His pronunciation of “bloody stinking mingers” was technically not correct (for our American cousins, it’s “min(g)er”, not “minGer”), but was actually an improvement, and I’m going to pronounce it like that from now on. Bravo, Sir.
If you travel around it in the right sequence it will teleport you to any place in the world - how else could such a small country control a quarter of the planet.?
When starbucks introduced the idea of having your name on your cup and the barista would shout your name when your drink was ready British folk were givibg names like cuntybollocks and R. Swipe.
There is an ancient village in Orkney that’s older that either Stone Henge or the Pyramids. It’s called Skara Brae. It’s a small group of homes (that are still recognisable as such) that are around five thousand years old and spent centuries buried under the sand until a massive storm hit the island in 1850 and basically blew the sand dune away and uncovered it.
In the UK It’s common for construction workers to buy a newspaper. Then take a sheet of the newspaper and hide it somewhere in their construction or renovation. So others can see what date the construction happened and what happened on that day. When the property is renovated 😊 The oldest I’ve found is from August 1933 😊
I've always wondered why I keep finding newspapers in the floorboards! I do renovations and the oldest I've found was a Michael Jackson article from the early 90's, it's a habit I've adopted and always put the original back where I found it 😊
My dad has been a roof tiler since age 15. Over the years he's found many newspapers left, one was the day he was born, another was the day after England winning the World Cup and most recently, a local newspaper with my picture on it from 30 years ago! (Carnival Queen aged 12!)
Found one in my house recently. Headline was along the lines of Kennedy and Khrushchev in talks over Cuban Missiles. Dated 6 weeks before my parents were born.
Examples of names for bread rolls UK - baps, breadcakes, teacakes, cobs, buns, barm cakes, morning rolls, burger buns, batch, and there are more. Having lived in a number of different parts of the UK, it’s amazing how many regional variations there are.
The lidl backery section is self-service with plastic gloves to put on when picking your item/fill your paper bag and then pay at the counter when you're done shopping, many supermarkets have those, but Lidl seems to have one of the biggest.
@@markhughes8314Mehhhh. 🙄 London is a paradise compared to other major capitals on earth, just no one cares or knows to look into it. These cities are forgotten because no one cares and little is known or broadcasted.
As usual,I enjoyed your reaction and the video. The only slight irritation was your slight implication that the old Man bought the young guy a drink for some hidden reason. I'm 69 and when I grew up, even in London, it was a normal, , innocent thing for complete strangers to do small decent gestures like this but, sadly, through the 2024 prism, some might look for something that is not there.
Brenda Fricker starred in Casulty a British drama series set in the Accident and Emergency Department of a fictitious hospital (Holby City is also set at the same fictitious hospital)which is still running 38 years later.
Notes with the queen’s head on are still legal tender. When I was a boy before February 1971 when decimal currency came in, it was possible to have coins with Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI on them, as well as the queen. You help yourself to the bread and pay at the till.
My first wage packet way back in the 60s had a Victorian penny in it. I think that I still have it glued into the back of a diary in my mother's house.
That's The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, Wiltshire. It's only about 25 miles from me. I go to Swindon at least once a year. So I'm not a regular user but it's far easier than it looks. It is extremely efficient and no more dangerous than any other road junction.
The "magic roundabout" in swindon, is actually pretty genius, you can go round it both clockwise or anticlockwise, you can also change direction part way round, if you so wish.
Ah... Swindon's "Magic roundabout"! The Top Gear guy is Jeremy Clarkson - and well done, your comment about the national anthem would be a good example of British humour! And I love the Olympics "control group" idea!
A clue was in the date at the bottom, when the comment was actually written. There isn't a twenty-first month ... well, not in the UK. Don't know about the States.
lol… I’m laughing so hard because my “daughter” tonight said “can’t you just twist the biscuit wrapper like a normal person, why do you always fold it under and push it up against the wall?” 😂🤣. I can now show her this and say “see, I’m not the only one! Perfectly normal!” 🤣😂😆
Stonehenge was also built way before the Pyramids. Also so was Silbury Hill and it was probably the tallest man made structure until the Great Pyramid, it's still the largest earth built mound in Europe.
I know she was joking but it's also kind of odd that she's acting like her ancestors built the pyramids, despite the construction of the pyramids and the Arab conquest of Egypt being thousands of years apart.
Stonehenge is my neck of the woods! Salisbury 🫶 Salisbury also has a beautiful cathedral that holds the. 🔎na 🚗 ter and the 🌎s 👴🏻est 🕖 that is still 🏃♀️ Oh and the spire holds the record for the highest Spire in the UK (after St Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed in WW2)
The most inpressive about Stonehenge was that one bloke carried the stones from Wales, two at a time. His name was Dave, however in his tribe, he was known as 'the weak & puny one'.
When I was in Primary one or two I would look at the change in my pocket and there would be pennies with Victoria on them plus Edward and two Georges so we weren't in any doubt about coins being no longer valid. 10 years later and decimalisation swept a lot of them away.
Gets me toooooo 😵💫😖😖😫😫 if you have a pile of those bricks made in Denmark, you have a pile of Lego! One brick is a Lego brick, more than one? still only Lego!
Regarding currency, I can remember as a child (in the 1950's) having pennies with the head of Queen Victoria. They were still legal tender, and she died in 1901!
According to the company, the plural of LEGO is LEGO. They say LEGO is an adjective, the actual product being a “LEGO brick.” And adjectives don't have a singular and plural form, so it's always LEGO, never LEGOs. The plural is LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.
I have a nap most afternoons (I'm not lazy, I'm recovering from a stroke and neuro fatigue just gets to me) but I'm always happy when I wake coz I know there'll be a new JJ vid to watch. I really enjoyed today's reaction and I was cracking up at the 28,000 bmi bit (gonna be giggling at that one for weeks knowing me). My reccomendations again are;- carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch also the top 10 modern British bands to crack the US xx
The pyramids have some very complicated polygonal, interlocking stone blocks . Is more of a mystery how they were able to do that than how they would lift and place them.
8:30 This one reminds me of something my buddy and I did years ago at his house. We wrote "I will kill again...." on the wall with a marker pen. Then put up the wallpaper. One day, a future owner will scrape off the old wallpaper when remodelling that room and freak out 😄
I’m from Bolton in the north west and I’ve always called it a barm. I did work in a cafe for years and heard all sorts! When someone first asked for a sausage muffin it genuinely took me by surprise
Someone from Lester 😂😂 here well from Northern Ireland living in Leicestershire over 20 years but imagine the accent and that of my kids ( imagine Somerset)
I just wanted to say you have the best American voice I’ve ever heard. It’s so soft and warm, unlike most American voices that are loud and a little bit shouty. When I first watched one of your videos I wasn’t quite sure but now I have to watch you every day, or at least every time you post. Good work 👍
04:38 No, I imagine Tony loves LEGO! No “s”! Lego is an adjective not a noun and hence cannot be pluralised save for those with a cricket’s understanding of the English language!!! 12:30 You’ll find a lot of chip shops have great pun names- The Codfather, The Frying Squad (a very British one- the “flying squad” is a particular department of the Metropolitan police that deals with robberies and serious organised crime), Prawnbrokers, A Fish called Rhonda, Codrophenia (google the film Quadrophenia), Salt and Battery (a pun on assault and battery), A Salt and Battered (same as the last), the fat fryer (better if you see the sign- a Franciscan monk), Codfellas, the Codmother, Frying Nemo, Frydays, Oh my cod!, the Town Fryer (a pun on the town cryer, a historical job), The Almighty Cod, Plaice Station (police station), For Your Fries only (for Bond fans), Codswallop, Friendchips, The Frying Scotsman (flying Scotsman), Salty Towers (Fawlty Towers TV show- Itself a pun name), The Star Chip Enterprise, Battersea Cod’s Home (a pun on Battersea Dog’s Home- a dog shelter charity) and Phil’s Yer Tum! 15:48 Baps are also slang for a ladies chest, case you were wondering!
You might like to take a look at Knap of Howar on the Scottish island of Orkney. It's older than the pyramids and even older than Stonehenge. It's someone's house rather than a place of burial or worship.
@@janolaful Me too, once, maybe twice, when I worked in Swindon for about 6 months. I was renting a room out in the country so luckily had almost no need to use the roundabout.
Some of the names for bread rolls in the U.K. Bap, Bun, Barm, Barm Cake, Buttery, Bridie, Roll, Cob, Stottie, Batch, Teacake, Oven Bottom, Muffin, Rholyn, Morning Roll, Bread Cake, Scuffler, etc, etc.
The Queen's money is totally valid, as a kid in the sixties before decimal coins, I sometimes used Queen Victoria pennies, George the sixth shillings, etc. The notes get more regularly re-issued than the coins. So there are going to be lots of Queen Elizabeth the second and Charles the third coins for ages, even when the notes are all Charles the third.
The standing stones at Stonehenge is much older than the pyramids, the top stones are about as old as the oldest pyramids - the ancient Near East is where civilisation developed, we didn’t have the same urban centres or population so you can’t expect the same complexity 😂
There is also the fact all the pyramids are built along the Nile not at the top of a fecking hill miles from a navigable waterway and granite is a whole lot harder to work with than what is basically compacted sand. The reason there are pyramids on every continent is because they are simply putting some rocks in a big pile taken too far. While the various henge's built all over western Europe are very accurate celestial Calender's allowing the people to measure and predict seasonal changes for more successful farming.
It's also worth remembering that the Blue Stones of Stonehenge are not from the area of Stonehenge. They're from North Pembrokeshire in West Wales. The neolithic Britons took the stones almost 200 miles through mountains and over land for some probably religious reason now lost to time.
Also, The Ring of Brodgar and Henge, on the Orkney Islands, is older than Stonehenge. Also, there are around 1300 stone circles in the UK, 508 in Scotland alone.
You do know that Kirkbi co. (Lego) are coming after you right. They have stated time and again, LEGO is an adjective there is no singular or plural term it is simply Lego, Lego bricks or Lego sets, but never Legos.
In the Lidl one, there won't be a counter. You just take what you want, put it in your trolley and carry on with your shopping, then pay for the whole lot at the end.
Agreed, although back in the late seventies my mate and I had parked up and were walking to the old Gun shop and an older lady stopped and asked him to drive her and her car to the other side from the St Albans road.
The Lidl bread/bakery section is self service. It has, however, a really excellent selection of breads and other baked goods, many of which are baked in store.
Swindon’s Magic Roundabout is easy to navigate. Stop at the give way signs and give priority to traffic from the right. On that basis, you can pick any route across the roundabout.
@@Lew99900 It's essentially just like a traffic light junction that has a slip road off to the left without lights in the UK. The right hand lane at US junctions is always right turn only (I think), so it is safe to turn into it without stopping. Although, as the OP points out, it does cause problems for pedestrians!
@@Lew99900 I think, the rule is if you are turning right, a red light can be treated the same way you would treat a Stop sign, i.e. stop then continue if it is safe to do so.
@@Lew99900 I really didn't explain that very well! Let me try again. The junction is controlled by traffic lights in all directions. The approaching roads all have a dedicated right turn only lane. The roads leading away from the junction have a lane dedicated to receiving traffic turning right onto them. Therefore there is no need for traffic turning right to ever stop. I think that makes more sense.
@@StormhavenGaming thanks for the reply I’m kinda following along. I’m sure I could get to grips with it after a short while driving over there. Also- I’m glad I know this because it seems like a recipe for disaster for anyone from Europe 🤣 coulda got flattened on holiday
I have to say (and I'm from England) that when you said "Give me a tube of Salt 'n' Vinegar Pringles and I'm a happy boy...", I gasped! This evening, I've been eating none other than... Salt 'n' Vinegar Pringles - in a tube!
Weirdly enough, that compound roundabout is probably fairly safe because people need to drive slowly to figure out wtf they're supposed to do, or because they are blocked by other cars.
I was confused for a moment when I misheard one of your comments! The pic of the man in a wheelchair, you said "that's dark" - I heard "that's duck", and was thinking no, that's a flamingo!? 🤣
The Magic Roundabout is in my home town, Swindon, there are few accidents and it manages high volumes of traffic amazingly well. It looks complicated, but if you treat each mini roundabout the same as on any other road it's not that complicated. But it is fun to take out of town friends up the middle or the wrong way quickly. Like a sort of flat rollercoaster 😈🤭🤣
12:06: It's pronounced "Less-ter" or "Lesta" to us locals. A very old city - it was already a regional capital for almost a thousand years before London was founded..
I'm pretty sure that first pic is of Hemel Hempstead roundabout, it's actually signposted as "Magic Roundabout". I've got a similar one near me at Heathrow airport, they are fun to go around the wrong way it feels.
I have used that round about a few times. It's quite safe actually. It works like this.. It's so confusing that people engage their brains and pay attention. My favourite technique is speed and aggression.
Before Legoland Windsor it’s like nowadays, it was originally WINDSOR SAFARI PARK..used to go there a lot as a kid growing up in the town.. a little bit of local history 😊
Yep we really are getting new money with the king on & have been since 2022 😂 the queen ones are gradually removed from circulation…..the bakery in Lidl is self serve (Lidl is a low cost supermarket but the bakery is awesome)
In Coventry, West Midlands, we call bread rolls "Batches" they are called something different everywhere in the UK. Loving watching your videos, it's interesting to watch someone else's point of view on the UK and it's brilliant how you are learning all the time and trying hard to pronounce the counties and city's, which even I struggle to say 😂
The whole bread-roll thing.. you could probably make a whole video based purely on the variety of different names that different regions have for bread rolls. Could be quite long, depending on how in-depth it gets!
Literally the only American on yt who has thought to use a pronunciation tool, congrats sir! 🎉
Also the only American with this low, calm voice range 😂. Very relaxing, very unusual
His pronunciation of “bloody stinking mingers” was technically not correct (for our American cousins, it’s “min(g)er”, not “minGer”), but was actually an improvement, and I’m going to pronounce it like that from now on.
Bravo, Sir.
The worst are the ones who watch a video on "how to pronounce British place names", and then they've completely forgotten 2 weeks later
However, there's no URRRR sound in Leicester.
Nobody dies on the magic roundabout, and don't call me Shirley!!
Doogle had a melt down and Zebedee had freek out, on this magic roundabout.
Ha! Airplane
Just imagine living here and having to negotiate it during your driving test.
On a serious note, it's very safe, with very few accidents.
80%safer than a junction
If you travel around it in the right sequence it will teleport you to any place in the world - how else could such a small country control a quarter of the planet.?
The best- THE BEST- random celebrity invite where they actually turned up was most definitely Queen Elizabeth going to someone's wedding. Unbeatable.
When starbucks introduced the idea of having your name on your cup and the barista would shout your name when your drink was ready British folk were givibg names like cuntybollocks and R. Swipe.
That jus makes me think of Dave Gorman!
Because Americans forgot what they ordered
There is an ancient village in Orkney that’s older that either Stone Henge or the Pyramids. It’s called Skara Brae. It’s a small group of homes (that are still recognisable as such) that are around five thousand years old and spent centuries buried under the sand until a massive storm hit the island in 1850 and basically blew the sand dune away and uncovered it.
Skara Brae is fascinating. I would love to visit one day.
@@SideQ-rr6my me too.
The planet Skaro was named after Skara by the proto-Daleks.
probably more of them about the area yet to be found, even better preserved perhaps ? exciting.
@@bradleyware1445 maybe, I’m pretty sure there are quite a few archaeological digs that happen in Orkney every summer.
I loved the Olympics idea of having a pub lane to show the relative speed of the top athletes. Genius.
In the UK It’s common for construction workers to buy a newspaper.
Then take a sheet of the newspaper and hide it somewhere in their construction or renovation.
So others can see what date the construction happened and what happened on that day.
When the property is renovated 😊
The oldest I’ve found is from August 1933 😊
I've always wondered why I keep finding newspapers in the floorboards! I do renovations and the oldest I've found was a Michael Jackson article from the early 90's, it's a habit I've adopted and always put the original back where I found it 😊
Ooh found one in walls from 1923
My dad has been a roof tiler since age 15.
Over the years he's found many newspapers left, one was the day he was born, another was the day after England winning the World Cup and most recently, a local newspaper with my picture on it from 30 years ago! (Carnival Queen aged 12!)
@@Cunning.Stunt.777 aw that's nice. Ours had the local court report 🤣🤣
Found one in my house recently. Headline was along the lines of Kennedy and Khrushchev in talks over Cuban Missiles. Dated 6 weeks before my parents were born.
Love the one from the pissed-off bus driver. had me crying with laughter.
"there's the goose!"
...you mean a swan?
Examples of names for bread rolls UK - baps, breadcakes, teacakes, cobs, buns, barm cakes, morning rolls, burger buns, batch, and there are more. Having lived in a number of different parts of the UK, it’s amazing how many regional variations there are.
I once asked for a breadcake in a chip shop in Manchester, and the woman just stared at me like I'd asked for a shoehorn with teeth.
@@klinikle5445 If you're from the North, don't ask for a chip teacake in the south😆
@@Sol3UK what the hell is a chip teacake? here in Sheffield is a chip buttie. are you from Rotherham?
Lancashire oven bottoms!
Keep hot cross buns for Easter.
The lidl backery section is self-service with plastic gloves to put on when picking your item/fill your paper bag and then pay at the counter when you're done shopping, many supermarkets have those, but Lidl seems to have one of the biggest.
Sometimes they have tongs instead.
@@julianaylor4351 yes you're right, just thought about my local Lidl.
Would never touch them, all open for people to touch and cough over.
Plus u never really know what dead things were put in the dough😢
It's real good though
Just staying alive in ancient Britain was probably an achievement in itself.
Bit like London now eh.
Bloody right. 60 years old was a rarity.
@@markhughes8314Mehhhh. 🙄
London is a paradise compared to other major capitals on earth, just no one cares or knows to look into it. These cities are forgotten because no one cares and little is known or broadcasted.
Living to old age. At 35
As usual,I enjoyed your reaction and the video.
The only slight irritation was your slight implication that the old Man bought the young guy a drink for some hidden reason. I'm 69 and when I grew up, even in London, it was a normal, , innocent thing for complete strangers to do small decent gestures like this but, sadly, through the 2024 prism, some might look for something that is not there.
Brenda Fricker starred in Casulty a British drama series set in the Accident and Emergency Department of a fictitious hospital (Holby City is also set at the same fictitious hospital)which is still running 38 years later.
The British invented gravity. If it wasn’t for us everyone would still be floating about Willy nilly
I often wondered how the Wright brothers...
Time also, everyone else would be wafting about all over the joint if we hadn't invented that.
nyeah
*mavity
What's gravity? Do you mean mavity? ;)
Brenda Frika, some of us older Brits know that before pigeon lady, Brenda Played the supporting role alongside Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot.
Sorry for the pedantry but it's Fricker.
Mate, you're an actor! Surprised you didn't recognise an Oscar, calling it an Emmy instead! 😄
£17 a roll for wallpaper in 1997 was very expensive!
The 'roundabout' is the Magic roundabout in Swindon - I used to live near it
Notes with the queen’s head on are still legal tender. When I was a boy before February 1971 when decimal currency came in, it was possible to have coins with Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI on them, as well as the queen. You help yourself to the bread and pay at the till.
My first wage packet way back in the 60s had a Victorian penny in it. I think that I still have it glued into the back of a diary in my mother's house.
we know Brenda Fricker for playing Daniel Day Lewis's mum in "My left foot", and winning the Oscar for best supporting actress.
Wasn't she in Casualty too?
In Ireland we know her for representing every "Irish mammy" that ever existed
@@garethm3242 Except Brendan O'Carroll, but does he even count?
Awesome film!
@ticketyboo2456 aaaahhhhhh yesss I forgot about casualty 😆
That's The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, Wiltshire.
It's only about 25 miles from me. I go to Swindon at least once a year. So I'm not a regular user but it's far easier than it looks. It is extremely efficient and no more dangerous than any other road junction.
The "magic roundabout" in swindon, is actually pretty genius, you can go round it both clockwise or anticlockwise, you can also change direction part way round, if you so wish.
I salute you (o7) for giving Leicester the respect of correct pronunciation! lol
Ah... Swindon's "Magic roundabout"! The Top Gear guy is Jeremy Clarkson - and well done, your comment about the national anthem would be a good example of British humour! And I love the Olympics "control group" idea!
The village hall one made me spit my drink, because even in Australia I've been to about 6 different venues that looked just like that
The acid test is when you peek behind the stage curtain. Upright piano, Bingo machine and stacked trestle/card tables ? Yeah, it's legit.
Considering LEGO (Never Legos) is rated for ages 10-99, Tony's got the right idea
BTW - 5/12/97 is 5 Dec 97. Like everywhere else in the world except North America.
A clue was in the date at the bottom, when the comment was actually written. There isn't a twenty-first month ... well, not in the UK. Don't know about the States.
lol… I’m laughing so hard because my “daughter” tonight said “can’t you just twist the biscuit wrapper like a normal person, why do you always fold it under and push it up against the wall?” 😂🤣.
I can now show her this and say “see, I’m not the only one! Perfectly normal!” 🤣😂😆
That roundabout is in my town of Swindon in Wiltshire UK. it's called The Magic Roundabout
Love your take on a British accent. I don't know anyone who talks like Dick Van Dyke 😂😂
DVD.
I think it sounds Australian.
Stonehenge was also built way before the Pyramids. Also so was Silbury Hill and it was probably the tallest man made structure until the Great Pyramid, it's still the largest earth built mound in Europe.
I know she was joking but it's also kind of odd that she's acting like her ancestors built the pyramids, despite the construction of the pyramids and the Arab conquest of Egypt being thousands of years apart.
Stonehenge is my neck of the woods! Salisbury 🫶
Salisbury also has a beautiful cathedral that holds the. 🔎na 🚗 ter and the
🌎s 👴🏻est 🕖 that is still 🏃♀️
Oh and the spire holds the record for the highest Spire in the UK (after St Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed in WW2)
@@Cunning.Stunt.777I'm pretty sure the original St Paul's burnt down in the great fire of London. The rebuilt one has a dome, no spire.
Actually Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid are contemporaries, 2500bce for Stonehenge, 2560bce for the Pyramid.
The most inpressive about Stonehenge was that one bloke carried the stones from Wales, two at a time. His name was Dave, however in his tribe, he was known as 'the weak & puny one'.
Brenda Fricker is best known in the UK for playing a senior nurse, in the long running BBC medical drama Casualty.
That first picture was the famous "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon, which was introduced as an experiment at least 50 years ago.
When I was in Primary one or two I would look at the change in my pocket and there would be pennies with Victoria on them plus Edward and two Georges so we weren't in any doubt about coins being no longer valid. 10 years later and decimalisation swept a lot of them away.
The wallpaper one, you read the first date as an American (it’s the 5th of December, not the 12th of May 😂) and the seconds date as a Brit 😂
I paused and laughed at that Harry Potter/Eastenders meme for much longer than I had any right to 😂😂
Stonehenge is ~1,000 years older than the first Pyramids
Fyi. Lego is singular and plural like sheep or bison. ☺
What?
So bison is the plural of sheep?
And aircraft. No, aircraft isn't the plural of sheep. Or bison.
Lego is the plural of Lego.
I was just about to comment the same thing😂😂
Gets me toooooo 😵💫😖😖😫😫 if you have a pile of those bricks made in Denmark, you have a pile of Lego! One brick is a Lego brick, more than one? still only Lego!
😱😱Bleedin' septics 🤯🤯
Facts!!!
@@weedle30 exactly. One lego brick, two lego bricks. Not legos 😂
Regarding currency, I can remember as a child (in the 1950's) having pennies with the head of Queen Victoria. They were still legal tender, and she died in 1901!
Me too.
According to the company, the plural of LEGO is LEGO. They say LEGO is an adjective, the actual product being a “LEGO brick.” And adjectives don't have a singular and plural form, so it's always LEGO, never LEGOs. The plural is LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.
There is a fish and chip shop in Sheffield called "A Salt and Battery" 😂😂
Hi there JJ
You have the same style of voice as Bob Ross (the joy of painting) very mellow, which I find quite therapeutic. Keep up the good work.
Serve yourself bakery products, lift the lid and use the tongs to select and place in a free paper bag!
I have a nap most afternoons (I'm not lazy, I'm recovering from a stroke and neuro fatigue just gets to me) but I'm always happy when I wake coz I know there'll be a new JJ vid to watch.
I really enjoyed today's reaction and I was cracking up at the 28,000 bmi bit (gonna be giggling at that one for weeks knowing me).
My reccomendations again are;- carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch also the top 10 modern British bands to crack the US xx
Time travel is the reality. Every time I go to sleep I wake up in the future.
I can beat Tony, I had my name on the Legoland birthday sign when I was 44 😁
The pyramids have some very complicated polygonal, interlocking stone blocks . Is more of a mystery how they were able to do that than how they would lift and place them.
Bongos Bingo in Liverpool is a great night out! Love it!
There's a Thai noodle restaurant in Chelsea, London, called Phat Phuck( for the uneducated, in English PH is pronounced as F)
Stonehenge is older than the great pyramids. We did it without the advanced alien tech.
😂😂 nice one!
It’s also funny because (from a previous worker on site) whenever we are certain about it’s age, we find things that label it as even older
Gobekli tepee is older
@@christinecoates9449 there are lots of things older, but he mentioned Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids.
Plus, the stones are actually from Wales, and we're transported all the way
8:30 This one reminds me of something my buddy and I did years ago at his house. We wrote "I will kill again...." on the wall with a marker pen. Then put up the wallpaper. One day, a future owner will scrape off the old wallpaper when remodelling that room and freak out 😄
I’m from Bolton in the north west and I’ve always called it a barm. I did work in a cafe for years and heard all sorts! When someone first asked for a sausage muffin it genuinely took me by surprise
Oh yeah, barm, call it a cob where I'm from. Fancy a chip cob.
I'm from Scotland and call the roll itself a morning roll, but ask for a bacon roll in Greggs.
@@aks7698 I’ll accept roll but muffin? Not a chance
Someone from Lester 😂😂 here well from Northern Ireland living in Leicestershire over 20 years but imagine the accent and that of my kids ( imagine Somerset)
I just wanted to say you have the best American voice I’ve ever heard. It’s so soft and warm, unlike most American voices that are loud and a little bit shouty. When I first watched one of your videos I wasn’t quite sure but now I have to watch you every day, or at least every time you post. Good work 👍
04:38 No, I imagine Tony loves LEGO! No “s”! Lego is an adjective not a noun and hence cannot be pluralised save for those with a cricket’s understanding of the English language!!!
12:30 You’ll find a lot of chip shops have great pun names- The Codfather, The Frying Squad (a very British one- the “flying squad” is a particular department of the Metropolitan police that deals with robberies and serious organised crime), Prawnbrokers, A Fish called Rhonda, Codrophenia (google the film Quadrophenia), Salt and Battery (a pun on assault and battery), A Salt and Battered (same as the last), the fat fryer (better if you see the sign- a Franciscan monk), Codfellas, the Codmother, Frying Nemo, Frydays, Oh my cod!, the Town Fryer (a pun on the town cryer, a historical job), The Almighty Cod, Plaice Station (police station), For Your Fries only (for Bond fans), Codswallop, Friendchips, The Frying Scotsman (flying Scotsman), Salty Towers (Fawlty Towers TV show- Itself a pun name), The Star Chip Enterprise, Battersea Cod’s Home (a pun on Battersea Dog’s Home- a dog shelter charity) and Phil’s Yer Tum!
15:48 Baps are also slang for a ladies chest, case you were wondering!
Love your reactions JJ, keep 'em coming.
You might like to take a look at Knap of Howar on the Scottish island of Orkney. It's older than the pyramids and even older than Stonehenge. It's someone's house rather than a place of burial or worship.
That roundabout is actually really easy to navigate. From the air it looks complicated, but on the ground it's really efficicient and intuitive.
The roundabout is the magic roundabout in Swindon 😊
I've always called it the 'Whirligig Roundabout', thinking it's the official name, but of course I could be very wrong. 👌
@@jumpjet777 only been once and wasn't driving thank god the guy driving called it that lol
@@janolaful Me too, once, maybe twice, when I worked in Swindon for about 6 months. I was renting a room out in the country so luckily had almost no need to use the roundabout.
At 13:50, the LIDL's bakery are self service hatchways with tongs to select what you want.
17:02 "it's great that they've both transitioned" 😆😂🤣
Some of the names for bread rolls in the U.K. Bap, Bun, Barm, Barm Cake, Buttery, Bridie, Roll, Cob, Stottie, Batch, Teacake, Oven Bottom, Muffin, Rholyn, Morning Roll, Bread Cake, Scuffler, etc, etc.
Love the content, your delivery, and your comments.
Decorator did the job on the 5th of December not the 12th of May (laughs!)
The Queen's money is totally valid, as a kid in the sixties before decimal coins, I sometimes used Queen Victoria pennies, George the sixth shillings, etc. The notes get more regularly re-issued than the coins. So there are going to be lots of Queen Elizabeth the second and Charles the third coins for ages, even when the notes are all Charles the third.
Yeah, Charles' new notes have been designed, but haven't been released into circulation yet...
Mid 2024. He's on a couple of coins just now...
Tinie Tempah is pronounced Tiny Temper, his wiki page has more on how he coined that persona.
Finally I've been scrolling for ages. 👍😊.
The standing stones at Stonehenge is much older than the pyramids, the top stones are about as old as the oldest pyramids - the ancient Near East is where civilisation developed, we didn’t have the same urban centres or population so you can’t expect the same complexity 😂
Thank you. I don't know how many times I've explained that Stone Henge isn't just the stones.
There is also the fact all the pyramids are built along the Nile not at the top of a fecking hill miles from a navigable waterway and granite is a whole lot harder to work with than what is basically compacted sand. The reason there are pyramids on every continent is because they are simply putting some rocks in a big pile taken too far. While the various henge's built all over western Europe are very accurate celestial Calender's allowing the people to measure and predict seasonal changes for more successful farming.
The South American pyramids are older than the Egyptian ones! 🙂
It's also worth remembering that the Blue Stones of Stonehenge are not from the area of Stonehenge.
They're from North Pembrokeshire in West Wales.
The neolithic Britons took the stones almost 200 miles through mountains and over land for some probably religious reason now lost to time.
Also, The Ring of Brodgar and Henge, on the Orkney Islands, is older than Stonehenge. Also, there are around 1300 stone circles in the UK, 508 in Scotland alone.
That "Full Welsh" has grilled Cypriot Halumi on the plate! Then that is NOT a true full anywhere! That's a half Cypriot breakfast!
You do know that Kirkbi co. (Lego) are coming after you right. They have stated time and again, LEGO is an adjective there is no singular or plural term it is simply Lego, Lego bricks or Lego sets, but never Legos.
In the Lidl one, there won't be a counter. You just take what you want, put it in your trolley and carry on with your shopping, then pay for the whole lot at the end.
We have a similar one in Hemel Hempstead. Easy to use when you know how
Agreed, although back in the late seventies my mate and I had parked up and were walking to the old Gun shop and an older lady stopped and asked him to drive her and her car to the other side from the St Albans road.
The Lidl bread/bakery section is self service. It has, however, a really excellent selection of breads and other baked goods, many of which are baked in store.
You say Brenda Fricker to me and I think of My Left Foot, not Home Alone 2.
Swindon’s Magic Roundabout is easy to navigate. Stop at the give way signs and give priority to traffic from the right. On that basis, you can pick any route across the roundabout.
Tinie Tempah is pronounced tiny tempa
As a Brit of a certain age, I mostly remember Brenda Fricker from Casualty - I think the closest US comparison to the show I can make is ER.
I always reseal my biscuits and crisps, etc... by pushing them up against a wall or such like😂😂 I thought I was the only one who was that lazy!😂😂😂
Right turn on red just shows what contempt Americans have for pedestrians.
What is this rule? Can someone explain it to me logically? Surely they have a reason and I’m just too dumb to see the logic of it
@@Lew99900 It's essentially just like a traffic light junction that has a slip road off to the left without lights in the UK. The right hand lane at US junctions is always right turn only (I think), so it is safe to turn into it without stopping. Although, as the OP points out, it does cause problems for pedestrians!
@@Lew99900 I think, the rule is if you are turning right, a red light can be treated the same way you would treat a Stop sign,
i.e. stop then continue if it is safe to do so.
@@Lew99900 I really didn't explain that very well! Let me try again.
The junction is controlled by traffic lights in all directions. The approaching roads all have a dedicated right turn only lane. The roads leading away from the junction have a lane dedicated to receiving traffic turning right onto them. Therefore there is no need for traffic turning right to ever stop.
I think that makes more sense.
@@StormhavenGaming thanks for the reply I’m kinda following along. I’m sure I could get to grips with it after a short while driving over there.
Also- I’m glad I know this because it seems like a recipe for disaster for anyone from Europe 🤣 coulda got flattened on holiday
I have to say (and I'm from England) that when you said "Give me a tube of Salt 'n' Vinegar Pringles and I'm a happy boy...", I gasped! This evening, I've been eating none other than... Salt 'n' Vinegar Pringles - in a tube!
Weirdly enough, that compound roundabout is probably fairly safe because people need to drive slowly to figure out wtf they're supposed to do, or because they are blocked by other cars.
Stonehenge is a lot older than the Pyamids and the stone blocks are much bigger so harder to carry over long distance.
And the stone isn’t local
In the UK, Lego is singular and plural, as in “sheep” . We don’t add an S to pluralise “Lego”
I was confused for a moment when I misheard one of your comments! The pic of the man in a wheelchair, you said "that's dark" - I heard "that's duck", and was thinking no, that's a flamingo!? 🤣
The Magic Roundabout is in my home town, Swindon, there are few accidents and it manages high volumes of traffic amazingly well. It looks complicated, but if you treat each mini roundabout the same as on any other road it's not that complicated. But it is fun to take out of town friends up the middle or the wrong way quickly. Like a sort of flat rollercoaster 😈🤭🤣
12:06: It's pronounced "Less-ter" or "Lesta" to us locals. A very old city - it was already a regional capital for almost a thousand years before London was founded..
i like how he said 5/12/97 as may 12th, it's day first here so it's 5th December
I'm pretty sure that first pic is of Hemel Hempstead roundabout, it's actually signposted as "Magic Roundabout". I've got a similar one near me at Heathrow airport, they are fun to go around the wrong way it feels.
I have used that round about a few times. It's quite safe actually. It works like this.. It's so confusing that people engage their brains and pay attention.
My favourite technique is speed and aggression.
Before Legoland Windsor it’s like nowadays, it was originally WINDSOR SAFARI PARK..used to go there a lot as a kid growing up in the town.. a little bit of local history 😊
I loved the dolphins they had when it was a Safari Park.
I remember when it was just fields! There were far fewer lions there then, and hardly any baboons.
Love hearing a foreign take on our culture/Language.
Watched a few of your videos now, got a subscription from me
Yep we really are getting new money with the king on & have been since 2022 😂 the queen ones are gradually removed from circulation…..the bakery in Lidl is self serve (Lidl is a low cost supermarket but the bakery is awesome)
Stonehenge was built a thousand years before the Pyramids tho, so in some ways it’s a bigger achievement.
Especially as they had to carry those stones miles as there was no Buses or Tubes thn..
Bread rolls are also known as Barm Cakes, Bun, Cob, Muffin, Tea Cake, Batch, but bread roll is the most popular
The pigeon lady is was the mother on a very British comedy ‘Bread’ and also the mother in ‘my left foot’ with Daniel day-Lewis
I love your voice, I could listen to it ALL DAY❤
In Coventry, West Midlands, we call bread rolls "Batches" they are called something different everywhere in the UK. Loving watching your videos, it's interesting to watch someone else's point of view on the UK and it's brilliant how you are learning all the time and trying hard to pronounce the counties and city's, which even I struggle to say 😂
The whole bread-roll thing.. you could probably make a whole video based purely on the variety of different names that different regions have for bread rolls. Could be quite long, depending on how in-depth it gets!
In the part of England I'm from baps/bread rolls are called muffins.
I'll always know Brenda Fricker as the nurse from Casualty who also did Home Alone