I’m French and at least in my social circle we avoid using disposable tableware, it’s seen as wasteful, bad for the environment. Instead, we do the dishes for the person inviting us. We generally help tidying and cleaning after the party.
As some one who works nightshift in a supermarket filling shelves, let me tell you the selection of biscuits we have is bloody huge and seriously getting bigger, and yes we have those stupid red solo cups as well regular ones even little shot sizes too.
@@chrislawley6801 Thanks after 25 years + of doing it I can honestly say I'm not a massive fan of biscuits and have seen some good biscuits go and the relentless march of the low fat sugar free health options slowly take over, but we still have the classics like the custard cream and bourbon commonly know as the biscuit barrel favourites, and always the most empty on the shelves.
In the UK we have clear plastic cups and plates and stuff, we just don't have the solo branded red ones. At parties we generally either drink from a glass or from the bottle/can . We sometimes have clear plastic glasses too.
As a Scottish person, I don't know about red solo cups. I'd have thought the main ingredient for an American themed party would be beer that tastes like shit 🤣
It explains why they play drinking game when you win you drink less That sounds like a loss to me but i do have to say i do like a millers every now n then
Doesn’t sound like you’ve been to the US. There’s nothing wrong with American beer. It is normally 5% light is 3.5%. I had some terrific 8% in a micro brewery in New Orleans. And Scottish beer is nothing to write home about!
Just thought I'd mention this. Most places in the UK are cool with returns, unless they're used earrings or underwear. It's fairly normal if you have the reciept
the back of the fingers are deemed as essentially "up yours" it stems from old wars between France and England, the French used to cut the first two fingers off of English archers, so on the battlefield, English archers used to stick their two fingers up to stick it to the French soldiers.
@@iriscollins7583 nah it's true the forward facing 2 finger salute was inverted back in the medieval times by British Long bowmen who wasn't captured and didn't have their index and middle fingers cut off
@@geoffair6461 They dont care about things like that, thats why they drive huge cars with engines twice the size as the UK and create far more waste per person than any other country. If every country lived like they do the planet would have been unihabitable to us by now.
You can probably pick up some red cups at Poundland or B&M. Red cups just aren't all that important in the UK, it is just a disposable plastic landfill cup. Using disposable cups, plates and cutlery isn't thinking smart, it is being dumb
Yep, talking of Poundland & B&M you can pick either up 2 mugs, 4 reusable plastic 'beer' pint glasses or a steel cutlery set (knife, fork and spoon), for just a quid. B&M sell ceramic plates and bowls for as little as £1.50 each or 6x drinking glasses for £2.50. Wilko likewise, are also often damn cheap, when it comes to basic tableware/kitchenware. If you are almost broke, a student or on a tight budget, always opt for the cheap reusable tableware, over the disposable paper/plastic crap. It's not only better quality, it also saves you a lot of money in the long run and helps to save the environment.
People especially at parties tend to drink from bottles or cans, unless it’s wine or spirits. I definitely couldn’t imagine drinking wine from a big plastic cup though. Don’t know why they would pour a beer from a glass bottle into a plastic cup.
Coffee. When we visited my brother in California, we took along some of our usual Italian coffee. He drinks it by the bucket and helped himself to some we had made. One 'cup' (about a pint) sent him into a psychotic episode. Also, cup-holders in cars, what's that about? If you think you need to drink coffee while you're driving, you're either not drinking decent coffee or you're not driving properly.
@@sopcannon After some research yes. I presume you're American, and if you are, you wouldn't know that most countries are aware of how America works, and we also feel that Americans are very self centered.
You wash your eggs in the USA which removes the natural protective coating, which means you have to keep them refrigerated, unlike in the UK where the eggs are treated against infections and therefore don't require refrigeration and are just put out in the stores' shelves. (though oddly, all of our fridges have egg trays, so that's the UK being weird!)
Biggest myth is we Brits drink warm beer. Absolutely not, only cask condition beer is served at room temperature as it's still brewing in the bottle! Most other beers are served as cold as possible!
@@b-beale1931, never quite so precise myself. Lager I like ice cold but I only drink Staropramen or Peroni, bitter I don't touch but ale I like slightly chilled, except for cask condition ale which I have cool but definitely not warm!!
Just to let you know you can not make everyone happy with your peace signs because if you do it with the back of your hand facing us it is the same as the middle finger (at least in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) Edit: i do not know why i put the full title
Yes its said to goes back to the battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French would cut off the first two fingers of the hand that drew the bowstring and then sent the injured archer back to the English forces totally useless, so with that, the English adopted the two fingered salute, basically saying “we still have our fingers”......🏹 it just evolved from there.
@@justinemct Probably not true. It's never been proven one way or the other, but the French hated (and I mean HATED) English archers. They didn't cut off their bow fingers, they just murdered them outright, probably torturing them in the process by cutting off their unmentionables. Knights and nobles had a ransom value, but archers were peasants, they had no value. Worse still, it was a huge affront to the French nobility to be cut down in their hundreds by mere peasants. It just wasn't chivalrous.
I came to the comments to say the same thing. Just the amount of different porridge varieties alone is enough to confuse someone unless they already know which one they want. Then there's three or four different sized boxed of the same cereal, handy if you live on your own or are part of a multi-person family. Also, going to a different supermarket can increase your available choices exponentially, depending on how far you want to walk (we have an Asda, Sainsbury's, M&S and Aldi within walking distance of our house. Handy, because we don't drive).
@@jeanproctor3663 I dont drive either but lucky to have a 24hr Tesco in walking distance. I think Americans would be confused by our supermarkets. I live on my own so I always appreciate smaller options too.
We have a good choice of food in the U.K. unlike in America a lot of our food isn’t full of artificial colours or preservatives or flavours our cereals are not as full of sugar as yours is and we have an extensive range of cookies (biscuits)
@@philiptodd7062 we do, whenever I see Americans try our snacks and food in general I often hear them say it tastes more 'real' as like you said we use a lot of natural flavours even in sweets and so many of the chemicals in American food is banned here, which is great. One thing I can never get over is most Americans down own or know what a flipping kettle is! 😂
What you have as a peace sign is really a victory sign. Supposedly, it goes back to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, when the French succumbed to withering English longbow fire. The French had supposedly threatened to cut off the two first fingers of each captured longbowman, so he could no longer fire a bow. Again, supposedly, the longbowmen had danced around their French captives, flashing those two fingers to the French commanders in a V-shape, daring them to try to cut them off. It's almost certainly not true, and we can only certainly trace the gesture back to 1901, but the insulting version has you showing the backs of your fingers to the person you want to "fu*& off". During WW2, Winston Churchill adopted the V-sign the other way round for "Victory".
The thing about the two fingers goes back to medieval times, English archers would stick there 2 fingers up at the apposing army, because if they were captured the fingers would be cut off so they couldn't fire again. So it was more of a taunting gesture
The reason why in Europe our cash bills are of different sizes is so that blind people can still tell what kind of note they are holding, so they can count their own money by thouch.
The newer notes in the UK actually have braille on them. So blind ppl have an easier time telling which note is which. Same with most painkiller boxes.
@@mikaruyami Not braille but similar, braille is too sensitive and would be hard to identify with wear. It's more a side effect though until recently with said notes this helped the blind and visually impaired, it was to stop you from bleaching a £5 note and printing a £50.
It’s the gaps in the side of the doors that got me more than the big gap at the bottom! I don’t wanna be making eye contact with a stranger whilst I’m pooping 😂 Oh and takeaway coffee is huge in the UK. That’s more Central Europe where they sit in cafes all day and drink it
The door gaps are a combination of shoddy workmenship and emergency services needing to both see and get access to you incase of an emergency. I think there was a bit of a thing in the late 80s, early 90's, where someone rich died because they couldn't get under or over the door/sides, or get the door open, because they fell against it and the family petitioned to have it changed - that might be urban legend tho, but there's where it's from, safety regs.
@@redlioness6627 They do, but if your fallen against or pushed against the door hard enough, those locks jam. They've also largely removed or smoothed out the groove because kids found about it and would pop the door on you for giggles.
The two fingered salute or "flipping the bird" stems from medieval ages in Britain when the British solders would cut off the dead enemies archery fingers and wave them at the enemy to signify a kill- also at this time it was illegal to have sex unless given permission by the King of England which is where Fornication Under Consent of the King comes from or F%CK as it is abbreviated to nowadays
@@gmdhargreaves Don't know where you heard that one, growing up I heard it's because Frenchmen would take the two fingers of any Englishman they captured during battle, so they couldn't use a longbow against them if they were to find their way home after capture, so putting two fingers up became a kind of insult and also had a "try and take them and watch what happens" kind of message behind it
When I went to the US I was shocked by the portion sizes, the poverty and the shit public transportation. I also can't imagine what it must be like having to have a car to get around, it just seems really expensive and stressful.
I had one when I was in the States a couple of years ago. I was dubious at first but they are really good! Where I was in Pennsylvania I think they call them “Road Apples”. You only want one (or maybe two) at a time though!!
Alright it hows things, I like your style bro and your optimism ,keep doing what you're doing ,I don't know you but you seem to have come out of you're shell just in the couple of months I've been subscribed, I like Americans and you seem like a good example of one too, the thing I like most about Americans is how you guys seem to always say "yes sir"or "yes mam" when addressing people its seems REALLY respectful, which is how I think English/British people should be as you only hear people referred to as sir/ma,am/madam in customer service sector of business really over hear. Peace
the UK is a bit weird when it comes to the metric system. We half-use it. We use it for science/money/most measurements, but then some things like milk are measured in pints, human weight often in stones, and speed and distances often in miles
Totally agree with that. I'm also 50 and when they tell me my height or weight in metric I look at them blankly. They may as well be speaking Swahili for all it means to me. I have to convert it to understand it lol
Should be noted that while we use them randomly, we do understand both of them and can generally convert between them quite quickly. We go to the rest of the world and we manage just fine, we go to the US and were also fine.
For the "reverse" peace sign, it's equilavent to a "finger" sign. During the French and Britain war, French used to cut the finger to British (because they were archers), so the British used to show them their finger to say "you didn't catch me" as an insult to French. They also used to cut 2 fingers to French... That's the story of the finger sign and why both can be considered as insult here. Peace from France!
@@travelling_stephen @Stephen Green Contactless in more ways than one. How am I supposed to take my 99? My arms don't happen to be two metres long🧍-🍦= 🤬
Omg......JT smiling at the end was so adorable. He has a great smile and makes him look extra cute. He should end all of his videos with a huge smile!!! 😀😀😀
Supermarkets in the UK have tons of choice and different brands for similar products such as cereal etc. I've been enjoying you videos. You seem to have an obsession with the UK.
Uhhh... No? Buttermilk pancakes made properly without mix is mostly an American thing, I wouldn't say that it's a stereotype that Americans use pancake mix a whole lot
I was in a restaurant in Dublin in Ireland. The waitress came to talk to us and was disgusted that the people from the US wanted cheese on top of their apple pie. I don't know anywhere else that does that.
@@susyward6978 Me too. I always eat an apple with mature Cheddar cheese. I don't fancy it with sweetened apple and pastry though. Texture wise doesn't seem right.
When you were holding your fingers up for the piece signs- its *the other way around* that could be considered offensive. If you show the back of you hands it could seen as swearing, not the palm side.
They didn't mention that UK holidays are paid, where I used to work we had 3 weeks in the summer, a week at whit, Easter, up to 2 weeks at Christmas depending on the day Christmas on and service days all paid at time and a third. If you didn't take your holidays that year they gave you the money instead.
yeah legally employers in the UK have to give you 28 days paid leave if you are a full time worker - it is pro-rated if you work part time. You were lucky that you got paid the money instead though. Most employers don't roll over the leave to the next year and don't pay cash for it - you use it or you lose it.
@@mezbrookscarter8289 where I used to work, if you didn’t use your holiday, it could lead to disciplinary action. I could sell upto 5 days holiday to get money instead
Okay but as a European let me just say: 1. We have coffee to go too? (Yes we adopted it from the US, but it's not as uncommon as they made it seem here) And 2. We're just jealous y'all get AC and we usually don't
That suggestion about getting all the disposable cups, plates, etc and using them to avoid the washing up just makes the environmentalist in me have a heart attack. Like, dude, your country invented the dishwasher... 🤣
yeah putting two fingers up with your knuckles facing towards the person you are doing it to is saying f*** off same as one figure, no one really knows where it came from but we brits all know what it means.
It came from around mid evil times people would cut the bow string fingers off enemy archers if they caught them, so they start sticking their fingers up to show they hadn’t been caught and as an F U 😂
@@ClaireJ86 yeah that's the myth, it's commonly told but there is no evidence to say its true, I fact there is evedence that proves against this theory. In truth its origins have been lost to time a bit like alot of swear words.
@@QueenItachi01 unforchantly allough a good story, It is only a myth and there is no evidence of it beeing true. The true origin is lost in time, but it is unquie to the UK, so unlikely to have come before empire.
Great video. I really hate using the toilets in America, it makes no sense not to have any privacy when having a dump. Plus the actual toilet seats have a gap at the front which is just odd.
My experience was entirely different. Stomach upset!! Then into American stall. Press button and a paper seat-cover travels around the seat, making it nice and clean and ready for action. I breathed God save America many times that day.
In The Netherlands literally NONE of the houses have air conditioning, because until recent years, it never got that hot anyways so our houses are build for cold weather. But now, we really are just suffering and complaining because it gets hot as all hell🤡
@@elainethemusician3310 It is but the houses in the Netherlands (at least in Amsterdam) are skinny. They're so narrow that you can't get furniture up the stairs and it all has to be lifted in through the windows. It is unbearably hot in them during the summer because everything is so squashed.
When I was in the US at the airport I was so confused when I went to the toilet because sitting on the toilet seat I could see people walking pass because there was a inch or two between the wall and the door but the weirdest thing was you could see peoples trousers and underwear because the toilet doors are like half the size! And can fit a man crawling underneath lol
Sticking two fingers up facing forwards comes from the English around the battle of Agincourt, once the English longbow came about, if the French caught an Englishman they would cut off his first two fingers so he couldn't fire a bow again.
I am from Scotland and I can confidently say that we have plenty of variety when it comes to flavours of things and a can of grape juice is amazing if anyone hasn't tried it yet
I love your videos and your commentary....you are such fun! I'm English and I mean that as a compliment! 😊 The most weird thing I found in the US was the phrase "working on that" in a restaurant. Halfway through the meal getting a waitress coming up to your table and saying something like....."can I get you anything else, or are you still working on that?". It makes your lunch sound like physical exercise! But then again....American portions are so HUGE that maybe it's accurate! 😁. I was totally gob-smacked (a good old-fashioned English expression!) at the size of portions in the US. The average meal in a diner is enough to feed three people in the UK!!
Vat is so useful. As a student when i need to do a small shop (precovid) id have say £6.39, i can go round and add up the price of what im buying so when i get to the till i know i have enough.
Blackcurrants were banned from being grown in the US in the early 1900s because they produce a fungus that’s really harmful to certain species of pine trees and it was a threat to the timber industry. The ban started to be lifted in the early 2000s but they’re still prohibited in some states.
@@leftyme4568 maybe... Or maybe I wouldn't be, I would still be alive, and thankful that because of the stall design, there's still a chance for escape and I won't be doomed to die on the shitter.
With what you said about the free fills and ice in the cups, we have to say no to ice over in the uk just so we can get more drink because the drink will cost you around $4-$5 lol
Fried Oreo's ? Very like the Scottish trait of fried Mars bars! Again in batter. The famous British Fish & Chips.. the white fish is dipped in batter & deep fried .. What i don't understand, is why America only has 'french fries'? Also, when it is so simple to make your own chips at home? Potatoes.. Cut more thickly into chips & deep fried? Then slices of battered Cod or Haddock & deep fry them.. Fish & Chips! .. The British love their fried food. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Doing the peace sign with the wrong way round ie your palms facing you in the UK is like telling someone F**k you! 😂 But in history it's came from the French something to do with chopping archers fingers off when captured so that they couldn't fire a bow again
Here in Blighty (the UK, GB or England), the V sign isn't know as the 'peace' sign, but the 'V is for Victory' sign and was used a lot by Churchill in WW2.
3:01 We have disposable cups, they're normally white or clear when made of plastic. We have paper cups too, which could be white, coloured, or patterned. I don't really buy disposable cups so I don't really know much about the paper ones (the plastic ones are more common). But if we really wanted an American styled party, and wanted it to look authentic by even having the same cups, then we'd have to import them.
I ordered a cheeseburger from a chippy in Scotland and wondered what was happening when I bit into it. They had battered the burger and cheese. The batter did break away and peal off in one piece leaving a very juicy burger underneath.
Hello from Athens! Well, in Greece we do know what "thumbs up" stands for and we do use it some times. But maybe the cultural difference is there: on the frequency you make this gesture. We don't use it so often like we see Americans in movies, sitcoms etc do. There are plenty of other ways (verbally mainly) to give credit to someone or congrats them. Nice video though! 😉👍
you heard wrong, it's for emergency reason, in case an older citizen has a medical emergency the EMT's can slide under the stall in case the person inside can't unlocked the door
@@marydavis5234 whereas in Europe we just make the stall unlockable from the outside using a tool (could be as simple as a screwdriver) so that access is available in an emergency.... Even the bathroom door on my house has this feature! Normal public toilet stall doors here have like a 4-6" gap but that's it
@@marydavis5234 So I guess in USA there is no such thing as a special toilet lock door that unlocks from outside with certain tools available on emergency units? Ok then, keep having creeps admiring your legs while shitting.
The revers peace sign is a big f. U here. It derives from many wars with the french. Where if our longbowmen were caught, it was said that the french would cut their index and middle fingers off so they couldn't fire the bow again. So the insult was mainly to the french but has developed into something similar to the middle finger
We brits recycle our plastic stuff we have our own wheelie bin for recycling we even recycle cardboard soda bottles and cans,. JT instead of killing a bug put a glass over it slide an envelope under the glass then you’ve caught the bug let it outside removing the envelope,remember that bug has family too bug or not. Our money has a kinda plastic film over the notes now so we can’t rip or burn them,it’s only been out a few yr. why do we have baby shower? We should buy our own stuff for our child
If you’re still interested in getting a tattoo of a bearskin hat, I’d say get a black silhouette of the Beefeater guard 💂♂️ and have his hat coloured in with that of a Union Flag. 🇬🇧 The place should be on your ankle or leg. Not only is it a conversation starter, not only will it look great with shorts, not only will you love the style but when you do come over here you’ll immediately be one of us. 👍
@@PedroConejo1939 In all fairness, we could of used an A instead of an E. I can understand the confusion. We would say Darbee but to everyone else, its Durrrrbeee.
Tattoo suggestion, getting an English/Scottish flag tattoo could alienate the side whose flag you didn't get, and other images could be cheesy, however, everyone in the UK loves the Welsh, and you seem to have a particular affinity for Wales, why not get a Welsh dragon tattoo? It's cool, and underrepresented in the union flag (This is from a English guy btw)
@@BunniMonster I’d like to second this. Growing up it was always the Union Jack. Jack is another word for flag, the flag pole on a ship is called a Jack Staff because you fly a jack from it, not the other way around.
Also, you probably know by now Jt but palm facing you when doing a piece sign is a way to tell people in the UK and Australia (and probably other countries) to eff off, palm facing away from you is the peace sign
In other places you don't just invite 200 people over you don't know. So if you know them they can be trusted to have their own glass cup (and not destroy everything you own)
World is happy with a boiled egg.... Only in Scotland can you "scotch" an egg by coating it in a thick layer of meat and roll that in breadcrumbs and then deep frying it. Like a diet Haggis
Pharmacies in uk usually sell medication, toiletries & makeup + some might also sell quick grab and go lunches like sandwiches ships & drink + guns & candy. Also big stores like ones called “boots” may also sell some gifts/stocking fillers at Christmas, vacation items in the summer, photography items, baby items (bottles, baby clothing, baby toys, pacifiers etc), some electrical ( hair tools, power banks/phone chargers, SD cards, power cables), perfumes & after shaves.
The whole deep frying thing is also very big in Scotland. In fact, it's believed that Scottish immigrants bought the idea of frying chicken and other things to America in the 1700s. Popular delicacies in scotland include battered and deep fried mars bars (and other chocolate bars such as snickers) and deep fried pizza. And to add to what TGS said, we also have a type of beer called real ale, which is best served at room temperature, because chilling it dampens the flavour.
In the uk having the palm facing forward when doing the peace sign is a peace sign but having the palm face you when doing it then is is a way of swearing at someone and generally a little less offensive that the middle finger
In UK the two finger gesture with palm forward is the sign for victory (v), but with the back of the hand forward it's like the middle finger. It comes from the time of Henry the fifth. We English were the greatest archers in Europe, and when we fought the French at Agincourt the archers put the two fingers up to the enemy to show that they were ready to pull back the bowstring and shoot them.
The US way of writing the date was also the traditional English way of writing it. The UK switched to dd/mm/yyyy about 100 years ago, probably following the French as they are considered fashionable.
I Germany its totally normal for people have a coffee to go on the way to work. But in the afternoon we usually sit down for it. And beverages are served cold, in the summer they also add some ice sometimes. But its like 3-4 rocks, not more. Room temperature is not a thing. Ok if you sit down for hours and your beer or other beverage gets warm, thats on you. But its served cold. And the peace sign is actually the victory sign, just look its a V. Just gets used in this way :-)
Suggestions for your tattoo. Scotland - rampant lion, or the unicorn Wales - Dragon (obviously) England - three lions, or a single lion UK - coat of arms (has a lion from England and Unicorn from Scotland), or a bulldog, etc... P.S. Solo cups aren't a thing outside the US (and maybe Canada) - that's why you have to special order them...
It's the other way so like when your backhand is foward because archer used to have their fingers cut off in war so they couldn't help their army on release, many soldiers would antagonize archers and archers them by sticking said fingers up.
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In UK supermarkets we have hundreds of 'grape-flavoured' products. It's called the wine aisle.
The greatest of all aisles.
@@youneverseeanoldmaneatinga7416 there's other aisles?
Lmao ^^ so true :p
@@sopcannon I have also seen beer aisles sometimes
I agree - also look in the fruit section is like a massive area of raw wine
I’m French and at least in my social circle we avoid using disposable tableware, it’s seen as wasteful, bad for the environment.
Instead, we do the dishes for the person inviting us. We generally help tidying and cleaning after the party.
We do the same in Denmark
Italy and Mexico.
We do the same almost always.
It's a case by case scenario.
Also it's considered just as fast food. Disposable tableware in a private house would be considered poor, double-wide or trashy
In the UK we just drink from what the drink came in, then put in whatever bin it’s meant to go in (if it isn’t smashed already).
Hello to France ❤️
The bit about UK not having many options for "cookies, crackers or cereals" is nonsense! We have over 200 options for biscuits alone!
I can confirm this. Digestives alone are legion in number.
Used to be limited choices a long, long time ago but now there are many options but not too amny to get lossed in an isle of cereal confusion
As some one who works nightshift in a supermarket filling shelves, let me tell you the selection of biscuits we have is bloody huge and seriously getting bigger, and yes we have those stupid red solo cups as well regular ones even little shot sizes too.
@@alisonsmith4801 Alison such respect to you filling those shelves so we can all eat the biscuits we need through these bad day XX
@@chrislawley6801 Thanks after 25 years + of doing it I can honestly say I'm not a massive fan of biscuits and have seen some good biscuits go and the relentless march of the low fat sugar free health options slowly take over, but we still have the classics like the custard cream and bourbon commonly know as the biscuit barrel favourites, and always the most empty on the shelves.
In the UK we have clear plastic cups and plates and stuff, we just don't have the solo branded red ones. At parties we generally either drink from a glass or from the bottle/can . We sometimes have clear plastic glasses too.
Yep. We drink from clear cups and bottles so you can see if someone put their cigarette out in it.... lol
Americans really think we're that dumb...?
I’m sure Asda have started selling them (it was either there or Aldi I saw them).
Never mind, that was for July 4th😂
Tesco are always doing em
As a Scottish person, I don't know about red solo cups. I'd have thought the main ingredient for an American themed party would be beer that tastes like shit 🤣
'Up north' I would have thought the alcohol wouldn't make it to the cup before it had already been drunk. 😉
@@jaysmith2858 haha aye possibly!
@@jaysmith2858 straight from the bottle
It explains why they play drinking game when you win you drink less
That sounds like a loss to me but i do have to say i do like a millers every now n then
Doesn’t sound like you’ve been to the US. There’s nothing wrong with American beer. It is normally 5% light is 3.5%. I had some terrific 8% in a micro brewery in New Orleans. And Scottish beer is nothing to write home about!
Just thought I'd mention this. Most places in the UK are cool with returns, unless they're used earrings or underwear. It's fairly normal if you have the reciept
As a British person this makes me happy
same I don't like the idea of not knowing VAT until you get to the till
I like how his location is already put as United Kingdom
You being British makes me happy. I wish I was. British, that is. I'm never happy. 🇬🇧👍
Ya
Same
the back of the fingers are deemed as essentially "up yours" it stems from old wars between France and England, the French used to cut the first two fingers off of English archers, so on the battlefield, English archers used to stick their two fingers up to stick it to the French soldiers.
I was disappointed when I read somewhere, that this isn't true.😡
@@iriscollins7583 nah it's true the forward facing 2 finger salute was inverted back in the medieval times by British Long bowmen who wasn't captured and didn't have their index and middle fingers cut off
I really hope you all recycle those plastic cups if they’re so commonly used!
Doubtful, having been to the U.S no one recycles anything.
I sincerely hope that he has recycled his present and future plastic ware.
@@geoffair6461 They dont care about things like that, thats why they drive huge cars with engines twice the size as the UK and create far more waste per person than any other country. If every country lived like they do the planet would have been unihabitable to us by now.
And recycling is the last and worst option in Reduce Reuse Recycle
Why not just drink out the bottle?
We have disposable cutlery etc but it's the red part 👍
You can probably pick up some red cups at Poundland or B&M. Red cups just aren't all that important in the UK, it is just a disposable plastic landfill cup. Using disposable cups, plates and cutlery isn't thinking smart, it is being dumb
Exactly :/ dumb AND lazy.
Yep, talking of Poundland & B&M you can pick either up 2 mugs, 4 reusable plastic 'beer' pint glasses or a steel cutlery set (knife, fork and spoon), for just a quid. B&M sell ceramic plates and bowls for as little as £1.50 each or 6x drinking glasses for £2.50. Wilko likewise, are also often damn cheap, when it comes to basic tableware/kitchenware.
If you are almost broke, a student or on a tight budget, always opt for the cheap reusable tableware, over the disposable paper/plastic crap. It's not only better quality, it also saves you a lot of money in the long run and helps to save the environment.
People especially at parties tend to drink from bottles or cans, unless it’s wine or spirits. I definitely couldn’t imagine drinking wine from a big plastic cup though.
Don’t know why they would pour a beer from a glass bottle into a plastic cup.
I think they’re more for just like kids parties and teachers to buy for primary school kids
Exactly. Too much waste.
Coffee. When we visited my brother in California, we took along some of our usual Italian coffee. He drinks it by the bucket and helped himself to some we had made. One 'cup' (about a pint) sent him into a psychotic episode. Also, cup-holders in cars, what's that about? If you think you need to drink coffee while you're driving, you're either not drinking decent coffee or you're not driving properly.
I've noticed that any American made video about how things work outside of America, is 90% wrong.
What you expected an American to know about other countries?
@@sopcannon After some research yes. I presume you're American, and if you are, you wouldn't know that most countries are aware of how America works, and we also feel that Americans are very self centered.
@@LazarkGaming Never ever been too America.
You wash your eggs in the USA which removes the natural protective coating, which means you have to keep them refrigerated, unlike in the UK where the eggs are treated against infections and therefore don't require refrigeration and are just put out in the stores' shelves.
(though oddly, all of our fridges have egg trays, so that's the UK being weird!)
Fried oreos? And i thought a deep fried Mars bar was bad enough
Aye
@@teddyroosevelt2838 Oh Yeah!
@@JCTooL1 I’m Scottish too born and raised in Edinburgh and can agree on the oil thing
Screams diabetes
Fried mars bars are 🔥🔥
Biggest myth is we Brits drink warm beer. Absolutely not, only cask condition beer is served at room temperature as it's still brewing in the bottle! Most other beers are served as cold as possible!
13 degC is optimum for most ales, though some bad beeers are chilled further to numb the tastebuds, lagers are chilled to around 3-4 degC
@@b-beale1931, never quite so precise myself. Lager I like ice cold but I only drink Staropramen or Peroni, bitter I don't touch but ale I like slightly chilled, except for cask condition ale which I have cool but definitely not warm!!
@@tgsgardenmaintenance4627 I've worked in too many pubs/bars
@@b-beale1931 11 degrees C, 13 is too warm for trad ales, keg beers and lagers chilled down from between 5 to 2 deg C.
@@RushfanUK 55 deg F (=12.8 deg C) is the correct temperature for ale, in cellar to condition and to serve.
Just to let you know you can not make everyone happy with your peace signs because if you do it with the back of your hand facing us it is the same as the middle finger (at least in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Edit: i do not know why i put the full title
It to do with archery two fingers being cut off as a fuck you type deal in medivel time .
Yes its said to goes back to the battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French would cut off the first two fingers of the hand that drew the bowstring and then sent the injured archer back to the English forces totally useless, so with that, the English adopted the two fingered salute, basically saying “we still have our fingers”......🏹 it just evolved from there.
@@justinemct Probably not true. It's never been proven one way or the other, but the French hated (and I mean HATED) English archers. They didn't cut off their bow fingers, they just murdered them outright, probably torturing them in the process by cutting off their unmentionables. Knights and nobles had a ransom value, but archers were peasants, they had no value. Worse still, it was a huge affront to the French nobility to be cut down in their hundreds by mere peasants. It just wasn't chivalrous.
@CrisColley......I guess we’ll never know for sure, unless someone has a time machine. But it is a theory. Debate closed!
@@justinemct yh chris is right, this was debunked on QI a few years ago, but like all myths it's a good story 👍
I like Al Murray’s comment about the US: “it’s a good idea that’s got out of hand.”
We have giant aisles full of cereal and biscuits, I take umbrage with this 😂
Agree, our local big boys have a massive selection of cereals and biscuits.
I came to the comments to say the same thing. Just the amount of different porridge varieties alone is enough to confuse someone unless they already know which one they want. Then there's three or four different sized boxed of the same cereal, handy if you live on your own or are part of a multi-person family. Also, going to a different supermarket can increase your available choices exponentially, depending on how far you want to walk (we have an Asda, Sainsbury's, M&S and Aldi within walking distance of our house. Handy, because we don't drive).
@@jeanproctor3663 I dont drive either but lucky to have a 24hr Tesco in walking distance. I think Americans would be confused by our supermarkets. I live on my own so I always appreciate smaller options too.
We have a good choice of food in the U.K. unlike in America a lot of our food isn’t full of artificial colours or preservatives or flavours our cereals are not as full of sugar as yours is and we have an extensive range of cookies (biscuits)
@@philiptodd7062 we do, whenever I see Americans try our snacks and food in general I often hear them say it tastes more 'real' as like you said we use a lot of natural flavours even in sweets and so many of the chemicals in American food is banned here, which is great. One thing I can never get over is most Americans down own or know what a flipping kettle is! 😂
What you have as a peace sign is really a victory sign. Supposedly, it goes back to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, when the French succumbed to withering English longbow fire. The French had supposedly threatened to cut off the two first fingers of each captured longbowman, so he could no longer fire a bow. Again, supposedly, the longbowmen had danced around their French captives, flashing those two fingers to the French commanders in a V-shape, daring them to try to cut them off.
It's almost certainly not true, and we can only certainly trace the gesture back to 1901, but the insulting version has you showing the backs of your fingers to the person you want to "fu*& off".
During WW2, Winston Churchill adopted the V-sign the other way round for "Victory".
The thing about the two fingers goes back to medieval times, English archers would stick there 2 fingers up at the apposing army, because if they were captured the fingers would be cut off so they couldn't fire again. So it was more of a taunting gesture
No actual proof of this, so considered a myth not fact.
I heard that wasn’t actually true, it’s a good idea though
Agincourt, it's called a longbow Sault. It means f.o.
@@jonathanperrins8432 Just looked into it and your right, thanks for informing me.
Just to clarify for JT. 2 fingers, palm facing away, good. 2 fingers, palm facing inwards, not so good!
The reason why in Europe our cash bills are of different sizes is so that blind people can still tell what kind of note they are holding, so they can count their own money by thouch.
The newer notes in the UK actually have braille on them. So blind ppl have an easier time telling which note is which. Same with most painkiller boxes.
@@mikaruyami Not braille but similar, braille is too sensitive and would be hard to identify with wear. It's more a side effect though until recently with said notes this helped the blind and visually impaired, it was to stop you from bleaching a £5 note and printing a £50.
Yepp sameee in the uk😁
It’s the gaps in the side of the doors that got me more than the big gap at the bottom! I don’t wanna be making eye contact with a stranger whilst I’m pooping 😂
Oh and takeaway coffee is huge in the UK. That’s more Central Europe where they sit in cafes all day and drink it
my boss gets coffee delivered, when he could walk 5 minutes and get it himself.
I totally agree with both of these points :-)
The door gaps are a combination of shoddy workmenship and emergency services needing to both see and get access to you incase of an emergency. I think there was a bit of a thing in the late 80s, early 90's, where someone rich died because they couldn't get under or over the door/sides, or get the door open, because they fell against it and the family petitioned to have it changed - that might be urban legend tho, but there's where it's from, safety regs.
@@MiscToddley
So, doors in the US never had locks that can be opened from the outside with a coin then?
@@redlioness6627 They do, but if your fallen against or pushed against the door hard enough, those locks jam. They've also largely removed or smoothed out the groove because kids found about it and would pop the door on you for giggles.
Having played online, with Americans, for years, I loved the fact that I get called "Sir" so much....
Peace sign reversed is the same as giving the middle finger in the U.K..
Called flicking the Vees. Classic British gesture and a joy to behold.
The two fingered salute or "flipping the bird" stems from medieval ages in Britain when the British solders would cut off the dead enemies archery fingers and wave them at the enemy to signify a kill- also at this time it was illegal to have sex unless given permission by the King of England which is where Fornication Under Consent of the King comes from or F%CK as it is abbreviated to nowadays
@@gmdhargreaves Don't know where you heard that one, growing up I heard it's because Frenchmen would take the two fingers of any Englishman they captured during battle, so they couldn't use a longbow against them if they were to find their way home after capture, so putting two fingers up became a kind of insult and also had a "try and take them and watch what happens" kind of message behind it
@@lfcmike12 yup giving the V is showing you have the fingers to draw a bow string
@@gmdhargreaves the guy below you got this right. I've never heard your version before, I think someone has got the wrong end of the stick!
When I went to the US I was shocked by the portion sizes, the poverty and the shit public transportation. I also can't imagine what it must be like having to have a car to get around, it just seems really expensive and stressful.
That was exactly my thoughts the poverty there the bgging people on the streets I haven't seen that in any eu country not on the scale
Never heard of fried Oreos in my life. I'm equally disgusted and intrigued 😂
If its anything like a battered mars bar then its food of the gods.
@@jamesoakley4570
Mmm, hot sweet turd!! 🤣🤣🤣
I had one when I was in the States a couple of years ago. I was dubious at first but they are really good! Where I was in Pennsylvania I think they call them “Road Apples”. You only want one (or maybe two) at a time though!!
@@jamesoakley4570 Ambrosia?😃
Alright it hows things, I like your style bro and your optimism ,keep doing what you're doing ,I don't know you but you seem to have come out of you're shell just in the couple of months I've been subscribed, I like Americans and you seem like a good example of one too, the thing I like most about Americans is how you guys seem to always say "yes sir"or "yes mam" when addressing people its seems REALLY respectful, which is how I think English/British people should be as you only hear people referred to as sir/ma,am/madam in customer service sector of business really over hear. Peace
the UK is a bit weird when it comes to the metric system. We half-use it. We use it for science/money/most measurements, but then some things like milk are measured in pints, human weight often in stones, and speed and distances often in miles
Also it's age related. I'm 50 and measure my weight in stones and pounds. My children have no concept of pounds (or stones), they only use kilos.
I like to think of it more as: we understand both, we're dual-measurement...so we're smart :D
I also have no idea what my height is in centimetres!
Totally agree with that. I'm also 50 and when they tell me my height or weight in metric I look at them blankly. They may as well be speaking Swahili for all it means to me. I have to convert it to understand it lol
Should be noted that while we use them randomly, we do understand both of them and can generally convert between them quite quickly. We go to the rest of the world and we manage just fine, we go to the US and were also fine.
For the "reverse" peace sign, it's equilavent to a "finger" sign.
During the French and Britain war, French used to cut the finger to British (because they were archers), so the British used to show them their finger to say "you didn't catch me" as an insult to French. They also used to cut 2 fingers to French... That's the story of the finger sign and why both can be considered as insult here.
Peace from France!
We don’t have paper money in the U.K. now ours is plastic not that a majority use cash it’s common in the U.K. to use debit cards or contactless
Quite a few people still use cash, especially the elderly.
I have not used cash for ages.
@@alisonrandall3039 I rarely if ever use cash it’s chip and pin or contactless
Even the ice cream van that comes around my area is now pay contactless
@@travelling_stephen @Stephen Green Contactless in more ways than one. How am I supposed to take my 99? My arms don't happen to be two metres long🧍-🍦= 🤬
in Greece we give thumps up all the time! but we prefer the ok sign.
Omg......JT smiling at the end was so adorable. He has a great smile and makes him look extra cute. He should end all of his videos with a huge smile!!! 😀😀😀
Supermarkets in the UK have tons of choice and different brands for similar products such as cereal etc. I've been enjoying you videos. You seem to have an obsession with the UK.
JT,: “Just get a powdered pancake mix and add some water. ME: “Only in America.
Flour, eggs and milk.
Uhhh... No? Buttermilk pancakes made properly without mix is mostly an American thing, I wouldn't say that it's a stereotype that Americans use pancake mix a whole lot
yeah like who is to lazy to make pancake batter its literally the easyest thing to make. you just wing it and its done in 2 minutes
the peace sign showing the back of your hand is the same as your middle finger where im from in Scotland
I was in a restaurant in Dublin in Ireland. The waitress came to talk to us and was disgusted that the people from the US wanted cheese on top of their apple pie. I don't know anywhere else that does that.
It's a Yorkshire thing.
Yup, it's pretty bad form for a waitress to come over and slag off other customers to you.
Cheese and apple, the perfect marriage (U.K.)
@@susyward6978 Me too. I always eat an apple with mature Cheddar cheese. I don't fancy it with sweetened apple and pastry though. Texture wise doesn't seem right.
I've travelled to a decent amount of countries... I've never been served room temperature drinks lmao
Never had a pint of English Real Ale?
@@joecoen958 never, would you recommend? I usually have whatever is on tap- n it's usually cold
@@joecoen958 English Real ale isn't room temperature, its usually between 7 and 10 Celsius.
When you were holding your fingers up for the piece signs- its *the other way around* that could be considered offensive. If you show the back of you hands it could seen as swearing, not the palm side.
Vimto is mostly grapes isn't it? And Schloer. But not common. Definitely more blackcurrant drinks.
Don't forget wine!
@@sopcannon 😂 oh yeah, that's grapes too!
They didn't mention that UK holidays are paid, where I used to work we had 3 weeks in the summer, a week at whit, Easter, up to 2 weeks at Christmas depending on the day Christmas on and service days all paid at time and a third.
If you didn't take your holidays that year they gave you the money instead.
You must be a school teacher ;)
@@Paul-nr6ws no, I worked for Vauxhalls.
yeah legally employers in the UK have to give you 28 days paid leave if you are a full time worker - it is pro-rated if you work part time. You were lucky that you got paid the money instead though. Most employers don't roll over the leave to the next year and don't pay cash for it - you use it or you lose it.
@@mezbrookscarter8289 where I used to work, if you didn’t use your holiday, it could lead to disciplinary action. I could sell upto 5 days holiday to get money instead
Okay but as a European let me just say:
1. We have coffee to go too? (Yes we adopted it from the US, but it's not as uncommon as they made it seem here)
And
2. We're just jealous y'all get AC and we usually don't
Complaining about the Weather and drinking tea.
Practically British already lol.
Cant complain about the rain when it rains 366 days a year
The sweet "tea" we have here hardly counts as tea to be honest... It's just another sugary beverage option like soda or juice or whatever
That suggestion about getting all the disposable cups, plates, etc and using them to avoid the washing up just makes the environmentalist in me have a heart attack. Like, dude, your country invented the dishwasher... 🤣
yeah putting two fingers up with your knuckles facing towards the person you are doing it to is saying f*** off same as one figure, no one really knows where it came from but we brits all know what it means.
I believe it's from the many wars we had with the French, flicking the V is to show we still had all our digits to fire a bow or something
It came from around mid evil times people would cut the bow string fingers off enemy archers if they caught them, so they start sticking their fingers up to show they hadn’t been caught and as an F U 😂
@@ClaireJ86
The finger cutting thing is a myth.
@@ClaireJ86 yeah that's the myth, it's commonly told but there is no evidence to say its true, I fact there is evedence that proves against this theory. In truth its origins have been lost to time a bit like alot of swear words.
@@QueenItachi01 unforchantly allough a good story, It is only a myth and there is no evidence of it beeing true. The true origin is lost in time, but it is unquie to the UK, so unlikely to have come before empire.
In Scotland they take a mars bar, deep fry it then give you a heart attack.
I preffer curly whirly
@@scottking869 curly whirly is king, but occasionally a cream egg is better.
Don't forget deep fried pizza
@@scottking869 Haven't seen a Curly in years.
Great video. I really hate using the toilets in America, it makes no sense not to have any privacy when having a dump. Plus the actual toilet seats have a gap at the front which is just odd.
My experience was entirely different. Stomach upset!! Then into American stall. Press button and a paper seat-cover travels around the seat, making it nice and clean and ready for action. I breathed God save America many times that day.
How are the gaps for safety? Surely it just makes it easier for perverts to perve. In the unlikely event of getting stuck, just kick the door down.
In The Netherlands literally NONE of the houses have air conditioning, because until recent years, it never got that hot anyways so our houses are build for cold weather. But now, we really are just suffering and complaining because it gets hot as all hell🤡
Preach
Same here in the UK. I would imagine our climate here in the east of England is almost identical to yours.
Inderdaad
Same in the uk, it’s actual hell 😭😭😭
@@elainethemusician3310 It is but the houses in the Netherlands (at least in Amsterdam) are skinny. They're so narrow that you can't get furniture up the stairs and it all has to be lifted in through the windows. It is unbearably hot in them during the summer because everything is so squashed.
When I was in the US at the airport I was so confused when I went to the toilet because sitting on the toilet seat I could see people walking pass because there was a inch or two between the wall and the door but the weirdest thing was you could see peoples trousers and underwear because the toilet doors are like half the size! And can fit a man crawling underneath lol
I've been told its to deter people from doing drugs or having sex in a cubicle. Its creeping in to Australian public rest-rooms as well.
Sticking two fingers up facing forwards comes from the English around the battle of Agincourt, once the English longbow came about, if the French caught an Englishman they would cut off his first two fingers so he couldn't fire a bow again.
I am from Scotland and I can confidently say that we have plenty of variety when it comes to flavours of things and a can of grape juice is amazing if anyone hasn't tried it yet
To answer the question on your thumbnail, it’s a security thing. Like if someone passes out, has a seizure or a heart attack.
Believe me mate we don’t bye any red cups don’t know where that came from 🤥🤥🙄🙄🙄🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
My friends have a few times when we played beer pong had an hillbilly themed party
Brilliant next time am USA am coming to get you drunk mate love from Tottenham London ❤️👍🤣🤣🤣
Hahah my stepdad lives In islington lol , I'm near Windsor haha
@@yeahme8367 am Tottenham love my football pal god bless brother have a good one ❤️👍💯
@@nobodymanjustme2402 god bless you too man have a good day hopefully we can all enjoy football in the pubs soon
I love your videos and your commentary....you are such fun! I'm English and I mean that as a compliment! 😊 The most weird thing I found in the US was the phrase "working on that" in a restaurant. Halfway through the meal getting a waitress coming up to your table and saying something like....."can I get you anything else, or are you still working on that?". It makes your lunch sound like physical exercise! But then again....American portions are so HUGE that maybe it's accurate! 😁. I was totally gob-smacked (a good old-fashioned English expression!) at the size of portions in the US. The average meal in a diner is enough to feed three people in the UK!!
Come and live with me in the UK.....I could listen to you talking all day! 👍🇬🇧
Lol I'm sure his girlfriend will love that
Vat is so useful. As a student when i need to do a small shop (precovid) id have say £6.39, i can go round and add up the price of what im buying so when i get to the till i know i have enough.
15:07 from what I can gather, instead of grape we have blackcurrant
Possibly because we never had to come up with a new use for all the grapes (prohibition)?
@@mortisrat that's a good point. Hadn't thought of it that way
Blackcurrants were banned from being grown in the US in the early 1900s because they produce a fungus that’s really harmful to certain species of pine trees and it was a threat to the timber industry. The ban started to be lifted in the early 2000s but they’re still prohibited in some states.
Yes
If there's a fire while you're on the toilet.. wouldn't it be faster to just unlock the door and run out instead of crawling under the door lmao😂
It`s an IQ thing ...you are confusing them now!
Not if the fire has heated the metal lock on the door and prevents you from touching it
@@thefolder69 Then you would already be dead by the smoke.
@@leftyme4568 maybe... Or maybe I wouldn't be, I would still be alive, and thankful that because of the stall design, there's still a chance for escape and I won't be doomed to die on the shitter.
@@thefolder69 Well try it....it`s not the same in a game you know. Realise how hot the room is if you can`t touch the doorhandle buddy!!!
With what you said about the free fills and ice in the cups, we have to say no to ice over in the uk just so we can get more drink because the drink will cost you around $4-$5 lol
Fried Oreo's ? Very like the Scottish trait of fried Mars bars! Again in batter. The famous British Fish & Chips.. the white fish is dipped in batter & deep fried .. What i don't understand, is why America only has 'french fries'? Also, when it is so simple to make your own chips at home? Potatoes.. Cut more thickly into chips & deep fried? Then slices of battered Cod or Haddock & deep fry them.. Fish & Chips! .. The British love their fried food. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Yum...!
Doing the peace sign with the wrong way round ie your palms facing you in the UK is like telling someone F**k you! 😂 But in history it's came from the French something to do with chopping archers fingers off when captured so that they couldn't fire a bow again
Sorry m8 that’s an urban myth
Here in Blighty (the UK, GB or England), the V sign isn't know as the 'peace' sign, but the 'V is for Victory' sign and was used a lot by Churchill in WW2.
Great video mate
3:01 We have disposable cups, they're normally white or clear when made of plastic. We have paper cups too, which could be white, coloured, or patterned. I don't really buy disposable cups so I don't really know much about the paper ones (the plastic ones are more common).
But if we really wanted an American styled party, and wanted it to look authentic by even having the same cups, then we'd have to import them.
In Scotland we got deep fried Mars Bars, Snickers and Milky Ways so deep frying unusual items ain’t so weird to us
I ordered a cheeseburger from a chippy in Scotland and wondered what was happening when I bit into it.
They had battered the burger and cheese.
The batter did break away and peal off in one piece leaving a very juicy burger underneath.
Hello from Athens!
Well, in Greece we do know what "thumbs up" stands for and we do use it some times. But maybe the cultural difference is there: on the frequency you make this gesture. We don't use it so often like we see Americans in movies, sitcoms etc do. There are plenty of other ways (verbally mainly) to give credit to someone or congrats them.
Nice video though! 😉👍
I heard the gaps in the stalls was so you didn't feel comfortable in there so wouldn't linger when your meant to be working or in class
you heard wrong, it's for emergency reason, in case an older citizen has a medical emergency the EMT's can slide under the stall in case the person inside can't unlocked the door
@@marydavis5234 whereas in Europe we just make the stall unlockable from the outside using a tool (could be as simple as a screwdriver) so that access is available in an emergency.... Even the bathroom door on my house has this feature!
Normal public toilet stall doors here have like a 4-6" gap but that's it
@@marydavis5234 So I guess in USA there is no such thing as a special toilet lock door that unlocks from outside with certain tools available on emergency units? Ok then, keep having creeps admiring your legs while shitting.
I've NEVER been anywhere that serves room temperature soda EVER! This recurring myth is so annoying
"How are you?" / "Y'alright" I thought was more British than American???
When you have a drink just tell the person serving "no ice".
Hey can you react to the falklands war by oversimplified
The revers peace sign is a big f. U here. It derives from many wars with the french. Where if our longbowmen were caught, it was said that the french would cut their index and middle fingers off so they couldn't fire the bow again. So the insult was mainly to the french but has developed into something similar to the middle finger
We brits recycle our plastic stuff we have our own wheelie bin for recycling we even recycle cardboard soda bottles and cans,. JT instead of killing a bug put a glass over it slide an envelope under the glass then you’ve caught the bug let it outside removing the envelope,remember that bug has family too bug or not. Our money has a kinda plastic film over the notes now so we can’t rip or burn them,it’s only been out a few yr. why do we have baby shower? We should buy our own stuff for our child
Some of it gets recycled sadly some of it gets sent to the far East where it's incinerated.
If you’re still interested in getting a tattoo of a bearskin hat, I’d say get a black silhouette of the Beefeater guard 💂♂️ and have his hat coloured in with that of a Union Flag. 🇬🇧
The place should be on your ankle or leg. Not only is it a conversation starter, not only will it look great with shorts, not only will you love the style but when you do come over here you’ll immediately be one of us. 👍
‘What’s the first thing you think of when you hear Kentucky’
Me: The Kentucky derby 🤔
No idea why 😅
Mammoth Caves
As someone who grew up in Derby, it chokes me to hear it called the durby. A derby is after all, named after the Earl of Derby.
It's KFC for me and bourbon
Jim Beam and tobacco.
@@PedroConejo1939 In all fairness, we could of used an A instead of an E.
I can understand the confusion.
We would say Darbee but to everyone else, its Durrrrbeee.
That description of pancakes involving “powder” was funny and pretty American! I use egg, milk, flour!
Tattoo suggestion, getting an English/Scottish flag tattoo could alienate the side whose flag you didn't get, and other images could be cheesy, however, everyone in the UK loves the Welsh, and you seem to have a particular affinity for Wales, why not get a Welsh dragon tattoo? It's cool, and underrepresented in the union flag (This is from a English guy btw)
It's the union jack only when it's flown at sea
@@rhona61 it would only be the union jack if he were at sea
@@rhona61 the flag 🇬🇧 is know as the Union Flag, unless it's at sea when it's called the Union Jack :)
@@davidrichardson5482
Yet another myth. It is the Union Jack regardless of where it is flown.
@@BunniMonster I’d like to second this. Growing up it was always the Union Jack. Jack is another word for flag, the flag pole on a ship is called a Jack Staff because you fly a jack from it, not the other way around.
Also, you probably know by now Jt but palm facing you when doing a piece sign is a way to tell people in the UK and Australia (and probably other countries) to eff off, palm facing away from you is the peace sign
I’m British and you don’t have to go to a special website to get red cups lol. U can literally just go to a shop and buy them
In other places you don't just invite 200 people over you don't know. So if you know them they can be trusted to have their own glass cup (and not destroy everything you own)
We also tend to just go to the bar because our drinking ages are lower. Most US house parties are full of people who legally aren't allowed to drink.
World is happy with a boiled egg....
Only in Scotland can you "scotch" an egg by coating it in a thick layer of meat and roll that in breadcrumbs and then deep frying it. Like a diet Haggis
Oh, how good would scotch eggs be if it added haggis, or had haggis instead of sausage meat - I know what I’m making tomorrow!
Love Scotch Eggs, they're so good.
Yum, sausagemeat - it's just heavenly baked in pies with tomatoes!
Thing is a Scotch egg wasn't invented in Scotland, legend has it that the posh shop " Fortnum and Mason " in London come up with it.
Pharmacies in uk usually sell medication, toiletries & makeup + some might also sell quick grab and go lunches like sandwiches ships & drink + guns & candy. Also big stores like ones called “boots” may also sell some gifts/stocking fillers at Christmas, vacation items in the summer, photography items, baby items (bottles, baby clothing, baby toys, pacifiers etc), some electrical ( hair tools, power banks/phone chargers, SD cards, power cables), perfumes & after shaves.
I get 6 and a half weeks paid holiday per year , plus bank holidays :-)
I get 6.5 weeks but not bank holidays
@@sopcannon I get the same !
The whole deep frying thing is also very big in Scotland. In fact, it's believed that Scottish immigrants bought the idea of frying chicken and other things to America in the 1700s. Popular delicacies in scotland include battered and deep fried mars bars (and other chocolate bars such as snickers) and deep fried pizza. And to add to what TGS said, we also have a type of beer called real ale, which is best served at room temperature, because chilling it dampens the flavour.
I always have a Greggs tea or coffee when I'm going somewhere
In the uk having the palm facing forward when doing the peace sign is a peace sign but having the palm face you when doing it then is is a way of swearing at someone and generally a little less offensive that the middle finger
My theory is that the gaps in th stalls are there to make sure there is only 1 person in stall at a time ;) LOL
That’s when you get wary of people going in with large empty rucksacks which they place on the floor in front...
In UK the two finger gesture with palm forward is the sign for victory (v), but with the back of the hand forward it's like the middle finger. It comes from the time of Henry the fifth. We English were the greatest archers in Europe, and when we fought the French at Agincourt the archers put the two fingers up to the enemy to show that they were ready to pull back the bowstring and shoot them.
Would love to see you do a video of trying British food.
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The US way of writing the date was also the traditional English way of writing it. The UK switched to dd/mm/yyyy about 100 years ago, probably following the French as they are considered fashionable.
Here we have fried Mars bars. I wonder who we learned that one from 🤣🤣🤣.
The Scots. Deep fried pizza rivals haggis as a national dish.
You'll get deep fried pies in Scottish chipshops too!! 😲😲😲
If you're not aware of what a munchie box is you haven't plumbed the depths of Scottish grease depravity.
Yeah ... the Yanks ain't got nothin on us 🤣🤣🤣
As an English person, you can acquire those red party cups at most supermarkets.
1st peace he did is offensive to americans for some reason the 2nd is swearing in the uk i dont know about other countries
Why would you think the peace sign is offensive to an American? I'm one, and it isn't.
I Germany its totally normal for people have a coffee to go on the way to work. But in the afternoon we usually sit down for it. And beverages are served cold, in the summer they also add some ice sometimes. But its like 3-4 rocks, not more. Room temperature is not a thing. Ok if you sit down for hours and your beer or other beverage gets warm, thats on you. But its served cold. And the peace sign is actually the victory sign, just look its a V. Just gets used in this way :-)
Keep up the good work
Suggestions for your tattoo.
Scotland - rampant lion, or the unicorn
Wales - Dragon (obviously)
England - three lions, or a single lion
UK - coat of arms (has a lion from England and Unicorn from Scotland), or a bulldog, etc...
P.S. Solo cups aren't a thing outside the US (and maybe Canada) - that's why you have to special order them...
Idea for the tattoo-A teacup
It's the other way so like when your backhand is foward because archer used to have their fingers cut off in war so they couldn't help their army on release, many soldiers would antagonize archers and archers them by sticking said fingers up.
The Deep-fried Mars Bar was invented in Scotland.
We have contributed some of the most useful inventions to the world 😂😂
we definitely have over 10 types of cereal and biscuits in the uk
The amount of choices we're met with, honestly gets a bit much for me sometimes!