nasty (I remember my father telling me that he knew of a family who found a dead rat in theirs). The cold water comes straight from the mains and is considered fit for drinking and the two taps kept the drinking water away from the hot water. Modern combi-boilers don't have a storage tanks and as such most modern bathrooms and kitchens have mixer taps (unless people want the classic look)
I think also it was a safety feature to prevent the hot water pushing back into the mains water pipes and contaminating them if the mains water supply lost pressure.
Henry Hoovers are made in the UK. They employ UK citizens, and they pay their taxes. Every other hoover manufacturer do none of those things, and Dyson in particular actively work against Britain's best interests and are made to break down in 12 months. Always buy a Henry. It is the patriotic thing to do.
What really p'd me off was that Dyson was given a knighthood for producing a load of junk and not satisfied with that he had it made abroad, probably on the recommendation of some bean-counter.
I have a Henry and it’s lasted me for yours. I agree though about its clumsiness. It was designed as a commercial rather than a consumer oroduct so sturdy enough to be used by office cleaners for hours everyday without falling apart, which is what I like about. You also see them (usually the version that can handle liquid spills) thrown in the back of builders’ vans because they’re tough and rarely break down. However, it was really designed really for cleaning large open plan offices rather than domestic rooms. I think the friendly face was there to cheer up cleaners which can, let’s face it, be a pretty soul destroying job.
I've had my Henry for over 20 years.. their design is simple yet efficient. We also have a dyson for quick hoovering of spills, but I've replaced more of it than triggers broom.
Bit late to the party but I love my Henry! It’s my workshop/building one rather than for the house. And he was ably employed by a plumber friend for many years before I took him on. Who knows how many tons of brick/plaster/wood/metal he’s sucked up over the years and still going strong!
Henry vacuums were popular with professional cleaners because their top incorporates a handle that manually stores the electric cable. The cables were very long so you could do a large office without moving the plug. People in the office saw that the professionals were using these and assumed they must be better so bought them for their homes. The face is a plus.
Yeah the original 1200w Henry is awesome. So long as the detritus physically fits in the nozzle. Henry eats it. Bricks - no problems. Rubble - a doddle. Whereas I once had a dyson catch fire after going over an elastic band.
In the UK, the 2 taps are because, our cold water is fresh fed & in older buildings our hot water is tanked, originally because it gets heated and held in a tank, in some old buildings this is fed by a secondary tank in the roof, to prevent running out in large households, I'm sure I don't need to explain how much of a risk drinking standing water is to a persons health, on top of possible deposits from long periods of exposure to copper, steel, & even lead in some cases. Now all of this is minimal and of no harmful level, and your water is only standing as long as your not using the hot water, but probably better to not ingest it, So Hot & cold taps helps prevent someone drinking the wrong one. Obviously things are different now with plastic tanks, eco boilers ect. that heat what & when you want it.
It isn't just the Brits who say "ground floor, first floor, etc." Every European country other than Russia does so, as do Australia, New Zealand, most East and Southern African countries, India, and most South Asian and Pacific nations, and even Mexico and most South and Central America.
The ground floor means exactly what it says. You enter the building on the ground floor. Go up the stairs to the first floor. Go up the stairs further and your on the second floor etc, etc.
Hey Alannah, whether you read this or not, your channel is probably in my top 5 channels on RUclips. I shop at Barkers menswear in NZ and read that the founder of the store went to the UK to train as a tailor (with Burton tailoring). Its from reading that he went to the UK that I started watching European food tasting channels on RUclips. Its from your channel that I've tried a starbar, double decker, irn bru, jaffa cakes and matchmakers (I didn't like the starbar and matchmakers; we have opposite tastebuds). I also now drink Yorkshire tea and eat milk chocolate hobnobs and dark chocolate digestives. I tried maple syrup for the first about 6 months ago. Its one of, if not literally the best topping I've ever had.
The wash basin is key on the 2 tap system. Place in the plug in the basin. Pour hot in basin the turn off tap. Add cold to adjust to preferred temperature.
The UK doesn't call them outlets, they are sockets. The are also probably the safest in the world due to their design even though were a really old country. The ones in your gym are probably used by the cleaners.
@@leonbanks5728 Nope. The outlet, in this case called a socket, is the receptacle into which the plug is inserted. Both parts incorporate safety features.
Have a Henry and he's a real veteran. Bought in '95 and never broken down. Know what you mean about the trailing container. You've got to know where you're going and what Henry is up to behind you. I took my daughter's Dyson down to the tip and the cry went up " not another one ".
i took a dyson to the tip, the guy took it from me a said "one more for the dyson army" he a had a whole battalion of them like it was clone wars, I never bought another!
One of my fav Monty Python sketches has a joke about pronunciation versus spelling. Michael Palin's character inroduces Graham Chapman's character as Mister Raymond - Luxury - Yacht, however Graham's character corrects Palin's character and explains that " My name is spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throat - Warbler - Mangrove".
"You alright?" "Yeah, you alright?" "Yeah"... Beginning & end of convo, no more is needed, walk away from the social situation! 😂 I long time ago I used to have house rabbits & the only hoover that didn't freak them out was Henry! So thank you Henry for your services lol
@@AdventuresAndNapsthis reminds me of the film “Hot shots@ where someone asks Lloyd Bridges “are you all right sir?” And he says “”yeah why what’ve you heard?” 😂
Luckily my hot tap takes a while to get hot so it goes cold - warm - BOILING HOT so I just have to use it when it’s warm but quickly bc it gets so so hot..
Floors is like us driving on the CORRECT side of the road-( LEFT)- it makes sense! ; Basement or cellar( if you have one below the GROUNDFLOOR and above that 1st floor, 2nd floor....etc simples!
Take a look underneath that mixer tap, because quite a lot of them even now, keep the hot and cold outlets separate, but they're right next to one another. Also, didn't you notice that the switches on British *sockets* and most lightswitches are the correct way up, whereas Canadian switches are upside down?
I don't know whether it's an issue but don't switchless sockets arc when you plug in and out and is that a safety issue and bad for stuff connected to it ?
What amazes me most is the diversity of lightbulbs. Before moving to the UK, I needed spare light bulbs of only one type (large screw on ones), and they would fit any and all appliances I had. Nowadays, each light bulb in my flat is different: 6 pin, 4 pin, 2 pin, small and large screw-on varieties.
What are the 4 and 6 pin bulbs for? We used to only have the 2 pin (in a couple of sizes) for most uses but these days we also have 'screw in' bulbs but I've not seen anything that needs a 4 or 6 pin bulb.
I absolutely agree. It's not our fault though -- it's all down to designers and marketers forcing us to buy different products so that we get in spare bulbs 'in case' and then never have the right sort in the house, so we have to buy more! InCANdescent with rage!
You forgot bayonet fittings. Because it's not enough to have a bunch of different light intensities and sizes, you have to have different screw types. And god help you if you have a dimmer switch, you're going to need a second mortgage for those bulbs. 😆
15:28 That catches many people out. If you were to spell it Lewis, that's somewhere else entirely, hundreds of miles away. It an Island in Scotland , known mostly for expensive accommodation prices (£90 minimum for one person ,one night ) and the ferry terminal in Stornoway .
When I was growing up,untill 1995, if you bought an electrical item in Britain usually you had to put your own plug on it I remember being taught this in school.
I had forgotten all about this until relatively recently. I remember being wee and my mum wiring up the plugs on new appliances (my dad couldn’t do it. Either that or she didn’t trust him to get right. 😆)
@@anthonyhiggins7409 Mum and Dad made me wire all the plugs after Mum crossed the earth and neutral wires in the new hoover's plug - it ran for about 5 minutes until all the ground around the house was charged and couldn't take any more. I always wondered if she'd electrocuted all the worms in the garden. :)
I remember my maternal grandparents house when I was a young child in the 60's. The only tap in the house was cold and in the kitchen and there was no cooker. There was also no bathroom. They had a cast iron oven built into the fireplace and a shelf thing over the fire for pans. You wanted hot water, you had to boil it in a pan on the fire. They had tin bath on a hook on the wall for use with hot water produced in the same manner. Oh, and the toilet was outside!
I, in the 40s and 50s lived in a house similar to the one you describe except, we had no electricity. We did however, have a gas fired wash boiler that we used to heat the water for the tin bath. Luxury!!!
I was born in a house like that and lived there until I was five when we moved to a newly built 1960s property, with the joy of having an indoor toilet and a bathroom with hot and cold running water and central heating. The house I was born in also had the old gas mantles on the bedroom walls, they were disconnected when electricity had been installed back in the 1930s but they were still there. We kept a paraffin heater in the outside loo to stop it freezing up in winter.
Yep, my family of 5 lived in tenement in 2 rooms with only a tin bath in front of coal fire until I was 7 (I'm 63) and we moved to brand new house. Sometimes a fire would start in the chimney (aka the lump was up) and all the residents had to wait in the back garden until the fire brigade put it out. The toilet was on the landing down some stairs and was shared with another family.
Henry is mostly for commercial use, although some homes (including mine) have them. They are very powerful and the fact you don’t have to carry the weight of the motor etc. means you can hoover all day with no issues. It also means you have a big body to hold a lot of dust. In hotels they are excellent
I worked in the motor trade in the 80s and 90s and saw the absolute abuse that Henry could take from industrial trade wastes like broken car glass and other stuff you should never get near with a vacuum. They never died, so I bought one in 1993 and I'm still using it today for when my Dysons can't cope and it's never failed yet. I even got a longer hose for doing the stairs so I don't have to carry it upstairs anymore. The newer ones today don't seem as sturdy built as mine. After 30 years heavy use and abuse it's still good for another 30 years.
Keep it away from any builders, they borrowed the work Henry and killed it, apparently Henry is not a fan of cement powder. :) The Dyson died a few days later, one of the clients (in a care home) threw it at one of the support staff. client on top of the stairs, staff at the bottom, apparently Dyson's were not designed to be thrown like they were a weapon! :)
@@RobG001 Seems like they don't build them like in the 80s and 90s then as they used to be like mine built like the Top Gear Toyota Hilux and you could treat them like that which I have done and they just kept working. Dysons have always been a bit fragile in comparison.
Browsing hours was introduced years ago when large shops opened on a Sunday. By law shops are not allowed to sell goods before 10.00am on Sunday but allowed to open at 09.30 so people could shop or browse but not buy. This helped the little corner shops that were allowed normal hours on a Sunday.
It's very commonplace for UK supermarkets to have a crowd of frustrated would-be shoppers standing outside the doors at 9:50am and banging on the glass and pointing at the staff whenever they spot them walking past on the inside etc, therefore many supermarkets have for years now been opening the doors at some point ahead of 10am, often 20-30mins ahead rather than a full hour, to avoid the staff feeling like they've become some sort of zoo exhibit, and to avoid the customers becoming an angry mob outside. Of course the earlier they open the doors for browsing the early the crowd start arriving and congregating outside, and it's partly for that reason (and partly because of the continuous stream of people who "just need to grab some milk!" trying to physically push their way in through the exit door at 4:05pm or later, because the store can't shut that one yet until the last few legally served customers have dawdled their way out) that I believe that we just need to abolish Sunday trading restrictions now and allow a normal trading day. Sunday trading restrictions lead to more verbal and physical abuse of retail staff on Sunday than any other day, as well as them dealing with the notably higher levels of general stress due to far higher numbers of simultaneous customers in the 6 hours the store is open than would be the case if many of those shoppers could choose to either shop earlier in the morning, or later in the afternoon/ evening, and thus spread things out to be more manageable for the staff, so I do believe the law as it stands actually defeats the object it set out in 1994 to achieve, namely the protection of the rights and working conditions of retail workers with respect to allowing some Sunday trading.
That’s so people don’t have to stand around outside until the tills open up so then you can purchase the goods ; hence the browsing hour . But not all shops use the hour , you just have to wait until the store opens it’s doors and get your shopping
I went to Loughborough Uni and had a rugby shirt with the uni name on it I was on holiday and an American (who was on the same tour) came up to me and asked me where Loogyboroogy was I looked at him blankly and he pointed at my shirt, oh it's pronounced Luffboro I replied He wandered away looking a bit confused and probably thought I was taking the piss. He obviously didn't understand patronization 😮
The separate taps thing is, like you said, about hot water storage (or at least how it used to be) and apparently the correct way to go about using the separate taps is to fill up the sink and mix your water in there to the right temperature... but who has time for that?
In practice I normally wash my hands in cold water as it would take too long to wait until it runs hot. I've never lived anywhere that had instant scalding hot water.
I'm 35 and have lived in the UK all my life but had no idea browsing hours was a thing until I experienced it for the first time about a month ago. I personally think it's nuts, should be about 10 to 15 mins max if they have to do it.
Alanna, I can't tell if you were joking about the hot and cold water, but the idea wasn't to either freeze or burn your face, you mix the waters in the basin to get the perfect temperature XD
But in order to do so without it being disgusting you have to have perfectly cleaned sink, which nobody had, especially in public toilets so everyone just ends up freezing and burning themselves
Alana, you know that thing under the taps its called a basin. Put that plastic thing in it - technical term a plug (not to be confused with an electric plug)- run both taps for a few seconds into the basin swirl the water et voila perfect washing temperature water. Plus you save water.
Seperate taps was usually a kitchen thing, with single taps being for bathrooms. They were in the kitchen becaise thats where you would be handling food or getting a drink, where you wouldnt want to risk pathogens in the tap left over from the last time you used the hot water. At some point they started using those taps in some bathrooms, not sure why, maybe tap makers got annoyed having to make multiple styles idk. Even wierder is eventually we saw a full inversion where you would get mixed tap in the kitchen but not in bathrooms. I assume because if the ease of rotating a single tap for hot and cold over a pot on the side of the sink thats too big to fit in? Who knows. Finallybseeing a swap to mixed singles back in bathrooms through, but i definately prefer how the old ones looked.
Being used to the Ground floor, first floor, second floor etc concept, imagine how confusing it was visiting a famous store in New York to discover floors one and a half and two and a half? The escalators kept going past the half floors even though we could see them. It turned out to be a different set of escalators, Why would they call mezzanine floors 'Half's' ? 🇬🇧
Turning off at the plug can indeed save power. Some appliances continue to draw power even when "off". PCs do this for example. Any device with a transformer will also draw power. Including those plug to USB charger plugs. They wear out when there isn't a device attached to charge as well. I switch off everything I can in our kitchen at night. As thr kitchen is the source of most electrical fires.
I think the switch on the socket (outlet) is very useful and an added safety feature of the British home and workplace. I always turn a switch off prior to removing the plug from the socket to ensure there isn't a surge of electricity to my device or through the eclectic circuit of the house. It can also save quite a bit of money if the socket is supplying power to a device that has a standby function. My house was built in 1904 and even though it no longer has a hot water tank and supply tank in my loft (which could be the source of contamination as it was generally only loosely covered with a piece of wood, so birds or rodents could end up in it) it still has separate taps in the kitchen and bathroom. I prefer two separate taps and really do not like mixer taps. Having a hot and cold tap allows me to control the heat of the water added to the sink and retained with the sink plug in place.
The Henry style hoover is a strange one, because they are no good for round the house as you said, but in large open areas like offices and shops, they're really good because normally these spaces have either a hard floor or very flat carpet tiles (so no need for heavy duty beaters or brushes). They are also massive spaces that you need to be able to vacuum very quickly and with minimal effort, so the light weight handle of the Henry is ideal. And because they are large open spaces, there is much more room to manouver the body of the hoover.
They are perfectly good for normal houses with normal rooms. I would not be without mine. People have those expensive Dysons, the batteries always breaking. I live near Dyson and Numatic and my partner deals with both companies.
I'll never forget the time the Head of Human Resources called the IT helpdesk because his printer wasn't working, so I went down to have a look. Yup, you guessed it. The power switch was off on the wall socket! If I had a pound for every time...
I had a D&D character called Eric Cholmondley-Featherstonehaugh who gave out a business card with a fold out section as the name was so long. Its pronounced Chumley-Fanshaw!
There's a Monty Python inspired/licensed RPG out now/soon (it was funded on kickstarter, and I don't think it's physical book is out yet), and it sounds like it'd be right up your street.
I don't mind separate taps for a bath or kitchen sink but definately not the bathroom sink. unfortunately the one place they always seem to install separate taps in the bathroom sink and nowhere else!! Unfortunatley I'm a student to I can't change my separate taps, all I can do is hope next year I get a mixer tap in my ensuite
The taps in my council flat are separate... but not only that.. they're the opposite way around in the kitchen to the bathroom sink... but somehow matches the bath 🤣🤷♂️
As the majority of the UK is non-Christian / non-religious, please can we get rid of the silly Sunday shopping laws (and the undemocratic and unelected Church of England bishops in the House of Lords too while we're at it too).
Oh yes! While you’re at it, you can get rid of the Royal Family and the aristocracy, all of which are so undemocratic. How about you juts get back in your little box and live and let live?
@@BigAl53750 the royal family have privilege, but very little political power, and tourists seem to like them. I think we could do without the sweaty one who associated with Mr Epstein though. They may not be democratically elected, but quite honestly, when I look at countries that have presidents, I find the stability of a constitutional monarch, and the fact they are politically neutered, quite comforting. ...And no, I'm never going to stop arguing for reason, democracy, free speech and fairness. If you don't like dissenting opinion, then maybe the Internet is not for you.
dare i say it, i think it's nice lol... it's not like you can't get stuff, but it does give one day a different feel.. of course, it will go eventually... and i think that will be a shame..
The British have a device known as a "Sink Plug" which allows you to mix the water in the bowl.😊😊When I turn on my hot tap I have to run it for a while before it gets hot as the pipes between the hot tank and the cap cool down.
Charles is a wet and dry shop vac. Great for clearing up leaks and spills. The standard if for short pile and commercial flooring (eg office carpet tiles and hard floors). For domestic carpets you need a different head.
It takes a fair amount of effort to pull a British electrical plug out of its socket (unlike North American plugs that fall out when you look at them), so having the switch is handy.
12:12 😂 I love confusing people when they ask me 'you alright' and I say either "why? do it not look alright" or "no I'm not", I love seeing people's faces because it's not what they expect to hear😂😂
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As a Brit myself I would say the best thing to say when you see someone is *Hi how's it going? I pronounce things as an American even though I'm not but I have friends over there
Hmm turning off at the "socket" aka the outlet does indeed save you cash... Its not rocket science electronics in standby mode use electricity.... LOGIC... Also where is the proff um on your fooking meteryou... Ahhhh8 years 8 years... And you still question this.... Also you forgot that most of this started and was named here... Not there... 😂
The ground is the ground... The first floor above the ground is floor 1..... B G 1 2 3 PH R
Hmm it's almost like to save water you would put the plug in the sink to wash your face lmfao... Also or cold in hands then hot then face.... 😂
American English is your first language..... 😂 Not ENGLISH... 😂
also it pains me that I can tell that tea was cold or lukewarm in that cup..... No just no
The British electric socket is one of the greatest inventions of all time. Seriously… the safety features are genius.
Dame Caroline Haslett, a pioneer in women engineers, held in very high regard by British electrical engineers. An early feminist who didn't just have an 'attitude', but got out there and worked to improve the quality of life for all women, and also children and men.
The best thing is that when you don't have a plug for your lead, you can shove a screwdriver into the earth, and that opens up the live and neutral. You can then push the bare live and neutral wires into the socket, pull out the screwdriver and the safety mechanism in the socket closes on the wires.
@@spkiey 😂😂😂
Yep! There are even a multitude of American creators who quite openly admit the UK power socket and plug system is a thing to be admired.
@@glynnwright1699 Are we really shoehorning feminism into a very brief conversation about electrical outlet design...?
The UK standard plug is, without a doubt, the safest in the world. The plug is fused, the earth pin is longer than the other two which means it's the first to make contact and the last out. The live (+) and neutral (-) are shielded to make it difficult / impossible to touch them as you plug them in. Internally there is a substantial cable grip and again the wiring is equally designed for safety.
@stevebrown7574 - Very nicely explained. Indeed, we do have the safest plugs in the world, here in the UK! And switching them off at the wall really does save money.
You forgot to mention the most important safety feature if you have inquisitive children - the plastic guard that only lifts to make the live and neutral slots of the socket available when the earth pin is inserted. Child safety socket covers are literally unnecessary.
Please make that UK AND IRELAND because we have your sockets/plugs as well, and having grown up in NZ (similar plugs but without fuses) I fully agree they are the safest around (and just as painful to step on in the dark as a kiwi plug)
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou If you want to be pedantic, UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Cyprus, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Gibraltar, Malta and many more!
Brits don't call them power outlets. We call them sockets.
We aim to confuse all foreigners 😂😂😂😂
The QE2 was built in the UK the refit was by a European company.....almost all the contactors arrived on the ship with continental tool and plugs.....my x boss said a one of the few British contracts they were fine but had to send out two people on any job one to guard the plug ...
They're called power points in Australia
I ran downstairs to tell my dad that plug sockets don’t have on/off switches in other countries like it was the most amazing thing in the world and he looked at me like he didn’t believe me, I think it’s because I’m drunk - am going to txt him this link 😂😂😂 🇬🇧
I would call them the two sockets of the power outlet.
Or we just call them plugs too.
Our plug sockets are absolute genius. It is virtually impossible to electrocute one’s self. Plus our power supply is 240v as oppose to North American 120v hence the extra safety in the U.K. Remember the episode that Alanna did on how long it took her to heat a kettle in Canada!
Cleaning staff at Alanna's gym getting ready to vacuum the locker room: WHO KEEPS TURNING THIS OFF!?!?!?
😂 I can't help it!!
With a Henry obviously. Cause every cleaner in the land uses a Henry 😂
Speaking as a cleaner myself - TELL ME ABOUT IT.
Nothing worse than setting up your unit for quick and easy working, and some £$£" (you know who you are) has messed it up.
Expensive electricity leaks out if the switch is on and there's no plug in.
@@AdventuresAndNaps , the switches on the SOCKETS is basically for safety , for example when you think of it just how many times have you plugged in the lamp you use for videos or / kettle / vacuum cleaner / iron or mixer etc etc and they start up automatically because they were never actually turned off on the item , you may have not noticed but when you plugged in the item there was a small spark and this was because with it still being switched on a " load " was put on the socket , this spark can be big and it'll certainly surprise you , to stop this happening a good connection in the socket is required , hence the switch is used, now you push the plug into the socket then turn on the item with the switch in the socket and again safely at the item , when switching off the item you do it the reverse way .
As for which is the ground floor stand by a window and look out of it , if you were to jump out of the window but don't fall anywhere then your on the ground floor but if you would fall down one floor then your on the first floor ( before you jump of course 😂 )
Just remember that falling doesn't hurt , it's the last half a millimeter that does 😂
Please please please just show a plug for the sink because you'll be the first ever to show a complete sink / bath , what's the odds that Germans know actually how and why it works , because we are related 😂
I'm a foreigner too from non-English speaking country, I've come to the UK just 3 months. Honestly, I don't struggle with these British things at all and just do what 'When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do'. I'm easy and adapt quickly & happily 😁
Well done. You are an honorary Brit for adapting to British ways.
But you don't have to produce a video about something every week to appease the RUclips gods 😉
And we love having you here ! thank you for wanting to happily adapt :) im glad you dont struggle with it ... hope you continue to like it here and enjoy it ! stay safe and well !
@@GeekyC Love British stuff, they are always designed for safety 👍
@@Thurgosh_OG although the final test of Britishness would be to *still complain* about all these things, but never do anything about it :P
Tea - it doesn't cure the world's problems but it does greatly boost your ability to deal with them.
Well said - love it 👍
@@serenityinside1...you wouldn't say that if you were Chinese 200 years ago...Britain Merchants created an Opium War..a drug dependency..so that the British ruling class could have their tea on the table during Napoleonic era..not that the lower class of course..we didn't benefit till Indian or more commonly Ceylon tea was common..but China have never forgotten or fully forgiven us..and then we clashed with America in Boston over distribution at the docks...tea has not been a smoothe ride to bring what we take for granted since the early to mid 20th century...I appreciate it more now than in my childhood..now I know the history..and the real cost..
Henry is an *amazing* low key British success story. 1) not floated, so ownership remains entirely in the UK. 2) robust, durable, easy to repair and *designed* to be repaired (no planned obsolescence.). 3) fun fact - the company, still based in London, has zero, thats right *zero* advertising budget. It has made itself profitable through one simple gimmick - a cute anthropomorphic design and a name - and word of mouth about its quality and durability.
Honestly I wish more companies were like this.
Perhaps we should send missionaries to America to explain the concept of a sink plug.
Yeah... It drives me nuts when people can't think logically and put a plug in the sink... Simply mix the hot and cold water together... In just the same way as you would when running a bath... If it's too hot add some cold water... And if it's too cold add some hot water... And once you've washed your hands and or face in the bathroom sink... Just remove the plug and the water goes straight down the sink.
Wouldn’t work, the technology is far too complex for them to grasp.
@@shaunfarrell3834 🤣🤣🤣
They haven’t mastered using a knife and fork properly yet, give them chance. 😂
@@lesbrewster2375 🤣🤣🤣
The Henry slander I will not stand until you’ve used the communal ones at University which invariably always smell of sick. Otherwise, perfection 😂
my henry is 30 years old and still works perfectly. he may be awkward and cumbersome but by god is he sturdy and good at his job.
And good and hoovering floors too!
my henry caught fire recently 🥲
God bless Henry! The best vacuum cleaner ever made! 😊👍🏻💖
Mine died last year I think it was about 15 years old but Henry had a good life
I still have my Henry with the turbo boost button, which is so great to have if you have house rabbits and have bits of hay to vacuum up.
Well, anyway, my Henry is at least 20 years old now. He still works really well.
I had a Dyson before Henry, and I can tell you it could not deal with the bits of hay at all. I'm just hoping my Henry lasts a really long time as they don't make the one with the booster button in the UK anymore cause of EU Environmental laws.
Oh, I also own a George, too, for cleaning carpets.
as a Plumber, I have separate taps. this is because the cold tap is supplied from the fresh mains drinking water. the hot tap will be supplied from either a hot water cylinder, boiler or instant heating unit. all 3 of these devices heat the water to no more than 78 degrees and create bacteria, making the water undrinkable. so a mixer taps spout will be contaminated. next time you have a mixer tap taken out, ask the plumber to cut the spout open. you will then see how green it is inside, the same with the heating unit.
as for choosing between washing your hands under either the hot or cold tap, here's a trick. put the plug in the plug hole and run both taps until you get the temperature of water you want in the basin.
another tip is ... wash yourself in the basin not the sink. the sink is for washing dishes in.
Switches on outlets makes sense with the alternative is to unplug the device, and leave the plug on the floor pins up and ready for you to step on it bare foot late a night.
Henrys are genius… almost every cleaner and builder uses them, they just work (or if you have used it wrong they are really easy to mend), and who needs warm water… cold for drinking, hot for washing, both if you need warm… anything else would be madness!
I love the part in A Bridge too far when the adjutant goes to Sean Connery and says "Cup of tea sir?".. Then the rant about radios not working and lunatics laughing from the wood "and you think a cup of tea will help me ??!".. "Well it won't hurt sir" 😂
Yes I miss British plugs, here in Australia I went to Bunnings and asked for bulbs....he pointed me to the garden section.....huh? Oh you mean globes! We laughed.
But did you get a Bunnings snag 😂
As a Brit, I've never heard of browsing hours. But then I'm not crazy enough to go to any shop before 10am on a Sunday. Hell, I don't want to even leave the house until after lunch on a Sunday!
I got caught out that way once. I won't go back to that store.
My local Sainsbury used to do this on Sundays, but recently they seem to have abolished it. It's rather annoying as I could be out of the place by 1005 and on my way home.
No Sunday trading restrictions (at least, not nationally anyway) in Scotland. The Wee Frees up in Harris and Lewis are doing their best to keep churches as the only thing open on Sundays, though, the miserable gits.
I saw they were doing it at Aldi the other day.
It only happens on Sunday and only so that they can legally extend the hours they open.
UK deaths from electrocution in the years 2001 to 2017 range from 8 to 38 per year and average at about 20. I can't find such detailed statistics for the USA, but it seems to be somewhere between 400 and "more than 1000" per year. Taking into account the approximate 5 to 1 population difference, the UK would appear to be about 4 to 10 times safer despite using 230V rather than 110V.
Love the way you call the Henry vacuum cleaner family “Hoovers”. Very British!
Even though they're not made by Hoover. Although the alliteration is hard to resist.
@@JamesLMasonIn my family it doesn't matter what brand of vacuum cleaner you use, it is always called the hoover! 😂
@@wilmaknickersfit Yeah, trademark erosion is all over the place. Americans calling all tissues Kleenex, all colas become coke. I just found it amusing that strictly speaking Henry is a vacuum cleaner but has, understandably, done the same and it really works in its favour in this case. I bet they wish they could officially call him that.
Hoover is an American company founded in Ohio, so not British at all...
@@JamesLMason Hoover hasn't actually made Hoovers since 1962, when it was bought out by Maytag.
I fit bathrooms for a living.
I think in the 15 years I've been a sole trader, I've fitted 2 bathrooms with separate taps.
Mixers are the NORM here.
If someone wants separate hot and cold, it's because they desire the 'Edwardian' look.
New basins with two tap holes are the absolute minority.
Yet all American/Canadian's claim that we all have two taps everywhere.
Just not true AT ALL.
Most homes people move into are older than 15 years old though, and will often have seperate taps
@Lonewolf_121 That is NOT what I was saying. I said I've been fitting bathrooms for 15 years. If I'm ripping out an old bathroom, even if it's 30 years old, I will be ripping out mixer taps too.
The mug you used for your tea was classic 🤣
nice tlts 😅
With our separate taps you don't scald your hands or freeze them off. You put the plug in the basin first to mix the hot and cold water in the sink. Therefore you only use the amount you actually need and reduce the cost of your water bill.
Another note on UK plugs and sockets is that it's REALLY difficult to electrocute yourself with one. The prongs are arranged in such a way that by the time the plug is out of the socket enough for you to touch exposed metal it is already too far out of the socket to still have power running through it. It generally take intentional tampering with either the plug and/or socket to be able to.
That and the 'long prong.' It has two functions. It is an earth connection and it means the device will be earthed before the power prongs are connected, and it also open the flaps that cover the L+N prong holes (on some sockets).
Great design that seemed to get lost outside of the country.
@@GaryMcCormick furthermore, the extra length and route of the earth wire means it should be the last to physically fail if the cable is ripped from the plug. This means it is unlikely a yanked cable could be able to power a device and have a broken earth if wired correctly.
I had a colleague who was an Electrical engineer from Poland and our plugs and sockets where he's favourite thing from the UK, because it is over engineered and superior to all other plugs
@@GaryMcCormick Actually, there are 49 other countries that use the type G plugs and sockets.
Soory chap, but the same is true for *every* other type of socket.
We call it the "Ground Floor" because it's on the ground.
When you walk outside going to shops or something, you don't say it's the first floor. It's called the ground.
So the floor in your house that's level with the outside is known as the ground floor.
The first floor is the next level up because that's the first floor you come to.
It's why, on a lift (elevator), the button has "G" for ground.
If the building has a floor lower than the ground, it's known as the basement/celler depending on what the building is and where in the uk you are.
If it's a big building and has a lift available to all levels, then you'd see "B" for basement "G" for ground and then 1 to however many levels there are above ground.
I'm from Kent as well. A town called Maidstone.
Switched outlets just make sense, lack of them in other countries is absolutely mindblowing
I agree - the safety of it is just so much sense
And in the UK, operating at 230-240 volts, any safety features are to be welcomed. If you get a shock here, you know all about it. Mind you, it does cure your depression.
In some countries it does make some sense, mainly North America. We use 240v in the UK but they use 120v. As voltage is linked to current and current is what kills you the higher current of the UK system is much more likely to kill you so having the various extra safety features including on/off switches makes sense. It would still be safer for for North America to have switches and tbh just switching to UK plugs and sockets as even the current from 120v can kill you but it's less important. Countries such as most of mainland Europe where they use voltages over 200 it makes less sense though, they have a current level where the risk is elevated but have a less safe system than the uk
@@SimonWakefieldUK Australia also has switched sockets, but their plugs are smaller and not fused. They run on 230V, like Europe and 2/3 of the world.
@@SimonWakefieldUK Americans have 240V in their homes for large appliances such as dryers and cookers, actually a lower voltage will require higher current to produce the same power requirement as power is current times voltage, I believe most US homes have 15A and 20A circuits with 120V and 240V supplies dependent on end use appliance.
Henry is made by a company in Chard, UK called Numatic. Ive used their stuff for over forty years and it is good honest British engineering.
Using "First floor" to describe the Ground floor does not make sense. It's like saying that a baby is 1 year old on the day that they are born. Also, the American system breaks down as soon as you have underground floors. In the UK the Ground floor is numbered zero, and then underground floors are numbered -1, -2 etc. (because they are below zero). So positive numbers are above ground level, and negative numbers are below ground level. However, In the US the first underground floor would have to be numbered zero (seeing as they number the ground floor as 1).
The ground floor is also a floor. And because it is the floor that you are on when you enter a building you could call it the first floor. Not saying that we should do that but there is reason to it.
In South Korea ( until recently) you were aged 1 on the day you were born . Just to add to it , when new year came you add another year to your age . Someone born in December would be two by January! They changed it to align themselves internationally. Not a lot of people know that - apart from Michael Caine obviously! 😅
The first integer number is zero, so QED.
Alana - you are a Rizla's width away from a great stand up routine. You have enough material .
Racehorses I believe are 1 year at birth and then all have birthdays on January first.
Europe in general (and certainly France and the UK) has a floor zero (ground floor) and the first floor is upstairs.
Switched sockets are great. You don't have to use the switch but I often do. If I'm testing something mains powered I've either repaired or made I can plug it in and then switch on and be able to switch off quickly if things are not going to plan. It's an option and that's good, right?
British sockets are the normal sort. It's foreign countries that have strange ones.
Correct
@@kevindarkstar From Ireland where we have the same plugs/sockets, totally correct. With Australia/NZ coming a close second - switched sockets, similar plugs but without a fuse and upside down
Obviously!
Preach
ive a Henry hoover in my worshop. It`s used for cleaning up swarf(small shards of metal from machining), oil and water. It`s still working after fifteen years, sumply fantastic.
One of the cool things about the Henry's is that Numatic that makes them never advertises them, so you'll never see them advertised on telly, they just rely on their reputation to sell them. The bad thing (for them at least) is they're virtually indestructable, so many people buy them and then never need to replace them as they just keep working, which is great as a user (got one myself) but not sure it's a great business model. :)
A place I worked at used Henry's to powered a fluidised bed system for powder coating hot metal products, instead of using the compressed air system everything else that heeded air used.
They had to replace Henry every month about, as they used the hose in the outlet to blow air inefficiently into a powder bed, overheating and burning out his insufficient little motor, instead of using the more than powerful enough compressed air system they already had, trying to save money.
The newer Henry's are definitely not indestructible! They are now the most common vacuum cleaners seen dumped in the street 😅 they definitely overtook Dyson in terms of disposable vacuum cleaners 🤣
Henry and family just do what you need them to do! No gimmicks, no complication, just function. We’ve done all the Hoovers, Nilfisk, Electrolux, Dyson, Shark etc, but Henry is so much better, so we have 3 including the one I use as a general builder. Many years ago I t worked selling the “legendary” Kirby to Americans in Germany - fantastic machine, but really the Henry for me is the winner😊
@@timstradling7764 Mum had a kirby upright for years until dad couldn't repair it any longer.
The taps did it for me. Your explanation for separate taps is almost spot on. There are many homes in the UK that are a hundred or many hundreds of years old and still have crappy old tanks in the attic, perhaps with the odd dead rodent floating around. So you never really mixed your hot and cold if you planned to ingest that mixture without boiling it first, valued your health that is. With the introduction of boilers, especially combi types, the hot is fed from the same supply as the cold and its perfectly safe to mix them, so the UK has slowly moved from separate taps to mixers. Love this channel.
I guess you have never cut open a broken Combi Boiler, cylinder, Instant Water Heater or the Spout of a Mixer Tap. they will be black from contamination. so never drink the cold water from a Mixer Tap.
Regarding the taps. British people tend to fill the sink up using the cold and hot taps to make the water just right. American's, not caring about water, just run the tap while they wash. I lived in America for 7 years, so I have seen this!
The US doesn't use the plug in a wash basin, they haven't invented the rubber plug yet! Don't tell them or they will patent it like they did the electric light bulb.
So you fill the sink, then put your dirty hand into the water then put soap on it, then rub, and then put back your hands in the water, so at the end your hand will be covered with a bit soapy-dirty water and then you dry it?
Or how does that work?
Here how it works with running water: open the mix tap for a few seconds to wet your hands, close it, then put soap on your hands, rub them as long as needed (tap closed) and at the end wash the soap off in a short time, ending up with wet hands, no soap, no grim. I believe this method uses less water than filling the sink.
I'm British and I ran the tap while washing. It's way cleaner than what you're describing lol.
@@Eva-mp7xgBathrooms have basins not sinks!
@@SimonEllwood Thanks for the linguistical help. 😊
Could you pls help me with explaining how to use separate taps for a hand wash, too?
I think the whole idea of sinks with plugs is so you can fill it with a mixture of hot and cold water to the temperature you want, then wash. True that there could have been a dead rodent in your local water tank but more people used to fill the sink using the plug than just keep the tap running to wash and shave etc.
You Alright Alanna, how you doin'. Listen don't stress about the switch on the socket at the gym, it was probably just the cleaner forgetting to turn it off when unplugging the Henry vacuum because he /she were wondering if they had remembered to turn off the hot taps on the 1st floor. 🤣🤣
😂. Very good !
Taps show the age of the building. And of course you could put the plug in the basin , plug supplied, and add cold and hot water to suit. But that means using the grey matter in your heads and it’s not in large supply across the pond.
the reason for 2 taps, it wasnt about keeping hot and cold separate, it was about keeping the drinking water separate from the non drinking water as the old types of boiler used to heat water were not great and created Bactria, so basically its not separate hot and cold taps, its separate drinking and non drinking water taps.
Is Bactria somewhere in Eastern Europe? 😁
True, that is the main reason. But also the fact that the hot water did not come until later. So sinks just had cold water initially. When hot water came along it was usually piped to the kitchen or bathroom separately so they designed sinks and baths with 2 taps - one for hot one for cold. I don't know if they had designed twin flow taps by that time. But it certains took quite some time to take hold in the UK. And still not all new kitchens will have a dual flow tap.
Your logic fails when some of the cold taps are fed from a loft-mounted tank (bath taps spring to mind here).
@@stevemawer848 its got nothing to do with logic, we are not looking trip someone up, its a historical fact.
I'm British and Ive never, ever heard of or experienced "Browsing Hours"
Alanna You would have liked the DFS furniture store Darley Dale Derbyshire. To avoid Sunday Trading laws if you bought a carrot for say £300 they threw in a settee or piece of furniture for free! They did very well from it!
Alanna, I stumbled across one of your videos only yesterday. I've watched several, and you had me in stitches with this one! Our British pronunciations of some place names are TOTALLY unreasonable, and they're just as confusing to us when we're kids and we first see them. I think we learn many of these place names by hearing them, before we ever see how they're spelled. But ... when you get used to them, the crazy difference between the spelling and the pronunciation becomes part of the fun, and knowing the correct pronunciation makes you feel like you've graduated, somehow. You're now in the know, and you're able to correct people who mispronounce them! This is all part of being British! I think my favourites are Alnwick, pronounced 'annick', and Towcester, pronounced 'toaster'. There are other words that don't sound like they look, of course, such as women, or friend, and I think their pronunciations are universal in all English-speaking countries.
It's pretty silly that supermarkets call the pre-trading hour "browsing hour", as if anyone is going to browse in a supermarket, looking at all the food and taking an hour to make up their mind what they're going to buy. It's really "trolley loading hour".
As for our plug sockets, they used not to have switches, many years ago, and even now, not all do. However, British plugs can take a bit of effort to pull out and put back in, so it's handy having a switch, especially as we have so many electrical things plugged into so many sockets these days. Also, when British plugs aren't plugged in, they tend to lie on the floor with their prongs pointing upwards, and if you inadvertently stand on one, it REALLY hurts!
Both the American and British ways of numbering the floors of a building make sense, but as a child, I think probably most of us would expect the storey you walk into to be the first floor, and they you'd go up a flight of stairs to the second floor, and we all have to learn that no, the ground-level floor is the ground floor, and the 2nd level is the first floor. And then you're in the know: you've graduated! I guess the logic is that the ground 'floor' is actually on the ground (just forget basements for a moment), and that a 'floor' is a higher level that is actually made, rather than naturally being there, so the one above the ground is the first But I really understand your current confusion. I used to live abroad in a country where they drive on the right, with the steering wheel on the left side of the car, but when I visited home, cars' steering wheels were on the right. I got so confused that several times (in both countries) I got into the wrong side of the car, only to find that I didn't have a steering wheel. For maybe a year after I moved back to Britain, I just couldn't think which way round it would be, so before I got in the car, I would simply look to see where the steering wheel was!
I do think, though, that the idiosyncrasies of British life are one of the defining qualities of Britishness. I know Americans use pounds and ounces, but the British used to go further and use stones. 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, and 8 stones in a hundredweight. What could be simpler? 🤣🤣 Until 1971, our money had 240 pennies in a pound, divided into 20 shillings worth 12 pennies each ...
The tap thing always gets me as people say about burning there hands! Put the plug in and then put hot and cold in to make warm water plus its better for the enviroment to fill the sink instead of constant running water and if you diss Henry then i will hunt you down😂
and how many people don't have mixer taps in 2023 anyway?
some people dont use their brains mainly americans lol.
@@stevemichael8458alot of old buildings still don't as they still use tanks in the loft which are open for contamination for their hot water which mixing tap would cause contamination of the fresh water supply. Modern houses or those residents of older houses with the money, ability and desire to retrofit will be ready for mixing taps but so many houses are still pre ww2 look at alone pre 80/90s where there was a real shift that we still have a massive number of houses that aren't suitable for mixing taps
@@stevemichael8458 The majority of UK homes still have separate taps. Mixer taps are used in a lot of new builds but we still see separate taps in some. Social housing uses them most of the time because repairs and replacements are cheaper than mixer taps.
You fill the sink up to wash your hands in 2023? The same sink you spit into while brushing your teeth or blow your nose into?? 🤮 Stop making the rest of us Brits look old fashioned and unhygienic. 😂
With the taps older houses used to have a "hot water tank" where the hot water was boiled and kept ready for use. This could get quite nasty (I remember my father telling me that he knew of a family who found a dead rat in theirs). The cold water comes straight from the mains and is considered fit for drinking and the two taps kept the drinking water away from the hot water.
Modern combi-boilers don't have a storage tanks and as such most modern bathrooms and kitchens have mixer taps (unless people want the classic look)
I think also it was a safety feature to prevent the hot water pushing back into the mains water pipes and contaminating them if the mains water supply lost pressure.
Henry Hoovers are made in the UK. They employ UK citizens, and they pay their taxes. Every other hoover manufacturer do none of those things, and Dyson in particular actively work against Britain's best interests and are made to break down in 12 months. Always buy a Henry. It is the patriotic thing to do.
What really p'd me off was that Dyson was given a knighthood for producing a load of junk and not satisfied with that he had it made abroad, probably on the recommendation of some bean-counter.
Don't disagree with what you say, but it's a Henry vacuum cleaner, Hoover is a brand name
@@hognaut indeed, Hoover is a brand name but due to it ubiquity in the past it became a synonym for vacuuming.
I have a Henry and it’s lasted me for yours. I agree though about its clumsiness. It was designed as a commercial rather than a consumer oroduct so sturdy enough to be used by office cleaners for hours everyday without falling apart, which is what I like about. You also see them (usually the version that can handle liquid spills) thrown in the back of builders’ vans because they’re tough and rarely break down. However, it was really designed really for cleaning large open plan offices rather than domestic rooms. I think the friendly face was there to cheer up cleaners which can, let’s face it, be a pretty soul destroying job.
I've had my Henry for over 20 years.. their design is simple yet efficient. We also have a dyson for quick hoovering of spills, but I've replaced more of it than triggers broom.
Bit late to the party but I love my Henry! It’s my workshop/building one rather than for the house. And he was ably employed by a plumber friend for many years before I took him on. Who knows how many tons of brick/plaster/wood/metal he’s sucked up over the years and still going strong!
Henry vacuums were popular with professional cleaners because their top incorporates a handle that manually stores the electric cable. The cables were very long so you could do a large office without moving the plug. People in the office saw that the professionals were using these and assumed they must be better so bought them for their homes. The face is a plus.
i used one in my job for over 15 years and the suction is second to none. a close contender was the seebo upright.
Yeah the original 1200w Henry is awesome. So long as the detritus physically fits in the nozzle. Henry eats it. Bricks - no problems. Rubble - a doddle. Whereas I once had a dyson catch fire after going over an elastic band.
Now they became the most popular vacuum cleaners seen dumped in the street. It's not a good advertisement for reliability 😅
@@foreverhungry84when married we had a seebo ; brilliant cleaners - German engineering and construction =!way ahead of the pack at the time.
I used to live with someone who kept buying Dysons. The crappy plastic always broke within a few months. Henry ftw! ❤
In the UK, the 2 taps are because, our cold water is fresh fed & in older buildings our hot water is tanked, originally because it gets heated and held in a tank, in some old buildings this is fed by a secondary tank in the roof, to prevent running out in large households, I'm sure I don't need to explain how much of a risk drinking standing water is to a persons health, on top of possible deposits from long periods of exposure to copper, steel, & even lead in some cases. Now all of this is minimal and of no harmful level, and your water is only standing as long as your not using the hot water, but probably better to not ingest it, So Hot & cold taps helps prevent someone drinking the wrong one. Obviously things are different now with plastic tanks, eco boilers ect. that heat what & when you want it.
It isn't just the Brits who say "ground floor, first floor, etc." Every European country other than Russia does so, as do Australia, New Zealand, most East and Southern African countries, India, and most South Asian and Pacific nations, and even Mexico and most South and Central America.
The Baltic countries and Eastern Europe don't use ground floor I believe
Former Soviet that's why.@@craig3782
@@craig3782 Hmm, perhaps some influence from Russia there?
I am British with a Norwegian family who also get confused by ground floor, they also use 1st floor instead of ground floor.
The ground floor means exactly what it says. You enter the building on the ground floor. Go up the stairs to the first floor. Go up the stairs further and your on the second floor etc, etc.
Hey Alannah, whether you read this or not, your channel is probably in my top 5 channels on RUclips. I shop at Barkers menswear in NZ and read that the founder of the store went to the UK to train as a tailor (with Burton tailoring). Its from reading that he went to the UK that I started watching European food tasting channels on RUclips.
Its from your channel that I've tried a starbar, double decker, irn bru, jaffa cakes and matchmakers (I didn't like the starbar and matchmakers; we have opposite tastebuds).
I also now drink Yorkshire tea and eat milk chocolate hobnobs and dark chocolate digestives.
I tried maple syrup for the first about 6 months ago. Its one of, if not literally the best topping I've ever had.
How to remember floors:
The British are grounded, Americans are flawed!😁
P.S. It's pronounced Wooster-sher as in Jeeves & Wooster.
How to remember floors using a lift. Press the number you want. All these things seem to be Alanna problems.
Nice one!
Or the British are (g)reat, while the Americans are the land of the (f)ree!
My local Asda only opens between 11 and 4 on Sundays
Ours is 1 to 6. It makes no difference to my life.@@MARKSTRINGFELLOW1
Have separate hot & cold taps. When washing hands can simply put plug in sink and then add water from each to suit.
Cool video! "Where's the data on that?" Cut to British grandpas furiously typing away...
The wash basin is key on the 2 tap system. Place in the plug in the basin. Pour hot in basin the turn off tap. Add cold to adjust to preferred temperature.
The UK doesn't call them outlets, they are sockets. The are also probably the safest in the world due to their design even though were a really old country.
The ones in your gym are probably used by the cleaners.
Or plugs.
If your in the trade.. they are called outlets.. just as Bulbs are called lamps.... just what they teach at tech college ..
@@leonbanks5728 Nope. The outlet, in this case called a socket, is the receptacle into which the plug is inserted. Both parts incorporate safety features.
@@BillDavies-ej6ye People call both a plug.
@@leonbanks5728 I've never heard people say that. I'm in the UK, where are you?
Henry for the win.
The suction power is incredible and he’s low maintenance.
Have a Henry and he's a real veteran. Bought in '95 and never broken down. Know what you mean about the trailing container. You've got to know where you're going and what Henry is up to behind you. I took my daughter's Dyson down to the tip and the cry went up " not another one ".
The face makes it look like a joke but every small business in the country has one for evening cleanup.
i took a dyson to the tip, the guy took it from me a said "one more for the dyson army" he a had a whole battalion of them like it was clone wars, I never bought another!
One of my fav Monty Python sketches has a joke about pronunciation versus spelling.
Michael Palin's character inroduces Graham Chapman's character as Mister Raymond - Luxury - Yacht, however Graham's character corrects Palin's character and explains that " My name is spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throat - Warbler - Mangrove".
"You alright?" "Yeah, you alright?" "Yeah"... Beginning & end of convo, no more is needed, walk away from the social situation! 😂
I long time ago I used to have house rabbits & the only hoover that didn't freak them out was Henry! So thank you Henry for your services lol
😂 incredible!
@@AdventuresAndNapsI believe her
Depending on where you are in the UK. that could as short as "Alright?" nods back "Alright" nod. Done.
@@AdventuresAndNapsthis reminds me of the film “Hot shots@ where someone asks Lloyd Bridges “are you all right sir?” And he says “”yeah why what’ve you heard?” 😂
Luckily my hot tap takes a while to get hot so it goes cold - warm - BOILING HOT so I just have to use it when it’s warm but quickly bc it gets so so hot..
Floors is like us driving on the CORRECT side of the road-( LEFT)- it makes sense! ; Basement or cellar( if you have one below the GROUNDFLOOR and above that 1st floor, 2nd floor....etc simples!
Take a look underneath that mixer tap, because quite a lot of them even now, keep the hot and cold outlets separate, but they're right next to one another.
Also, didn't you notice that the switches on British *sockets* and most lightswitches are the correct way up, whereas Canadian switches are upside down?
Browsing hours? I’ve been on this planet for very many years, I’ve never heard of that.
Nope, me neither. Doesn't happen in London as far as I know.
Never heard of browsing hours either
Definitely a thing in Sheffield. You can collect all your goods, timing your arrival at the tills when they open.
Never heard of it either.
Doesn’t happen in Devon as far as I know
I don't know whether it's an issue but don't switchless sockets arc when you plug in and out and is that a safety issue and bad for stuff connected to it ?
Yup have a Henry. Yes his shape is awkward but he's sooooo reliable and so powerful he pulled the carpet off its grippers
Glad that's happened to you too 😂😂❤
@@juliawigger9796 🤣🤣
used to, did a bathroom redecoration, took out a shower, put in a better bath, changed the tap to a 'fancy tap' !
What amazes me most is the diversity of lightbulbs. Before moving to the UK, I needed spare light bulbs of only one type (large screw on ones), and they would fit any and all appliances I had. Nowadays, each light bulb in my flat is different: 6 pin, 4 pin, 2 pin, small and large screw-on varieties.
Nothing worse than being in the shop, looking at the bulbs and wishing you double checked before you went out!
What are the 4 and 6 pin bulbs for? We used to only have the 2 pin (in a couple of sizes) for most uses but these days we also have 'screw in' bulbs but I've not seen anything that needs a 4 or 6 pin bulb.
I absolutely agree. It's not our fault though -- it's all down to designers and marketers forcing us to buy different products so that we get in spare bulbs 'in case' and then never have the right sort in the house, so we have to buy more! InCANdescent with rage!
@@Thurgosh_OG I meant butterfly bulbs (used in the bathroom)
You forgot bayonet fittings. Because it's not enough to have a bunch of different light intensities and sizes, you have to have different screw types. And god help you if you have a dimmer switch, you're going to need a second mortgage for those bulbs. 😆
15:28 That catches many people out. If you were to spell it Lewis, that's somewhere else entirely, hundreds of miles away. It an Island in Scotland , known mostly for expensive accommodation prices (£90 minimum for one person ,one night ) and the ferry terminal in Stornoway .
When I was growing up,untill 1995, if you bought an electrical item in Britain usually you had to put your own plug on it I remember being taught this in school.
Don’t remember that that recently at all.
I had forgotten all about this until relatively recently.
I remember being wee and my mum wiring up the plugs on new appliances (my dad couldn’t do it. Either that or she didn’t trust him to get right. 😆)
Bottom left Bl(ue) Bottom right Br(own) when wiring them up.
@@anthonyhiggins7409 Mum and Dad made me wire all the plugs after Mum crossed the earth and neutral wires in the new hoover's plug - it ran for about 5 minutes until all the ground around the house was charged and couldn't take any more. I always wondered if she'd electrocuted all the worms in the garden. :)
@@roderickjoyce6716 lol. I’ve now got an image in my head of Earthworm Jim being electrocuted. 🤷♂️😂
When washing your face, you put the plug in the sink. Turn off both taps when sink is full. When done, pull the plug out.
I remember my maternal grandparents house when I was a young child in the 60's. The only tap in the house was cold and in the kitchen and there was no cooker. There was also no bathroom. They had a cast iron oven built into the fireplace and a shelf thing over the fire for pans. You wanted hot water, you had to boil it in a pan on the fire. They had tin bath on a hook on the wall for use with hot water produced in the same manner. Oh, and the toilet was outside!
I, in the 40s and 50s lived in a house similar to the one you describe except, we had no electricity. We did however, have a gas fired wash boiler that we used to heat the water for the tin bath. Luxury!!!
I was born in a house like that and lived there until I was five when we moved to a newly built 1960s property, with the joy of having an indoor toilet and a bathroom with hot and cold running water and central heating. The house I was born in also had the old gas mantles on the bedroom walls, they were disconnected when electricity had been installed back in the 1930s but they were still there. We kept a paraffin heater in the outside loo to stop it freezing up in winter.
When I were a lad . . ., couldn’t help it, for some reason Monty Python just popped in my head.
Yep, my family of 5 lived in tenement in 2 rooms with only a tin bath in front of coal fire until I was 7 (I'm 63) and we moved to brand new house. Sometimes a fire would start in the chimney (aka the lump was up) and all the residents had to wait in the back garden until the fire brigade put it out. The toilet was on the landing down some stairs and was shared with another family.
On the upside, energy was cheaper and you could chuck almost anything on the fire without worrying about Greta and co creating a fuss 😅😅
Henry is mostly for commercial use, although some homes (including mine) have them. They are very powerful and the fact you don’t have to carry the weight of the motor etc. means you can hoover all day with no issues. It also means you have a big body to hold a lot of dust. In hotels they are excellent
I worked in the motor trade in the 80s and 90s and saw the absolute abuse that Henry could take from industrial trade wastes like broken car glass and other stuff you should never get near with a vacuum. They never died, so I bought one in 1993 and I'm still using it today for when my Dysons can't cope and it's never failed yet. I even got a longer hose for doing the stairs so I don't have to carry it upstairs anymore.
The newer ones today don't seem as sturdy built as mine. After 30 years heavy use and abuse it's still good for another 30 years.
Keep it away from any builders, they borrowed the work Henry and killed it, apparently Henry is not a fan of cement powder. :) The Dyson died a few days later, one of the clients (in a care home) threw it at one of the support staff. client on top of the stairs, staff at the bottom, apparently Dyson's were not designed to be thrown like they were a weapon! :)
@@RobG001 Seems like they don't build them like in the 80s and 90s then as they used to be like mine built like the Top Gear Toyota Hilux and you could treat them like that which I have done and they just kept working. Dysons have always been a bit fragile in comparison.
I agree. I don't think they are as sturdy as they used to be. I think the plastic casing is thinner. Still pretty robust though.
"With the hiccoughs, It may be tough, but I ought to plough through Loughborough with the doughnuts and cough syrup"
Presumably on your way to Slough
lived in UK for 65 years and never heard of browsing hours! This is a weird supermarket!
Browsing hours was introduced years ago when large shops opened on a Sunday. By law shops are not allowed to sell goods before 10.00am on Sunday but allowed to open at 09.30 so people could shop or browse but not buy. This helped the little corner shops that were allowed normal hours on a Sunday.
It's very commonplace for UK supermarkets to have a crowd of frustrated would-be shoppers standing outside the doors at 9:50am and banging on the glass and pointing at the staff whenever they spot them walking past on the inside etc, therefore many supermarkets have for years now been opening the doors at some point ahead of 10am, often 20-30mins ahead rather than a full hour, to avoid the staff feeling like they've become some sort of zoo exhibit, and to avoid the customers becoming an angry mob outside. Of course the earlier they open the doors for browsing the early the crowd start arriving and congregating outside, and it's partly for that reason (and partly because of the continuous stream of people who "just need to grab some milk!" trying to physically push their way in through the exit door at 4:05pm or later, because the store can't shut that one yet until the last few legally served customers have dawdled their way out) that I believe that we just need to abolish Sunday trading restrictions now and allow a normal trading day. Sunday trading restrictions lead to more verbal and physical abuse of retail staff on Sunday than any other day, as well as them dealing with the notably higher levels of general stress due to far higher numbers of simultaneous customers in the 6 hours the store is open than would be the case if many of those shoppers could choose to either shop earlier in the morning, or later in the afternoon/ evening, and thus spread things out to be more manageable for the staff, so I do believe the law as it stands actually defeats the object it set out in 1994 to achieve, namely the protection of the rights and working conditions of retail workers with respect to allowing some Sunday trading.
That’s so people don’t have to stand around outside until the tills open up so then you can purchase the goods ; hence the browsing hour . But not all shops use the hour , you just have to wait until the store opens it’s doors and get your shopping
The thing with separate taps. You normally fill the sink up. Then wash in that
I went to Loughborough Uni and had a rugby shirt with the uni name on it
I was on holiday and an American (who was on the same tour) came up to me and asked me where Loogyboroogy was
I looked at him blankly and he pointed at my shirt, oh it's pronounced Luffboro I replied
He wandered away looking a bit confused and probably thought I was taking the piss. He obviously didn't understand patronization 😮
And I went to Loughborough University of Technology but it seems to be something different now. That was about 50 years or so ago now.
The separate taps thing is, like you said, about hot water storage (or at least how it used to be) and apparently the correct way to go about using the separate taps is to fill up the sink and mix your water in there to the right temperature... but who has time for that?
In practice I normally wash my hands in cold water as it would take too long to wait until it runs hot. I've never lived anywhere that had instant scalding hot water.
I'm 35 and have lived in the UK all my life but had no idea browsing hours was a thing until I experienced it for the first time about a month ago. I personally think it's nuts, should be about 10 to 15 mins max if they have to do it.
Alanna, I can't tell if you were joking about the hot and cold water, but the idea wasn't to either freeze or burn your face, you mix the waters in the basin to get the perfect temperature XD
But in order to do so without it being disgusting you have to have perfectly cleaned sink, which nobody had, especially in public toilets so everyone just ends up freezing and burning themselves
Very hygienic, very, very british. Like british hospitals no so long ago packed with MRSA as they were filthy as the british would say.
You have to have a watertight plug for the washbasin to mix the hot and cold water in it.
That’s why the taps running a sink so you can set the temp in the basin
Alana, you know that thing under the taps its called a basin. Put that plastic thing in it - technical term a plug (not to be confused with an electric plug)- run both taps for a few seconds into the basin swirl the water et voila perfect washing temperature water. Plus you save water.
Why are you talking about virtual things? emeals, etanks and ewater.@@TrickyDicky2006
Seperate taps was usually a kitchen thing, with single taps being for bathrooms. They were in the kitchen becaise thats where you would be handling food or getting a drink, where you wouldnt want to risk pathogens in the tap left over from the last time you used the hot water.
At some point they started using those taps in some bathrooms, not sure why, maybe tap makers got annoyed having to make multiple styles idk. Even wierder is eventually we saw a full inversion where you would get mixed tap in the kitchen but not in bathrooms. I assume because if the ease of rotating a single tap for hot and cold over a pot on the side of the sink thats too big to fit in? Who knows. Finallybseeing a swap to mixed singles back in bathrooms through, but i definately prefer how the old ones looked.
Being used to the Ground floor, first floor, second floor etc concept, imagine how confusing it was visiting a famous store in New York to discover floors one and a half and two and a half? The escalators kept going past the half floors even though we could see them. It turned out to be a different set of escalators, Why would they call mezzanine floors 'Half's' ? 🇬🇧
Turning off at the plug can indeed save power. Some appliances continue to draw power even when "off". PCs do this for example. Any device with a transformer will also draw power. Including those plug to USB charger plugs. They wear out when there isn't a device attached to charge as well. I switch off everything I can in our kitchen at night. As thr kitchen is the source of most electrical fires.
I think the switch on the socket (outlet) is very useful and an added safety feature of the British home and workplace. I always turn a switch off prior to removing the plug from the socket to ensure there isn't a surge of electricity to my device or through the eclectic circuit of the house. It can also save quite a bit of money if the socket is supplying power to a device that has a standby function.
My house was built in 1904 and even though it no longer has a hot water tank and supply tank in my loft (which could be the source of contamination as it was generally only loosely covered with a piece of wood, so birds or rodents could end up in it) it still has separate taps in the kitchen and bathroom. I prefer two separate taps and really do not like mixer taps. Having a hot and cold tap allows me to control the heat of the water added to the sink and retained with the sink plug in place.
The Henry style hoover is a strange one, because they are no good for round the house as you said, but in large open areas like offices and shops, they're really good because normally these spaces have either a hard floor or very flat carpet tiles (so no need for heavy duty beaters or brushes). They are also massive spaces that you need to be able to vacuum very quickly and with minimal effort, so the light weight handle of the Henry is ideal. And because they are large open spaces, there is much more room to manouver the body of the hoover.
They are perfectly good for normal houses with normal rooms. I would not be without mine. People have those expensive Dysons, the batteries always breaking. I live near Dyson and Numatic and my partner deals with both companies.
I'll never forget the time the Head of Human Resources called the IT helpdesk because his printer wasn't working, so I went down to have a look. Yup, you guessed it. The power switch was off on the wall socket! If I had a pound for every time...
You understand how buttons work don't you? No, not on clothes.
Theres's a reason the first two questions ANY experienced IT support person will ask are 1) Is it plugged in, and 2) Is it switched on.
@@katebuckley7263 ..except when God calls, then you show up in person!!
About the separate taps. Have you considered putting the plug in and mixing the hot and cold in the bowl until warm to wash with?
The power outlet is the way it is in the uk because of health and safety. 👍
I had a D&D character called Eric Cholmondley-Featherstonehaugh who gave out a business card with a fold out section as the name was so long. Its pronounced Chumley-Fanshaw!
There's a Monty Python inspired/licensed RPG out now/soon (it was funded on kickstarter, and I don't think it's physical book is out yet), and it sounds like it'd be right up your street.
I don't mind separate taps for a bath or kitchen sink but definately not the bathroom sink. unfortunately the one place they always seem to install separate taps in the bathroom sink and nowhere else!!
Unfortunatley I'm a student to I can't change my separate taps, all I can do is hope next year I get a mixer tap in my ensuite
I have the pink Hetty. In a sad comment on the gender pay gap, she was £5 cheaper than Henry
What gender pay gap?
The taps in my council flat are separate... but not only that.. they're the opposite way around in the kitchen to the bathroom sink... but somehow matches the bath 🤣🤷♂️
As the majority of the UK is non-Christian / non-religious, please can we get rid of the silly Sunday shopping laws (and the undemocratic and unelected Church of England bishops in the House of Lords too while we're at it too).
It gives some shop workers a break! Like a lie in at the weekend.
@@juliawigger9796or, those staff just have days off monday-friday.
Oh yes! While you’re at it, you can get rid of the Royal Family and the aristocracy, all of which are so undemocratic.
How about you juts get back in your little box and live and let live?
@@BigAl53750 the royal family have privilege, but very little political power, and tourists seem to like them. I think we could do without the sweaty one who associated with Mr Epstein though.
They may not be democratically elected, but quite honestly, when I look at countries that have presidents, I find the stability of a constitutional monarch, and the fact they are politically neutered, quite comforting.
...And no, I'm never going to stop arguing for reason, democracy, free speech and fairness. If you don't like dissenting opinion, then maybe the Internet is not for you.
dare i say it, i think it's nice lol...
it's not like you can't get stuff,
but it does give one day a different feel..
of course, it will go eventually...
and i think that will be a shame..
Switched outlets allow you to cut power to a device without unplugging it. Many devices still draw power when they may appear to be off.
The British have a device known as a "Sink Plug" which allows you to mix the water in the bowl.😊😊When I turn on my hot tap I have to run it for a while before it gets hot as the pipes between the hot tank and the cap cool down.
I have the reverse problem: if I want a cold drink I have to run the cold tap for a while because the feed to it is routed next to the hot water pipe!
Is it weird or normal that I run both taps and just move my hands between them whilst rubbing them together?
@@Tree_a_Boar Not weird but definitely a British thing, lol.
Charles is a wet and dry shop vac. Great for clearing up leaks and spills. The standard if for short pile and commercial flooring (eg office carpet tiles and hard floors). For domestic carpets you need a different head.
It takes a fair amount of effort to pull a British electrical plug out of its socket (unlike North American plugs that fall out when you look at them), so having the switch is handy.
So true, sometimes the American ones just fall out 🙄 like wtf?
12:12 😂 I love confusing people when they ask me 'you alright' and I say either "why? do it not look alright" or "no I'm not", I love seeing people's faces because it's not what they expect to hear😂😂
I tried washing my hair in a basin that had a mixer tap in the middle and kept bashing my head on the tap.