American Reacts to Top 10 Things Brits Are Bloody Good At
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In this video I react to the top 10 things British people are really good at. Let's be honest British culture has influenced the entire world and this list shows us why. I already knew Britain was the home to some really great music and comedy, but I was actually surprised at some of the other things British people have been the best at.
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A Brit, Sir Tim Berners-Lee also gave the world the technology that made it possible for you to share these videos. Instead of monetizing the World Wide Web he gave it to the world for free.
Correct Mark and let's not forget that Britain gave the world the electronic programmable computer (Tommy Flowers) and the telephone (John Logie Baird) Which also makes this whole WWW possible.
@@copferthat John Logie Baird television
@@copferthat
Tommy Flowers always gets overlooked, wasn't the actual machine used by Alan Turing to crack Enigma built by Mr Flowers.
@@pauldurkee4764 Sshhh that's a secret ;)
@@PeterJPickles
I thought we gave most of our secrets away during the second World War, the Tizzard mission to the US, to prevent any possibility of them falling into the hands of the nazis.
We may not be good at EVERYTHING but there are many things that we are VERY good at. Proud to be British.
British comedy will give you a really good insight into the culture
The British excel and engineering and innovation. The industrial revolution started in a small village in Shropshire in 1709. Everything that we now enjoy stems from then.
No they dont
@@jeromestavrosyeo like what
Shropshire is a County not a small village.
@@da90sReAlvloc The first iron bridge in Ironbridge, the first metal framed building. The Maltings in Shrewsbury, The industrial revolution started in Shropshire, Thomas Telford was a innovator.
@@dianerogers8805 Indeed, that's why I said so. I also lived in the village concerned for over 20 years.
We are bloody good at most things, and we are humble as well. 😅😅
I’m Peruvian .. same place where Paddington ❤ comes from 😊.. I recently tested my DNA and I am 11% from Wales/Western England .. I though I was half indigenous from the Andes and half from the Iberian Peninsula.. but regardless .. I always since I was a kid I was fascinated by the British history and culture .. and the musicians and artist and performers .. the world would not be the same without the Brits .. the influence of its culture it’s impressive !!
I loved reading Paddington, now I teach mesoamerican history
How many generations does your dna trace back to Welsh? Compared to how many generations they have been Peruvian? Serious question.
@@megw7312 they actually don’t mention generations .. they look where my genes come from .. my guess is that besides the fact we come from Spain somehow .. and my grandma move to Peru from Spain after the civil war .. maybe have something to do with one of my great great great great grandparents getting together with someone in Wales ..
@@joseriver6683 Thanks so much for your reply. If you find, on You Tube: BritainsHiddenHistory Ross Channel, there are many interesting videos… The ‘Welsh’ (Cymry) story is not as taught in schools - much is known but some puzzles are ongoing: e,g., one very famous ancestor - Magnus Maximus - his father was a Briton but his mother was from what is now part of Spain. Another puzzle is - what happened
@@joseriver6683 to the people who left Britain in the late 6th century. Following the discovery of the American continent by Prince Madoc, a great fleet embarked for North America. King Arthur II, himself, was with them. Whilst there, he was killed by a ‘native’, his body was returned to South Wales. However, the mystery remains as to what happened to all the other people who did not return? One suggestion is the possibility that some of them may have gone to Peru ! The Antient Kentucke Historical is also investigating this mystery.. I will find their site and send to you.
One thing that may surprise you...
remember that saying “as american as apple pie”? Well...the apple pie is a british invention
That's apple tart not apple pie. Basically the same thing I know, but the term tart is more relative to the UK and pie to the US.
@@windymiller6908 just checked google after your comment, everything states that it is indeed the pie.
@@windymiller6908 I am British and have always said pie, everyone I know say pie, we don't say apple tart at all.
@Graham Johnson Cob is round and roll's are the long ones.
@@irenemorley75 If so then you probably say steak& kidney tart!.........haha just joking. What about other fruit fillings like blackberry and rhubarb...please don't tell me you call them pies as well? 😲We do say mince pies, but I've heard said they were originally filled with minced meat and not minced fruit so were originally called pies which has stuck. APPLE TART RULES OK! 😁
We are very good at irony, diplomacy and are self-effacing. We have some of the greatest writers such as Shakespeare. Our ability to execute state occasions such as our late Queen's funeral is world class. We are also world renown for our willingness to queue respectfully, say sorry even if we are not in the wrong and have a strong sense of fairness.
toffy1952 - Spot on!
Just a little name drop. The World Cup 1966 England v Germany was commentated by my uncle Kenneth Wolstenholme who said the now famous words "They think it's all over,,, It is now".
I was 14 at the time and will never forget your uncle's words!
I agree you deserve a medal. 🏅
@Jim Carner why are there so many bitter grouches on RUclips? Perhaps you can answer that for me.
I love people sharing stories like this. AND people sharing full stop. A worthy name drop Mark Wolstenholme!
Oh nice. I actually commented this quote yesterday in the wake of the Ireland vs SA rugby match. Small world
@@spellywelly 🥂
It’s a pity that the ‘history’ bit showed only London landmarks. There’s far more history around Britain than just that little bit!
London, that little bit?
@@lesart3446 indeed. There's a thousand historical parts of Britain. It's not even the only city. (And the London Eye isn't particularly historical either.) 🤨
@@AlBarzUK whilst there in thousands of historical locations each with thousands of years worth of history, London is pretty special it has around 1,975 years worth of histroy in itself, more than a lot of countries recorded history
@@theaces3697 obviously.
However it's still not the ONLY place in Britain with history - even of two millennia of history - whereas this video has pictures ONLY of that one place and ignores ALL the other ones as if ONLY one place in Britain existed. 🧐
@@theaces3697 there are places in the UK with more than 2000 years of history.
One big thing missing here . . . .the English language. Although there are many other languages with such wonderful cadence, the English language when spoken in drama and poetry is unparalleled and enchanting.
@Jim Carner Music isn’t an invention. Yet here it is listed in abundance. Yes it evolved from East Prussian and ancient French. But its a hefty export from the UK.
@Jim Carner Ok
That is a very good point. However, the richness of English comes from its diverse origins. Just a glance at the OED confirms that. Maybe the strength of the English has been absorbing language and culture.
while simultaneously being a god dam inconsistant mess
@@fionadefranco1276 As with many languages. The English language is, however, a distinct language in its own right.
Shakespeare, engineering and science, just a few he missed.
True !!!!!
Medicine,!
Paracetamol/ pain killers, inverter of rubber that later went on wheels, Florence nightingale, Shakespeare, King Arthur, Robin Hood, other legends of different areas all over the country and Ireland.
Maybe too long for a reaction video, but the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics went through a lot of things we're proud of!!
Windrush nonsense and mixed race relationship propaganda? No thank you.
If you look at those ceremonies with different eyes, they actually look pretty dark & creepy, like occult luciferian dark magic rituals, ..
@@truckerfromreno agreed 💯
I hope you don't mean Paul McCartney croaking his way through the end! I remember watching it and thinking:
"Jesus f*cking Christ! The whole world's watching and HE'S the finale???"
His voice was never that powerful to start with, when he formed the band Wings and had wife Linda on the backing -VOCALS- warbles it was high time for a career change, and by the time the London Olympics rolled round his voice was positively embarrassing. I wanted The Spice Girls to come back out so at least it could have ended on a light-hearted fun nostalgic vibe....and that's saying something! 😳
Baseball comes from a game called rounders
They mentioned London's West End butthat isn't what makes the UK great: it's the nationwide repertory theatre that fosters the talent that ends up at the West End and in theatres and movies worldwide.
Derby County's former football ground was the Baseball Ground, used for baseball from about 1890.
Each of these top ten deserves it's own top ten.
Baseball is mentioned in the writing of Jane Austen. 🇬🇧👍. And we invented railways, steam engines etc etc
Also the World Wide Web !
I'm loving your journey discovering your roots, I'm a brit and I even forget some of our stuff! Watching these videos brings it all back. Thank you.
Not sure but i would imagine Baseball originated from the Children's game called Rounders, similar bat and layout running between bases.
Britain also leads the world in several other things, like scientific -discovery's- Discoveries, engineering, medical cures and loads more.
PS Rugby is the Mans version of American Football but we don't wear all the protection😜 you should look into videos that refer to rugby's hardest hits.
Think of the The Baseball Ground (Derby) but yep rounders (oh jeez school sports day flashbacks) it is pretty crazy the sports we invented and also the ones that were once popular way back when that are no longer played as a ‘big’ sport..
Pre-dates rounders by a long way in Britain.
@Jim Carner And just what exactly did i spell wrong ?
@@johnp8131 😂😂😂😂 First recorded game of Rounder 1744, first recorded game of baseball 1846. you are over a hundred years wrong.
@Jim Carner -I suggest you check a Dictionary,- -Discovery is the singular noun, Discoveries is the plural noun.-
-search "Discovery's" and "Discoveries" (wont tell you which search engine to use as last reply was removed)-
-Discovery's 1,560,000 results,-
-Discoveries 2,760,000,000 results.-
Just ignore all that I'm a blind idiot 😂😂
Mr Bean played by Rowan Atkinson, you should see him in Blackadder, that's funny.
And Johnny English
I think two categories missing are inventions and scientific discoveries, I would say they are more important than playing bad guys in Hollywood tbh :)
He mentioned IVF.
I'm a brit and proud of it , a wonderful place to live.
Haaaaa! You can't say what you like. The police will turn up at your door over a tweet. The invasion of foreign criminals and rapists won't ever end and the government teeters from one PM to another. We have the poorest pensioners in Europe and the poorest poor in Europe. The police are policing by CCTV-watching people commit crimes and then tracking them down AFTERWARDS...or not bothering at all. The institutions are either corrupt or woke beyond commonsense and are riven with anti-British leftists. Wonderful....hilarious!
Dolly Parton was watched by an audience of 180,000 at Glastonbury music festival. You can check it out online
I watched Dolly's.......
There are so many really amazing British rock bands! Led Zeppelin is my passion 😍 and my respects to Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton
I'm not British or American (I'm Japanese), you've earned another subscriber 😊
Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, M people, Kate Bush, The Bee Gees
I'd recommend you watch the movie The Imitation Game, it's the story of British mathematics genius Alan Turing and how he cracked the secret German Enigma code. His work is thought to have saved millions of lives and shortened the war by two years. In return we persecuted him for being gay and had him chemically castrated. He took his own life in 1954 after years of torment. He was posthumously pardoned in 2013 by Queen Elizabeth II
One man that was over looked who also helped shorten the war and was truly the father of today's computer was Thomas Flowers a GPO engineer.
@Jim Carner Look up Thomas (Tommy) Flowers 22December 1905. no confusion.
Not entirely correct. The Poles actually broke the Enigma code, but passed all their knowledge to us when the Germans invaded them.
Turing invented the computer that could break the various new combinations and codes the Germans implemented.
I'm certainly not belittling Turing and his massive contribution to the victory in ww2, but it certainly wasn't just him, as always, it was a group effort on a large scale.
Baseball, we call it rounders used to be played in schools
In the UK we do not call rounders baseball.
Irene Morley, we did in 1744 rounders was called Base Ball in an English publication call “A little pretty pocket book”
American Football is basically Rugby ( Which was originally called Rugby after the Private School ) The name Soccer was used to separate it from Rugby. The Prodigy ( Fire Starter and Breathe )
Shakespeare, Dickens, Darwin, Jane Austin, Beatrix Potter, Brontes, on and on and on
Music, absolutely! Nice of you to say food as I’ve heard numerous Americans say our food is awful. Personally I think traditional British food is fantastic. We’re not excelling at politics at the moment though!
Americans still rely on the old stories about English food being carried back to the US during WW2! Do they not realise that at the time FOOD was severer;y
rationed? Every person was issued with a ration book, full of coupons
which had to be presented for all food purchases! The amounts of meat,
butter, sugar, bacon, cheese, and many more foods, were severely
limited to a very small amount per person per week. For instance, only
ONE egg a week per person! British housewives were thrown back onto
what they could grow, even potatoes were rationed!
So during those terrible years we could only eat and cook with tiny amounts
and restricted choice ! Thankfully we are now a cuisine culture of the world
with such diverse and wonderful foods available.
@@marycarver1542 Well my gran told me it was a case of who you knew and not what you knew, my gran's friend had a shop and used to put thing's back for her favourite customers, so you could say some families eat a lot better than others.
The British fry up is food from the gods😊
Politics and comedy have got a bit muddled just now...
@Jim Carner Where's the beans?
Another sport which originated in Britain is volleyball, it originated in Henry VIII times but called Balloon back then and played on the same courts as Tennis at Hampton Court Palace, with a higher net obviously.
The tennis game Henry VIII played is called real tennis with slightly different rules to lawn tennis which is played today, real tennis is still played at Hampton Court.
got to be honest here, we've slipped a bit on holding on to governments.
But at least our Prime Ministers don't spend the two or three years after an election claiming to have won when they in-fact lost.
But it’s still there - through good times and bad
@@mogznwaz Parliamentary democracy was our invention, as was the ending of slavery.
You cannot look short term as an example of a nation's deeds, these things are built over decades.
No, we are just trying to outperform Italy in the prestigious 'most leaders in a single year' competition
We are small but mighty , I played rounders in school loved it , we are exceptional at preserving our old buildings and traditions .
We like value for our money, I live in a new build it's only 105 years old so it's barely settled on it's foundations.
1 of Britains best export, our language, international & so many different accents, wow Britain is everywhere
Wow. Still to discover: 4 candles, Dawn French jumping into a ditch in the Vicar of Dibley, Del Boy falling through the bar, Catherine Tate’s Nan, Little Britain, Blackadder and countless more.
Monty pythond. The goons, faulty towers...
Ha ha 4 candles always gets me, even though I have seen it masses of times
And don't forget cheese rolling or Morris Dancing, both crazy British customs..... and once you've done that, there's WILTY and " I once bought a horse"......
I'll watch your videos again,one of the few Americans that don't scoff at British /UK achievements and shout I'm Irish.😀 👍.All the best mate.
The funny thing about our villainous actors is Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons and Gary Oldman were using German and Rumanian accents!
Baseball is our rounders (a girls game).
The british empire will not be on any lists of good things about britian lol, most brits are made or people try to make brits feel ashamed of the british empire. I am not ashamed personally, I did nothing wrong and I also know the good that came from it but obviously I understand the bad it too.
It's much like the people of Germany today. What happened in WW2 was not the fault of most Germans living today but it is still their responsibility to make sure it never happens again.
Same goes for us. It's not my fault that my ancestors did some bad stuff, but it's our responsibility to make sure we don't return to that behaviour in future.
Besides, as you said, some good things definitely came out of the empire that benefited the whole world. People tend not to mention the good stuff, they only mention the negatives.
@@KissMyFatAxe Germans didn't do much good at all during ww2(i believe after some torture experiments conducted onJews, one of the "doctors" made a big discovery we all benefit from) . British empire is nothing compared to German evil,the empire did do alot of good.
Strange how all these countries that were 'colonised' by the British Empire still retain lots of our influence now they are long independent! Almost all of them have voluntarily become members of the Commonwealth which has our new King at it's head and all still benefit from financial aid. The people have either the right or easy access to live in the UK - and many thousands do - which seems strange if they were so 'oppressed'? And what everyone seems to conveniently forget is that had it not been Britain then it would have been the Spanish, or the French, or the Dutch etc etc.
@@tesstickle7267 I'm not saying the situations were comparable in nature, just that the one thing they do have in common in the modern world is that neither of them are the fault of most people living today. They happened before most of us were born, so to say that the Holocaust is something Germans today should apologise for is absurd, same goes for the British today, very few people alive today had anything to do with the empire or colonialism, so they have nothing to apologise for. As long as we recognise the good bits and the bad bits equally and vow never to repeat the bad bits, then I don't think any more needs to be said on the matter
The British empire gave the World more good than negatives.
The best crime/ mystery shows in the World.
There is a game played in Britain called Rounders, which had 4 bases in a diamond shape, and was played with sticks. Most children played this on the many recreation grounds( big fields used fora myriad of activities like cricket or football) around the UK
Rounders is the name of the game that baseball came from. I played it at school in the 60's.
A lot of people think that baseball has its origins in a British game called rounders, mainly because of the direct similarities between the two.
It actually derived from a much older sport called Stool-Ball.
Even then rounders and baseball are only superficially similar, and I get why people think they’re more similar than they are because they’ve never actually watched any baseball
Britain gave the world Newton, Darwin, Faraday, Hubble, Haley and many others. The steam engine is British invention. They gave us the English language.
But best of all the British kept British North America from falling into American hands. As a Canadian, I am truly grateful for that.
You are one very smart Yank.
Your channel shows you are into learning, challenging your own understanding, and appreciative of other culture.
As icing on the cake you constantly flatter Brits.
How could we NOT love you? :)
I'll always remember rounders at school. We had a 'special needs' child. He'd hit the ball miles every time and then just stand there looking baffled while everyone yelled 'RUN' to him.
We also have great scientists and write 100s each year. We invented the world wide Web, television, telephone, ATM, train and many more
Hello Steve,
The game of baseball was played seriously in the Cardiff and Newport areas of South Wales.
Until fairly recently international baseball games were played between England and Wales, with games being played either in South Wales or Merseyside in England.
They missed out innovation and invention in the areas of science and engineering.
Best Wishes from Wales.
Derby County's original ground was called the Baseball Ground.
rounders
@@annpartoon5300 I used to play rounders in school back in the sixties. The school was in Wales.
@@lesart3446 AND ?
@@windymiller6908 so did I in the 50s staffordshire
Our chief contribution to international cuisine is toast. Yes, just burning bread a little.
I am a Brit and I have written a few stories for kids,now need to get them published.
I wish you well with that Angela.... good luck👍👍👍
You must be American or do you mean CHILDREN not kids (aid is a
baby goat).
(a kid is a baby goat)
Rounders used to be a girl's sport in the UK
Not on council estates in London, played by all the family.
I played it at school and hated it, that ball hurt.
The comedy Father Ted is set in Ireland and it is hilarious
Go on, go on , go on🤣🤣🤣
I think you'll find the Republic of Ireland where Father Ted is based is NOT part of the UK, it's a country in its own right. Northern Ireland IS part if the UK.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 hut I am pretty sure the production company and writers etc of Father Ted are all Briish. Similarly the current Mrs Brown comedies on fbd BBC
Baseball = Rounders. Still played in some schools in the UK.
Brits tend to invent things that spread around the world and sometimes get re-named. Games...netball became basketball. Billiards turned into pool. A Brit invented the world-wide-web, another invented the computer, and television was born here. If you want great comedy, try Al Murray's skit on How bacon proves the existence of God, or the episode of Fawlty Towers called Don't mention the War. If you want to get into Rugby more people generally watch Union on an international level rather than League, which is more popular in the midlands and north.. Try a Wales v Scotland game.
Great video again!! Lots of good information!! I agree with the list especially the history, theater, comedy, and music rankings!
Black Sabbath, Iron maiden, Def Leppard, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Depech Mode, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen, Beatles, Genesis....the list is endless
Dire Straits, M people, Kate Bush, The Bee Gees.
@Jim Carner as well u know its a figure of speech.
And people don't have all day to list all the awesome UK bands.
Or comment on every thread dismissing every comment.
What's your problem? Clinic cut off your nuts?
@Jim Carner How observant you are Jim 😂
Definitely the first thing I thought should be there was inventing too.
Rugby as a sport as well on the sports list, my mother was actually born in the town of Rugby, in Warwickshire England where the game was first played and invented
Comedy genius DAVE ALLEN. You will love him I promise.
Baseball came from our girly game, rounders. :)
Probably best staying away from grime if you like music.
Abraham Derby perfected how to make cast iron. The world’s 1st iron bridge was built at Ironbridge in Telford. It led to the industrial revolution which started here in the UK.
Yup, pretty much and I’m from the US. And I ❤🩷 the accents! Music is like no other and watching their comedies they are funny!
Add to this list. Jeeez where do I start Steve 😊
Steve Hughes has a great skit on British music and X factor that reels off quite the list of British artists if you want a listen to some!
Baseball came from the British game Rounders. I used to play it at school.
Oasis was my childhood, been to many gigs back in the day....I got goosebumps to see them mentioned here 😁
Baseball was what was called rounders when I was at school
There isn't a 'British accent' as such, you're thinking of the standard English accent. 'British' covers Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh as well as English, plus all the many, many regional variations of each of those.
There IS what they used to call BBC English.
@@colinmoore7460 True, that's sort of what I meant by 'standard English'
I am so pleased I don't have an Irish or Scottish accent.
Also called "received pronunciation" or (until recently?) "the Queen's English". I suppose it's called "the King's English" now.
There is no standard English accent either.
On comedy, in my opinion, British comedy evolves what was funny 10 years ago is usually not funny today, my impression of American comedy is that it's stuck in the 1980s.
And not forgetting the best invention of them all........the ability to stand motionless, transfixed, silent and in single file. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...QUEUING IN LINE ! You can thank me later....lol.
Baseball came from Rounders- love playing rounders :)
"Along with our thriving economy" now that was too funny🤣
British food and drink should be added to any list. We invented cheddar and the sandwich. To name but a few.
And Sandwich!!!
@@hermanyong383
Lord Sandwich 😉
Sandwich, the town in Kent. Just like the town of cheddar in Somerset.
@@neilgayleard3842
Yep 👍👍👍
Oh god yer, we've got excellent cheeses!
I'll give you another one, I am a railway fan, and In England we invented the railway, with George Stevenson. And the variety of locomotives that were designed. Also we have the history of the industrial revolution, and the canals.
Baseball is based off British game rounders, which uses smaller bats but still has the 4 bases you run round.
Led Zeppelin,ELO,The Who,Elton John,Deep Purple,Judas Priest,Marillion,Yes,Genesis,ELP,Sex Pistols,The Clash,Depeche Mode,Def Leppard,etc etc………our music is what I am most proud of for being British.
Don’t forget Duran Duran, Culture Club
And Slade.
Don't forget Stormzy 🤣🤣🤣
@@Jsixseven I was talking music not that crap.
@@TheCornishCockney Ha ha just testing! I would also add Nick Drake, Motorhead, Blur, Bowie, Pulp, Suede, Ash, Oasis, Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, The Jam/Paul Weller, Yes, Teenage Fanclub, Supertramp, Killing Joke, The Damned, Supergrass, Manics, Stereophonics, The Smiths, Joy Division, Space, Small Faces, The Kinks, Radiohead, The Police, OMD, Iron Maiden. Phew! they are just my random picks, absolutely loads more i could name as well. Totally agree with you Cockney Red 👍
Magna Carta, separation of monarchy and state, free speech, industrial revolution, the Theory of Evolution, the abolishment of slavery, Shakespeare, the internet, the best music, the business suit and so much more that we take for granted. It might be cool to knock us but this little island has always batted well above its weight and will always be GREAT BRITAIN.
I like this channel, it makes me feel very smug!!!!!!
I agree with Mark below we are bloody good at inventing thiings and many things that are huge around the world were born here inc. television.
With Stormzy you’re not missing much.
Must be the underdog brit in me but these lists make me embarrassed!! Can't believe they missed Led zeppelin!!!
Yea terrible list. We are also very good at
inventions! Should be number 1
medical technology and our healthcare system!
Industrial revolution
War!
Politics although not recently 😂
If the UK didn’t exist the world would be completely different today.
And Pink Floyd, and ELO.
I totally agree best band !!!!
No wonder the country's in a mess if that little lot is anything to go by. Also, in the main I happen to prefer American bands to British.
@@annemariefleming Dark Side Of The Moon.... my favourite 😄
Michael Crawford started as the Iconic Character Frank Spencer (Betty ) . The household Comic in the 1970,s and 1980,s was Benny Hill, ( Ernie The Fastest Milkman in the West song ) Interview with a Vampire was written by British Author Anne Rice.
As a Brit humour is up there. We do historical buildings well and certainly had a big part in starting the industrial revolution.
Music has to be up there as well.
Amazing really that the British empire reached out so far from our tiny island. Definitely a thing of the past now.
UK Baseball is/was still is rounders. Played since Tudor times but the earliest illustration in the UK calling it Base Ball comes from 1744 in John Newberry's book "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book"
You should take a dive into British inventions ... it may surprise you 😉 .
Great idea.
Nice to see your reaction vid. We have in the past been very good at many things.
At No 11 would be engineering. Trains, TV, telephone, radio, steel structures, etc, etc, etc.
When I was a teenager it was only schoolgirls who played rounders which appears very similar to baseball. The ball is incredibly hard and no gloves or mits are used. The boys played cricket. I believe the USA played cricket in the 18th century. Other things not on the list medicine, railways, trading, engineering and inventions which often get pinched by other countries.
Wasn't the rounders ball thrown under arm too? 🤔
Both sexes played rounders in my school. Don't recall the ball being hard.
@@hobbitassassin1 That's how we played it.
@@windymiller6908 I'm not sure what the ball was made of but it looked and felt like concrete! I was backstop so had to catch the thing a lot. This was back in the good old days when the girls played rounders and netball and the boys played football and cricket, the girls had needlework domestic science and typing the boys had woodwork metalwork and technical drawing when we weren't dodging dinosaurs 🤣🤣🤣
@@lulusbackintown1478 Perhaps we were just a bunch of softies in my school. 🙂 Seriously, it may have been a hard ball as it was 60 years ago so not easy to remember. It could have been what we called Indian rubber, which was a hard rubber, but not as hard as cricket balls or those white balls with black stitching whatever they were used for...baseball/rounders I think?. I was in a Welsh secondary modern back in the early sixties. The girls played netball and the boys rugby with no mamby pamby football or cricket like the English schools. 😆 We had woodwork but no metal work. The boys grammar school had both. The girls had needlework and domestic science, which we called cookery. Not to forget our school dinners which knocked spots of the stuff they have today with jam-rolly-polly to die for! 😁
The language you're using.... English.
The TV in your home...... British.
The microwave dinner you had....British.
The computer you're talking to.... British.
The applications are written in computer languages based on British.
Traffic lights..., British.
Cats eyes on a backroad.... British.
Radar that sees you airport to airport.... British.
Reflective Telescope... British
Telephone.... British
Electric Motor.... British.
Other notable inventions by British inventors are Hypodermic syringe, Alexander Wood (1853), Toothbrush, William Addis(1770), Soda water, Joseph Priestley (1772), Cement, Joseph Aspdin (1824), Photography, William Henry Fox Talbot (1835), Light bulb, Joseph Swan (1880), Thermos flask, Sir James Dewar (1892), Television, John Logie Baird (1925), Hovercraft, Christopher Cockerell (1953), World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (1989), Steam turbine, Charles Parson (1884), ATM, John Shepherd-Barron (1967), Military tank, Ernest Swinton (1914), Stainless Steel, Harry Brearley (1913), and Electric Vacuum cleaner, Hubert Cecil Booth (1901). Britons have continued to invent and innovate in the 20th and 21st centuries. Notable of these inventions includes palmtop the computer (1979), Bluetooth (2000) and the first SMS message sent (1992).
You can't flick a light, tune a guitar, download an app, or even brush your teeth, and not be using stuff worldwide that wasn't invented by a Brit.
But we don't like to brag.
Can't believe you missed off Sir George Cayley the father of modern flight even the Wright brothers conceded that if it wasn't for him they would never have left the ground!
Tv is actually Itallian.
We have the gift of been able to laugh at ourselves and honestly thats a good fact laughter is better than violant acts possibly not understood by nany other nations but when it comes to helping others were number one
There is nothing more chilling than a threat spoken in an educated english accent.
Steve, great vid again! love 'em all. A word about British comedy mate.... there is usually hidden away behind the surface of comedians' jokes a strong streak of cruelty or meanness.. it is hidden away, but the Brits know its there, and they love it!
Please don't judge us by Gordon Ramsay. The man is a bully.
Hey mate. Thanks for this. I am used to be attacked for being English/ British. I enjoyed this. I love my culture, I also love how both of our cultures bounce off of each other. For example, I grew up during the new wave punk era (The Clash, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, The Damned, Ian Dury and the blockheads etc, etc) . This scene came about because of American acts like Iggy and the Stooges and MC5. I could go on and on about my favourite bands, though there aren't as many good ones around anymore (same goes for comedians, Sean Lock passed away recently, but he really summed up British humour perfectly).
If you ever come to England, I recommend the west country. It's not the easiest part to get to but it's worth it. Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset have the friendliest people and it is truly beautiful down there. Best to just pass through my neck of the woods, London these days. Like New York and Paris, it's not so safe anymore for tourists.
I second that being a Devon Gal. We're a good bunch and love our beautiful West Country counties like Devon, Cornwall etc etc ❤️
Baseball originated from our game of Rounders. We had a slim bat and four bases. The rules were basically the same.
See I always say I hate the UK, mainly due to how crap the weather is but videos like this make me feel proud to be English
And the ridiculous thing is that British weather is NOT crap !
We are 17th in the world for rain, and thank God no history of
Earthquakes, Tsunami, Tornadoes, and the horrific storms experienced
every year in the States ! We also have no native dangerous animals, spiders
snakes, bears, alligators, etc. Temperate weather, enough rainfall tokeep
us as green as we are, Winters with just enough snow to make a pretty
Christmas card and ski in Scotland, summers ( this year was rare)
warm enough, but rarely extreme, Gods own country!
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Baseball stemmed from (British) our rounders. Originally, in the mid 1700's. Really, the US just changed the name.
No they’re quite different in the details
07:26 - Rounders, - and early form of Townball, that later became Baseball.
When I was a kid many years ago what the Americans call baseball was called rounders here in Britain
Grime and Drill are more of a cultural import from African/Caribbean people rather than British. Also somewhat influenced by American Hip Hop but very little roots in the native culture. It's a similar situation with the dialect they mentioned too.
The truth is you're going to experience very little actual British culture in London or other main cities at this point. A lot of historical landmarks are obviously still there to see but the culture and the people are almost gone. That's just the reality. So if you come here and wish to experience the culture then you're best to visit smaller towns and villages.
The South East has always had heavy immigration all the way back to the Romans. So the South East has developed it's own culture where as Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland plus a lot of the North have maintained more Celtic traditions and language. It's widely known that people from these areas are a lot friendlier than those from the South East and I can confirm that's been my experience.
All on course to go the way of the Cockney.
There's something almost Freudian about America's constant casting of British actors as villains. Baseball is a development of 'rounders', a children's game more often played by girls.
Thanks so much. I’m loving your blogs.
Teaching me stuff also.
And I live near London.
PS. We are also good at queuing. We have a game called rounders similar to base ball but much smaller.
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Watching a US film with a British actor in it always spoils the end for me, because I always know who the “baddie” is going to be.
There's no such thing as a British accent.